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Hosting terminology can be confusing. We hope that our Glossary will help demystify the process and explain what all these words really mean.
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Glossary of Web Hosting
Terms:
The following is a description of commonly used terms.
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Hosting Overview > Glossary
of Terms
Plan Price
The price is the amount of money you'll
need to purchase our service. Our web
hosting plan prices are payed annually.
Account
Setup
Setup is the preliminary
act of preparing a resource
for a productive run which
requires some type of
adjustment or additional
configuring.
The price for setup includes the human work involved in machine
adjustments, consumables used and also the defective items
produced while finalizing
the setup process.
Money-back Guarantee
We offer a 15 day money-back guarantee
for all our web hosting clients, which
means that in this period you can have
your money
refunded. Anything after these 15 days is non-refundable
(Domain names are non-refundable once
registered).
Disk Space
Disk space is the amount of storage
you get when signing up for a web hosting
account. It can be used for uploading
any type
of files - everything from text documents, to .html documents,
to pictures.
Traffic
Traffic is the term used to describe
the amount of data transferred and the
number of visits made to a web site
at a given period.
The level of traffic is the main guide-line which determines
which infrastructure you require for your personal or business
web site. It is also what determines the price you'll have
to pay your Internet Service Provider
for the traffic consumed over
that given period of time.
Domain name registration
Domain registration is the process of
registering a unique name which will
identify your web site. Domain names
must have an
extension, where .com .net and .org are the most popular
ones. When registering a domain name,
users should keep in mind that
domains are tied to name servers, which direct to which IP
address the domain should point. Any
server can have multiple domain
names, but a domain name can only point to one server.
Technical support
Technical support is somebody to call,
e-mail or message when something with
the service you're using has gone wrong,
or you
don't seem to know how to complete a given task and would
like professional assistance.
Extensive online documentation
We have written and compiled one of
the biggest online documentaries available
on the Internet today. We have various
FAQ's (Frequently
Asked Questions) and tutorials available to all our users.
Integrated ticketing system
NetlinkDesign has developed and integrated
an online ticketing system for all its
users. Should you ever experience any
technical
difficulties, feel free to post an online trouble ticket
at www.propersupport.com. Our experienced
team of technicians will solve your
problem in
an average of 15 minutes.
1
hour response guarantee
NetlinkDesign guarantees
that all your requests,
whether sales or
support related, will be
answered in a time
span of no more
than 60 minutes.
Hosted domains
NetlinkDesign is proud to announce
that we can host virtually any top level
domain. No matter if you're extension
is .co.uk,
.us, or even .fj! We can host up to 3 domain names on a single
accounts (Corporate web hosting plan only).
Subdomain
Subdomain is subsection of a domain.
One such example of subdomain would
be john.yourdomain.com.
Custom MX and A records
MX Record (Mail Exchange Record)- Mail
Server records designate the mailservers
that will handle mail for a given domain.
Should
a user have more than one mailserver, MX records can also
specify the order in which the mailservers
will be used as primary, secondary,
backup and so on. An A record is a DNS Address resource record.
It maps a host's name to its address and specifies the Internet
Protocol address (in dotted decimal form) of the host. Each
host address should have one A record.
Site Studio
Our free advanced online web site builder
will help you create and modify your
brand new web page with ease! Site Studio
has
been optimized to guarantee your easy and pleasant work with
web pages. Now you can have a web site up and running in
30 minutes!
FrontPage Extensions support
FrontPage® is a Microsoft® product. It's software built for web
publishing and it's main priority is that it allows HTML programmers
a visual perspective when creating web documents. FrontPage's
capabilities are fairly decent for building, for example, the
essential HTML tables. It also allows users to FTP documents
to a web server, giving them the ability to view their web pages
online. A server with FrontPage® compatibility will allow it's
users to edit their site using Microsoft® FrontPage®. This
also allows them to make use of a special built-in features
that use
FrontPage Extensions (FrontPage Extensions Server add-ons which
allows users to make use of pre-defined functions such as hit
counters, Java buttons and form validation).
For more information about Microsoft® Office FrontPage® please
visit http://www.microsoft.com/FrontPage/.
POP3 e-mail accounts
POP (Post Office Protocol) refers to
the protocol commonly used by e-mail
software (for example Outlook Express)
to retrieve
e-mail from a mail server. POP3 is currently the most common
e-mail standard.
E-mail aliases
E-mail aliases can be setup as additional
e-mail accounts, all under one domain
name. If, for example, your primary
e-mail is
mymail@example.com and you'd like to add a secondary mail
to your mailing account you can use
an e-mail alias to set up your
second e-mail address as backup@example.com.
Mailing lists
A mailing list is a system which allows
people to send an e-mail to one address,
where their message and/or attachments
are copied
and then resent to all of the other subscribers in that particular
mailing list
SPAM
filter
Using a SPAM filter,
you can sort out
unwanted e-mail messages.
We use SPAM Assassin software to filter unwanted e-mails.
Usually the SPAM
Assassin software
with the default
settings that we
offer will successfully filter 85-95% of all unwanted e-mail
messages. If you devote sufficient amounts of time and attention
to the additional settings of the SPAM filter, you can considerably
increase this percentage to 95-99% combining it with the
additional manual
settings of the e-mail
filter!
E-mail filter
The e-mail filter is a different service
from the SPAM filter. The SPAM filter
has two levels of protection (low and
high),
while e-mail filter has specific conditions and requirements,
which should be set up manually for additional filtration
according to the specified conditions
for receiving and sorting of your
incoming e-mail messages.
Web e-mail
All our clients receive access to the
our web mail. It's a free web-based
e-mail system for easy and quick access
to your mailbox.
It can be used from anywhere and at any time, no e-mail client
is required.
POP3
A mail server that supports the POP3
protocol. Used for retrieval and sending
of e-mail messages using the POP3 protocol.
SMTP
An SMTP server is a mail server that
supports the SMTP protocol for e-mail
transfer.
E-mail forwarding
E-mail forwarding is a concept very
similar to e-mail aliases. Using this
service, you can also forward e-mail
messages to Yahoo
e-mail accounts, AOL e-mail accounts, Hotmail e-mail accounts,
etc. wherever you wish. In other words, an e-mail message
to your.email.account@yourdomain.com
can be forwarded to your.friends.account@hotmail.com
for example, as well as to any other e-mail address that
you
specify for this service.
Autoresponder e-mails
An e-mail autoresponder is a special
function that automatically returns
a pre written templated message to anyone
who sends e-mail
to a particular e-mail address. E-mail autoresponders are
widely used for the purpose of responding
to visitor comments and suggestions
in a pre-made, templated answer.
Catch-all
e-mails
Catch-all e-mail
is used to directs
e-mail sent to any
user (existing or
not) on your e-mail
list. This means
that should an e-mail
ever be sent to any address with @yourdomain.com at the end,
the mail will be received and sorted in a special mailbox
of
your choice.
Anti-Virus
protection
Software installed
on a machine to prevent
the introduction
of viruses. Will
also detect their
presence and repair
or remove
them. Virus is a software that is covertly introduced on
to a computer system
with the intent of
corrupting data or
inhibiting
the normal operation of the system or network.
MySQL
MySQL is a multi-user SQL (Structured
Query Language) database server. MySQL
is quite a common database, proving
APIs (application
program interface) for such languages as C, C++, Java, Perl,
PHP and Python. Information in the database is stored and
retrieved using SQL.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP
intended specifically to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Internet.
It can
create and drop databases, it can edit tables (create, drop,
modify) and fields, execute an SQL statement, manage privileges
and also export data into various formats.
Perl
Perl (short for Practical Extraction
and Report Language) is a general-purpose
programming language invented by Larry
Wall
in 1987. With way over one million users around the globe,
it's not hard to see why it has become
the language of choice for
Web development, text processing, Internet services and even
mail filtering, graphical programming, systems administration,
and every other common task requiring portable and easily-developed
solutions.
PHP
PHP (a recursive acronym
for PHP: Hypertext
Preprocessor) is a server-side HTML
embedded scripting
language, used to create
dynamic Web pages. A dynamic Web page is a page that can
interact with the user viewing it, so
that each page visitor sees specially
customized information. PHP is open source and freely available
for (primarily) use on Linux (UNIX) Web servers. It is also
a great alternative to Microsoft's Active
Server Pages (ASP) technology.
The PHP script is embedded within a Web page along with its
HTML, just like ASP is. Before the page
resolves, the Web server calls
PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in
the
PHP script. Any HTML page scripted in PHP is typically given
a file name suffix of ".php," ".php4," or ".phtml.".
Over
3500 Perl modules
A Perl module is
a reusable package
defined in a library
file whose name is
the same as the name
of the package (with
a .pm
on the end)
Crontab
Crontab is a Unix command for scheduling
jobs which will be executed sometime
in the future. A cron is usually used
to schedule a
task that is executed periodically - for example, to send
out an e-mail message to specified people
every month. Being a daemon
process, it runs continuously, waiting for specific events
to occur.
Advanced Control Panel
Our advanced Control Panel is a great
way to manage your hosting account.
It's packed with features and will help
you relieve
your web hosting efforts.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol - Primarily used
for uploading or downloading files to
and from remote computer systems on
a network using
TCP/IP, such as the Internet. An FTP account consists of
a username and password, which is used
to login to a users FTP archive or
to be able to access it with a software program (FTP client
or a HTML editor).
File manager
Our web-based file manager is a browsing,
uploading and downloading tool, specifically
designed for the needs of new users.
Using
the web-based file manager, they can execute specific file-related
commands with ease.
Custom
Error 404 page
A HTML Error 404
means a request was
made for a file (or
an object) and it
was not found on
the queried server.
The most common reasons
for such an error are : Moved pages, renamed pages, general
user
or server mistyping, and also the fact that some operating
systems are case
sensitive.
Password Protected
Directories
Password protected
directories allow
you to protect information
on your web site by specifying a single user or multi-user
password protected
directory. Password
protected directories
will allow
you to store information online that will not be accessible
to the general site
visitor. This feature
is a great tool in
giving
specific people a place to log into on your site and view
documentation that
is for them only.
Instant account activation
Your account will be active immediately
after you've filled out our signup form.
Users can access it instantly and begin
work
on their web store straight away.
SSL Certificate generation
Secure Sockets Layer.
Allows encrypted,
authenticated communications over
the Web. SSL provides security
in online commerce.
URL's starting with "https://" indicate
the utilization of SSL.
SSL certificate generation is the process
of generation an unsigned SSL certificate
code, before sending it to an authorized
registrar
for approval.
SSI
Server-Side Include (SSI) is a command
in the form of an HTML comment that
communicates with the web server and
performs a
task as part of the page download. Different servers support
different commands and there is no official standard yet.
If the web page you're visiting has
a .shtml extension it's likely
the page was generated partially with SSI commands.
SSH
SSH means Secure Shell and it allows
you to securely access your web site
using the SSH encryption software. Very
useful for advanced
web developers.
Unrestricted bandwidth
Unrestricted bandwidth means that you
can use the maximum of our bandwidth
connection available speed at a given
moment. We
haven't set a bandwidth cap and the data transfer, it's fully
unrestricted.
Raw access and error
logs
Error log - An error
log records any abnormal
activity on a web
site or web server. It's common for different sites or servers
to generate custom error logs, reflecting the use and abuse
of the system. Systems
administrators have
to rely on such logs
and are responsible for retrieving and examining them for
any
errors. Access logs are simply log every visit to your site
and all the hits
inside the site itself.
Traffic
stats - WebAlizer
Our traffic stats
utility compiles
several reports with
graphics and text
for each processed
month. The Webalizer
produces several
reports (html) and graphics for each month processed. In
addition, a summary
page is generated
for the current and
previous months
(up to 12). The yearly (index) report shows statistics for
a 12-month period,
and links to each
month. The monthly
report
has detailed statistics for that month with additional links
to any URL's and referrers found.
Detailed bandwidth stats
All our users can have access to a detailed
summary of their bandwidth stats.
Stable Linux with Apache
Linux is currently the
most popular, freely-distributable
open source operating
system, which can
runs on a number of hardware
platforms. The Linux kernel was originally developed by Linus
Torvalds. Since it is free of charge, and because it has
such a high platform compatibility (this
includes PCs and Macintoshes),
Linux has become an extremely popular alternative to payed
operating platforms. Apache is a freely
distributed Web server that is
available under an "open source" license. According to a popular
web server survey 60% of web sites on the World Wide Web are
using Apache, easily making Apache more widely used than all
other Web servers combined.
2.5 GBits network connectivity
The internet connection speed is currently
one of the fastest available - 2.5 Gbits.
This is the total connectivity that
our
network provider located in Fremont/California has with the
outside world.
Daily
data back-up
We treat our clients
information with
the utmost care.
That's the reason
why we backup all
the info on our servers
on a daily
basis. Should there be any technical issue, we can restore
all the info from
the previous day.
UPS & diesel
back-up generator
We have a powerful
UPS's and diesel
backup electricity
generator, should
we ever experience
a prolonged power
outage.
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