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Server: A computer or software system that allows other computers to store information on it and use its resources.
ISP (Internet
Service Provider)
An ISP is an organization which creates connections from its customers to the
internet, thus allowing the customer to access the internet. ISP's have come a
long way in the last 10 years, from a patchwork of local providers with a few
dominant nationwide players (such as AOL, Juno, NetZero,
and MSN) to a consolidated few national providers and few remaining
local providers, with new competition now arising around low-price point dial-up access, and greater competition among multiple large providers
of high speed (broadband) connections based on DSL (via telephone line) and
cable (via TV cable provider) service.
If you are looking for a reliable ISP, you may register for a
new ISP here
Domain Name :
Title and address of your web site. It is the unique name that identifies an internet web site or local group of stations controlled by a server. Domain names have two or more parts, separated by dots (periods). The portion of the name to the farthest right is the top-level-domain or TLD. There are a limited number of TLDs. Common TLDs include .com, .net, .org, .eu, .gov, .biz, and .us. TLDs can also be country codes such as .us, .uk, .tv, .cc, .fr, .ca, etc. Recently a registry specific to mobile devices was introduced with .mobi extension. The portion of the domain name to the left of the first dot (period) is the second-level-domain (SLD), and this is the portion which users may assign to any combination of letters, numbers and hyphens, up to a total length of 67 characters. You may register domain name here.
Uniform Resource Locator: The standard way an address is presented on the Internet. The first part indicates what protocol to use and the second part specifies a domain name. (E.g. "Leaddomains.com")
Host: A company that uses servers to connect domain names to Internet Protocol numbers. This enables your domain name to be called up in Internet searches. There are a variety of types of hosts around, each with their own web hosting plan and offers.
IPP
(Internet Presence Provider)
This is another name for a hosting provider.
ASP
Previously it has stood for Active Service Provider, but ASP has now come to
have numerous meanings, now including any provider of a hosting or server
application. Examples of applications may be applets which trigger from your
browser to run system tools or protection from viruses. Typically these apps
are never installed on your local machine. Yet another definition would be to
provide web-based software from a remote location. This type of application
is common with business database-driven software such as inventory,
accounting, billing, point of sale, etc.
".asp"
.asp file extensions indicate files based on Microsoft's Active Server
Page protocol. These are an out-growth of SSI (Server Side Includes) with the
ability to make active server calls on databases to provide active, changeable
content based on various inputs. These tag-based HTML extensions created by
Microsoft are used almost exclusively on Windows NT-based machines such as
Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003. ASP can be fully implemented as a
total scripting language which allows you to totally control dynamic web page
content displayed to users, and allowing full interaction so that user actions
control the content displayed according to the database.
Bandwidth: The amount of data that runs through an Internet connection. Larger sites need a web hosting plan that offers more bandwidth than a smaller one does. Pricing structures vary, so you'll want to find out how much it will cost if you suddenly need to add more to your site.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI): A program that translates data from a web server to a readable format in the web browser. It can be used for visitor registration, guestbooks, technical help, and more. Many web hosts offer prewritten versions of CGI scripts.
CGI-Bin Access
This access allows a web author to write custom software making binary calls on
CGI to handle custom software applications. Granting CGI-BIN access offers some
risk for web hosts as the .bin files can be over-written with non-standard or
intentionally harmful routines.
Data Transfer
This is the amount of data that you are allowed to transfer with your
account. Data is this case usually refers to images and text. Typically refers
to a data transfer allotment, most often in GB (gigabytes). Thus, a hosting plan
might come with, "3GB of data transfer." 500 MB of data transfer is equivalent
to about 25,000 page views.
Dial-up Account
To access and update a Web site, hosting customers need dial-up access to
the Internet (see ISP). Technically, xDSL would still be considered a dial-up
account since you don't have a dedicated wire for data transfer.
Disk Space (Storage Space)
Amount of hard disk space available for storage of all Web pages, HTML,
CGI-bin programs, e-mail, log files, images, sound clips, audio, video clips,
etc. 1MB equals one megabyte, or approximately million bytes. A 100K file would
be 100,000 bytes.
DNS - Primary DNS / Secondary DNS
DNS stands for Domain Name Server. Domain Name Servers control the IP address
locations where second and third level domains are pointed. Examples of third
level domains would be something like: mail.exampledomain.com where
mail is the third level domain. DNS servers can determine the user's
purpose using these names and route the query to the proper server, such as mail
server, web server, FTP server, www server, etc. Each domain must have a DNS
table to operate properly.
Users registering domain names specify a primary DNS and secondary DNS
location. Internet requests for a specific domain name or third-level domain
are first directed to the primary DNS server, and if there is not an immediate
reply from that server, the secondary DNS location is queried.
Domain Name Registration
Refers to the process of designating and reserving a domain name with an
ICANN affiliated registrar
so that queries entered into a browser for this domain name will resolve to a
location on the internet which the domain name owner specifies with his
registrar. Choose to register your
domain name here
Encrypted Password: A password that has been camouflaged to prevent hackers from entering a site area registered to an identify other than their own. Look for this feature in the security features of your chosen web hosting plan.
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