Anonymous FTP –
With an anonymous FTP, you don't have to assign
or keep track of individual logins and passwords
– you simply create a common login and password
that lets anyone download files from your
website. (See below for definition of
FTP.)
ASP – Active
Server Pages is a popular scripting language
from Microsoft that allows you to create and use
online databases.
Auto Responder –
If you want an instant, pre-written reply to be
sent out in response to emails your site
receives, set up a specific auto responder email
address.
Bandwidth – This
refers to data transfer quantity, and is
normally referred to in terms of a monthly
allocation. You get about 40K page views
(including video, audio, text and images) per
1GB of bandwidth. The more hits you get, the
bigger bandwidth you need.
CGI – A Common
Gateway Interface script acts as a translator
for the data flowing from your web server,
turning it into a readable, interactive web page
or email.
CGI-BIN – This is
a directory of all of the CGI scripts on your
server.
CGI Library – As
part of their service, most web hosts will give
you a package of ready-to-go CGI scripts, which
are commonly called a CGI Library.
Control Panel –
Using a web host's control panel will let you
edit and manage basic changes or data without
having to involve their customer service
department.
Database – A
database allows you to organize data records so
you can sort, search, and reconfigure as you
need to.
Data Transfer –
see Bandwidth .
Dedicated Server
– If a business needs unique software or a lot
of bandwidth to run its website, it will use a
dedicated server to store it all. Other sites
that use significantly less disk space can use a
shared web host or server. (See Shared
Server for additional information.)
Disk Space –
Refers to the amount of storage a website needs,
and includes everything from graphics to video
files. The more pages or images you use, the
more disk space you need.
Domain Name –
Actual website IP addresses are a series of
numbers, but domain names are how you can make
your website easy to find and remember. The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) has developed a system of
suffixes to identify which Top Level Domain
(TLD) a site belongs to – you know them as .com,
.org, .net, .edu, etc.
E-Commerce –
Electronic Commerce is the term to use when
referring to exchanging, buying, or selling
goods or services using the Internet.
Email Forwarding
– Allows you to have emails sent to
several different email addresses to be
forwarded to a single email address.
Firewall – You
can build a firewall using a combination of
software and hardware that will keep out anyone
who is not authorized to access your computer or
computer network.
FrontPage – You
can produce and manage your website using this
popular HTML editor created by Microsoft.
FrontPage
Extensions – Used with Microsoft
FrontPage, the Extensions provide scripts and
programs for optimal use of certain features of
your website.
FTP – A File
Transfer Protocol uploads website files from
individual computes to the site's server, which
allows them to be seen on the Internet.
GB – 1 gigabyte =
1024 megabytes.
IMAP - If
messages are housed on a mail server, an
Internet Message Access protocol lets your email
program access them.
IP – Internet
Protocol. Each website on the Internet receives
its own number, or IP Address, that identifies
its location.
KB – 1 kilobyte =
1024 bytes.
Linux – Using
open source development, Linux is a free
software package that allows users to create
their own operating system and then redistribute
and reconfigure it for free.
Managed Hosting –
A level of web hosting service that includes a
dedicated server, customer support for technical
matters, and maintenance by the web host.
MB – 1 megabyte =
1,000 kilobytes.
Merchant Account
– If a website accepts credit cards as payment,
it has a merchant account.
Microsoft Access
– Microsoft produced this software to create and
maintain a basic relational database.
Miva Empressa – A
dynamic scripting language using XML, Miva
allows you to develop interactive and
browser-independent sites quickly and easily,
including E-Commerce and database sites.
Miva Merchant –
E-Commerce sites can use Miva Merchant to
develop one or more browser-based online
stores.
MS SQL – The
Microsoft SQL Server allows hosts that use
Windows to create and manage a relational
database.
MySQL – Unix
hosts normally use this open source relational
database.
Payment Gateway -
This application service provider (ASP) works
like a cash register in a store. It encrypts
secure information and authorizes Internet
credit card transactions, then at a specified
time deposits the funds into your bank
account.
Perl – Data
management and processing are programmed using
the Perl language.
PHP – The
Hypertext Preprocessor is free software that
provides the scripting language for producing
interactive websites.
POP – Post Office
Protocol allows you to see emails housed on a
mail server.
POP3 – A POP3
lets you use several different email addresses
within your domain (i.e., info@, support@,
accounts@ etc.) and redirects them to a single
inbox.
Server – A host
computer or server manages a client-server
relationship by staying connected to the
Internet and providing your web page for viewers
to access.
Setup Fee – This
is a fee your web hosting company charges to
open and initially configure your account.
Shared Server –
When more than one unique web site is hosted on
one server, they share that server using
predetermined quantities of disk space. Having a
shared server host your web site is the least
costly way to do it. ( See Dedicated Server
for additional information.)
Shopping Cart Software
– This software lets online customers
collect, add, or delete items on your website
before their order is processed. There are all
types of shopping cart software available in
varying degrees of functionality and price.
SMTP – The Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol is what allows email to
be sent using the Internet.
SQL – Structured
Query Language is used in database programming
and allows the programmer to access, create and
maintain all features of a relational
database.
SSI – This
scripting language, known as SSI or Server Side
Includes, lets you insert the content of a file
into an existing web page, which allows you to
have automatic updates for your viewers.
SSL –
Recognizable by the address “https:// ….”, a
Secure Sockets Layer provides secure information
to safely travel over the Internet.
Static IP Address
– In a shared server web-hosting environment,
all domain names that share a server have the
same IP address. But if you have a static IP
address, that number is identified only with
your web site.
Storage Space –
see Disk Space.
Subdomain –
Subdomains refer to a type of domain name that
is part of a larger domain name.
i.x sub.domain.com,
sub1.domain.com, sub2.domain
Uptime – This
term refers to when a web site is up and
running. Usually, websites keep track of their
uptime, or how much in a given period their
website is available to viewers, and report it
as a percentage of that given period.
UNIX – UNIX is a
trademarked name that refers to the operating
system most often used by web servers, and is
popular because of its portability, its use of
plain text, and its time-sharing configuration
for multiple users.
Virtual Private
Servers – A level between shared
servers and dedicated servers, virtual private
servers allow customers to share a server while
having their own dedicated resources.
Virtual Web
Hosting – see Shared
Server.
WAP – The
Wireless Application Protocol allows wireless
equipment and devices to access the
Internet.
Web-Based Email –
If you can access your email from the Internet,
you have web-based email. This is as opposed to
a Microsoft Outlook type of program that is
housed on your computer.
Web Statistics –
This information can show you the number of
unique visitors to your site, where on the
Internet they came from, or what they used in
searching the Internet to arrive at your
website.
Windows Hosting –
Web servers can use a variety of operating
systems, and Microsoft Windows developed its own
dynamic, multitasking, graphics-based
system.
