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* [[What is Hosting?|What is Hosting?]]
 
* [[What is Hosting?|What is Hosting?]]
 
* [[What is DNS?|What is DNS?]]
 
* [[What is DNS?|What is DNS?]]
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* [[What is DNS propagation and why does it take so long?|What is DNS propagation and why does it take so long?]]
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* [[Who are the IEDR?|Who are the IEDR?]]
 
* [[What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc|What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc]]
 
* [[What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc|What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc]]
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* [[What is meant by the term blacklisted?|What is meant by the term blacklisted?]]
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* [[What is a Operating system|What is a Operating system]]
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* [[What is a email footer?|What is a email footer?]]
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* [[Explain POP, SMTP and IMAP protocols?|Explain POP, SMTP and IMAP protocols?]]
 
* [[What are POP and SMTP servers?|What are POP and SMTP servers?]]
 
* [[What are POP and SMTP servers?|What are POP and SMTP servers?]]
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* [[What are NameServers?|What are NameServers?]]
 
* [[What is WebMail?|What is WebMail?]]
 
* [[What is WebMail?|What is WebMail?]]
 
* [[What is Bandwidth?|What is Bandwidth?]]
 
* [[What is Bandwidth?|What is Bandwidth?]]
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* [[What is a CGI Service|What is a CGI Service]]
 
* [[What is a CGI Service|What is a CGI Service]]
 
* [[What is a dashboard?|What is a dashboard?]]
 
* [[What is a dashboard?|What is a dashboard?]]
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* [[What is a dedicated IP address?|What is a dedicated IP address?]]
 
* [[What is IMAP4?|What is IMAP4?]]
 
* [[What is IMAP4?|What is IMAP4?]]
 
* [[What is encrypted mail?|What is encrypted mail?]]
 
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* [[What is phpBB?|What is phpBB?]]
 
* [[What is phpBB?|What is phpBB?]]
 
* [[What is Mail manager?|What is Mail manager?]]
 
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* [[Who are the IEDR?|Who are the IEDR?]]
 
 
* [[What is VPS = virtual private server?|What is VPS = virtual private server?]]
 
* [[What is VPS = virtual private server?|What is VPS = virtual private server?]]
 
* [[What is WHOIS?|What is WHOIS?]]
 
* [[What is WHOIS?|What is WHOIS?]]
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* [[What are Web crawlers?|What are Web crawlers?]]
 
* [[What are Web crawlers?|What are Web crawlers?]]
 
* [[What is a API?|What is a API?]]
 
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'''What is Perl?'''
 
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Perl is a programming language which can be used for a large variety of tasks. A typical simple use of Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and printing out a report or for converting a text file into another form. But Perl provides a large number of tools for quite complicated problems, including systems programming.
 
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Programs written in Perl are called Perl scripts, whereas the term the perl program refers to the system program named perl for executing Perl scripts.
 
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'''What is SFTP?'''
 
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SFTP in computing terms refers to the SSH File Transfer Protocol, otherwise known as the Secure File Transfer Protocol, which is a network protocol designed to offer file management, file transfer, and file access functionality over any dependable data streams or channels. It's also a vast improvement from its predecessor, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), which used to be the standard in file transference between two computers during the dialup era and before the broadband era.
 
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'''What are Web crawlers?'''
 
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A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner.
 
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'''What is a API?'''
 
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An application programming interface (API) is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables.
 
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*We hope the above questions helped you in some way to understand just some of the terms used in Web hosting. If you require more information or assistance, we would be happy to answer more of your questions.
 

Latest revision as of 14:11, 12 June 2012

This section is to provide definitions of terms used in web hosting

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