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







What is WHOIS?

Whois is a protocol used to find information about networks, domains and hosts. The whois records normally include data on the organizations and the contacts associated with these networks and domains

What is VPS = virtual private server?

Virtual private server (VPS) is a term used by Internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine. The term is used for emphasizing that the virtual machine, although running in software on the same physical computer as other customers' virtual machines, is functionally equivalent to a separate physical computer, is dedicated to the individual customer's needs, has the privacy of a separate physical computer, and can be configured to run as a server computer (i.e. to run server software).

What is Apache web server?

Apache, otherwise known as Apache HTTP Server, is an established standard in the online distribution of website services, which gave the initial boost for the expansion of the World Wide Web. It is an open-source web server platform, which guarantees the online availability of the majority of the websites active today. The server is aimed at serving a great deal of widely popular modern web platforms/operating systems such as Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Novell NetWare, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, etc.

What is MySQL?

MySQL is a database system used on the web. Basically, a MySQL database allows you to create a relational database structure on a web-server somewhere in order to store data or automate procedures. If you think of it in comparison to Microsoft Access, MySQL is what holds all of your tables, PHP acts as your queries (among other things), and your forms are basically web pages with fields in them. With all of this combined, you can create truly spectacular projects on the web.

What is TCP/IP?

TCP/IP stands for the 'Transport Control Protocol / Internet Protocol' suite. TCP/IP was created in 1983 to replace NCP. The advantage of TCP/IP is it's versitility. It can successfully switch packets of all shapes and sizes, and work across a varieties of networks.

TCP/IP has become the backbone of the Internet and its composite LANs and WANs. As already stated, it is due to it's ability to switch packets from any computer systems, regardless of network peculiarities, operating system differences and other packet differences.

The TCP/IP protocol suite refers to several separate protocols that computers use to transfer data across the Internet. Listed below are four of the most commonly used TCP/IP protocols,

What is NAT?

Network Address Translation (NAT) is the process where a network device, usually a firewall, assigns a public address to a computer (or group of computers) inside a private network. The main use of NAT is to limit the number of public IP addresses an organization or company must use, for both economy and security purposes.

What is Web filtering?

Web filtering, the screening of Web sites or pages, very much like e-mail filtering, the screening of e-mail for spam or other objectionable content.

What is a Control Panel and do I need one?

Yes, you need one if you are a newbie. Do you now how to create email accounts, databases etc...

With a control panel this is easy and fast, no need to do it with shell commands.

What is PHP?

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for Web development to produce dynamic Web pages.

What is HTML?

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a language to specify the structure of documents for retrieval across the Internet using browser programs of the WorldWideWeb.

HTML is an application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) which is the International Standard (ISO 8879) for text markup. The principle is that text markup concentrates on structure rather than appearance, making the files more reuseable and leaving the visual details to the end-user software (like the browser you're reading this with now)

What is Joomla?

Joomla is a free and open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets and a model–view–controller (MVC) Web application framework that can also be used independently.

Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques (since version 1.6[2]) and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL (or, since version 2.5, MS SQL) database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, search, and support for language

What is Dreamweaver?

Adobe Dreamweaver is a site building and publishing tool appropriate for intermediate to advanced users that allows you to create and edit web pages and applications using a graphical interface and built-in advanced design and coding features.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts

What is Perl?

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.

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.

What is SFTP?

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.

What are Web crawlers?

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.

What is a API?

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.

  • 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.
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