Category:Helpful Definitions

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

• What is a Domain name?
• What is a HTTP request?
• What is a Web server?
• What is a Web browser?
• What is a IP address?
• What is Hosting?
• What is DNS?
• What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc
• What is a Operating system
• What are POP and SMTP servers?
• What is WebMail?
• What is Bandwidth?
• What is Disk Space?
• What is a Dedicated Server?
• What is a CGI Service
• What is a dashboard?
• What is IMAP4?
• What is encrypted mail?
• What is FTP?
• What is meant by the term “cached”?
• What is a DNS cache?
• What is a sub-directory?
• What is mkdir command?
• What is Binary or ASCII?
• What is phpBB?
• What is Mail manager?
• Who are the IEDR?
• What is VPS = virtual private server?
• What is WHOIS?
• What is Apache web server?
• What is MySQL?
• What is TCP/IP?
• What is NAT?
• What is PHP?
• What is HTML?
• What is Joomla?
• What is Dreamweaver?
• What is CSS?
• What is Perl?
• What is SFTP?
• What are Web crawlers?
• What is a API?
• What is meant by the term blacklisted?
• What is a email footer?

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.