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 is DNS propagation and why does it take so long?
• Who are the IEDR?
• What are Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird? etc
• What is a Operating system
• Explain POP, SMTP and IMAP protocols?
• What are POP and SMTP servers?
• What are NameServers?
• 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 a dedicated IP address?
• 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?
• 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?