Web Hosting Term

Add-On Domains makes it possible for you to have an additional website on just one account. You should know that there may be some limits for the websites using add-on domains. Different host has different policy.

Anonymous FTP feature: With Anonymous FTP feature, you can let your visit use FTP service on your site without inputing account name and password. In fact, most FTP client use account name anonymous and a email address as a password, Anonymous FTP accept any email address as a valid password.

Auto responder services let you instantly reply to the emails sent to you.

Bandwidth per month describes the amount limit of data transferred to or from the website or server within a month. For example 500 gigabytes per month. If the total amount of data downloaded from the website in a particular month reaches this limit, the hosting company may shut off further public access to the site, or hosting company may charge you for the ultra bandwidth using.
What does "unlimited bandwidth" really mean?
You should understand it as hosts try to provide as much bandwidth as they could to you. You will never be charged for ultra bandwidth using. The vast majority of clients will never need to worry about bandwidth.
But you should know that a shared web hosting service means a number of customers' web sites are hosted from the same server. To ensure that Web Hosting is reliable and available for the greatest number of users, a customer's web site usage cannot adversely affect the performance of other customers' sites.
So there are still some constraints on bandwidth using. Different hosts place differnet constraints on the bandwidth using.
Do read TOS carefully before you pay for your hosting plan.

Blog: If a hosting plan support blog, the hosting provide blog script, it means you can build your own blog easily.

CGI: The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) refers to a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with a web server. cgi-bin refers to a directory at the base of the directory tree in a web server to hold executable files called with CGI.

Control Panel: A Control panel refers to the interface provided by the hosting company for the maintenance and monitoring of the hosted website. For example, you can use control panel to get info about Visitor statistics, webspace and bandwidth usage, Web based file manager, Email account configuration, Managing database, maintaining FTP users accounts, Access to server logs.

Customer Forum: A few hosts offer customer forum for their customer to communicate with each other, customer forum is also used to support their client by host's staff.

Database Support: With database support, you website can make some database driven web pages. Such as you can offer registration web page to get info from your visitor or you canlet your visitor search your product inventory from your product database.

Disk space refers to the amount of hard drive storage space you are allotted on a host Web server. The text, images, sound files, video files, and other elements that make up your website occupy storage space on a server.
What does "unlimited disk space" really mean?
You should understand it as hosts try to provide as much disk space as they could to you. You will never be charged for ultra disk space using. The vast majority of clients will never need to worry about disk space. But you should know that a shared web hosting service means a number of customers' web sites are hosted from the same server. To ensure that Web Hosting is reliable and available for the greatest number of users, a customer's web site usage cannot adversely affect the performance of other customers' sites. So there are still some constraints on the way you use disk space. Such as Using disk space primarily as an online storage space for archiving electronic files is prohibited in some hosting plans.
Different hosts place differnet constraints on the space using.
Do read TOS carefully before you pay for your hosting plan.

Domain Allowed is the number of your domains can be hosted on one hosting plan. Those domains except main domain is also call add-on domains. It mean you can host more than 1 website on one hosting plan. You should know that there may be some limits for add-on domains.

Email account is the amount of email address you can create in one hosting plan.

Fantastico is a script library which automates the installation of web applications to a website. Fantastico scripts are executed from the administration area of a website control panel such as cPanel.

Flash are advanced media-rich formats for content delivery. If a hosting support flash, it means you can use Flash elements in your web sites.

Forwarding account: An email forwarding account is not a "real" mailbox. All e-mail sent to your forwarding account is automatically delivered to the destination email address of your choice. Domain will be free for as long as you host with the. Differnt host has different policy. To read Term of Servcie to get more info. For example, some host will registered domain in your name, you own it and have complete control over it, while other some hosts registered domain in host's name, the hosts own it, if you transfer your website to other host, you can not use the domain any more.

FrontPage is a HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft. It can be used to create and upload your site when Frontpage extensions are supported by the hosting plan.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to transfer files from one computer to another through Internet. Having multiple FTP accounts will allow you to give friends or other persons their own FTP account. You can control how they download files from your web site, or upload files to your web site.

ftp-manager let you manage ftp easily.

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Host Address is the url of a host. Click "visit site" to Visit Hosts.

Hosts is a comanies that provide space for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, then their clients can build websites.

A web hosting plan is a type of Internet service that allows host's clients to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Some hosts provide only one plan to their client, while other hosts may provide several plans for their client to choose from.

IMAP: The Internet Message Access Protocol(IMAP) is an Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. IMAP offers more functions than POP3.

Live chat: If a host support live chat, you can chat with the host's staff instantly on the host's
website.

Raw Access Log files are text documents in which activity on a web site is recorded. Information about each visit, such as IP, time and date, and other relevant information is stored in these log files.

Shockwave are advanced media-rich formats for content delivery. If a hosting support flash, it means you can use shockwave elements in your web sites

MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface(MIDI ) refers to an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers, and other equipment to communicate, control, and synchronize with each other.

Money back guarantee: If you are not satisfied with hosting service in the guarantee days, hosts will give you a refund. But you should know that some host declare that setup fees and domain registrations are non-refundable. And abuse may cause deducting your refund. Different host has different policy. To read term of service to get more info.

A parked domain name will make it possible for you to have more than just one domain name for your website. All parked domain point to one website.

Perl is a dynamic programming language.

PHP 4 refers to PHP version 4.
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a computer scripting language, designed for producing dynamic web pages. It is for server-side scripting. Such as you can use PHP and Mysql database to build webpages for visitor to search your product inventory.

PHP 5 refers to PHP version 5.
PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a computer scripting language, designed for producing dynamic web pages. It is for server-side scripting. Such as you can use PHP and Mysql database to build webpages for visitor to search your product inventory.

Post Office Protocol version 3(POP3) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to fetch e-mail from a remote server. If a hosting support POP, then you can use some e-mail client such as Outlook Express to retrieve email from your e-mail account.

Price per month starting at: This is the lowest price for the hosting plan, you may need to prepay one or upto 3 years to get this lowest price.

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. It emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are minimalist, while the standard library is large and comprehensive.

Ruby on Rails refers to a free web application framework designed to make web development faster, simpler and more efficient. Ruby on Rails is written in the Ruby programming language.

Server Side Includes (SSI) refers to a simple server-side scripting language, its primary use is including the contents of one file into another one dynamically when the latter is served by a web server. SSI is most suitable for simple automatization tasks.

Setup fee is a one time payment for a hosting plan. Usually setup fee is free if you prepay 1 year or more for the hosting plan.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for web browsing, typically for customer to Securely fill and submit order form including credi card number and other private info in web pages online. If a host offer a shared SSL Certificate, it should be free, you do not need to buy a private SSL, you shared the SSL Certificate with your host and other client's websites. For an example, the link to your secured pages appear something like: https://secure.your-website-domain.your-host-domain.com/~username/. If you don't want to share ssl with other client, you will need to purchase a personal certificate and dedicated IP.

Shopping cart software is used to assist customers order online. The software allows online shopping customers to place items in the cart, typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling charges and the associated taxes.

Site statistic: You can use Site stats tools to analyze these log files and produce human friendly charts and diagrams which illustrate and summarize the contents of these log files.

Spam filter help you fight against spam email.

Streaming audio is audio that is constantly received by, and normally played to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the web site.

Streaming video is video that is constantly received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the web site.

A subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. For example, "mail.abc.com" is a subdomain of the domain "abc.com".

Toll free number may not be free if you make an international call.
Uptime guarantee is that hosts guarantee their network or your site will be up in
in a percentage of time. If the hosts fail, client can get some compensation.
Different host has different policy. To read TOS of hosting plan to get more info. For example, some hosts guarantee that your site will be up 99.9% of the time they host it, it includes both network and server failures. If your site isn't up 99.9% in any one month the hosts will issue a full refund for the month.

Web-based email or webmail is an e-mail service accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an e-mail client, such as Outlook express, thunderbird.

Web site builder lets you create a complete site in minutes, you don't need to know anything about FTP, HTML, HTTP, or Designing. If you can surf the Internet, you can build your own professional looking website.

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