Glossary of Hosting Terms
Web Space:
The
amount of space reserved for you website on a server. Typical 10 to 20
page websites are about 2-3 Megs. Larger website like e-commerce stores
are much larger in size.
Data Transfer:
Data Transfer is the amount of data that is accessed by
visitors to your site. An average web page is 15k to 20k in file size. The
bigger your website is and the amount of visitors you plan to have to your
site will regulate how much data is transferred.
Access to your Web Account:
Using the WebsiteOS and a connection to the internet, you
can access your web account anytime day our night. Once your account as
been setup we will e-mail your information (passwords, usernames, etc.) to
you. At that point you will be in full control of you website and web
account.
Multiple T3 Connections:
A leased-line connection to the Internet which can transfer
data at 44.736 Mbps. It is used mainly by ISPs (Internet Service
Providers) connecting to the Internet backbone. A T-3 line contains 672
individual channels, each of which can transfer data at 64 Kbps. T3 lines
are also called DS3 lines.
Free Technical Support:
24hourwebhostingsupport.com is here to help all
InternetHosting.com customers. Chat in real time with a support technician
or the phone or online 24/7!
NT and UNIX
Support
Windows NT¨ is Microsoft's¨ 32-bit
operating system developed from what was originally intended to be OS/2
3.0 before Microsoft ¨and IBM ceased joint development of OS/2. Used by
web hosting companies in the network environment to offer customers
support for Microsoft base products such as MS Access¨, MS SQL¨ 7.0, and
FrontPage¨ 2002.
UNIX, a computer operating system (the basic software running on a
computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). UNIX
is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user)
and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for
servers on the Internet.
EasyMail
Accounts
The "EasyMail" function allows you to manage your
domain's email accounts. EasyMail setup is a full featured accessory that
allows a novice user to easily configure various email account features.
These accounts can be accessed by traditional mail reading clients as well
as over the web with WebMail.
Easy Live Chat
The EasyLiveChat application allows you to set up online chatting to handle services such as technical support and general inquiries. Up to four chat agents can be set up; each agent may handle up to four chat sessions simultaneously.
Easy Site Optimizer
Search engine optimization (SEO) is critical to the success of your customer's websites. It determines if a site is or is not added to search engine databases - and ultimately how highly it is ranked. Unlike paid ad word advertising, natural search results have a higher perceived trust value - and the order in which a site is ranked can only be improved through effective site optimization.
Administration
Tools
This function allows you to view a list of issued mail
administration commands. To view the EasyMail command history, click
the"History" tab and the "EasyMail History" will be displayed. To close
the EasyMail, click the "OK" button. This feature is useful for tracking
your work if a command is issued by mistake or if there is more than one
person administering your mail.
Webmail
The ability to access your EasyMail accounts over the Internet using a web
browser.
Announcer
Announcer
is an easy way for you to keep your customers or friends up-to-date with
what's new and exciting on your website.
Business Card Creation
Tool
This application can create a simple, but professional
looking single-page website that can be created with a wizard. Several
templates are available to provide professional quality background images
and site designs.
Web-Site Creation
Wizard
The Website Wizard is a robust tool that allows you
to quickly create a professional looking website with no knowledge of
HTML. Your website can have up to nine pages and can be customized to meet
your needs.
FrontPage 2002
Extensions
Server extensions allow your site to use
Microsoft FrontPage specific components like form submission and shared
borders.
Free Shopping
Carts
ecBuilder, an advanced tool is useful for customers
interested in building and maintaining an e-commerce site. ecBuilder comes
in two versions which are described below.
The ecBuilder SOHO version can be downloaded FREE from our ecBuilder
page. It is a basic verision of ecBuilder with limited features.
The ecBuilder Pro 5.0 can be downloaded from our ecBuilder page. It
requires a license key, which can be purchased through us or directly
from ecBuilder.
Web Site Promotion
Wizard
The Web Site Promote Wizard function allows you to
promote your site by automatically sending promotion material to the top
search engines.
Custom
CGI
InternetHosting.com has pre-built custom CGI scripts for
you to use for your site. Abbreviation for "Common Gateway Interface".
This is an interface standard which provides a method of executing a
server-side program (script) from a website to generate a webpage with
dynamic content. Scripts conforming to this standard may be written in any
programming language that produces an executable file, but are most often
written in Perl, Python, C, C++, or TCL.
CGI Plugin In
Scripts
This is a feature for our customers who want to use
pre-written CGI scripts such as FormMail or TextCounter. Plug-in scripts
will be continuously added to the system.
CGI Form Mail
The
FormMail script is a universal form to an email gateway. Use this script
if you want to have a form's contents emailed to you, but aren't sure how
to write the code for it.
Search
Engine
The Search Engine plugin script allows you to add an
indexing and searching system to your domain. Both HTML documents and
plain text files can be searched by this search engine.
Text
Counter
TextCounter script allows you to include a text
counter on any page of your web site.
GuestBook
A "guest
book" is a script on a webpage with a form which allows website visitors
to "sign in" and leave comments or questions, which optionally may or may
not be viewed by other visitors.
WebSite
Checker
The WebSite Checker function allows you to view the
structure of your website, check your pages for broken links, list links
pointing to external sites, view your website images, get a run-down of
problems sorted by author, locate pages that may be slow to download, show
new and old pages, give pages that have no title and show links that are
not checked.
File Manager
The
File Manager function allows you to take full control of your website
files. It is a safe alternative to full shell access for sophisticated
users. You can copy, move, delete, rename and edit files, create and
remove directories, change file permissions and upload files from your
local computer to the server.
File Manager is best used to manipulate files that have been previously
uploaded to your website. To upload more than one file at a time, an FTP
client is generally more efficient.
Log File Management
Tool
The Log Manager allows you to obtain raw server logs
about your site activity and traffic. You can view and/or delete, print,
download, and date your log files. You may disable logging altogether to
conserve your disk space.
Your server logs can also be downloaded for use with other statistics
packages.
You can use the Web Stats function to analyze and view your log files
in an easy-to-read, graphical display. While Log Manager allows you to
manage your log files and view them in their raw state, Web Stats makes
them human readable.
Disk Usage
Meter
The "Disk Usage" function reports the disk space usage
of your website. It provides a listing of each directory and the amount of
space used. The report is in plain text and can be cut and pasted for
printing.
Support for Real Time Credit
Card Processing
Does your site require credit card
transactions? InternetHosting.com websites support real time credit card
processing, secure transactions and more!
Secure Server SSL
Manager
Abbreviation for "Secure Sockets Layer". SSL is a
transaction security standard that provides data encryption, server
authentication, and message integrity. SSL is usually used on sites that
accept credit card numbers or other private information. The SSL Manager
application will help you set up SSL security for your web site.
This
application will allow you to choose between using our generic SSL
certificate or creating one of your own.
ASP/CF Enabler
The
ASP/CFM Enabler allows you to use ASP and ColdFusion files on your domain.
Our servers will serve your ASP and ColdFusion files correctly only after
you enable the appropriate service on your domain.
If you have an SSL certificate installed on your domain, you can also
enable secure ASP and secure ColdFusion using the ASP/CFM Enabler.
MySQL
Database
MySQL is an Open Source Database, designed for
speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use.
MS ACCESS
Database
Microsoft Access (usually abbreviated as MS Access)
is an easy-to-use program for creating and maintaining databases. The
Access database driver for online databases is often supported by webhosts
using the NT hosting platform.
Cold Fusion
Support
A scripting language for interfacing databases and
advanced web development. Cold Fusion supports databases such as Microsoft
Access, FoxPro, dBASE, and Paradox.
MS-SQL
MS-SQL
(Microsoft SQL) Extensive database programming capabilities built on Web
standards. Rich XML and Internet standard support give you the ability to
store and retrieve data in XML format easily with built-in stored
procedures. You can also use XML updategrams to insert, update and delete
data easily.
Real Audio and
Video
A client-server software system and file format(s) by
Real Networks that allows Internet users to play audio and/or video-based
multimedia content in real-time as they are being downloaded (called
"streaming media"), instead of the user having to download the complete
file before being able to play it.
RAID-5 Disk Space
RAID
is a way of storing the same data in different places by placing data on
multiple hard disks. By placing data on multiple disks operations can
overlap in a balanced way, improving performance.
99.9% Uptime
Guarantee
Because of our 24/7 Network Monitoring, we can
guarantee that your web site will be up and running 99.99% of the time.
This means your views can always view your site day or night.
24/7 Network
Monitoring
Our network technicians work 24 hours a day, 7
days a week monitoring the web severs contains your web site ensuring that
your site is always running and never offline.
Self-Administered E-mail
Accounts
Using the WebsiteOS you can add, delete, and
configure multiple e-mail accounts without the help of a sytem
administrators.
Site Building
Tool
The Site Building Tool contains valuable individual
tools such as ASP/CFM Enabler, Business Card Builder, Frontpage Manager,
Free Plug-in Scripts, Webmaster Tools and the Website Wizard. Whether your
new to the web or a seasoned pro, each of these tools can help develop
your online identity quick and easily.
Robust Site Management
Tool
WebsiteOS is a browser based application that allows
you to manage many aspects of your website from any computer connected to
the Internet, anytime, anywhere!
Access to Log
Files
Log Files are stats that keep track of what pages and
areas of your site that users are visiting. Using Web Stats and the Log
Manager you can download, view, manage and delete your log files.
Web Stats
Web Stats
is a web server log file analysis program. It produces usage statistics
from your website's server logs. The statistical results are presented in
both columnar and graphical format. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly
usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to display usage by
site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser) and country.
File Transfer Protocol
(FTP)
FTP is an Internet standard for transferring files
over the Internet. FTP programs and utilities are used to upload and
download webpages, graphics, and other files from your hard drive to a
remote server which allows FTP access.
Domain
Manager
The Domain Manager is a help web-based application
that stores user information for registered domain names. Using the Domain
Manager you can edit billing information, manage name servers, change
domain passwords, and more.
Hit Counter
Counts
and records "hits" made to your site. Any request made to the server which
is logged is considered a "hit". The requests can be for any resource:
HTML pages, graphic images, audio files, cgi scripts, etc. Each valid line
in the server log is counted as a hit. This number represents the total
number of requests that were made to the server during the specified
report period.
CGI-BIN
Abbreviation
for "Common Gateway Interface". This is an interface standard which
provides a method of executing a server-side program (script) from a
website to generate a webpage with dynamic content. Scripts conforming to
this standard may be written in any programming language that produces an
executable file, but are most often written in Perl, Python, C, C++, or
TCL.
PHP
A server-side
scripting language. The PHP commands, which are embedded in the web page's
HTML, are executed on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages.
Database
Manager
Database Manager is a web based MySQL client that
allows you to create and manipulate a maximum of two MySQL databases.
Database Manager is designed for advanced users. Knowledge of
relational databases and SQL is required in order to use this Database
Manager efficiently.
Database Manager is best used for creating databases and tables. For
populating a database, you should consider using a script(PHP, ColdFusion)
or CGI.
Database Manager builds SQL statements from the various options that
you select. This is the reason for the "Build SQL Query" button. Viewing
the Query gives you an opportunity to review the query before running it.
Clicking the "Run SQL Query" button submits the query to the SQL
server.
Active Server Pages
(ASP)
Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) is a server-side
scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive
Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side
scripts that are processed by a web server before being sent to the userâs
browser. You can combine ASP with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to create powerful interactive Web sites.
ASP is a feature of the Microsoft Internet Information Server. Since
the server-side script is building a regular HTML page, it can be served
to almost any browser. An ASP file can be created by including a script
written in VBScript or JScript in an HTML file.
Ad Server
An ad
server allows you to place rotating banner advertisements on your website,
manage your advertising clients, and to collect statistics on banner views
and "click throughs."
Template Gallery
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