Hosting Terminology

Internet

The user-friendly interface of the Internet is based on a multi-layer global network system connecting hundreds of millions of computers worldwide. This system is comprised of multiple local and global networks serving private, public, business, academic and government purposes.

Website

The wealth of information available on the World Wide Web is carefully organized and displayed within an endless variety of websites dedicated to any sorts of topics you could imagine. Websites are stored on web servers and are made visible on web browsers with the help of the crucial HTTP protocol.

Domain Hosting

Running an online presence with your own domain would be unthinkable without using web hosting services. After getting a domain name, website owners will need to host it on a server, pointing it to a certain IP address, to make their web pages accessible online.

URL

The Uniform resource locator, popular as URL, is the global web address of documents, including web pages or image files, and programs such as Java applets. It is aimed at identifying the location of a document or a program available on the web and specifies the mechanism for accessing it through a web browser.

Web Page

The web pages, the building units of the websites, contain various types of information presented to the visitor in an aesthetic and readable manner. Most of the web pages are widely accessible on the World Wide Web, while others may also be available online but are only restricted to a certain private network, such as a corporate intranet.

Index

The index is one of the most widely used terms in the field of computing and IT technologies. The most popular index types include the website index, the database index and the search engine index.

Ecommerce

Short for electronic commerce, e-commerce represents a complex term referring to the process of selling and buying products and services over the Internet or other electronic systems. It is considered as the sales aspect of the e-business, saving individuals and businesses tons of precious time and marketing efforts.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

The ISP is the company responsible for providing you with an uninterrupted connection to the Internet. The term ‘ISP’ represents an abbreviation of Internet Service Provider.

SSH Telnet

SSH Telnet is used to perform an encrypted connection between a certain computer and a remote computer or server for sending commands or exchanging files between the two machines.

File

The file is a fundamental carrier of information in the process of global data transfer that Internet and other high technologies are based on. It represents a sequence of characters stored on a personal computer or on a server, viewable from any Internet enabled computer in the world.

Web Space

Web space is one of the basic resources of the web hosting services, referring to the amount of disk space on a web server that is allocated to website owners by hosting companies. It is made up of the quantity of all the text, images, scripts, databases, emails and other files related to a website.

Web Browser

The web browsers are computer programs designed to open and read HTML, PHP and other scripting languages. Using web browser software users can view websites and other web content on their computers.

Bandwidth

The term ‘bandwith’ refers to the speed at which certain data is transferred over the Internet from the data centers it is located in to the ISPs and to the consumers’ Internet enabled devices.

Disk Space

This is the allowed volume of the files hosted on a single server or on a cluster of servers. It’s also known as data storage, server space, storage space, storage size, and data space.

Bandwidth Limit

Data Transfer (also known as file transfer or monthly traffic) represents all the information downloaded from your website. Bandwidth is the channel connection used for the transfer of the data from your website to your visitors’ computers.

Cron Jobs

The Cron Job (from ‘chronograph’) is an automatic daemon process run continuously in the background. It allows certain scripts to be performed at certain intervals.

.htaccess Generator

The .htaccess Generator Tool will help you to quickly and, above all – easily, set different access restrictions and error pages, re-write web page URLs, set up Hotlink Protection, specify additional MIME types. It offers many more useful functions.

Hotlink Protection

Hotlinking means the direct linking of someone else’s website to your website’s files. The abusers will most likely try to link to your images and, because of this, your traffic resources will begin to dry out without your involvement or knowledge. Hotlink protection means that nobody can steal your traffic resources by directly linking to your files and forcing you to pay his/her website’s bills as a consequence.

Daily Data Backup

The daily backup service is one of the crucial web hosting features, ensuring a precise recovery of your website contents in the event of accidental data losses, caused by electrical breakdown, virus attack, etc.

cPanel

The cPanel provides regular shared hosting users, hosting resellers or dedicated server/VPS users with a fully featured platform for managing their overall web presence.

Data Center

The Data Center is a specialized facility providing the technical infrastructure and physical conditions for a web hosting server to be operating smoothly and safely.

Hosting Server

The hosting server is a server machine which is dedicated to providing web hosting services. It allows you to set up and run your website with your own domain.