Glossary of Terms

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Here's a summary of descriptions of common technical terms, phrases and anagrams used in hosting and web design/development. Some terms have further resources and information available to them. This list does not include third-party software, products and Jumba services.

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A

  • Accessibility - A set of standards to assist people with disabilities that access the Internet
  • ActionScript - The native programming language for Flash
  • ActiveX - Controls, Documents and Scripting based on OLE (eg. SWF, MOV)
  • Ad blocking - Action of stopping ads from displaying on a website
  • Add-on Domains - a domain name that that points to a subdirectory within your account
  • ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line; Broadband, considerably faster than dial-up Internet
  • Adware - software that automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer
  • Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
  • Alias - Email forwarder
  • Anti-aliasing - a technique to minimise the distortion artefacts when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution
  • Apache - web server software
  • API - Application Programming Interface; a set of commands that can be connected to by an external script
  • Applet - a software component that runs in the context of another program, for example a web browser (eg Java applet)
  • Autoresponder - a feature in cPanel which allows you to send an automatic reply to emails received
  • ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • Avatar - a virtual representation of a person or personality. Can range from a picture in a forum to a 3D character in a multiplayer game

B

  • Backup - a copy of data kept as a precaution against loss of the original data. Also as a verb, to make such a copy
  • Bandwidth - The total KB/MB downloaded from the server
  • Bandwidth theft - See HotLink Protection
  • Banner exchange -
  • Baud -
  • BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
  • Bit - Single digit in binary - either '1' or '0' ('on' or 'off' respectively). There are 8 bits in a byte
  • Blacklist - a list of email addresses that are blocked from being received
  • Blog - (from "web log") - a type of website where regular entries are made (such as in a journal or diary)
  • Bot - search bots; see Robot
  • bps - bits per second
  • Broadband - High speed internet access method that doesn't block the use of the phone line
  • Browser - An application used to view web sites
  • Browser compatibility - Differences in programming are supported differently between browsers and operating systems

C

  • Captcha - Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart
  • Case sensitive - Different capitalisation of letters are treated as different words (ie, 'Example' is treated differently to 'example')
  • Catch-all - the default account set by cPanel that is used for all unrouted mail
  • CC - Carbon Copy
  • CGI - Common Gateway Interface; a standard protocol for exchanges between an application and web server
  • cgi-bin - the name of a directory containing CGI programs (binaries)
  • Churn - Term used for fast transferring of ADSL services between ISP's that support it
  • Client-side - Script that runs on a user's computer, generally through a browser
  • CMS - Content Management System; A way of being able to manage your own website without HTML or programming knowledge
  • ColdFusion - a server-side scripting language
  • Cookie - a small text file stored by a web site on your computer, often used for authentication and tracking
  • cPanel - Control Panel; used to manage a web hosting account
  • Cron jobs - a cron job is a command which is set to run at various times, can be set to day, hourly, yearly etc.
  • CSS - Cascading Style Sheets; a stylesheet/markup programming language
  • Cygwin - a library of tools that allow a Windows system to behave similarly to a Unix/Linux system

D

  • Databases - List of table data, generally stored as MySQL, SQL or PostgreSQL
  • DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service - when multiple computers flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system (see DoS attack)
  • DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • DHTML - Dynamic HTML, losing out to newer technologies such has Ajax
  • Discussion Boards -
  • Disk Usage -
  • Dither -
  • DNS - Domain Name System OR Domain Name Server
  • DNS Zone -
  • Domain -
  • Domain Name delegation -
  • Domain propagation - A 24-48 period of time for ISP's to "propagate" name servers
  • Domain Name System -
  • Domain registrar -
  • DOS - Disk Operating System
  • DoS attack - Denial of Service attack - an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users, by flooding it with simultaneous requests
  • Downtime - The total period that a service or component is not operational within an agreed service time
  • DSL - Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a form of data transmissions over phone lines
  • Dynamic IP - see IP Address

E

F

  • FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
  • Favourites Icon or Favicon - A custom icon that sits next to the website address in the browser
  • Firewall - A firewall is a security application that prevents or notifies access to remote networks
  • Foo - A word used to describe an example link or text. [1]
  • Form pages - A web page that sends information to the web server for processing
  • Form validation - usually implemented with a client-side script (such as JavaScript) or server-side
  • FPSE - FrontPage Server Extensions
  • FTP - File Transfer Protocol; a way of uploading files to the server
  • FTP Manager - An option in cPanel to manage FTP accounts
  • FTPS - FTP over SSL

G

  • Gateway -
  • GD library - GD Graphics Library, a PHP server-side application allowing the creation of dynamic images.
  • GIF - CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format; an image file format that can include frames and timing (animation), restricted to 256 colors
  • GNU - General Public License
  • Gopher -
  • GPL - General Public License
  • gTLD - Generic Top Level Domain
  • GUI - Graphical User Interface (often pronounced "gooey"), a way of making editing easier by use of graphics and colours.
  • Gzip or GNU zip - a free file compression program

H

I

  • ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
  • Icon - A small image that is used to represent a program or website
  • IIS - Internet Information Services
  • IMAP - A email retrieval protocol used to manipulate messages on a server or retrieve messages from the server
  • Index Manager -
  • Indexed colour -
  • Internal Server Error -
  • Intranet - Generally a website that can only be accessed from within the network
  • IP Address - A fairly unique user identification
  • ISP - Internet Service Provider

J

K

  • KB - Keyboard / Knowledge Base / Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
  • KDE - K Desktop Environment
  • KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid (the principle that simplicity in design should be a key goal)
  • KVM - keyboard, video, mouse

L

M

  • MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, an internet standard that extends the format of email to support non-text attachments and multi-part messages - see MIME Types
  • Mirror - Exact copy of a website or files used to spread load or bandwidth across multiple servers
  • MX - Mail eXchange - see MX entry (cPanel)
  • MySQL - a database management system

N

O

P

Q

  • QuickTime - a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. capable of handling various types of video, sound, text, animation, music and interactive panoramas
  • QuickTime movie - video file format (.mov files)
  • QuickTime Player - a media player application from Apple Inc.
  • quota - a share of a fixed total amount or quantity, for example
    • fixed amount of disk space (web hosting)
    • monthly allowance of data traffic/bandwidth (web hosting)
    • maximum size of an email account (email)
    • monthly allowance of data traffic/bandwidth (ADSL / broadband)

R

S

T

  • tarball - a compressed .tar file
  • TCP - Transmission Control Protocol; an Internet protocol
  • Telnet - software used to communicate with a remote server. TELNET (from TELetype NETwork) is a network protocol used by such software.
  • TLD - Top-level domain (see Domain name)
  • TLS - Transport Layer Security
  • Transparency - used in computer graphics for overlay and translucency in PNG, GIF, and TIFF files
  • Trojan horse - a program that installs malicious software while under the guise of doing something else (often shortened to simply Trojan)
  • TTL - time to live

U

  • UCE - Unsolicited commercial email (also known as spam)
  • UDP - User Datagram Protocol; an Internet protocol
  • Unix - a mature and stable operating system, first developed in 1969
  • Upload - transfer files from your local computer to the web server
  • URL - Uniform Resource Locator
  • Usenet - a discussion system of newsgroups

V

  • VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol
  • VPS - Virtual Private Server; a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine.
  • VRML - Virtual Reality Modeling Language, a web focussed, vector-based graphics format for 3D interactivity. See Wikipedia article
  • VTI - Vermeer Technologies Incorporated

W

  • W3C - World Wide Web Consortium; an authority of web-based guidelines for accessibility and consistency
  • WAI -
  • Webmail - Access to email from anywhere that has Internet access. An option available in the cPanel
  • WebDAV -
  • Wget -
  • Whitelist - a list of e-mail addresses that are "safe" to receive
  • WHM - WebHost Manager; area for resellers to manage their multiple hosting accounts
  • Whois - A way to look up domain availability
  • Windows - An Operating System developed by Microsoft
  • Worm -
  • WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get; Generally a HTML editor that can be an application or web-based

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