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- Active Server Page
An Active Server Page (ASP) is an HTML page that includes embedded program(s) that are processed on a Microsoft Web server (Windows NT) before the page is sent to the user.
- Aliases
Aliases are forwarding e-mail addressees. E-mail sent to an aliases is automatically forwarded to another e-mail address.
- Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP is a method for giving users access to files on a server without having to identify themselves to the server. Anonymous FTP is a common way to get access to a server in order to view or download files that are publicly available.
- CGI
The common gateway interface (CGI) is a standard process for running programs from a Web server. CGI passes a user's request to a program on the server, in turn, the program passes information back to the user. CGI programs are often called scripts.
- Cgi-bin
The cgi-bin is a directory that holds a website's cgi programs. The cgi program is executed from this directory.
- Change DNS Information
Changing DNS information is the process of transferring a domain name from one webhosting service to another. The process involves updating a domain's web settings.
- Chmod
Chmod is a unix command that changes the access permissions of files.
- Cold Fusion
Made by Allaire, cold fusion is a set of products used for building web sites and servering pages to users.
- Docs
Located in a client's home directory, the docs directory is the folder that contains a website's HTML and image files.
- Domain
On the Internet, a domain consists of a set of network addresses. This domain is organized in levels: Top level domain and second level domain. The top level identifies geographic or purpose commonality (for example, the nation that the domain covers or a category such as "commercial"). The second level identifies a unique place within the top level domain and is, in fact, equivalent to a unique address on the Internet.
- Domain Name
A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the Internet.
- Domain Name System (DNS)
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates easily remembered textual names, such as www.radiant.net, into numerical IP addresses, such as 207.194.200.18, allowing for easier Internet use
- Domain Registrar
A domain registrar is a company or organization involved in registering domain names on the Internet.
- DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
- E-commerce
Electronic commerce is the ability to buy and sell products and services on the Internet.
- ETRN
Extended Turn
- FTP
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard Internet protocol that allows for the exchange of files between computers on the Internet. FTP is the simplest way to exchange files between computers.
- Host
The term "host" means any computer that has full two-way access to other computers on the Internet.
- .htaccess
.htaccess is a configuration file that is used to indicate who can or cannot access the contents of a specific directory from the Internet or an intranet. Placed inside a directory, the .htaccess indicates which users or groups of users can be allowed access to the files contained in that directory. This file is widely used on unix servers.
- HTML
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the set of markup tags or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page. The markup tells the Web browser how to display a Web page's words and images for the user.
- HTTP
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the Internet.
- Internet Service Provider
An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that provides individuals and other companies access to the Internet and other Internet related services.
- IP
Internet Protocol
- IP Address
An IP address is a 32-binary digit number that identifies each sender or receiver of information that is sent across the Internet.
- Java
Java is a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
- Microsoft Frontpage
Frontpage is a web site creation and management tool that gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're creating a personal Web page or a corporate Internet or intranet site.
- Microsoft Frontpage Extensions
Frontpage extensions are server side applications that allow users to publish directly to the Web server using a PC or laptop computer from anywhere in the world via the Internet
- Mirror
Mirroring refers to pointing one domain name to another domain.
- ODBC Data Source
A term used to refer to a database or database server used as a source of data. ODBC data sources are referred to by their data source name.
- Park
Parking a domain refers to the service of registering a domain name and 'parking' it on our servers until you are ready to create a website for the domain.
- Perl
Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language) is a script programming language
- POP
Point of Presence
- Registry
Organizations responsible for registering and maintaining the .ca, com, net, and org top level domain names on the World Wide Web.
- Sendmail
Sendmail is the most popular unix-based implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol for transmitting email
- Server Side Include
Server-side includes allow users to create documents that include information that is re-generated each time the document is accessed.
- SSL
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet.
- Streaming
Streaming is the ability to send video/audio data in compressed form over the Internet which is then displayed/played on the viewer's side as the data arrives. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound.
- Unix
UNIX is an interactive, time-sharing operating system.
- URL
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a file (resource) accessible on the Internet. http://www.webnames.ca is an example of a url.
- Virtual Web server
A virtual server is a computer server that has been configured to hosts domains available on the internet. This virtual server allows clients to establish their own personal, business or organizations website or domain name (i.e., yourdomain.com).
- Web server
A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol, serves the files that form Web pages to Web users
- Windows NT
Windows NT is the Microsoft Windows personal computer operating system
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