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Web Hosting
Hosting simply means the service and space we provide
for you to put your website.
Web server
A computer connected to
the Internet 24 hours/7 days containing one or more web
sites.
Web
space
Simply some space on a
web server where you can put your web pages on. 100 MB means
all your web pages
including text, pictures and emails can not exceed a total
size of 100 megabytes.
NOC
Network Operation Center.
Domains/URL
To find any web page on
the Internet you usually type in a so called URL (e.g.
www.koolhost.org).
Generally,
every computer on the Internet is uniquely identified by
an
IP-address
so a computer can find any other computer.
But as it would be very annoying if we had to remember all
those complicated numbers, domain names are
used to find a specific website. When you enter
www.koolhost.org,
the computer uses a so called
name
server to translate this name into an IP-address to
find the web server where this site is located..
Sub
domains
A way of further dividing
a
domain
name into several spaces, e.g. forums.koolhost.org.
Bandwidth
The total amount of data
allowed to be transferred to and from your web site.
Email
Electronic mail. The exchange
of text messages and file attachments between computers.
POP3
Post Office Protocol 3.
A protocol used so email programs can deliver
emails
to and from the server.
Autoresponder
When someone sends an
email to the address, the server automatically replies with
a message of your choice.
E.g. "We are on holiday". Just like a phone answering
machine.
Email
forwarding
Used to automatically
forward emails sent to a POP3 account to your home email
or anywhere else.
You can set email forwarding for each email address separately.
FTP
File transfer protocol.
A protocol used to exchange files between different computers.
For instance: you will use
a FTP program to transfer the files for your website from
your local computer to the
web
server.
IP
address
Internet protocol
address. The standard way of identifying a computer that
is connected to the Internet,
much the way a telephone number identifies a telephone on
a telephone network. An IP address is four numbers
separated by periods, and each number is less than 256,
for example, 192.168.192.70.
Dedicated
IP
Your site will always
have the same IP address and your IP address will not be
shared with other users or web sites.
Name
server
Used to translate domain names into IP addresses.
MySQL
The standard database
for web sites. A database is a file containing data organized
into records which you can
retrieve, sort and manipulate. This is done through SQL
(Structured query language), a simple database query
and programming language.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language. The standard markup language
used for documents in the World Wide Web.
The HTML language uses tags to indicate how Web browsers
should display page elements such as text and
graphics, and how Web browsers should respond to user actions
such as hyperlink activation by means of
a key press or mouse click.
PHP
PHP is a server-side,
cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you
are completely new to PHP and want
to get some idea of how it works, have a look at
www.php.net.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface.
CGI scripts are a small program written in a script language
such as Perl that functions as a glue between HTML pages
and other programs on the web server.
SSL
Secure sockets layer.
A standard for establishing a secure communication channel
to prevent the interception
of critical information (such as credit card data). Used
to enable secure electronic financial transactions.
SSH
SSH is a procedure to communicate with the server (on your
account) like Telnet, but more secure.
SSI
Server Side Includes. When using a UNIX system it is sometimes
necessary to enable certain HTML files executable
for the purpose of using SSI. Server Side Includes are often
used to run a CGI script.
Koolhost Web Services
903 N. King
Seguin, TX 78155
830.372.1329
830.279.7034
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