Glossary / Terms
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1. Account Control Panel
Account Control Panel is a set of services that lets you view and control any aspects of your account.
Each web host company comes equipped with a differently featured web site control panel. Some allow you to set up and maintain your web site's features as well as review disk and web site usage statistics. Some can be accessed from anywhere in the world via the Internet and allows you to control your web site 24 hours a day.
2. ADSL
Technology that allows data to be sent over existing copper phone lines. An ADSL connection is much faster than a standard phone modem connection.
3. alias
An alternate name that is associated with a real file or address.
4. ALT tags
HTML tags describing an image. They appear when the mouse is rolled over the image on a web page. Search engines can look for keyword phrases within ALT tags.
5. Anonymous FTP
Using FTP without establishing a user ID and password.
6. Antivirus
An anti-virus is a program specifically written to combat harmful viruses. Anti-Virus software seeks and removes viruses from your computer.
7. Apache
An open source HTTP server for Unix, Windows NT, and other platforms. Apache was developed in early 1995, based on code and ideas found in the most popular HTTP server of the time, NCSA httpd 1.3. It has since evolved to rival (and probably surpass) almost any other Unix based HTTP server in terms of functionality, and speed.
8. Applet
A small Java program.
9. Application Service Provider
An application service provider (ASP) is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network
10. ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange This is the global standard for code numbers used by computers to represent all upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, and punctuation.
11. ASP
A hosting environment that extends the normal capabilities of a web server and exposes objects for use in web programming, also referred to as a programming language.
12. AUP
A set of rules that inform web hosting customers what they can and cannot do through their hosting accounts. Often such policies place certain restrictions on e-mail use (such as spamming) and content (such as not allowing images of child pornography).
13. Automated Submission
The process of using a software or a web application to get a site listed in Search Engine and Directories.
14. Autoresponder
A feature that sends an automated reply to incoming email. For example, when customers send email to your support@yourwebsite.com address, an automatic response is e-mailed back to them.
15. Avatar
A computer generated persona, used primarily in online gamming, forums and chat rooms.
16. CAPTCHA
an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
17. Catch-all
A lot of hosts offer a "Catch-all" Email account. This means that when someone sends an email to anyone@yourdomain.com, it will go to you by default. This way, you can have, for example, sales@yourdomain.com, support@yourdomain.com, webmaster@yourdomain.com, and so on - with all of it going to the email account you specify in your Account (or domain) control panel. This is especially useful when a user makes a typo (or error) in the email address - as long as they get the domain name correct, you will get the email.
18. CGI
CGI, which everyone uses for short, stands for "Common Gateway Interface." It provides a common method of running an executable program, usually written in Perl or C/C++, from a web site in order to generate dynamic content.
19. Click Through
This term is used to describe the ratio of clicks (by users) to impressions (or exposures) on a web site advertisement, usually one of the banner ads seen on many sites. If a banner has been displayed on a web site 100 times, for example, and 3 people click on it, it will have a 3% click-through ratio.
20. Co-Location
Co-location or "Co-Lo" is the term used for when you purchase a server, and lease space and access to it. A lot of hosts offer co-location plans, usually with a monthly fee as well as fees for the amount of bandwidth used.
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Filed under: Announcements on June 21st, 1999