Hosting Glossary

Web Hosting Glossary
.ac (domain name extension):
.ac is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Ascension Island. It is administered by NIC.AC, a subsidiary of the Internet Computer Bureau based in the United Kingdom. Registration for this domain is open to anyone. The registry accepts registrations of internationalized domain names.
.ad (domain name extension):
.ad is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Andorra. It is administered by Servei de Telecomunicacions d’Andorra. Because ad is also an abbreviation for the word advertisement or advert, .ad has also been used in an unconventional manner as a domain hack by some advertising media companies.
.ae (domain name extension):
.ae is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Arab Emirates. It is administered by .aeDA which is part of the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).
.aero (domain name extension):
In web hosting terms, “.aero” is a sponsored top level domain of domain name system (DNS) derived from “Aeronautics”. This top level domain is sponsored by SITA (Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques). It is the first sponsored top-level domain based on a single industrial theme. The aero domain is reserved for companies, organizations, associations, government agencies, and individuals in aviation-related fields. It was created in 2002 and is operated by SITA. SITA created and operates the Dot Aero Council.
.af (domain name extension):
.af is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Afghanistan. It is administered by AFGNIC, a service of the UNDP and the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan. .af is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Afghanistan. It is administered by AFGNIC, a service of the UNDP and the Islamic Transitional Government of Afghanistan. Registration is made directly at the second level, or on the third level beneath various categorized sub domains at the second level. Third-level domains have restrictions based on which second-level domain they are registered under. Different Second level domains available with this domain are com.af (for Commercial entities licensed from the Ministry of Commerce), edu.af (Educational institutions), gov.af (Government and agencies), net.af (Network providers), and org.af (Non-commercial entities)
.asia (domain name extension):
.asia is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) sponsored by the DotAsia Organization, with the back-end registry operated by Afilias. It was approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on 19 October 2006 as a sponsored top-level domain (TLD). It will serve as a regional domain for companies, organizations, and individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.
.cat (domain name extension):
Over Internet in web hosting terms, “.cat” is a sponsored top level domain (sTLD) of domain name system (DNS) originally intended for the purpose of highlighting the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed and sponsored by “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” (ICANN) and Fundació puntCAT. It was approved in September 2005. Organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other networking and infrastructure servicing companies.
.com (domain name extension):
In Internet and web hosting terms, “.COM” is a generic top level domain of domain name system (DNS) derived from “Commercial” indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character i.e. a domain name used by commercial enterprises.
.com (file name extension or file format):
In many computer systems, including Windows, “.COM” is the file extension executable command files.
.coop (domain name extension):
This is a sponsored domain name extension derived from the term “Cooperatives”, and is originally intended to be used for domain names assigned to cooperatives, wholly owned subsidiaries, and other organizations that exist to promote or support co-operatives. This domain name extension is sponsored by DotCooperation LLC, a subsidiary of the National Cooperative Business Association and was first introduced in year 2001.
.edu (domain name extension):
.edu is the sponsored top level domain name extension derived from “Education” and is meant for use as a name space for educational institutions, originally those in the United States but later across the world. This domain name extension was first introduced in 1985 and sponsored by Educause (a nonprofit organization). The actual use of this domain name extension is for accredited post secondary institutions, almost all over the world. Registration under this domain is strictly restricted and the institute registered under this domain must be accredited by an agency on the list of Nationally recognized accrediting agencies approved and published by U.S. Department of Education. Some older registrations are although grandfathered.
.gif (file name extension or file format):
GIF is the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. “.gif” is a filename extension for bit map image format. The GIF format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame. The color limitation makes the GIF format unsuitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with continuous color, but it is well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
.gov (domain name extension):
The domain name extension “.gov” is a sponsored top level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from the term “Government”, indicating its restricted use by government entities in the United States which later is extended to all over the world. The .gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States federal government. The URL for registration services is http://www.dotgov.gov.
.info (domain name extension):
The domain name “.info” is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The name is derived from the term “Information” indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation. The gTLD was a response to highly publicized announcement of ICANN, in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains. The event was the first addition of major gTLDs since the Domain Name System was developed about two decades back. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the com domain
.int (domain name extension):
This is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. This generic top-level domain was initially created for use by NATO, to replace the nato TLD. According to current Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) policy, the int sTLD is reserved for international treaty based organizations, United Nations agencies and organizations or entities having “Observer” status at the United Nation. This domain name extension is considered to be governed under the strictest rules for assigning the sTLD and is allowed only for the subjects of international law. For this reason, the application procedure requires the applicant to provide evidence that it is indeed treaty-based by providing a United Nations treaty registration number and that it has independent legal existence.
.jobs (domain name extension):
The domain name “jobs” is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Indicated by its name, the domain is restricted to employment-related sites. The domain was approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005 as part of the second group of new TLD applications submitted in 2004. It was installed in the DNS root in September, 2005, and began accepting registrations later in the year.
.jpg (file name extension or file format):
“.JPG” is a filename extension of images in JPEG format and is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web.
.mil (domain name extension):
The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. The name is derived from military. It was one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985.
.mobi (domain name extension):
The domain name mobi is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from mobile, indicating its use by mobile devices for accessing Internet resources via the Mobile Web. The domain was approved by ICANN in year 2005. This domain name extension is managed by the mTLD global registry. It was originally financially backed and sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile, Orascom Telecom, GSM Association , Hutchison Whampoa, Syniverse Technologies, and Visa, with an executive from each company serving on mTLD’s board of directors
.mov (file name extension or file format):
“.MOV” is a file name extension for files with video sequences which has been derived from and for the “Movie” file category. A QuickTime player is normally used in order to play a movie file of this file extension. QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, 3D models, sound, text, animation, music, panoramic images, and interactivity.
.mpeg (file name extension or file format):
Filename extension for files in MPEG format. MPEG is an acronym for Motion Picture Editors Guild or for Moving Picture Experts Group which in fact is a working group of experts that was formed by the ISO to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission. MPEG is considered as a standard asymmetric compression technique for audio and video data files with the encoder more complex as compared to its decoder.
.mpg (file name extension or file format):
One of a number of file extensions for MPEG-1 computer files. MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s (26:1 and 6:1 compression ratios respectively) without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) possible.
.museum (domain name extension):
Museum is a sponsored top level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The purpose of this domain is to reserve a segment of the DNS name space reserved for the use of museums; a name space whose conventions are defined by the museum community. In joint action with the J. Paul Getty Trust, ICOM established the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma), headed by Cary Karp, for the purpose of submitting an application to ICANN for the creation of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD), and to operate a registry. The museum domain was entered into the DNS root on 20 October 2001, and was the first sponsored top-level domain to be instituted through ICANN’s action.
.name (domain name extension):
This is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for use by individuals for representation of their real names, nicknames, screen names, pseudonyms, or other personal or fictional names. The top-level domain was delegated to Global Name Registry in 2001, although it did not become fully operational until January 2002. This top-level domain was delegated to VeriSign in February 2009.
.net (domain name extension):
In Internet and web hosting terms, “.NET” is a generic top level domain of domain name system (DNS) derived from “Networks” indicating its originally intended purpose for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other networking and infrastructure servicing companies. However the restrictions on use of “.net” domain were never enforced and the domain is a general purpose name space. It is still popular with network operators, and is often treated as an alternate to “.com”.
.Net Hosting:
This is usually considered as a type of the web hosting that supports the .Net applications or run on .NET Framework. .NET framework is a short and common name of Microsoft .NET Framework. The .NET Framework is a software framework that can be installed on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large library of coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The Base Class Library of the framework provides a large range of features including user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications.
.NET Server:
Server with .NET support
.org (domain name extension):
In Internet and web hosting terms, “.ORG” is a generic top level domain of domain name system (DNS) derived from “Organization” indicating its original intended purpose for networks of non commercial organizations which are registered under “Non Profit Organization” or “Society” Act or Law of the state government.
.pro (domain name extension):
The domain name .pro is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from professional, indicating its intended use by qualified professionals. The domain was originally launched in mid of year 2004 with registrations restricted to lawyers, accountants, physicians and engineers in France, Canada, Germany, UK and the US.
.tel (domain name extension):
The domain name .tel is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It was approved by ICANN as a sponsored top-level domain, and is operated by Telnic. Telnic announced in last month of year 2009 that 2.75 lakh .tel domain names had been registered since making it generally available in late March month of the same year. The intended purpose of the .tel domain is as a single management and publishing name space for Internet communication services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the Domain Name System.
.travel (domain name extension):
The domain name travel is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name suggests the intended and restricted use by travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaus, and others in the travel industry. The domain was approved by ICANN in beginning of April month of year 2005 as a sponsored TLD in the second group of new TLD applications evaluated in 2004. It is sponsored by Tralliance Registry Management Company (TRMC).
.zip (file name extension or file format):
“.zip” is the file name extension for files compressed with PKZIP or any other similar program. The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format originally created in 1989 by Phil Katz for PKZIP used primarily as a replacement for the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, but as of 2009, the Deflate method continues to be dominant.
< (HTML):
This is an opening symbol for a HTML tag in any Internet Browser document writing in HTML format.
> (HTML):
This is a closing symbol for a HTML tag in any Internet Browser document writing in HTML format.
100BaseT:
This is a cabling standard used for Fast Ethernet. 100BASE-T is any of several Fast Ethernet standards for twisted pair cables. This is 100 Megabit per second (100 Mbps) baseband Fast Ethernet specification using UTP wiring. Like the 10BaseT technology on which it is based, 100BaseT sends link pulses over the network segment when no traffic is present. However, these link pulses contain more information than those used in 10BaseT. *
10BaseT:
This is another cabling standard used for Ethernet. This is 10 Megabit per second baseband (10 Mbps) Ethernet specification using two pairs of twisted pair cabling (Category 3, 4 or 5). Out of these two pairs of twisted pair cabling, one pair is for transmitting data and the other is for receiving data. 10BaseT has a distance limit of approximately 100 meters per segment.
3G:
3G stands for the Third Generation Partnership projects which are a better known name for International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000). 3G is a family of standards set up by the International Telecommunication Union to expedite the development of open, globally-accepted technical specifications for third generation mobile communications technology which includes UMTS and CDMA2000 as well as the non-mobile wireless standards DECT and WiMAX. *
A Record:
An “A record” is part of the zone file of the Domain Name System (DNS) and is defined by RFC 1035. It is used to point Internet traffic to an IP address by returning a 32 bit IPv4 address most commonly used to map host names to an IP address of the host. For example, you can use an “A record” to designate abc.yourdomain.com to send traffic to your web site at IP address 209.15.32.135. You can also designate xyz.yourdomain.com to go to a separate IP address. *
Active Channel:
An Active Channel is a frequently updated information residing on a Web server. Users can subscribe to the channel if they have a CDF (Channel Definition Language) capable browser (e.g. Internet Explorer). Active Channel was first introduced by Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997. It allows synchronizing website content and viewing it offline. It makes use of the Channel Definition Format, which is a way of defining content and structure of a website. Most Active Channels were provided by big entertainment companies like Disney, WB or AOL and also made heavy use of DHTML (Dynamic HTML).
ActiveX:
ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components that perform a particular function or a set of functions in Microsoft Windows in a way that is independent of the programming language used to implement them. A software application can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide its functionality. ActiveX is a set of properties that specify in what way the applications share information with each other. These properties are known as ActiveX Controls. ActiveX is a brand name referring to a set of Microsoft’s technologies and services based on Component Object Model (COM) widely released in 1997. On the Internet, ActiveX can be used with Internet Explorer versions 3 and above and with Netscape Navigator though plug-ins. ActiveX control is a COM object, written as a DLL in a programming language like Visual Basic, which follows ActiveX standards. Once downloaded, ActiveX controls have a large degree of freedom, presenting a security risk. ActiveX controls have to be digitally signed by their creator. Major competitor to ActiveX controls are JavaBeans. Some hosts support ActiveX server components for ASP.
ADN:
ADN is acronym of Advanced Digital Network. AND is a dedicated network communication line that transfers the data at the speed of 56 kilo bits per second (56 kbps).
ADO:
ADO is acronym for “ActiveX Data Objects”. ADO is a set of COM objects for accessing different data sources in the same way within a single data model. The data can be located in various locations, like spreadsheets, databases or ordinary files. The only information required to access the database is about the database connection and not about how it is implemented. No knowledge of SQL is required to access a database when using ADO, although one can use ADO to execute SQL commands. The disadvantage of using SQL directly is that it introduces a dependency upon the type of database used and the advantage is that it makes the database accessible without the internal knowledge of how it is implemented.
ADSL:
ADSL is acronym for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. This is a method for moving data over regular telephone lines. This is one form of the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology, which is a data communications technology that enables data transmission over copper telephone lines faster than a conventional voice band modem can provide. An ADSL circuit is much faster than a regular phone connection, and the wires coming into the setup of the subscriber are the same copper wires used for regular phone service. An ADSL circuit is used to configure to connect two specific locations, very much similar to a leased line. ADSL communication lines can be configured in a symmetric as well as asymmetric manner for uploading and downloading data. In its asymmetric configuration, a typical configuration of ADSL would allow a subscriber to receive data at a download speed of up to 1.544 Mega bits per second, and to send data at an upload speed of up to 128 kilo bits per second. Another commonly found ADSL configuration would be symmetrical with 384 kilobits per second in both directions. In theory ADSL allows download speeds of up to 9 megabits per second and upload speeds of up to 640 kilobits per second. ADSL is often discussed as an alternative to ISDN, allowing higher speeds in cases where the connection is always to the same end points of contacts. The best thing with ADSL is that unlike the dial up, it does not block the telephone line from working for its intended purpose of voice communication.
AIFF:
AIFF is acronym for Audio Interchange File Format. AIFF is a high quality audio file format introduced by Apple. AIFF is a data file standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was co-developed by Apple Computer in 1988 based on Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) of Electronic Arts and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. The audio data in a standard AIFF file stays in format of uncompressed pulse code modulation (PCM). There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs.
Aliased Name Server:
An aliased name server is the one name server that has been labeled as one’s own except that it is in fact owned by its own web hosting provider. This allows domains hosted on the server are listed as “ns.your-domain.com” rather than “ns.your-providers-domain.com”. Aliased name servers are often offered with reseller accounts.
Anon FTP:
Anon FTP is a commonly known name for Anonymous File Transfer Protocol or Anonymous FTP. This is a method for downloading and uploading files using FTP protocol without having a user name or a password. The public can log in the FTP server with a common login user name which is usually the word “anonymous” or “ftp”, and the login password is usually the email address of the person. If a hosting plan offers this service, the users will be able to download or upload files with FTP without having their own account. Anonymous FTP is beneficial for the distribution of large files to the public, avoiding the need to assign large numbers of login and password combinations for FTP access.
Anonymous remailer:
A SMTP server that allows sending anonymous email messages. It removes or changes the “From” field of all messages that it processes.
ANSI:
ANSI is acronym for “American National Standards Institute”. ANSI is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates standards in United States with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. For example, standards make sure that people who own cameras can find the film they need for that camera anywhere around the globe.
Apache:
Apache is one of the most popular and an open-source (source code is freely available and can be shared) HTTP Web server software built and is maintained by a group of open source programmers. According to a survey by Net craft, Apache is currently the most popular web server on the Net. It is usually run on Unix operating system versions like Linux or BSD, but it can also be run on Windows. It is a full-featured server with many powerful add-ons freely available. It is often used because of its excellent performance, security features and the fact that it is available free of cost. Apache faces major competition from IIS server of Microsoft.
Applet:
Applet is often referred to a small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page and run on an Internet browser. Applets differ from full-fledged Java applications in that they are run in a sandbox and are not allowed to access certain resources on the local computer, such as files and serial devices (modems, printers, etc.), and are prohibited from communicating with most other computers across a network. The current rule is that an applet can only make an Internet connection to the computer from which the applet was sent.
Application Hosting:
A type of hosting in which a software application is hosted and shared for use over Internet.
Archie:
An online database of anonymous ftp sites and their contents. It allows searching the ftp repositories using file name queries. In fact Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives that allows people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine. The original implementation of Archie was written in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, then students at McGill University in Montreal. A tool (software) for finding files stored on anonymous FTP sites. To search a file over FTP site, required to know is the exact file name or a substring of it.
Archive site:
An archive site is a website that stores information on web pages or are the actual web pages from the past for anyone to view. In other words, Archive site is a server that contains archives and which is accessible through FTP connection, E-mail or HTTP access.
Archive:
Archives are large files containing valuable data. Archives are often compressed to save space. More preciously, an archive is the term name give to a collection of historical records, as well as the place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or lifetime of an organization.
ARJ:
ARJ is an acronym for “Archived by Robert Jung” and it is one of the most popular compression formats and is the software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high efficiency compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.85 for DOS and 3.15 for Windows and supports 16 bit and 32 bit Intel architectures to work upon.
ARPA:
ARPA is acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is an undertaking organization of government of United States. This organization is responsible for creating the ancestor of Internet of current days. It was renamed DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) during March 1972, then renamed ARPA again during February 1993, and then renamed DARPA again during March 1996. This is a popular agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA has been responsible for funding the development of many technologies which have had a major effect on the world, including computer networking, as well as NLS, which was both the first hypertext system, and an important precursor to the contemporary ubiquitous graphical user interface.
ARPANet:
ARPANet is a commonly known name and acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in 1969. ARPA was the first operational packet switching network of the world, and the predecessor of the contemporary global Internet. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by Lawrence Roberts, of the Lincoln Laboratory.
ASCII:
ASCII is acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is the de facto world-wide standard character coding scheme for the code numbers used by computers to represent all text characters including the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number starting from 0000000 through 1111111, plus a parity bit. The great thing in ASCII is that it is defined in the order of occurrence of English Characters in upper case, followed by lower case followed by decimal number digits.
ASP .Net:
ASP .NET is a web application framework. The framework is developed and marketed by Microsoft. ASP .Net Framework allows the programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. ASP .NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), that allows the programmers to write ASP .NET code using any supported .NET language
ASP .NET Hosting:
This is usually considered as a type of the web hosting that supports the .Net applications with Active Server Pages Programming. This is very much similar to .net hosting.
ASP Engine:
ASP Engine is a program that supports the web server to run ASP pages on it. When a browser requests an ASP file, IIS passes the request to the ASP engine. The ASP engine reads the ASP file, line by line, and executes the scripts in the file. Finally, the ASP file is returned to the browser as plain html
ASP Hosting:
ASP Hosting is a type of web hosting that supports Active Server Pages, a server-side scripting environment from Microsoft. This provides accessibility to Microsoft’s ASP .NET application framework for building and hosting web-based applications..
ASP:
ASP is acronym for Active Server Pages. It is more commonly known as Classic ASP. It is a technology developed by Microsoft for creating dynamic websites. An ASP file can contain text, HTML tags and scripts. Scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM):
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a standardized digital data transmission technology used in data communication and telecommunication systems. ATM is implemented as a network protocol and was first developed in the mid 1980s. ATM is based on cell-based switching technique that uses asynchronous time division multiplexing to use a communication media for multiple data communications.
Attachment:
Attachment in this scenario is mainly referred to the documents or images or any other files sent attached in an e-mail. These files are not written in the body of the e-mail rather are attached to the email as an attachment package which can be downloaded and used at the receiving end.
Authentication:
Authentication means to identify and verifying someone uniquely. This is a characteristic of network security systems which authenticate the senders of service requests and accept or reject the requests accordingly. In web sites, authentication is usually done by a unique user name and associated password.
Auto responder:
Auto-responder is a computer program that automatically answers the electronic mails (e-mails) with a per-prepared message of the e-mail receiver. The auto-responder service is usually used during the hours when the e-mail receiver is either out-of-office or it expects delay in responding the e-mails due to some other reasons.
AVI:
AVI is an acronym for Audio Video Interleave. This is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio with video playback and can also allow multiple streaming audio and video.
B Channel:
B Channel is a term used in reference of telecommunications, which refers to the ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network ) channel in which the primary data or voice communication is carried. It has a bit rate of 64 kilo bit per second in full duplex.
Backbone:
The central or essential part of a network is commonly known as the backbone. The part of a network that handles the major traffic. It employs the highest-speed transmission paths in the network and may also run the longest distances.
Bandwidth:
Bandwidth is a term related to communication systems. This is the width of the communication band of the system and is calculated as the difference between the highest and the lowest frequency communicated through the system. Bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it
Basic Rate Interface (BRI):
BRI is commonly used acronym for Basic Rate Interface and is in fact an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) capability that can support two simultaneous video conferencing calls at up to 64 KB each.
Baud:
Baud has been a measure for data transmission speed until replaced by a more accurate term, bps (bits per second). One baud is one word per second or one electronic state change per second. Since a single word or the state change can involve more than a single bit of data, the bps unit of measurement has replaced it as a better expression of data transmission speed. The measure was named after a French engineer, Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot. It was first used to measure the speed of telegraph transmissions.
BBS (Bulletin Board System):
A bulletin board system (BBS) is a computer or an application dedicated to the sharing or exchange of messages or other files over a network. Originally an electronic version of the type of bulletin board found on the wall in many kitchens and work places, the BBS was used to post simple messages between users. The BBS became the primary kind of online community through the 1980s and early 1990s, before the World Wide Web arrived.
binary mode:
A mode of communication in which the communication signals are in the form of binary digits i.e. low and high or ’0′ and ’1′.
Binary:
Binary means to a system containing two modes of data representation. These two modes are usually referred as low and high and are denoted by ’0′ and ’1′ respectively.
Bin hex:
Bin hex stands for “Binary to Hexadecimal”. Bin hex is a binary to text encoding system used on the Mac OS for sending binary files through e-mail. Bin Hexed files take up more space than the original files, but are far less likely to be corrupted in transit
Bit rate:
Bit rate means to bits per unit time. It is a common term used in telecommunications and computing systems and refers to the number of bit communicated, computed or processed in a unit time (usually second).
Bit:
Bit refers to Binary Digits. These are ’0′ and ’1′.
BITNET:
BITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Greydon Freeman at Yale University. The first network link was between CUNY and Yale. BITNET is one of the oldest and largest wide-area networks, used extensively by universities. A new version of BITNET, called BITNET-II, relies on the Internet network to transfer messages and files.
Body:
“Body” refers to the content part of a HTML documents, or e-mail message or a web page. Other than body, these documents can have their title, subject, and footer information.
Bookmark:
Bookmark is a marker to the web-page that remembers the URL of the page and provides a direct link to it whenever required to visit to it. Almost all web browsers provide facility to bookmark the web pages of interests of their users.
Bot:
Bot is a short name of Internet Bot which is also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyzes and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file named as “robots.txt”, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey.
Bps:
“Bits per second” is a unit of measuring bit rate.
BRB:
A common acronym term used day to day in online chatting to refer “Be Right Back” when someone needs a little break in chat.
Bridge:
Bridge refers to a program that helps to connect two incompatible networks and enable them to communicate.
Broadcast:
Broadcast is a term of communication or telecommunication system in which a message is sent to all connected nodes.
Browser sniffing:
This is a technique in Internet browsing in which the server attempts to determine that which browser the client is using. By this the server may offer the browse specific content. This practice is sometimes necessary because of incompatibilities between browsers in areas such as the interpretation of HTML, cascading style sheets (CSS) and the Document Object Model (DOM).
Browser:
A web browser or simply a browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content
BTW:
A common acronym term used day to day in online chatting to refer “By The Way”.
Byte:
Byte is a set of eight binary digits or eight bits.
C:
C is a general purpose computer programming language used for structural and modular programming. This is one of the most popular programming language for developing application software and embedded software.
C++:
C++ is another general purpose computer programming language which is supposed to be an object oriented extension to programming constructs of “C” Programming Language.
Cable Modem:
Cable Modem is a type of network bridge. Cable Modem provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a cable television (CATV) infrastructure. Cable modems are primarily used to deliver broadband Internet access in the form of cable Internet, taking advantage of the high bandwidth of a cable television network.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
CSS Styles define how to display HTML elements. Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language like HTML or XML. These style sheets command the look, feel, and formatting. It is most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CCIT:
CCIT is an acronym for Communication, Culture, and Information Technology. It is an honours degree program that is taught by the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
CCTLD:
CCTLD or ccTLD are acronyms for Country Code Top Level Domain. A country code top level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet domain name extension generally reserved and used for a country which may either be a sovereign state or be a dependent territory. All ccTLD identifiers are containing of two letters only, and all top-level domains of two letters are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as described in RFC 1591, corresponding to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes with few exceptions to it. Different ccTLD currently active across the world are .ac (Ascension Island), .ad (Andorra), .ae (United Arab Emirates), .af (Afghanistan), .ag (Antigua and Barbuda), .ai (Anguilla), .al (Albania), .am (Armenia), .an (Netherlands Antilles), .ao (Angola), .aq (Antarctica), .ar (Argentina), .as (American Samoa), .at (Austria), .au (Australia), .aw (Aruba), .ax (Åland), .az (Azerbaijan), .ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina), .bb (Barbados), .bd (Bangladesh), .be (Belgium), .bf (Burkina Faso), .bg (Bulgaria), .bh (Bahrain), .bi (Burundi), .bj (Benin), .bm (Bermuda), .bn (Brunei Darussalam), .bo (Bolivia), .br (Brazil), .bs (Bahamas), .bt (Bhutan), .bv (Bouvet Island), .bw (Botswana), .by (Belarus), .bz (Belize), .ca (Canada), .cc (Cocos (Keeling) Islands), .cd (Democratic Republic of the Congo), .cf (Central African Republic), .cg (Republic of the Congo), .ch (Switzerland), .ci (Côte d’Ivoire), .ck (Cook Islands), .cl (Chile), .cm (Cameroon), .cn (People’s Republic of China), .co (Colombia), .cr (Costa Rica), .cu (Cuba), .cv (Cape Verde), .cx (Christmas Island), .cy (Cyprus), .cz (Czech Republic), .de (Germany), .dj (Djibouti), .dk (Denmark), .dm (Dominica), .do (Dominican Republic), .dz (Algeria), .ec (Ecuador), .ee (Estonia), .eg (Egypt), .er (Eritrea), .es (Spain), .et (Ethiopia), .eu (European Union), .fi (Finland), .fj (Fiji), .fk (Falkland Islands), .fm (Federated States of Micronesia), .fo (Faroe Islands), .fr (France), .ga (Gabon), .gb (United Kingdom), .gd (Grenada), .ge (Georgia (country)), .gf (French Guiana), .gg (Guernsey), .gh (Ghana), .gi (Gibraltar), .gl (Greenland), .gm (The Gambia), .gn (Guinea), .gp (Guadeloupe), .gq (Equatorial Guinea), .gr (Greece), .gs (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands), .gt (Guatemala), .gu (Guam), .gw (Guinea-Bissau), .gy (Guyana), .hk (Hong Kong), .hm (Heard Island and McDonald Islands), .hn (Honduras), .hr (Croatia), .ht (Haiti), .hu (Hungary), .id (Indonesia), .ie (Republic of Ireland), .il (Israel), .im (Isle of Man), .in (India), .io (British Indian Ocean Territory), .iq (Iraq), .ir (Iran), .is (Iceland), .it (Italy), .je (Jersey), .jm (Jamaica), .jo (Jordan), .jp (Japan), .ke (Kenya), .kg (Kyrgyzstan), .kh (Cambodia), .ki (Kiribati), .km (Comoros), .kn (Saint Kitts and Nevis), .kp (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), .kr (Republic of Korea), .kw (Kuwait), .ky (Cayman Islands), .kz (Kazakhstan), .la (Laos), .lb (Lebanon), .lc (Saint Lucia), .li (Liechtenstein), .lk (Sri Lanka), .lr (Liberia), .ls (Lesotho), .lt (Lithuania), .lu (Luxembourg), .lv (Latvia), .ly (Libya), .ma (Morocco), .mc (Monaco), .md (Moldova), .me (Montenegro), .mg (Madagascar), .mh (Marshall Islands), .mk (Republic of Macedonia), .ml (Mali), .mm (Myanmar), .mn (Mongolia), .mo (Macau), .mp (Northern Mariana Islands), .mq (Martinique), .mr (Mauritania), .ms (Montserrat), .mt (Malta), .mu (Mauritius), .mv (Maldives), .mw (Malawi), .mx (Mexico), .my (Malaysia), .mz (Mozambique), .na (Namibia), .nc (New Caledonia), .ne (Niger), .nf (Norfolk Island), .ng (Nigeria), .ni (Nicaragua), .nl (Netherlands), .no (Norway), .np (Nepal), .nr (Nauru), .nu (Niue), .nz (New Zealand), .om (Oman), .pa (Panama), .pe (Peru), .pf (French Polynesia), .pg (Papua New Guinea), .ph (Philippines), .pk (Pakistan), .pl (Poland), .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon), .pn (Pitcairn Islands), .pr (Puerto Rico), .ps (Palestinian territories), .pt (Portugal), .pw (Palau), .py (Paraguay), .qa (Qatar), .re (Réunion), .ro (Romania), .rs (Serbia), .ru (Russia), .rw (Rwanda), .sa (Saudi Arabia), .sb (Solomon Islands), .sc (Seychelles), .sd (Sudan), .se (Sweden), .sg (Singapore), .sh (Saint Helena), .si (Slovenia), .sj (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands), .sk (Slovakia), .sl (Sierra Leone), .sm (San Marino), .sn (Senegal), .so (Somalia), .sr (Suriname), .st (São Tomé and Príncipe), .su (former Soviet Union), .sv (El Salvador), .sy (Syria), .sz (Swaziland), .tc (Turks and Caicos Islands), .td (Chad), .tf (French Southern and Antarctic Lands), .tg (Togo), .the (Thailand), .tj (Tajikistan), .tk (Tokelau), .tl (East Timor), .tm (Turkmenistan), .tn (Tunisia), .to (Tonga), .tp (East Timor), .tr (Turkey), .tt (Trinidad and Tobago), .tv (Tuvalu), .tw (Republic of China (Taiwan)), .tz (Tanzania), .ua (Ukraine), .ug (Uganda), .uk (United Kingdom), .us (United States of America), .uy (Uruguay), .uz (Uzbekistan), .va (Vatican City), .vc (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), .ve (Venezuela), .vg (British Virgin Islands), .vi (U.S. Virgin Islands), .vn (Vietnam), .vu (Vanuatu), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), .ws (Samoa), .ye (Yemen), .yt (Mayotte), .za (South Africa), .zm (Zambia), and .zw (Zimbabwe).
CERN:
CERN is commonly known name of The European Organization for Nuclear Research which is the largest particle physics laboratory of the world, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border, established in 1954.
Certificate Authority:
Certificate authority if a term from Cryptography in which it is an entity that issues digital certificates for use by other parties. It is an example of a trusted third party. Certificate Authority is characteristic of many public key infrastructure (PKI) schemes.
Certificate:
Certificate or a digital certificate or a public key certificate (also known as an identity certificate) is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity information such as the name of a person or an organization, their address, and so forth. The certificate can be used to verify that a public key belongs to an individual.
cgi-bin:
Cgi-bin is a directory on the web server that holds the CGI script files. The cgi-bin directory is often referenced by URLs like http://stuff.cc.dd/cgi-bin/
CGI:
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is a standard to define how a web server software can delegate the generation of web pages to a console application. Such applications are known as CGI scripts and can be written in any programming language, although scripting languages are often used. CGI hereby provides an interface between the web servers and the clients.
Channel Definition Format (CDF):
Channel Definition Format (CDF) is a file format from Microsoft that allows creation of a file that defines a “Web Channel” which is a preselected Web site or group of related Web sites. To use the channel, a user needs to have the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or later browser.
CHAP:
CHAP is commonly known acronym for Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol. This is a protocol to authenticate a user or network host to an authenticating entity.
Cheap Web Hosting:
A web hosting service provided either free of cost or for a minute fees.
Circuit Switching:
A type of communications in which a dedicated channel (or circuit) is established for the duration of a transmission. The most ubiquitous circuit-switching network is the telephone system, which links together wire segments to create a single unbroken line for each telephone call.
Client:
Client is a computer program or a machine that makes a service request to the server.
Client/Server:
Client/server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request. Although the client/server idea can be used by programs within a single computer, it is a more important idea in a network.
Cloud computing:
Cloud computing is a technology that uses the Internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.
Cloud providers:
A company or a business organization that provides the technology with the infrastructure or software or platform to the users as cloud service
clustering:
Clustering of computers means to group a set of linked computers, working together closely so that in many respects they form a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks.
Co-located Hosting:
When one party houses their web server(s) at another company’s location for Internet connectivity, this is called co-located Hosting
Co-location (colo):
Co-location centre or “colo” is a type of data centre where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity. Most network access point facilities provide collocation.
Cobalt RaQ:
The Cobalt RaQ is a 1U rack mount server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. This was later purchased by Sun Microsystems. Cobalt RaQ features with a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. The original RaQ systems were equipped with RM5230 or RM5231 CPUs but later models used AMD K6-2 chips and then eventually Intel Pentium III CPUs for the final models.
Cold Fusion:
ColdFusion is a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. This is developed to create easy connection between simple HTML pages and a database. Later this was provided with a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full Scripting Language. Current versions of ColdFusion, sold by Adobe Systems, include advanced features for enterprise integration and development of rich internet applications. ColdFusion primarily competes with PHP and ASP.
command-line interface:
This is a text based user interface of the computer by which the user can interact with the computer by typing commands on the interface window to perform a specific task.
Control Panel:
The Control Panel is a part of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface (GUI) with which the user can view and manipulate basic system settings and control them via applets, such as adding hardware, adding and removing software, controlling user accounts, and changing accessibility options.
Cookie:
Cookie is a text string stored by a web browser on the client computer. A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information, which may be encrypted for information privacy and data security purposes.
CPanel Hosting:
CPanle Hosting is a point and click type of hosting provided with a CPanel is a user friendly control panel for uploading and managing the files hosted over the web server. Use of CPanel needs almost no technical or programming knowledge and any non technical person can also use it comfortably to host and maintain its website.
CPU:
CPU is acronym for Central Processing Unit of the computer which is a part in any computer or computer based system responsible for caring out all the computations and control tasks of the system.
Crawler:
Crawler or a “web crawler” is a simple automated program, or a script, that methodically scans or “crawls” through Internet pages to create an index of the data it’s looking for. Alternative names for a web crawler include web spider, web robot, bot, crawler, and automatic indexer.
Cyberpunk:
Cyberpunk is a form of science fiction that is set in the very near future. Cyberpunk looks at the way the world could turn out if everything that is going on now continues in the same stupid way.
Cyberspace:
Cyberspace is a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. In effect, cyberspace can be thought of as the interconnection of human beings through computers and telecommunication, without regard to physical geography.
D Channel:
The “D” stands for “delta” channel in the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). D-channel in ISDN is the channel that carries control and signaling information.
Data Transfer:
Data transfer refers to convey of the data from its source to the destination i.e. from one computer machine to another or from one memory location to another. In web hosting terms, Data transfer is the total amount of information downloaded from your web site.
Database:
Database is a collection of data or information in an organized manner that can be easily accessed, managed, and updated.
Dedicated Hosting:
Dedicated Hosting is a web hosting service in which the entire server is rented to a single customer and all of the server resources are used dedicatedly for a single hosted web application.
Dedicated IP:
Dedicated IP address is also known as static IP. This means that a website has its own IP address. Whether someone types in the URL or the numeric form of its IP address in the address bar of the browser, the both will come to the same web site.
dedicated server:
This is similar to Dedicated Web Hosting. A Dedicated server is essentially and entirely rented to a single customer and all server resources are consumed for applications of single customer only
Dedicated server hosting
Same as Dedicated Hosting. Just another commonly known technical term for it.
DES:
DES is an acronym for Data Encryption Standard, a data security algorithm developed by national Bureau of Standards in 1970. Its purpose is to provide a standard method for protecting sensitive commercial and unclassified data. IBM created the first draft of the algorithm
DHCP:
DHCP is acronym for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol which is a network protocol that enables a server to automatically assign an IP address to a computer from a defined range of numbers (i.e., a scope) configured for a given network. DHCP in fact determines if a given IP is static or dynamic.
Dial up:
Dial Up or “Dial Up internet Access” that uses telephone lines. The user’s computer or router uses an attached modem connected to a telephone line to dial into an Internet service provider’s (ISP) node to establish a modem-to-modem link, which is then used to route Internet Protocol packets between the user’s equipment and hosts.
Diesel Generator:
A diesel engine powered generator used for providing a backup power supply in the event of a power outage.
Digerati:
The digerati or digiterati are the elite of the computer industry and online communities.
Directory:
In a computer system, directory is an organizational unit or a container that is used to organize the folders and the files into a hierarchical structure. Directories contain bookkeeping information about files that are beneath them in the hierarchy.
DNS:
DNS stands for Domain name System. DNS is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates multiple types of information with domain names assigned to each of the participants.
Domain name:
A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
DotNetSpider.com:
“dotnetspider.com” is an online .NET tutorials and guide for the latest Microsoft technologies, aimed to help new graduates acquire programming skills and learn the best programming practices.
DSL:
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop.
E-Business:
Electronic business is commonly referred to as “eBusiness” or “e-business”. E-Business can be understood as the application of information and communication technologies (commonly Internet) in support of all the activities of business. This includes online sales, purchase, advertising and other business activities.
E-Commerce Hosting:
A term referring to hosting of a web site or web application for online business activities.
E-Commerce:
More or less, E-Commerce is similar to Electronic Business which means to online sale, purchase, and other business activities.
E-mail:
E-Mail is another and commonly known name of electronic mail
EC2:
EC2 is a common name to cloud service of Amazon.com. The true name of this service is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This is a web service that provides re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
EIA:
EIA stands for environmental impact assessment. EIA is an assessment of the possible impact that a proposed project may have on the environment, together consisting of the natural, social and economic aspects. This may be a positive or a negative effect on the environment.
Electronic Mail:
Electronic Mail or E-Mail is a means of sending messages by means of Internet. One can send the message information as well as some files as attachments to the message in E-Mail.
Encryption:
Encryption is a mechanism for converting the secret information from its raw form to a unreadable or unusable form called cipher.
Enomalism:
Enomalism is an open source web-based virtual infrastructure platform designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to automate the transition to a virtual environment by reducing an IT organizations overall workload.
Ethernet:
Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). It defines a number of wiring and signaling standards for the Physical Layer of the OSI networking model as well as a common addressing format and Media Access Control at the Data Link Layer.
Extranet:
An extranet is a private network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity. An extranet can be viewed as part of a company’s intranet that is extended to users outside the company, usually via the Internet.
Face Book:
Face book is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Face book Inc.
Face book application:
Face book application is a platform for developers that provides them with a framework to interact with the core face book features. Including Events, Alerts, Business, Chat, Dating, File Sharing, Gaming, Messaging, Mobile, Money, Music, Photo, Politics, Sports, Travel, Utility, Video. Face book applications have detailed descriptions, users’ ratings and reviews, wiki pages, detailed features, and screen shots etc..
Face book templates:
A Face book template is a preset set of attributes or settings of applications published on face book hosted by an external server with the face book API software pre-installed.
FAQ:
A synonym for Frequently Asked Questions.
Fast Ethernet:
Fast Ethernet is a local area network (LAN) transmission standard that provides a data rate of 100 megabits per second
FDDI:
FDDI stands fo Fiber Distributed Data Interface. The FDDI specifies a 100-Mbps token-passing, dual-ring LAN using fiber-optic cable. FDDI is frequently used as high-speed backbone technology because of its support for high bandwidth and greater distances than copper.
Fiber Optic Cable:
A communication media that works for data communication on the principles of travel of light or Electromagnetic Wave Transmission.
Filename extension:
A part of the filename beginning with a period (‘.’) that is suffixed to the name of the file to specify some characteristic like type of the file, tool or the default program to access the file etc.
Filtering:
Filtering is a term used for mechanism or algorithm for separating the items from a given collection based on some common characteristics called Filtering Criteria. It in fact is a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename.
Finger:
Finger is a common name of the Finger user information protocol which is a simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information.
Fire Wall:
Firewall is a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both. Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets.
Flame:
Flame is a searing e-mail or newsgroup message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and often personal, terms. Flames are an unfortunate, but inevitable, element of immoderate conferences.
Flash:
Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. This platform is currently developed and marketed by Adobe Systems, although was originally known as Macromedia Flash
Flexi Scale:
Flexi Scale is the Utility Computing platform launched by XCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007, and subsequently acquired by Flexiant. Users are able to create, start, and stop servers as they require allowing rapid deployment where needed. Both Windows and Linux are supported on the Flexi Scale platform.
FPU:
FPU is acronym for floating-point unit. This is a specially designed chip that performs floating point calculations. Computers that are equipped with an FPU perform certain types of applications much faster than the computers that lack one. In particular, graphics applications are faster with an FPU.
Frame Relay:
Frame relay is a synchronous HDLC protocol based network. Data is sent in HDLC packets, referred to as “frames”.
freshmeat.net:
Freshmeat is a website that allows computer users to keep track of the latest software releases and updates as well as write/read reviews and articles, send or receive comments to or from the author, and many other features. A majority of the software covered is open source for Unix-like systems, although Freshmeat covers releases of other software and platforms also.
FrontPage:
FrontPage is a commonly known name of Microsoft® FrontPage® of the Microsoft® Office FrontPage®. This is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003 although later separated from it.
FrontPage Extensions:
FrontPage Extensions are the server-side applications with which the users of Front Page web site creation tool can easily incorporate “web-bots” that perform pre-packaged function like full-text Web site searching or adding a hit counter.
FTP:
FTP is acronym for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is used to map and transfer the files from one computer to other over a network. FTP allows users to copy files between their local system and any system they can reach on the network
FTPmail:
A Network Service that allows the users to send their required files on their e-mail by File transfer Protocol.
FYI:
A common acronym term used day to day in online chatting or messaging over e-mails to refer “For Your Information” when someone needs to forward some information to the recipient.
Gateway:
Gateway is a node in a network that serves as an entrance point to the network. All the data packets and service requests from any machine outside the network would enter the network from this point only.
GIF:
GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. GIF is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
Gigabit Ethernet:
Gigabit Ethernet is a transmission technology based on the Ethernet frame format and a protocol used in local area networks to provide a data rate of 1 billion bits per second or one gigabit per second. Gigabit Ethernet is defined in the IEEE 802.3 standard and is currently being used as the backbone in many enterprise networks.
Gigabyte:
Gigabyte is a term used to represent a unit of information equal to 1024 megabytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes or sometimes a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
GoGrid:
GoGrid is the first grid server hosting platform where servers, databases, and load balancing can easily be deployed, deleted and controlled via a web-based user interface.
Gopher:
Gopher is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Software using this protocol was a predecessor of and an alternative to the World Wide Web.
GPRS:
GPRS is acronym for General Packet Radio Services. GPRS is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users.
Graphical User Interface (GUI):
GUI or Graphical User Interface is a visual interface between the computer and the user where the user can interact with the computer by means of images, buttons, icons, menus etc. The use of both mouse and keyboard as well as other devices like joysticks is allowed in GUI.
Grid computer:
Grid Computer is a computing machine that is a part of a Grid or that is participating in a Grid Computing.
Grid computing:
Grid computing is the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains for a common goal. Grid computing is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time.
grid hosting:
Grid hosting means that a rented hosting space is not located on one machine, but is more like a “virtual machine” which is hosted on a cluster of servers forming a grid. Grid hosting is a service that provides grid computing capabilities to its client.
Grid Server:
Grid Server is a server designed to provide a simplified approach to enabling application components to execute across the whole computing infrastructure
GSM:
GSM is most commonly known name and acronym for Global System for Mobile Communications. GSM is the most popular standard for mobile telephony systems in the world. It came originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile
Hexadecimal color-notation system:
A scheme to represent RGB (Red, Blue, and Green) color codes in the form of hexadecimal digits.
Hit:
Referred to click of mouse on a link.
Home Page (or Homepage):
Homepage is usually referred to the URL or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the “home” button of the browser is pressed.
Host Address:
Address is a unique identifier of a computer or a web page on a network. Host Address refers to a part of the unique IP Address of the computer on TCP/IP Network to identify the host of the network.
Host:
Host is a computer of a node in the network that stores the web page or the software application in it and serves the pages or the application to the clients on requests.
Hosting:
Hosting is the method of storing the web application on the host and enabling it to be shared with the clients on the basis of requests.
Virtual Hosting:
Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more efficiently.
HTML:
HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is a markup language to write documents that are accessible by web browser and shown by browsers as web pages.
HTTP:
HTTP is acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. This is an application layer protocol used for transferring hypertext documents that makes the World Wide Web possible
Hub:
Hub is a networking device that is used in a network to connect a number of devices to each other through Ethernet cables.
Hyperlink:
Hyperlink is an element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to a location in an external document. Typically, the hyperlink if clicked on to follow the path. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems, including the World Wide Web.
Hypertext:
Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965
IEEE:
IEEE is a commonly known acronym for “Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers”. This is considered as largest technical professional society of the world that promotes the development and application of electro-technology and allied sciences for the benefit of humanity, the advancement of the profession, and the well-being of its members.
IIS:
IIS is acronym for Internet Information Services. This is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.
Image Map:
An image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image in a HTML and XHTML document, created in order to hyper link areas of the image to various different destinations, different from a normal image link, in which the entire area of the image links to a single destination.
IMAP:
IMAP is acronym for Internet Message Access Protocol. This is a e-mail protocol for accessing email messages from the e-mail server.
IMHO:
IMHO is a common acronym term used day to day in online chatting or messaging over e-mails to refer “in my humble opinion” when someone needs to politely and more formally needs to bring attention of the message receiver before putting its opinion about something.
IMO:
IMO is a common acronym term used day to day in online chatting or messaging over e-mails to refer “in my opinion”
Index Server:
Index Server is a server on Internet that indexes the contents and properties of documents over Internet or intranet
internet (starting with lower case ‘i’)
“internet” refers to interconnecting the two or more networks.
Internet (starting with upper case ‘I’):
“Internet” is a vast collection of inter-connected networks with the use of TCP/IP protocols. Internet has evolved from the ARPANET of the late 60′s and early 70′s.
Internet backbone:
Internet Backbone is an extremely fast network connecting major cities across the world. Most often it utilizes T3 circuits and provides the bandwidth of 45Mbps
IGMP:
IGMP stands for Internet Group Management Protocol which in fact is a network control protocol running on top of the IP protocol. It is used by Internet hosts to maintain information related to multicast. All machines that want to use the multicast have to have the IGMP implemented.
Intranet:
Intranet refers to a part of the network of an organization that is private for a group of accessors and can be accessed by them only. Intranet access is controlled with an authentication protocol and is accessible to its members only.
IP:
Acronym for Internet Protocol
IP Address:
A unique binary number assigned to a machine over the Internet to uniquely identify it over the network.
IP Number:
A representation of IP Address in the form of four dotted quads. e.g. 10.112.34.36
IP packet:
IP Packet is the small basic block of the data that can be communicated over Internet.
IPX:
A commonly known acronym for Internet Packet Exchange. This is a network protocol proprietary of Novell.
IRC:
IRS is an acronym for Internet Relay Chat. This is a Multi-user chat service in which the users can go into public or private channels to discuss a topic or transfer files.
ISDN:
ISDN is acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network. ISDN is a high speed transferring data solution over phone lines. It can be used to transfer data at a speed up to 128,000 bits per second over a standard phone line.
ISO:
ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization which is a Geneva-based international organization that develops and publishes various international standards.
ISP:
ISP is acronym for Internet Service Provider. This represents a company that provides Internet access to its subscribers. The subscribers authenticate them with a user name and a password to connect to ISP’s network which is connected to the Internet.
ITU:
ITU stands for International Telecommunication Union. ITU formerly was known as CCITT which is another international standards body concerned with telecommunications.
JAR:
JAR is a popular compression algorithm like ZIP
Java class files:
Java Class File is a Java file containing the information about a Java Applet
Java Script:
Java Script is a scripting language used for making the interactive web pages. Java Scripts are run on client side.
Java Servlet:
Java Servlets are programs written in Java that run on a Web server and can produce dynamic web pages and interactive web sites.
Java:
Java is an Object Oriented Platform for Software Development and
JDBC:
JDBC is acronym for Java Data Base Connectivity which is a set of software programs required for connecting a Java application to a database.
JDK:
JDK stands of Java Development Kit which is a set of tools, compiler, and builder used for developing Java applications,
JPEG:
JPEG is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group, which in fact is the name of a technique or algorithm of lossy compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.
JRE:
JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment. JRE is a platform required to run Java Applications on a computer. If JRE is installed on a computer, Java Applications can be run on this irrespective of the operating system used on this.
JSP:
JSP stands for Java Server Pages which are the web applications written in Java that run on web server whenever requested by a client-side and the responds are sent to the client.
JVM:
JVM means to Java Virtual Machine which is a Java Platform required to run Java Applets on any computer.
Kbps:
Kbps is an acronym used for Kilo Bits per second which is a measurement of rate of data transfer over a network or on a computer.
Kermit:
Kermit is a very slow protocol for transferring files over the Internet through a modem connection.
Keyword:
Keyword is a word or a term that describes a text or content of web page or a web application. A keyword is usually a key for searching an item over a data source.
Kilobyte (Kb):
Kilobyte represents a set of 210 or 1024 or sometimes 103 bytes of binary information.
LAN:
LAN is acronym to Local Area Network which is a set of interconnected computer machines under a span of an office or a building or a campus area.
LANmodem:
This is a device to connect multiple computers to the some different network through a telephone line.
Leased-line:
Leased line refers to a phone line that is rented for exclusive 24X7 use from one location to another location. A leased line enables the highest speed network connection for the fastest data transfer. This is a dedicated communication line. User is usually charged a flat fee instead of being billed per minute of usage.
Line provisioning:
Line Provisioning is the process of configuring the ISDN line by the service provider to suit customized needs of the users with an assured hardware compatibility.
Link:
Link is another commonly known term used for “Connection” between two interconnected network nodes.
Linux Dedicated Server:
A dedicatedly rented server with Linux operating system running its applications in Linux environment.
Linux hosting:
This is the term to refer to hosting of web applications over a Linux Server.
Linux server:
A web server running on Linux Platform and is capable of providing Linux Supported services to its users.
Linux:
A Unix like operating system originally developed by Linus Torvalds. A number of Linus versions are available free of cost for installation and use. The Support may however be chargeable.
LinuxQuestions.org:
This is a website or a web based forum offering free guidance and answers to the queries of beginners of Linux.
Listserv:
This is most common kind of mail-list which in fact originated on BITNET but now is common on the Internet.
Load Balancing:
This is the process of distributing data across multiple web servers to avoid over loading on one server in cases of use of application in heavy traffic conditions.
Local Registry Fees:
This is the first time registry fees for domain names or TLD’s for the web sites.
Log File:
In a computer application, usually a feature is created by which it records in a file the data for each event generated in the application. This file is called the log file of the application. Log file can also be generated for a web site or web applications.
Login:
Login refers to the process of authenticating a user with a user name and a password for accessing some private or secured services.
LOL:
LOL is a common acronym term used day to day in online chatting or messaging over e-mails to refer “Laughing Out Loud” to react on a funny event.
Lossless:
This term is usually used for mentioning whether a transformation of data from one form to another does not causes a loss of partial information data. A lossless data transformation can be reverted back with complete retrieving of the original information.
Lossy:
This is an acronym for Lossless and is meant to a data transformation that causes some information or data loss in this process. The information transformed with a lossy process cannot be completely retrieved but usually the loss is not as significant as to loss the data unusable.
LZW compression:
LZW stands for Lempel Ziv Welch compression. LZW Compression is an algorithm for data compression.
MAC Address:
MAC Address is acronym for Media Access Control Address. This is a hardware of a physical address of a device in a network.
MAC:
MAC stands for Media Access Control.
mail dedicated server:
A Mail Dedicated Server is a mail server that is dedicatedly rented to a single user.
mail server:
Mail Server is the web server or an Internet host to provide applications for e-mail exchange. This allows the users to send, receive, compose, read, and manage electronic mail messages.
Mail list:
This is a list consisting of a collection of names and addresses of people and is used to collectively send the information or data to the people subscribed in the list. It is particularly used by organizations or individuals to collectively share or for the follow of the identical information and is often referred to as the mail shot or blast.
Mainframe Computer:
Mainframe computer is a category of computers equipped with highly capable and powerful computing features used for high end computing needs.
Managed dedicated Hosting:
This is a dedicated wed hosting server that is supplied with a full suite of technical support, setup, maintenance and monitoring services. Managed Hosting differs from Dedicated Hosting where customers are provided with their own server but still have to take care of all the administrative duties related to the server.
MASHABLE.com:
Mashable.com is an web based news blog, started by Pete Cashmore in July 2005. With a reported 7+ million monthly page views and an Alexa ranking just over 400, it ranks as one of the largest blogs on the Internet.
MBps:
MBps represents the data transfer rate in Mega Bytes per second.
Mbps:
Mbps represents the data transfer rate in Mega Bits per second.
Megabyte:
Megabyte denoted by (MB) is a multiple of unit byte and is used to mean either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes. It is used for the storages of digital information.
MHz:
MHZ is a notion for Mega Hertz or Mega Cycles Per Second.
Microsoft Access:
Microsoft Access is a popular low configuration relational database management system that comes as a part of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft FoxPro:
Microsoft Foxpro is a popular development platform of software applications. This is Microsoft’s Rapid Action Development tool for Database application development.
Microsoft SQL Server:
Microsoft SQL Server is another Database Server from Microsoft that can be assessed with sequel query language.
MIDI:
MIDI is acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. This is a network and accompanying protocol developed in the 1970′s for transmitting various information between musical and other devices including keyboards, samplers, lights, controllers, etc.
MIME
MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension, is used as a specification for formatting non-ASCII text messages so that they can be used to be sent over Internet. E-mail clients supporting MIME, enables them to send and receive graphics, audios, and video file via internet mail system.
Mirror:
As the name specifies, it is an exact copy of a data set. It is type of file synchronization and Mirror sites on the internet are used to provide a multiple sources of the same information so that they are available for reliable access to large downloads.
Mirror site:
Mirror site is a copy of a website or a FTP site at another location or URL. Mirror sites are usually used for distributing the traffic over a number of servers.
Miva Empressa:
This is Miva’s XML based server-side scripting language available for multiple platforms.
Miva Merchant:
Miva Merchant is a browser based storefront development and management system for merchants.
Modem:
A modem is Modulator and a Demodulator. A device for transmitting usually digital data over telephone wires by modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating an audio signal into data to receive it.
MOO:
MOO is acronym for Mud Object Oriented. This is one of the different kinds of multi user role playing environments. MOO is a text based application.
Mosaic:
Mosaic is the first known Internet WWW browser that was made available for the Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX operating systems all with the same interface.
Mosso:
Mosso is commonly known name of Mosso LLC who originally launched in March 2006 the Rack space Cloud, a wholly owned subsidiary startup billed as a utility computing offering.
MP3:
MP3 is one of the most popular compression scheme for Audio Streams. This is a lossy compression technique very much used over Internet.
MPEG:
MPEG stands for Motion Picture Experts Group. This is a video compression format for movies or animations.
MS Access [Microsoft®]:
MS Access® is the commonly known name for MS Office Access published by Microsoft. This is an easy to use and highly integrated relational database creation and maintenance software. In simpler words this is a relational database management system (RDBMS). MS Office is capable of managing online databases and this software is also supported with the NT® hosting platform.
mSQL:
mSQL is commonly known as mini SQL which is a light weight relational database supported with sequential query language for access.
MUD:
MUD refers to Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension. MUD is a text-based multi-user simulation environment. One of the significant features of most MUDs is that the users can create things that stay after they leave and which other users can interact with in their absence, thus allowing a world to be built gradually and collectively.
Multicast:
Multi cast is a name given to a process of ending message to a set of multiple selected users over a network. It is different from broadcast in that the broadcast sends message to all the connected users whereas multicasting sends message to selected users only.
MUSE:
MUSE stand for Multi-User Simulated Environment which is a type of MUD.
MX Record:
MX record means to Mail Exchange record. This is a part of a zone file that is used to designate a machine to process mails for machines in a specific domain.
MySQL hosting:
This is a type of hosting on a web server with a support of MySQL Database.
MySQL:
MySQL is one of the most popular open source relational database.
MySQL.com:
This is the URL for homepage of the popular open source database MySQL.
Name Servers:
A name server is an Internet host running software capable of processing DNS requests. A popular free software name server is Bind Name, for UNIX hosts. The most prominent type of Name server used today is Domain Name Server (DNS), which translates human memorable domain, names to its corresponding Internet protocol (IP) addresses.
Netiquette:
This is an etiquette over Internet. Netiquette is an informal set of rules that should be followed while using Internet services like email, message boards and newsgroups. One can understand it as a code of ethics for use of Internet.
Netizen:
Netizen means to citizen of Internet and refer to the users of Internet.
Netscape Communications:
Netscape Communication is a company who developed Netscape Navigator, one of the popular Internet Browsers.
Netscape® Navigator:
This is one of the most popular Internet Browser.
Network:
It is collection of computers and devices connected with the help of various hardware components such as network interface cards, routers, hubs, bridges, switches etc to facilitate the flow of bidirectional information flow or to share the resources with other users.
Network Management:
This refers to the tasks related to management of network accesses and applications. This may include maintaining list of authentic users by addition or deletion of users, maintaining authentication processes and related information of users, controlling data access bandwidth corresponding to each user, implementing data and application security protocols and many other related tasks.
Newsgroup:
A newsgroup is a discussion about a particular subject consisting of notes written to a central Internet site and redistributed through Usenet, a worldwide network of news discussion groups. Usenet uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
Newsreader:
Newsreader is a web based application that allows the use of Newsgroups over the Internet
NIC:
NIC stands for Network Interface Card. NIC is a hardware device used for connecting a machine to a local area network.
NNTP:
NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used by computer clients and servers for managing the notes posted on Usenet newsgroup. NNTP servers manage the global network of collected Usenet newsgroups and include the server at your Internet access provider. An NNTP client is included as part of a Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, or other Web browser or you may use a separate client program called a newsreader.
NOC:
In web hosting terms, NOC stands for Network Operations Center. he NOC is typically where most administrative, technical support, and physical server housing.
Node:
In a communications system, a node is a network junction or connection point. Every terminal, computer, hub and switch is a node. A node refers to a point in the network topology where lines intersect or branch.
NT:
NT is a common term to refer to Windows NT operating system released in 1993. NT was designed to be a powerful high level language based, multiuser operating system, with its features comparable to UNIX. This product of Microsoft complemented windows based on MS-DOS and supported hardware and software portability.
OC:
OC means to Optical Carrier which refers to speed of a carrier of Optical Information in an Optical Fiber communication line.
OC-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-24, OC-48:
These are different standard Optical Carrier transmission speeds, used in fiber optic networks conforming to SONET standard. OC-1 is 51.85 Mbps. The higher levels are multiples of that speed like OC3 circuit can transmit 155,000,000 bits per second
ODBC:
ODBC is acronym used for Open Data Base Connectivity. This is a standard way to connect an application to a database allowing applications to access different databases in an uniform way.
Offline:
Offline means to the time when the machine is not connected to Internet.
On-Demand hosting:
A hosting scheme that is provided t the subscriber in a completely customized manner allowing the access to an available features whenever demanded. The feature is charged only when it is requested and used.
Online:
Online means to the time when the machine is connected to Internet and is able to access the web based resources.
Operating system:
Operating System is a system software that connects the application software to hardware devices and control the resource access by the application software. Operating system is responsible for allocating hardware resources, controlling memory access, and scheduling the tasks in a computer machine.
OSI:
OSI stands for Open System Interconnection which is the most popular network implementation standard developed by ISO and CCITT. This standardizes the implementation of network in seven layers each dedicated to different and well defined focus areas of network communication.
Packet Switching:
A method of data transmission in which small blocks of data are transmitted rapidly over a channel dedicated to the connection only for the duration of the packet’s transmission. It groups all transmitted data – irrespective of content, type, or structure – into suitably-sized blocks, called packets. Packet switching features delivery of variable-bit-rate data streams (sequences of packets) over a shared network. When traversing network adapters, switches, routers and other network nodes packets are buffered and queued, resulting in variable delay and throughput depending on the traffic load in the network.
Page:
Page or a web page is a basic term used for a basic web based document shown by a web browser at a time.
PAP:
PAP stands for Password Authentication Protocol which is the authentication protocol used over PPP connections.
Parking (Domain Name):
DNS parking is a service that the Web host will offer to its clients as a way of securing a domain name for future use. The Web host registers the domain name with the InterNIC and “parks” the domain name on a server until it is ready to be made active. By doing this, the Web host ensures the availability of the domain name for the future use of the client so that another individual or company cannot register that same domain name.
Password:
Password is a secret code consisting of sequence of alphanumeric characters that is usually associated with a user name and is used for authenticating a user to get access to a network application or services or data.
PCMag.com:
This is a URL for homepage for online magazines related to computers published periodically from United States
Peer-to-Peer network:
Peer to Peer Network is a network structure in which the network nodes can communicate to share information services and data with each other without any hierarchies in it.
Perl:
Perl is a commonly used open sourced CGI scripting language used to program scripts embedded in HTML documents for making interactive and intelligent web pages.
PHP:
PHP is a free, open source, server side executing scripting language.
PKZIP or PKUNZIP:
These are one of the popular compression and decompression schemes used over Internet.
Plug-in:
Plug-in is a small piece of software program which is added to a larger software to add some additional functionality and features to it.
POP:
POP stands for “Post Office Protocol”. This is a simple and standardized method of delivering e-mail messages.
POP3:
A POP3 mail server receives e-mails and filters them into the appropriate user folders. When a user connects to the mail server to retrieve his mail, the messages are downloaded from mail server to the hard disk of the user.
Port:
Port usually refers to a hardware or software point for input and output of the information in a hardware or software application.
Posting:
Posting is a common term used for referring to writing and adding an item, text or picture to web based blogs.
PPP:
PPP stands for Point to Point Protocol which is a common protocol used to connect computer machines to Internet through telephone lines.
PRI:
PRI stands for Primary Rate Interface. PRI is one of the two ISDN access methods. 23 of 64 Kbps B channels and 1 64 Kbps D channel constitute a PRI.
Propagation:
Propagation refers to the process whereby the name servers throughout the world have updated their records for location of a specific domain modifying them as per the changes with time. For example, if a domain is moved from one host to another, it will take a finite time of about 24 hours for the new address to broadcast everywhere. During that 24 hour period, the traffic is decreasing at the old location and increasing at the new location.
Protocol:
Protocol means to a set of rules for accomplishing a task.
PSTN:
PSTN is an acronym for Public Switched Telephone Network. This is a regular old fashioned or traditional telephone line infrastructure system.
Python:
Python is an interpreted programming language, offered by many web hosting servers for server side scripting
RAID:
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Raid is a method of data protection in which instead of storing the entire data on a single disk, it is distributed over a number of disks so that the information will still be available if any of the disks fails.
Raid server:
RAID server is the server that controls and data distributed over the RAID disks and enables the users to access the data without knowing if it is a distributed data. Users can use the RAID data in a simple way as if it is stored in a single space.
Raw Logs:
Raw logs means to the log data related to the raw access to an application in real-time that can be downloaded and used by any statistics program for different purposes. Typically each line of the Raw Log data shows the IP address of the user, the date and time of the access, what kind of request was done, which document was requested, HTTP status code, bytes transferred, referrer, and user agent information etc.
Real Audio/Video Player:
This is commonly known as Real player. Real Player a cross platform media player developed and distributed under proprietary of Real Networks. Real Player plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media, and multiple versions of proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats.
Red Hat Hosting:
Red Hat Hosting is a type of web hosting with the support of Red Hat Linux Operating System. The Red Hat hosting program provides an opportunity for hosting providers to offer their customers Red Hat Enterprise Linux—a standards-based secure and scalable operating system, certified for the applications customers already use.
Red Hat Dedicated Hosting:
This is a Red Hat Hosting Service dedicatedly rented to a single customer.
Red Hat Server:
A web hosting server that supports Red Hat Hosting and provides its subscribers the advantages of Red Hat Operating Systems in their hosted applications.
Registry (Domain Name):
Whenever a domain name is reserved for some organization, it is registered with DNS to maintain uniqueness of the domain name. This is called registry of the domain name.
Renewal (Domain Name):
The domain names registrations are usually done on contractual basis which need renewal after a finite period of time. Usually this time is one year but there are available some vendors that may take the contract for other lesser or longer durations too.
Reseller:
Some of the organizations or individuals usually get a domain name reserved for them but they do not use this for them. Rather they resell the domain name on a higher price to another organization or individual. Such organization or individual who purchase and then sell the domain names are called resellers of the domain names.
Reseller Hosting:
Many organizations provide web hosting solutions for resellers and are known as reseller hosts. The hosting services for resellers is called reseller hosting.
Resolution (domain Name):
Resolution of domain names is the process of conversion of an Internet IP Address into a domain name string.
RFC:
RFC is an acronym. Its full form is Request For Comments. Usually this is an initial state of defining standards for Internet. Usually the new standards are proposed and published online as RFC and the comments are requested for them. According to the comments, the standards are wither rejected or accepted as they are or are accepted with some modifications.
RightScale:
RightScale is a web based cloud computing management platform for managing cloud infrastructure from multiple providers
RJ-11:
RJ-11 is a standard connector that is used for connecting the telephone lines to devices.
RJ-45:
RJ-45 is a standard connector type which is used for connecting the machines or devices to the Ethernet Networks.
Roaming:
This is a feature or facility with the mobile phones or mobile devices to move from one network to another without breaking communicability. The charges to the communication in local network and roaming may although be different.
ROFL:
ROFL is a common acronym term used day to day in online chatting or messaging over e-mails to refer “Rolling On the Floor Laughing” to react on an extremely funny event.
Router:
Router is a network device which is responsible for keeping record of locations of all the network nodes and define the path or the route of travel of data packets from source to destination. Router may also be another network device or a dedicated computer that is responsible for connecting two or more networks together and routing the data packets between them.
RSA:
RSA is commonly known term used to represent a asymmetric (dual key) encryption decryption algorithm developed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. This is a network data security algorithm that makes use of two different public and private keys. This algorithm can be used for authentication, digital signatures, data security, non repudiation, and many other purposed of data security.
Ruby and Rails computer:
Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk, Eiffel, and LISP like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto.
Ruby on Rails:
Ruby on Rails is a popular web application framework written in Ruby and known to come in interest in around 2005. Rails is frequently credited with making Ruby “famous” and the association is so strong that the two are often conflated by technical laymen.
ruby on rails host:
Ruby on Rails Hosts are the hosting service providers that offer a compatibility or support features for Ruby on Rails framework for hosted web applications.
Ruby on Rails hosting:
This is the term used for hosting the web applications with the features supporting Ruby on Rails framework for hosted web applications. Ruby on Rails Hosting is possible on Ruby on Rails Hosts.
S/MIME:
Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions – a way of making email messages more secure. S/MIME uses digital certificates to attest the message origin and encryption to ensure that message could not be read while in transit.
San Francisco hosting:
In the web hosting business since 1998, San Francisco Host is a locally owned and operated company based in the vibrant city of San Francisco. Recently re-branded to better position itself in the marketplace, our goal is to provide rock-solid hosting with steadfast support.
San Francisco web hosting:
Web Hosting with San Francisco Host which is a locally owned and operated company based in the vibrant city of San Francisco.
Scripting Language:
Scripting Language is a programming language in which programs are the series of commands that are interpreted and then executed one by one. Scripts do not need a compiler and they do not form class files or executable files. Rather, the scripts are embedded in another document and are run on an interpreter.
Search engine:
Search Engine is an Internet service that stores a vast number of information about web pages and allows for fast searching among them. Search Engines perform searches over Internet for the provided keywords and offer the results for the search requests. Google Search, Yahoo Search, MSN Search are some commonly used free of cost search engine facilities over Internet.
Search form:
Search Form is a part of search engine in which the keywords and other characteristics of the search are mentioned according to which the search is performed. In short, the search forms take the inputs for a search to be performed. They may seek the keywords for the search, file types, and file sizes, dates of upload, modifications, or creation, name of file or persons etc. for performing the search over a network.
search indexer:
Search Indexer is a software program that maintains and keeps updating an indexed list of keywords or documents or web pages or other searchable items available over the network or the Internet. With these indexes, the search engine can provide the search results much faster than n their absence.
Secure web hosting:
Secure web hosting is termed for hosting on the servers secured against hacking, virus attacks, and other security threats. Usually these hosts are provided with SSL Certificate.
Security Certificate:
Security Certificate is a document (often a text file) containing a chunk of information that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure network (or Internet) connection. Security Certificates contain different information in it about authentication of the holder. This contains the data about its owner, its issuing authority or company, dates of issue, data or duration of validity, a unique identification number, and an encrypted ‘fingerprint’ that can be used to verify the contents of the certificate. In order to establish a secure SSL connection between two parties, both of them must have a valid Security Certificate.
Self-extracting Archive:
Self Extracting Archive is an compressed backup file that in itself is also an executable program. The original archived file is decompressed when that program is run and restores all the backup data.
SLIP:
SLIP is an acronym for “Serial Line Internet Protocol”. SLIP is another network protocol used to connect computers to the networks just like PPP.
Server:
Server is a compute machine in a computer network that handles client requests for data access, services, applications or Web pages hosted on it. Server in fact is a specific type of computer that provides the services to the clients on request. A server may ask for authentication of a client before permitting it access to some specific data, or service. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running e.g. a mail server or web hosting server or a game server etc.
Service Provider:
Service provider refers to a company that offers to provide its customers with a service for a mutually agreed fees. The service may be of different kind like Internet access, web hosting, electronic mail, gaming etc.
Session:
Session is a virtual connection (not physical) or a permission to the two connecting parties to exchange data and information. The session has a defined start and a defined end. With the start of the session, the data sharing is permitted whereas with the end of the session, the data sharing is blocked.
Setup fee:
Setup fees is the initial fee charged by a host or a service provider from the customer to set up its hosting account or a initial configurations for enabling service for it.
Shared Hosting:
Shared Hosting is a hosting facility where the customers of the hosting service share the hosting server and its resources. This is the most basic of web hosting packages. Shared hosting is considered as an economic solution for low traffic web sites without high storage requirements. The limitations of shared hosting include lower and varying bandwidth.
Shared IP Address:
Shared IP Address is an IP address that is shared by the multiple websites.
Shockwave:
Shockwave is a software package originally developed and distributed by Macromedia. Shockwave software allows the users to view new forms of entertainment on the Web, such as games, movies, images, flash, music, rich-media contents, interactive product demos, and e-merchandising applications
Shopping Cart:
Shopping Cart is a software application designed to take care of the e-commerce section of a web site. Shopping cart software allows creation of product catalog for web based retail stores. With this, the online users can browse for products, select the products of interest, set the number of units of each item required, and purchase them online with different payment options.
SHTTP:
SHTTP is a commonly known name and acronym for Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. SHTTP is a version of HTTP protocol that uses encryption to assure that the traffic between the server and the client browser is secure and cannot be eavesdropped on. SHTTP should be considered mandatory for all e-commerce applications that involve a monetary transaction like online payment and online fund transfer etc.
Signature (Data Security):
Signatures for Data Security or the Digital Signature is a portable and light weight data-code attached with a document or a data file to authenticate the originality and trueness of its content. Usually the digital signatures are generated by some algorithmic computation of its own content. If the content is changed, the signature also gets changed.
Signature (E-Mail):
Signature in an e-mail are a few lines of text that are automatically attached at the end of each email message by the email client. Usually it includes the identity of the sender, its contact information, Homepage URL information, and some quote of best lines.
Signed applet:
Signed Applet is a Java applet that has a digital signature to confirm that it originates from the legitimate server. Some security features of Internet Browser may block the execution of an unsigned Applet but they may allow the Applets signed by a trusted authority.
Site Monitoring:
Site monitoring is a type of the service that is used for monitoring the working of a website. This services usually records the detailed log for the working of the site and sends alerts to the administrators in case of any problem. The alerts are usually accompanied by a part of the log that along with some error comments create an error report for analysis and easier tracing of the error by the administrator or the debugger team.
SLIP:
SLIP is a commonly known acronym for Serial Line Internet Protocol. This is a standard for using a regular telephone line and a modem to connect a computer as a real Internet site. This means SLIP s a protocol to connect a computing device to Internet through a modem with a serial communication line. SLIP is gradually being replaced by PPP.
SMDS:
SMDS is an acronym for Switched Multimegabit Data Service. This is a new standard for very high speed data transfer over the networks..
Smiley:
Smiles’ are the characters used in text only communications to convey emotions. These are the emotional shapes created with the help of ASCII characters in a text message. Example of smiley are ) :O … =))
SMTP:
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. This is a very popular protocol used to transfer of email messages across the Internet mail servers. This means that SMTP is a protocol used to send the emails over the internet. His is in fact the main to send electronic mail on the Internet. SMTP consists of a set of rules for how a program sending mail and a program receiving mail should interact. This configures different parts of the e-mail message like its header, body, footer etc. in a standard format so that the e-mail can be resolved in an understandable format at the receiving end Almost all Internet email is sent and received by clients and servers using SMTP, thus if one wants to set up an email server on the Internet it would look for email server software that supports SMTP.
Snail Mail:
Snail Mail is a normal paper mail delivered by the Post Office. This is a hard copy message delivered through Post Office.
SNMP:
SNMP is acronym for Simple Network Management Protocol. This is one of the most commonly used protocol for network management. SNMP is set of standards for communication in a TCP/IP network with connected devices like routers, hubs, and switches. A device is said to be SNMP compatible if it can be monitored and/or controlled using SNMP messages.
SNMP Messages:
SNMP messages are the Protocol Data Units that control a compatible device connected to TCP/IP network. Devices that are SNMP compatible contain SNMP agent software to receive, send, and act upon SNMP messages.
Source:
Source in a computer network that generates the data packet o be sent to another computer or the network device. The message that is required to be delivered is embedded in the data packet format by the source computer and sent to the router for the further delivery to the destination.
Spam (or Spamming):
Spam is a term used to represent some unsolicited emails sent in mass quantities to multiple recipients, most often for marketing and publicity purposes. Spam mails usually are highly annoying as mostly they are not of interest of the receiver. Spam mails constituting one of the most serious netiquette violations. This is an inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list, or USENET or other networked communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium which it in fact is not. Spam Mails send the same message to a large number of people who never asked for it.
Spider:
Spider is an automated software that retrieves web pages and follows the hyper links contained in them. This software is used to generate indexes used by search engines.
SPX:
SPX stands for Sequenced Packet Exchange. This is a proprietary Novell network protocol used in conjunction with IPX.
SQL:
SQL is a commonly known name and acronym for Structured Query Language. SQL is a specialized language that is used to send the queries to the database for creating, updating and viewing the information on any relational database. All databases share a common subset of SQL. Most popular SQL databases available with hosting plans are MySQL and MS SQL.
SSH:
SSH is a commonly known name for Secure Shell. SSH is developed by SSH Communications Security and is popular as a standard for encrypted terminal Internet connections. SSH programs are used to provide strong authentication and secure communication by means of encryption.
SSI:
SSI is acronym for Server-Side Includes. With SSI the server usually includes some dynamic information (like current date, time, weather report etc.) in a Web page before it is sent to a client.
SSL :
SSL is a commonly known alternate term and acronym for Secure Sockets Layer. This is a protocol developed by Netscape to handle and protect confidential information shared over Internet like in the transactions including credit card information or find transfers. The information security is implemented by means of authentication and encryption. SSL addresses typically begin with “HTTPS” instead of “HTTP” as the general URLs do. Before using SSL in commerce, one needs to get a SSL certificate from a Certificate Authority.
Static IP:
Static IP is also known as dedicated IP. With a static IP, a web site is assigned to a unique and unchanging IP address. If the IP address is entered in the address bar or the URL, the browser is directed to the same Internet location.
STP:
STP is acronym for Shielded Twisted Pair. STP is a cable consisting of a pair of insulated wires wrapped in metal to minimize the interference. These cables are used for connecting devices over a network.
Streaming:
Streaming means to playing multimedia files without requiring them to fully download on local machine. Audio and video files are usually compressed files but they still may require a lot of bandwidth for downloading. Streaming can be considered as a solution to downloading bandwidth and allow playing the files online without their downloading. Most popular streaming media formats are Real Audio/Video and one of the most popular video streaming site is Youtube.com
Sub domain:
Sub domain is a way to divide a web site into sections with short and easy to remember names. For example, a site with domain name “mysite.com” may be divided into sub domains like “myfamily.mysite.com”, “myoffice.mysite.com”, “myfriends.mysite.com” and more of similar kind. In other words, the sub domains may be understood like a “Domain within a Domain”.
Surfing:
Surfing in web hosting related terms refer to using the world wide web and exploring through it to the ocean of information, entertainment, personal networking, business opportunities, and many more.
Switch:
A switch is a network device that forwards the data packets over the network. Switches are have decision making capabilities in them with inbuilt logical components with which they forward packets only to the necessary ports and not to all the ports.
Sysop:
Sysop is a commonly known short name for System Operators. System Operator is anyone responsible for the physical operations of a computer system or network resource.
T1:
T1 is a standard type of leased line connection capable of carrying data at 1,544,000 bits per second hereby offers a bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps. T1 consists of 24 individual channels of 64 Kbps each, that can be configured for voice or data transmission. Theoretically, the T1 cable is capable of moving a megabyte in less than 10 seconds. T1 is perhaps the fastest speed commonly used to connect networks to the Internet. T1 lines can be leased by businesses that required a dedicated Net connection of with higher reliability than a DSL and faster than an ISDN line but are still quite expensive.
T3:
T3 is another standard dedicated (leased line) connection capable of carrying data at 44,736,000 bits per second i.e. 44Mbps bandwidth. This is more than enough to do full-screen, full-motion video which the T1 was not capable of. T3 lines are often used by ISPs to connect to the Internet backbone.
Tcl:
TCL stands for “Tool Command Language”. This is a simple scripting language and library often used for GUI, string manipulation, testing, and integration of multiple components. TCL scripting is very much popular for use with TK Scripting and the combination is referred as TCL/Tk
TCP:
TCP is acronym for Transmission Control Protocol. This is a very important network protocol for making the Internet possible. It allows two hosts to connect to each other can exchange data. TCP also performs error checks in it to make sure the successful and error free data delivery from source to destination. TCP is a higher level protocol that runs on top of the IP protocol for enabling Internet services by TCP/IP
TCP/IP:
TCP/IP is short name for combination suit of Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is in fact a combination or a suite of the protocols. This suit is required in a device to enable it to connect and share data and services over Internet. In fact it is TCP/IP only that defines the Internet. TCP/IP was originally designed for the UNIX operating system which is now available for every major kind of computer operating system.
Telnet:
Telnet is a command line interface that allows remote users to communicate with world wide web servers. This is a character based protocol for connecting with remote systems. This offers a command line interface to the user for login from one internet site to another. Telnet although is very traditional utility, yet still popular among hosts, though it is being replaced by much more secure SSH access.
Terabyte:
Terabyte is usually denoted by (TB) is a multiple of unit byte and is used to mean either 240 bytes or 10244 bytes. In other words, TB is equal to 1024 GB.
Terminal Server:
Terminal server is a special purpose computer that does the work of answering the calls and passes the connections on to the appropriate node. It has places to plug in many modems on one side, and a connection to a LAN or host machine on the other side. Most terminal servers can provide PPP or SLIP services if connected to the Internet.
Terminal:
A device that allows you to send commands to a remote computer is known as a Terminal.
TIA:
TIA is a commonly known name and acronym for “Telecommunications Industry Association”. This is another telecommunications standards organization.
Top Level Domain:
TLD stands for Top Level Domain. A Top Level Domain is the uppermost in the hierarchy of domain name system. For all domains in lower levels, TLD forms the last part of the domain name. There are mainly two types of TLDs, Generic TLDs and Sponsored TLDs.
Trace route:
Trace-Route is a computer program that lists network hosts visited by a packed on its way from source to the destination. This program is a very useful network debugging tool for tracing some error in the network routes.
Trademark:
Trademark is a word, phrase or slogan used to identify and distinguish the source of the goods or services. Trademark law may be different in different countries worldwide. If someone registers a domain name which in fact is related to the trademark of some other company or the organization, then the organization would need to go to the courts in the related country to fight to get the name back. Expensive international litigation is one reason why it is important to protect your trademarks before someone else registers the names.
Traffic:
Traffic in Networking or web hosting means to data packets being transmitted over a network.
Transfer (Domain Name):
Many a times, some company may change its name or can be taken over by some other. In such cases, the domain names are required to be modified accordingly with not much changes to the data. Especially the business databases about the information of the customers and their transactions are not altered. On such occasion, domains are transferred from one owner to another and the information is retained. For Domain transfer, most registries require a letter of permission from the old owner to hand over control to the new owner. There is usually a legal procedure involved in the Transfer of ownership of the domain that will depend on the registry.
Twisted Pair:
Twisted Pair is a network connection cable consisting of a pair of wires twisted one around the other. This is a common connecting cable in the networking applications.
UK Web Hosting:
UK Web Hosting is a type of web hosting in which hosting servers are based in United Kingdom (UK).
UMTS:
UMTS is the acronym for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. UMTS is a system for delivering to the world the upcoming 3G (third generation) mobile services.
Unicode:
Unicode is a 16 bit ISO 10646 character set. It can accommodate way more characters that ASCII, thus allowing for easier internationalization. Unicode is many a times used for software tools developed for translation in different languages like Japanese, Chinese, and many others.
UNIX Hosting:
This is a type of web hosting with the support of UNIX or UNIX based systems.
UNIX:
UNIX is one of the most popular computer operating system designed to be used by many people at the same time and with TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet. UNIX was first developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1970s and then licensed to many universities. UNIX later formed a basis for Linux which is another very popular operating system among web hosts.
UPS:
UPS stands for “Uninterruptible Power Supply”. UPS is an electrical device that continues providing power supply to the computer with a battery for several minutes after a power outage, allowing for a clean shutdown without loss of data. UPS can also shield the server from line voltage spikes and drops.
URL :
URL is acronym for Uniformed Resource Locater. URL is the standard way to give the address of any resource on the Internet that is part of the World Wide Web (WWW). A URL consist of the type of service (protocol), then the host name and then the file on the host. The URL hereby takes the shape of http://www.url-name.domai-extension or telnet://domain-name.extension or news:domain-name.domain-extention etc.
USENET:
USENET is a worldwide system of the discussion groups or is a network of all the newsgroups in the Internet. This is a world-wide system of discussion groups, with comments passed among hundreds of thousands of machines. Not all USENET machines are on the Internet. USENET is completely decentralized, with over 10,000 discussion areas, called newsgroups. See Also: Newsgroup.
UTP:
UTP stands for Unshielded Twisted Pair. This is a cable of twisted pair of wires which is similar to the STP, but without the shielding metal layer. It is a lighter weight cable but is more prone to interference.
UUENCODE:
This is an acronym for Unix to Unix Encoding. UUENCODE is a method for converting files from Binary to ASCII i.e. Binary to Text so that they can be sent across the Internet via e-mail. In other words, UUENCODE is a method of sending binary files using email.
VBScript:
VBScript is a light weight scripting language for HTML pages which is very much similar to Microsoft® Visual Basic® programming language. This can be considered as Scripting Edition of Visual Basic® programming language or a subset of MS Visual Basic language. Client side Internet Browsers support VBScripts with fast, portable, lightweight interpreter inbuilt in them. VBScripts can be embedded in HTML pages or for creating ActiveX Controls. They provide an alternative to JavaScript.
Veronica:
VERONICA is an acronym for “Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives”. Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus.
viewer:
Viewer is usually an stand alone application used to display files of different formats. Computers usually have common viewers like picture viewers, e-book viewers, multimedia viewers, and Web-Page Viewers etc.
Virtual Dedicated Server
Virtual Dedicated Server is a single server with a virtualization software installed on this which in fact virtualizes multiple servers on it and provides the services of a dedicated server on a shared server.
Virtual Server Hosting:
Virtual Server is a hosting server which provides the facilities of a dedicated server to its customer but in fact is a virtualized system on a shared server with a virtualization software.
Virus:
A virus is a malicious program written to do as much harm as possible. These are usually self extracting, self running, and self managed programs that once get enabled in a computer machine, can harm the data, registry files, important documents, device drivers, and even some hardware components in cases of very strong viruses. Viruses can self spread themselves over the network.
VPN:
VPN Stands for “Virtual Private Network”. A virtual private network is a method of accessing the private network in a secure way over public communication lines and networks.
VMware vCloud:
VMware vCloud is supposed to be the only cloud solution built on the reliability and advanced technology of VMware products and its robust partnerships.
VPS:
VPS is acronym for Virtual Private Server. A VPS is used on a shared hosting but provides the facilities of a dedicated server by visualizing multiple private servers on the machine. Different customers can host their applications on a shared host but can enjoy the advantages of private server.
VPS Hosting:
VPS Hosting refers to hosting with the facilities of dedicated hosting on a shared hosting server with the help of a virtualization software. This is also known as virtual dedicated server hosting or dynamic dedicated hosting. A growing number of companies offer virtual private server hosting as an extension for web hosting services.
VPS Dedicated Hosting:
VPS Dedicated Hosting is a method of partitioning the web hosting server resources into multiple parts so that each part can be dedicated to one hosted application or one client hereby creating multiple virtual dedicated hosts on a single server.
VPS Servers:
VPS server is a shared server with a virtualization software program that can virtualize multiple parts of it or multiple servers on this so that multiple customers can be provided with the benefits of dedicated hosting over a single server.
W3C:
W3C is an acronym for “World Wide Web Consortium”. This is an international industry consortium that develops standards for the world wide web which are used all over the Internet.
WAIS:
WAIS is acronym used for Wide Area Information Servers. This is a commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge volume of information, and hereby making the searches for information faster over Internet. A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked according to how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like that last batch and thus refine the search process.
WAN:
WAN stands for Wide Area Network. This is the term used for representing a network of span of a geographical location as broader as a city or may be country too.
WAP:
WAP is acronym for Wireless Access Protocol. WAP is a global, open standard for online service access from small screen mobile phones. In other words WAP enables Internet access on small screen devices like Mobile Phones.
WAP Gateway:
WAP Gateways are used as a bridge between the Internet (or another similar IP packet network) and the wireless phone or a wireless data network, using a different networking technology. WAP Gateways enable Internet Connections on the devices which a=work on technologies different from TCP/IP. For example mobile devices working on CDMA or GSM can be enabled to access Internet applications through WAP Gateways.
WAP Hosting:
WAP Hosting is the term to represent hosting for WAP applications. This means to providing software and hardware resources for hosting of WAP application.
WAP Security:
WAP Security is the data and network security means and mechanisms developed and implemented for WAP network applications. One of the example of WAP Security is Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) WAP Security. The introduction of mobile phones in online banking or mobile banking and the concepts of M-Commerce are demanding innovative and strong WAP Security tools. Credit Card Companies are these days offering Mobile 3D Securities which is a type of WAP Security.
WAV:
WAV is a common audio file format. This is supposed to be very accurate to actual sound signals, but offers no compression, thus results in very large files and consume more storage space.
Web Mail:
Web mail is a type of the email that is access through the web browser. This is a common name for Web Based Mails like Yahoo Mail, G-Mail, Hot Mail etc.
Web:
Web is a common term used for World Wide Web or WWW.
Webmaster:
Webmaster is a person or a team responsible for the maintenance of a website. They are responsible for additions, deletions, and modifications of the data and information on a web site and also the access controls over the access to the data and information. Webmasters are usually provided with administrative rights on the web servers or the web-account on the server.
Whois:
Whois is a central database that tracks all domain name registrations. This is an Internet service allowing to obtain the information about the domain name owner. Most registries maintain a database of domain names and their associated contact information. Users can query these databases through the program “Whois”.
WML:
WML is a common acronym for “Wireless Markup Language”. WML can be considered as the WAP version of HTML. This is used for writing web-pages for small screen devices like mobile phones and is also used for formatting the web data for the limited space of a WAP enabled device.
WMLScript:
can be considered as the WAP version of JavaScript. This means, WMLScripts do the same as the JavaScripts do for HTML. This is the language used for writing the client side scripts for WML Pages.
WWW:
WWW stands for “World Wide Web” (or the Web). This is the widest network on the Globe and usually works on TCP/IP. This is the most popular Internet service. It allows access to the information and services from the web servers. A web browser is needed to use the Web
XML processor:
XML Processor is a program that can process the XML documents. This can access and understand their content and follow the instructions mentioned in them.
XML:
XML is a common term used to represent “Extensible Markup Language”. XML is accepted as a format in 1998 to replace WWW dependence on HTML extensions. XML is a meta-language and an abbreviated version of SGML. This is used to specify other document types used on the Internet. Both MSIE 5.5 and Netscape 6 and their higher versions support XML.
XMODEM:
XMODEM is a file transfer protocol of very slow speed.
YMMV:
YMMV is a term used to represent the message that “Your Mileage May Vary”.
YMODEM:
This is another popular protocol for file transfer which is comparatively faster than XMODEM.
ZIP:
ZIP is a very popular and commonly used compression scheme. This is a common technique of data compression in Windows based systems. Tools are available that can use this scheme in Linus systems too. Win Zip is a windows tool available for compressing the files with ZIP compression scheme. ZIP compression scheme has been taken up as an inbuilt feature of Windows XP Operating System and many other Windows Systems.
ZMODEM:
ZMODEM is one of the most popular protocol for file transfer. This is popular for its faster response as compared to YMODEM and XMODEM protocols.
Zone file:
Zone File is in fact a group of files that reside on the domain host or the name server. The zone file is used to designate a domain name, its sub domains and the mail server associated with the domain.