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Apache is an open-source (source code is freely available and can be shared) HTTP Web server software. It is currently the most popular web server on the Internet.

Active Server Pages. ASP is Microsoft's server-side scripting technology. An Active Server Page has an .asp extension and it mixes HTML and scripting code that can be written in VBScript or JScript.

Also known as data transfer, the total size of files transferred by an account in a month. Sites with a lots of graphics, downloads, or streaming audio or video and a lot of visitors will use much more data transfer than a site without these items.

Computer program that allows to search the World Wide Web and displays the content of the webpages. Examples are Firefox, Safari, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Internet Explorer.

Common Gateway Interface. CGI scripts are used for "dynamic web pages". A CGI program can be written in any language like Perl or C/C++ and it is often stored in a special directory like /cgi-bin. CGI is often used to process data from HTML forms.

Our control panel is an online web-based application that allows you to easily manage different aspects of your account.

Data in a structured format stored on a web server. Most popular type is a relational database. The most common query (information retrieval) language for relational databases is SQL. As we use Linux we use the MySQL database.

A directory or folder is a storage place on a server for files. For example you could create a folder called images and just keep images in that directory.

Domain Name System. Internet service that maps Internet domains into corresponding IP addresses. DNS database is distributed and replicated among many DNS servers, so when you change your domain's IP address, the changes take a while to propagate.

A domain name is an easy-to-remember address that can be translated by DNS into server's IP address. Popular domain's extensions include .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, name, .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .eu and more. Domain names are unique and are registered within a central database.

Uploading and downloading are related terms used to describe the transfer of electronic data between two computers or similar systems. Their primary usage is as a verb: to upload is to send data from a local system to some remote system, such as a website, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, or other similar systems. To download is to receive data from a remote system.

Electronic Mail. One of the most popular Internet services. Basically it is the transmission of a text based message. An email message can also contain more structured elements, like tables, images and multimedia. It can also be used to send various data files, by means of attachments.

A computer file is a collection of information that is stored in a computer system and can be identified by its full path name. Computer files are so called because they are the computer equivalent of card, paper, or microfiche files in the traditional office environment. Computer files provide a way to organize the resources used to permanently store information inside a computer.

Microsoft Frontpage is a client side software tool that when used with FrontPage Extensions allows web site creation tool to incorporate "web-bots" that perform pre-packaged function like full-text Web site searching or adding a hit counter.

File Transfer Protocol. This Internet protocol allows you to upload and download website files to and from your web hosting account. Popular software FTP programs are CuteFTP and WS_FTP. Major browser also have FTP capability.

Hypertext Markup Language. It is the language in which web pages are written. It allows the images to be combined with text and offers wide range of formatting capabilities. One of the most important features of HTML is hypertext, that allows web pages to be liked one to each other.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The main protocol used to transfer and receive data over the World Wide Web. The latest version of HTTP is 1.1. Basic HTTP transaction involves a WWW browser connecting to a server, browser sending a request to the server specifying its capabilities and which document is requested, server responding with the required data, and closing of the connection.

The Internet is a worldwide communications network originally developed by the US Department of Defense as a distributed system with no single point of failure. The Internet has seen an explosion in commercial use since the development of easy-to-use software for accessing the Internet.

Internet Protocol Address. A unique number identifying all devices connected to the Internet. This number is usually shown in groups of numbers from 0 to 255, separated by periods, for example 207.46.230.218.

Nominet is the registry for UK domain names and almost all hosting companies will have an IPS tag (also known as a Nominet Provider tag) which signifies membership of Nominet. The tag is used to show who manages and renews a domain name.

Sun's popular programming language. Java is a platform-independent (at least in theory), crash-protected, object-oriented language that can be used to write applets that run in a browser, servlets that run server-side, or independent programs. Java's syntax is similar to that of C++.

Link or hyperlink. A part of the web page that links to another web page. By clicking on a link user redirects the browser to another page. The word hyperlink is sometimes shortened to just "link".

The UNIX style operating system that we use as our server operating system.

Very popular open-source relational database which is supported on this system.

A nameserver is a special Internet address listed on a domain name to tell that domain where to send people looking for your website. When you move hosting companies you normally need to update the nameservers on your domain name.

This usually refers to the path of software on a server. For example the path to the software perl is /usr/bin/perl.

Open source CGI scripting programming language. Written in 1987. Still one of the most popular web programming languages mostly due to its powerful text-manipulation facilities.

A file on a web server requires certain permissions. For example a webpage usually requires permissions to be read whereas a script requires permissions to execute. Permissions can be changed using our web based file manager, FTP or SSH.

PHP is an free, open-source server-side scripting language. PHP code can be embedded in HTML. PHP files usually have the extension .php. PHP language style is similar to C and Java.

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, and manage keys on fields.

Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. Programming has elements of mathematical beauty, science, mathematics, and engineering.

In computing, a protocol is a convention or standard that controls or enables the connection, communication, and data transfer between two computing endpoints. In its simplest form, a protocol can be defined as the rules governing the syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication.

A network device (can be a dedicated computer) that is used to connect two or more networks together and route packets between them.

A programming language in which programs are the series of commands that are interpreted and then executed one by one.

Structured Query Language. Limited programming language used for updating and performing queries on relational databases. All databases share a common subset of SQL. Most popular SQL databases available with hosting plans are MySQL and MS SQL.

Secure Shell. SSH is a standard for encrypted terminal Internet connections. SSH programs provide strong authentication and encrypted communications, replacing less secure access methods like telnet.

A computer program that lists network hosts visited by a packet on the way to its destination. Very useful for network debugging. In windows use the command "tracert hostname" via the command prompt.

Uploading and downloading are related terms used to describe the transfer of electronic data between two computers or similar systems. Their primary usage is as a verb: to upload is to send data from a local system to some remote system, such as a website, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server, or other similar systems. To upload is to send data from a remote system.

A username is usually a unique name that allows you to login to a service, a username is usually accompanied with a password.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication (for example, Internet access from a mobile phone). WAP was designed to provide services equivalent to a Web browser with some mobile-specific additions, being specifically designed to address the limitations of very small portable devices.

A Web page or webpage is a resource on the World Wide Web, usually in HTML/XHTML format (the file extensions are typically htm or html) and with hypertext links to enable navigation from one page or section to another. Web pages often use associated graphic files to provide illustration, and these too can be clickable links. A web page is displayed using a web browser.

A website, web site, or properly Web site (often shortened to just site) is a collection of Web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or sub-domain on the World Wide Web on the Internet.

Wireless Markup Language is the primary content format for devices that implement the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) specification based on XML, such as mobile phones.

Extensible Markup Language. A meta-language, abbreviated version of SGML, used to specify other document types used on the Web. Accepted as a format in 1998 to replace dependence on HTML extensions. MSIE 5.5 and Netscape 6 both support XML.