Apache
The Apache web server is a very popular, open source, public-domain Web server. It is the most widely used Web server on the Internet. Originally designed for UNIX servers, it can now also run under Windows and other platforms.
The Apache Web server provides a range of features including CGI, SSL, and virtual domains. The availability of the source code makes it possible for anyone to adapt the server for specific needs.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth, also called data transfer, is the amount of information transferred to or from a website or server given a prescribed period of time. It is usually measured in bytes (megabytes, gigabytes, etc.).
Monthly bandwidth is the amount of data that is accessed on your website each time a visitor visits your website. Each time a visitor views a page, the size of the page is added to the monthly bandwidth.
cPanel Control Panel
WebHosting provides you with access to your account information and settings, including invoices, payment settings and even our helpful ticketing system, as part of your hosting control panel. This gives you full control over your account and billing options, and allows you to make whatever changes to your account information are necessary.
CGI-BIN
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a kind of program that allows for communication between a web server and a script. This enables the interaction of HTML documents and applications. The CGI-BIN is a special folder in which these scripts can execute.
Disk Space
This is the amount of storage space that is allotted to your account on our servers. This represents the sum total of all space available for your web files, email and databases. This is a separate factor from the number of visitors you have, and is not affected by web traffic.
DNS (Domain Name System)
The DNS is an essential Internet database service that translates IP addresses into domain names. This allows users to look up addresses such as www.websitehosting.com instead of long, hard-to-remember numerical IP addresses.
Domain Name
A domain name is an easy-to-remember address entered into a Web browser to identify and visit Web sites. Domain names are translated by a DNS into an IP address. Examples of domain names are msn.com, pbs.org, and trv.gov.
Email Autoresponder
Email autoresponders are user-specified messages which will be sent back to whom ever sends email to that account. For example, if you were going on vacation for a week, you could setup an autoresponder for your email address which, when email is received at this address, will send a response back to the sender containing whatever message you specify. The email sent by them to you is stored in your mailbox as normal.
Email Forwarders
An email forward is an email address which, when it receives email, automatically forwards it to a specified remote email address. Forwards do not store email, they only route email to another email address elsewhere. For example, if you setup an email forward of hafiz@domain.com forwarding to hafiz@aol.com, then any email that is received by hafiz@domain.com will be automatically forwarded to hafiz@aol.com, where the email will then be stored.
Fantastico Script Support
The Fantastico Script Library is a collection of commonly used scripts that can be auto installed in your cPanel control panel. Installation of each script takes seconds and can be performed by beginners.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
FTP is a common method for exchanging files across the Internet. The most common use is downloading files from a server or uploading files to a server (example: uploading Web site files to a server).
FTP Client
An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Client is software used to transfer files between two computers over the Internet. Transferring can be as easy as dragging-and-dropping files from one pane to another – one pane displaying files on your own computer, the other displaying files on the remote computer, or server. In terms of hosting, an FTP Client is used to upload Web page files onto a host’s server. There are many FTP Clients available on the internet. A popular, free FTP Client is Filezilla.
Frontpage Extensions
These are a group of add-ons scripts and programs, installed on the web server, which allow for the use of proprietary functions used by Microsoft FrontPage. This is necessary for many FrontPage functions such as forms. FrontPage server extensions are available on all of our hosting plans, both Linux and Windows.
IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)
The unique, numerical address of a computer or web page. The format is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (each xxx is represented by a number between 1 and 254). A DNS converts IP addresses into familiar domain names.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
HTML is a basic, cross-platform language used to create Web pages. The codes are interpreted by web browsers to format appropriately. HTML allows document authors to create hyperlinks between documents (within a website or between documents in various locations on the internet), forms, and image maps, allowing users to interact with the Web site.
Log Files + Site Stats
Log files are text documents in which activity on a web server or web site is chronicled. Information about each visit, such as IP, time and date, and other relevant information is stored in these log files. Site stats tools are applications which analyze these log files and produce people-friendly charts and diagrams which illustrate and summarize the contents of these log files. Log files and site stats tools are both provided to our customers by default, even to the extent of providing two very different stats applications: ModLogAn and Webalizer.
Mailing Lists
Mailing lists allow you to easily send one email to any number of recipients. You could have a mailing list of newsletter@domain.com which has several hundred subscribers. An email sent to newsletter@domain.com will then be sent to each email address on the mailing list.
Message Board
Message Boards are a very popular feature on the web. These allow users of a website to communicate with one another, often carrying on long conversations amongst any number of users, in a format similar to a bulletin board.
mySQL Databases
MySQL is an open-source database system which is often compared to Microsoft SQL in scope and power. Often paired with PHP, this is a very popular database platform, especially in the Unix and Linux communities.
Open PGP/GPG Encryption
The most widely used email encryption standard in the world. It is a computer program that provides a high level of cryptographic privacy. It often used with signing, encrypting and de-crypting emails.
Parked Domains
Parking domain names allows you to have multiple domain names for 1 website. For example, if a user enters mydomain.net, they will be directed to mydomain.com, if mydomain.net is parked on top of mydomain.com.
PHP
PHP, strangely enough, stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, and is a very popular open-source server-side scripting language, most often parsed on Apache-based web servers. We support both PHP v4 and PHP v5.
Ruby/Ruby On Rails v1.1
A free web application framework which basically is a set of reusable programs structured in a way that makes it easier for you to create web applications.
Server
A server is a networked computer that handles requests for data, email, file transfers, web pages and other network services from other computers.
Shared Hosting
Shared Hosting is the most common, basic, and least expensive form of hosting. It is called “shared” hosting because multiple clients, and thus multiple websites, share a single server. This splitting of server resources is what makes shared hosting so affordable, like renting an apartment versus buying a home (dedicated hosting). Shared hosting accounts are limited to specific space allotment and data transfer.
Site Builder
Webhosting provide you with an easy-to-use template-based application for creating your website from scratch. Knowledge of HTML not required, and you do not need to install any software on your computer. The site builder runs on Webhosting servers, and is accessed and utilized through your web browser. Webhosting provides a free site builder with all hosting accounts called RVSiteBuilder.
Subdomains
Subdomains are third-level domains. For example, if you have domain.com, and you want to setup a special site just for your sales department, you could do so by adding a sub domain of sales.domain.com. These are independent sites with independent file and folder structures.
UNIX
UNIX is a powerful, flexible, computer operating system designed for multi-user applications (such as networks). It is the most frequently used operating system for servers on the World Wide Web.
URL (Universal Resource Locator)
A URL is the full, unique address of a Web page. URLs are alphanumeric and replace IP numbers.
Web Hosting
Web hosting is a service that provides a physical location, space/storage, connectivity and services for Web sites so that Web site files can be accessed and viewed by anyone using the World Wide Web. Customers create Web page files locally and then upload them to their Web hosting provider’s server. Web hosting services can include email addresses, databases, free site builders, and more.
Webmail
Webmail is a service used to access email online through a web browser instead of downloading email onto a computer via a program such as Outlook Express. Webmail allows the sending, receiving, and storing of email, and is accessible on any computer.
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