Knowledgebase

Addon and Parked Domains
A parked domain allows you to point a second domain to the same directory as your main domain in...

Attachments
Attachments are separate files that are sent or received along with your e-mail messages. It can...

Autoresponders
When a message is sent to the e-mail address with an active autoresponder, the message is...

Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can be transferred in a given time, usually...

Catch All and Default Email Address
A Catch-All E-mail address accepts and delivers any message not addressed to a specific e-mailbox...

CGI Bin
A directory on the server where the executable CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts reside.

Cookie
Cookies are tracking software, placed in a file on your computer’s hard disk, that...

Copy
Copy is the written, typed or printed words that make up the content of your Web site, newspaper,...

Counter
A Counter shows you how many page views or hits occurred on a certain Web page on your Web site.

Country-Specific Domain Names (ccTLDs)
Country code domain extensions represent a specific country. ccTLDs allow you to create an...

Data Transfer
Data Transfer is the amount of data transmitted over an Internet connection in a given...

Domain Names
A domain name is a unique name that identifies a website. A user accesses a site through a...

Email
E-mail is short for electronic mail. It consists of messages, often just text, sent from one user...

Email Address
This refers to an electronic mailing address to which e-mail may be sent and received.

Email Alias
Aliases are additional, disposable incoming e-mailbox addresses that you can create for special...

Firewall
A firewall is a combination hardware and software buffer that many companies put in place...

Form Mail Scripts
Form Mail scripts let you create forms to place on your Web site that users can fill out. All...

FTP
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to upload files to your Web site from your computer....

FTP Accounts
File Transfer Protocol is the method of transferring files between two computers and a method of...

Login Name
A login name is the account name used to access a computer system. Also called user ID or user...

Mailing List
A mailing list is a way of having a group discussion by electronic mail or distributing...

Modem
Short for Modulator/Demodulator, a modem is a device that allows remote computers to...

MySQL
MySQL is most commonly used for Web applications and for embedded applications and has become a...

Password Protected Directorys
For additional security you can create passwords on all directories for your Web site content.

Perl
Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language with strong...

PHP
A server-side, HTML-embedded, open source scripting language used to create dynamic Web...

Post Office Protocol (POP, POP2 or POP3)
POP is a process that transfers your e-mail messages from our servers to your...

Script
A script is a type of program that consists of a set of instructions for another application or...

Search Engine
A tool allowing users to search for information on the Internet using key words and phrases....

Search Engine Submission
This includes the submission of your Web site to search engines and a complete analysis of your...

SMTP
Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol used in sending and receiving e-mail....

SPAM and SPAM Filter
While originally used to refer to e-mail that was sent without explicit permission from the...

SSI (Server Side Includes)
A type of HTML comment that directs the Web server to dynamically generate data for the Web page...

SSL Certificate
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, which is the standard security technology for creating an...

Upgrade
An upgrade is an improvement to your existing website package. By upgrading you usually get...

URL
An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is the address for a resource or site (usually a...

Web Hosting
Web hosting is a service provide by webhost to the web users for storing any type of data like...

Web Mail
Web Mail allows you to access your e-mail account from anywhere using a Web browser. You should...

Web Page
A Web page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that is part of a group...

Web Space
Your Web space (or data storage) consists of HTML files, graphics, audio clips, e-mail, and all...

WWW (World Wide Web)
You can think of the Web as a worldwide collection of text and multimedia files and other...