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Web
Hosting Glossary - A
Adult
Web Hosting
Web hosting designed specifically for the online adult industry.
Most adult web hosts have enhanced security and large capacity for
high volume adult sites.
Applet
An applet is an embedded program on a web site. Applets are usually
written in the coding language called Java. They are mainly used
for creating a virtual or 3-dimensional object that may move or
interact with the web site.
ARPANet
(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) The precursor to the
Internet . Developed in the late 60’s and early 70’s
by the US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide-area-networking
that would survive a nuclear war.
ASCII
This is the de facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used
by computers to represent all 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: 0000000
through 1111111.
ASP
(Active Server Pages)
Active Server Pages enable web developers to make their sites dynamic
with database driven content. The code is mainly written in VB Script,
and it is produced on the server of the web site instead of the
browser of your web site visitors. The server reads the ASP code
and then translates it to raw HTML. This means that the web site
owner doesn't have to worry about the visitor having the right tools
to view the the web site's dynamic content. The only downfall to
ASP is that since it is run from the server, it takes longer for
the pages to load because there are more steps involved in translating
the code.
Audio
Streaming
The process of providing audio content on a web site. This takes
up a nice amount of bandwidth, especially if you get a lot of visitors
at your site. Some hosts do not allow audio or video streaming because
of this. If you are going to want audio on your site, you should
make sure that your host supports audio streaming first. This is
usually stated in their plans.
Auto
Responder
An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an e-mail message,
and then sends back a previously prepared email to the sender, letting
them know it was received or that certain actions are being taken.
Most of you probably already have a basic idea of what this is when
you go on vacation and you create an auto response at your work
to let everyone that emails you know that you will be away for the
next week.
Access
Provider
A company that sells Internet connectivity.
ActiveX
A Java-like Microsoft language that permits web-originated programs
to
be run from Microsoft Explorer browser.
Address
Code by which the Internet identifies you. The format is
username@hostname,where username is your username, login name, or
account number, and hostnameis the name of the computer or Internet
provider you use. The hostname maybe a few words strung together
with periods.
Agent Client or robot programs, often able to act autonomously or
intelligently.
Alias
An alternative name for an object, such as a variable, file, or
device.
Alt
An image (img) attribute specifying that text can be displayed by
a
browser as an alternative to the image.
Anonymous
FTP
A way to use the FTP program to log on to another computer to copy
files when you don"t have an account on the other computer.
When you log on,
enter "anonymous" as the username and your "e-mail
address" as the password.
This gives you access to publicly available files.
Application
Applications software (also called end-user programs) includes database
programs, word processors, and spreadsheets. Figuratively speaking,
applications software sits on top of systems software because it
is
unable to run without the operating system and system utilities.
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