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Web
Hosting Glossary - H
Hit
As used in reference to the World Wide Web, “hit” means
a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web
server ; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that
contains 3 graphics, 4 “hits” would occur at the server:
1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics. “hits”
are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server, e.g.
“Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month.”
Because each “hit” can represent anything from a request
for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document) all
the way to a request that requires some significant extra processing
(such as a complex search request), the actual load on a machine
from 1 hit is almost impossible to define.
Home
Page
The main web page or index page for a web site.
Host
Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available
to other computers on the network . It is quite common to have one
host machine provide several services, such as WWW and USENET.
HTML
This is the code that web pages are written in. The next time you
visit a web site, go to View > Source on your browser to take
a look at what the coding of a web site looks like.
HTTP
(Hyper Text Transport Protocol) This is the protocol for transfering
files across the Internet. You see it everytime you type a web site
in your browser http://...
Hypertext
Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words
or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which
cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.
Hard
Disk Drive
The mechanism that controls the positioning, reading, and writing
of the hard disk, which furnishes the largest amount of data storage
for the PC. Although the hard disk drive (often shortened to "hard
drive") and the hard disk are not the same thing, they are
packaged as a unit and so either term is sometimes used to refer
to the whole unit.
Hexadecimal
color-notation system
A
way of defining colors. Uses RGB scheme and associates a two digit
hexadecimal number with each base color (red, green and blue).
Hub
A
hub is a network device that is used for connecting computers on
a Local Are Network (LAN). It forwards all the packets it receives
to all of its ports.
Hacker
A computer enthusiast who enjoys learning everything about a computer
system and, through programming, will push the system to it's highest
possible level of performance. These computer hobbyists are highly
skilled programmers with a reputation of having a mischievous side
and may enjoy breaking into secured computer systems.
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