Knowledgebase

".asp"
.asp file extensions indicate files based on Microsoft's Active Server Page protocol. ...

ASP
Previously it has stood for Active Service Provider, but ASP has now come to have numerous...

Bandwidth
This is the maximum amount of data which can be transmitted across a give TCP/IC internet...

CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
CGI are standardized sets of rules that describe how a web server communicates with another...

CGI-Bin Access
This access allows a web author to write custom software making binary calls on CGI to handle...

Client Software
Any software application (and sometimes used to describe the computer itself) connected to the...

Copyright Protection
Protection of intellectual property against unlicensed or unlawful duplication as granted by the...

Custom Error Messages
This is the ability to create error messages received by a user reaching a non-existent or...

Data Transfer
This is the amount of data that you are allowed to transfer with your account. Data is this case...

Datacenter
See NOC (Network Operations Center).

Disk Space (Storage Space)
Amount of hard disk space available for storage of all Web pages, HTML, CGI-bin programs,...

DNS - Primary DNS / Secondary DNS
DNS stands for Domain Name Server. Domain Name Servers control the IP address locations where...

Domain Name
The unique name that identifies an internet web site or local group of stations controlled by a...

DS-3 Connection
This is a high-speed connection to an internet backbone which is favored by many medium-size...

E-Mail Aliasing
Email aliasing is the method by which a user sets up a catch-all account into which the server...

E-Mail Autoresponders/Vacation Messages
Auto-responders allow customers to set up an automatic message to be sent by the mail server to...

Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce)
Refers to the process which allows sales transactions from websites in a secure fashion with...

Email Forwarding
E-mail forwarding is the process by which mail sent to one address is forwarded to another...

File Extensions
On virtually any major operating system ever used, information is stored in a file...

FrontPage2003
Also FrontPage97, FrontPage98, FrontPage2000, FrontPageXP. Microsoft's FrontPage 2003 software...

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
FTP is a method for transferring data to/from web servers via a different method than the...

Gigabyte / Giga-byte (GB)
Approximately a billion bytes of data, or 1024 megabytes, or 8.6 billion data bits.  1024...

Home Page
This the initial page of a domain, and is usually a file named index.htm or index.html. ...

Hosting Provider
An institution that provides Web space to companies or individuals, usually for money. 

HTML / Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTML is language used to create web pages with a specific format.  The page you are...

HyperText
Hypertext is any text in a website which contains links to other web content (on the same or...

Internet Backbone
The internet "backbone" refers to the top level internet providers who own huge...

IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)
Often called a dotted quad, it is a a unique number consisting of 4 or 6 parts (octets)...

IPP (Internet Presence Provider)
This is another name for a hosting provider.

ISP (Internet Service Provider)
An ISP is an organization which creates connections from its customers to the internet, thus...

Majordomo
The traditional meaning of this term is one of a butler of sorts with greater social duties --...

Megabyte (MB)
Approximately a million bytes of data, or 8.3 million data bits.  1024 of these will...

Most common error messages
Sometimes you may get some error messages while surfing websites, as a webmaster you should be...

My CPanel Directories
When you initially log into the root of your account, dependant upon the method which you choose...

NOC (Network Operation Center)
Sometimes called a Datacenter. This is the term for a secure, managed network environment...