Web Hosting Glossary
ASP Hosting - web hosting plan which supports Active Server Pages (ASP), server side scripting environment from the Microsoft.
Business Hosting - web hosting to tackle the business functions required by business-class customers.
ColdFusion Hosting - web hosting plan which supports ColdFusion, a web application language currently owned by Adobe Macromedia.
Colocation - locating your web server(s) at another company's premise/datacenter.
Dedicated Hosting - web hosting plan where the host provides (dedicates) entire server to the client's websites and responsible for the equipment maintenance.
DNS - defines as Domain Name System, a distributed directory used to interpret between IP addresses and domain names.
Domain Name - specific and unique name that defines a website.
Ecommerce Hosting - web hosting plan which provides merchant to conduct business and accept orders online.
Email Hosting - web hosting plan which allows users to send and store email online but might (or might not) come with hosting for a website.
Free Web Hosting - web hosting plan which offers web hosting space to public for free. Usually supported by advertising being displayed on your site.
FrontPage Hosting - web hosting plan which supports FrontPage, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Microsoft website building software.
High Bandwidth Hosting - web hosting plan which provides capacity for website with higher-than-average traffic volumes.
IP Address - defines as Internet Protocol address. It is a series of number used to identify a computer on internal network or the Internet.
Linux Hosting - web hosting plan which supports Linux, an open source operating system from Unix.
Multi-Domain Plan - web hosting plan which supports multiple domain names to share resources from a single hosting account.
.NET Hosting - web hosting plan which supports .NET, an application framework from Microsoft.
PHP Hosting - web hosting plan which supports Hypertext Preprocessor, an open source server-side scripting language that is commonly used nowadays.
Reseller Hosting - web hosting plan which allows individual or a company selling hosting to consumers by using uses the datacenter and equipment of another company.
Scripting Language - a programming language that can be executed by a web browser or a web server.
Shared Hosting - web hosting plan which allows several client websites hosted and shared the resources from a same web server.
UNIX Hosting - web hosting plan which supports UNIX, a computer operating system developed by Bell Laboratories.
Web Hosting - is defined as the action of providing web host services which consists of the storage, connectivity and services to serve to run a website.
Web Hosting Control Panel - an online interface provided by web hosting companies so webmasters can administer their hosting account on the server.
Web Server - web server is a computer that stores web pages and delivers web content to web browsers of client computers on demand basis.
Windows Hosting - web hosting plan which supports Microsoft Windows operating systems.
