Terms Letter: H HEX – Hexadecimal color system The most commonly used way to define colors in the Web. It is a system that defines colors based on their RGB values and associates a two digit hexadecimal number with each base color (red, green and blue). For example #FFFFFF is representation of white in HEX […]
Terms Letter: I IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. A professional organisation whose activities include the development of communication and network standards IIS Microsoft Internet Information Server. It is a web server, product of the Microsoft corporation. All Windows web hosting plans are using IIS as a web server software. Image Map It is […]
Terms Letter: J JAR Short for Java Archive, a file format used to bundle multiple files into a single archive file. Java Java is a programming language invented by Sun Microsystems. It is expressly designed for use in the distributed environment of the Internet. It was designed to have the «look and feel» of the […]
Kbps Kilobits per second; a measure of data transfer speed. 1Kbps = 1024bps. Kilobyte (Kb) Approximately one thousand bytes, or exactly 1,024 bytes
Terms Letter: L LAN Local Area Network. A network connecting computers in a relatively small area such as a building. A LAN can be connected to the internet and can also be configured as an intranet. Leased line A dedicated connection line for the transfer of data. The highest speed data connections require a leased […]
Terms Letter: M MAC Media Access Control. A protocol operating at the data link layer used to manage a station’s access to the network. MAC Address Media Access Control address (also hardware or physical address). Unique hardware serial number that uniquely identifies a device on a local area network. Mailing List An e-mail based discussion […]
Terms Letter: N Nameserver and DNS(Domain name server) It is a server on the Internet that is responsible to tell your browser the IP address of your domain name. In other words the Nameserver tells a computer where to look for a given site. For example when you change hosting servers you need to change […]
Terms Letter: O OC-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-24, OC-48 Optical Carrier transmission speeds, used in fiber optic networks conforming to SONET standard. OC-1 is 51.85 Mbps. Higher levels are multiples of that speed. ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity – A Microsoft standard for accessing different database systems from Windows, for instance Oracle or SQL Offline When you […]
Terms Letter: P Page In contexts of Internet it is a basic HTML document. Web sites usually have many web pages. PAP Password Authentication Protocol. Authentication protocol that allows PPP peers to authenticate one another. Peer-to-Peer network A network in which there are no dedicated servers or hierarchy among the computers. All computers are equal […]
Terms Letter: R RAID Redundant arrays of independent disks. A disk system with RAID capability can protect its data and provide on-line, immediate access to its data, despite a single (some RAID storage systems can withstand two concurrent disk failures) disk failure. Raw Logs Raw logs contain the records for all hits to your site. […]