Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: R

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

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: S

Terms Letter: S S/MIME Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME) is a specification for encrypting and authenticating MIME data. It is a way of making

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: T

Terms Letter: T T1 A high-speed digital connection capable of transmitting data at a rate of approximately 1.5 million bits per second. A T1 line

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: U

Terms Letter: U Unicode A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. It maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: V

Terms Letter: V VBScript Short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, a scripting language developed by Microsoft and supported by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser. VBScript

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: W

Terms Letter: W W3C World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the World Wide Web. WAN – Wide Area Network

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: X

XML Extensible Markup Language. XML is a programming language that enables designers to create their own tags to indicate specific information. XML is intended to

Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: Z

ZIP A comressed file format. Both windows and linux applications are available. There is a nice windows based application named WinZIP which you can use

ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line – sounds scary doesn’t it. Well, its just a high speed connection to the Internet which uses regular telephone line. It

ADO

Microsoft ActiveX data objects. A unit of information that can be addressed individually in the ActiveX architecture. ADO is commonly used to manipulate data in