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.
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 email messages more secure. Scripting Language A programming language designed specifically for Web site programming. Examples are PHP, Perl, Java Script, VBScript, ETC Search engine A «search engine» is a
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 is typically used by small and medium-sized companies with heavy network traffic. T3 This connection (sometimes referred to as a DS3 line) is made up of a total of 28
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 covers 32,768 codes, Unicode is large enough to include all the world’s languages, with the exception of ideographic languages that have a different character for every concept, like Chinese. Unix
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 is based on the Visual Basic programming language, but is much simpler. In many ways, it is similar to JavaScript. Yet, Netscape web browsers do not interpret VBScript. Thus, the
Terms Letter: W W3C World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the World Wide Web. WAN – Wide Area Network A Wide Area Network connects computers over a long distance via telephone lines or satellite link. Technically, the Internet itself is a gigantic, worldwide WAN which is owned by various
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 deliver information, not just pages. A lot content providing services use XML to deliver syndicate their content. XML/RSS reader A program designed to retrieve XML documents and display their contents