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.htaccess A way to use password-protection on HTML documents and server directories. |
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A Record Part of the DNS system. A Record indicates to which IP address a user would be sent when requesting a particular domain name. |
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Affiliate A website that promotes another company's products and services in return for commission payment. Affiliates must deliver sales or leads in order to get paid. |
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ASP Active Server Pages. ASP is Microsoft''s server-side scripting technology. An Active Server Page has an .asp extension and it mixes HTML and scripting code that can be written in VBScript or JScript. |
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ASP.NET ASP.NET is a set of web application development technologies marketed by Microsoft. Programmers can use it to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. |
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Authentication The verification of a user that is logging into a server, such as logging into the Member Zone. Authentication requires a username and password. |
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Blacklist A black list is a list of “bad” addresses or domains to refuse email from. |
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Browser A computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network, such as the Internet. |
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Browser Cache A browser memory used for storage of instructions or data. |
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CGI Common Gateway Interface is a web technology that enables clients to request data from a program executed on a web server. When a request is made to a cgi script the server will call the program to be executed and its output is sent to the user to be displayed in their web browser. |
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CGI-BIN A subdirectory on your FTP server where CGI scripts are placed. |
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chmod The change mode command, only used on UNIX systems. It sets the permission of a file or a directory. Typical Permissions include 777, 666, 755 and 644 |
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CNAME Record CNAME records are "canonical name" records used to point an entry to another name. |
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CSS CSS is a language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted. |
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Custom Cron A command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, it is used to schedule commands to be executed periodically. |
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Custom Zone Records You can edit your DNS zone records in your account Member Zone |
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Customizable Error Pages A custom error page is a feature that allows you to replace default error messages with ones you create. |
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DNS record Specifies and routes your website, mail and FTP requests to a specific IP address |
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DNS server It maintains a database of domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. |
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Domain Forwarding Domain forwarding allows you to direct a domain name to another website. Domain forwarding is included free with all Doteasy web hosting accounts. |
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Doteasy Guestbook Located within the Doteasy Web Tools, the guestbook allows website visitors to view and enter information and comments about a website. |
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Doteasy Hit Counter Located within the Doteasy Web Tools, the hit counter tracks the number of people visiting a user's website each day. The counter displays graphically the number of hits the website receives. |
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Doteasy Hosted Blog The Doteasy Hosted Blog is a one-click blog application that allows users to post a series of dated entries. For more information, please visit http://www.doteasyblog.com |
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Doteasy Hosted Forum The Doteasy Hosted Forum is a one-click forum application that allows users to host online discussions by posting and reading messages. For more information, please visit http://www.oneclickforum.com |
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Doteasy Hosted Gallery The Doteasy Hosted Gallery is a one-click gallery application that allows users to post and share collection of photos. |
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Doteasy SmartMail The Doteasy Smartmail is a free web-based e-mail system that allows you to access your mail box from anywhere in the world using a web browser. |
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Doteasy Website Creator The Doteasy Website Creator is an online application that helps you build your website. The Doteasy Website Creator is included free with all Doteasy web hosting accounts. For more information, please visit http://www.doteasy.com/EasyBox/WebsiteCreator |
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Email Alias An email alias is a mail-forwarding address that directs mail to another email address.An email alias is not an actual email account, you cannot send emails from your email alias account. |
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Email Auto-Responders An email function that automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who sends e-mail to a particular e-mail address. This is popular for out of office or on vacation notifications. |
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Email Forwarding An email function that sends a copy of an e-mail to another e-mail address, such as forwarding your domain email to your ISP email account. |
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Flash Flash is a popular animation software developed by Macromedia. |
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FrontPage Extensions FrontPage Extensions are a set of server-side applications that allow you to incorporate dynamic Microsoft FrontPage Web features such as the FrontPage email form or FrontPage hitcounter. FrontPage Extensions is included in all Doteasy Ultra Hosting and Unlimited Hosting Plans |
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FTP Accounts An FTP account creates a folder on the public_html level of your server that allows external users that know the password to upload and download files from that location. |
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HTML HTML is the language used to create web pages. HTML can be created directly using a text editor or a web publishing program such as Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver |
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ImageMagick Software used for the creation, modification and display of bitmap images. |
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Javascript Simple, client-side programming language created by Sun and Netscape. JavaScript can be embedded in HTML pages to create interactive effects and do tasks like validate form data. JavaScript is a separate language from Java. |
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Member Zone Doteasy's proprietary Account Control Panel supplied to all members to manage their domain name, web hosting services and email services. |
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Meta tag An HTML tag placed in the head section of an HTML document that allows the author to give information about the document. The most common uses are specifying a description and keywords for a document. |
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ModRewrite An Apache module that allows URLs to be rewritten according to rules specified in a .htaccess file. It is most commonly used to rewrite dynamic URLs to make them more search engine friendly. |
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Monthly Bandwidth It is the total size of files transferred by an account in a month. Sites with a lots of graphics, downloads, or streaming audio or video and a lot of visitors will require plans with more available transfer. |
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MS Access Microsoft Access is a relational database management system from Microsoft. |
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MS SQL It stands for Microsoft SQL. It is a database management system that runs on a Windows platform |
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MX entry or MX record A DNS entry that specifies which mail server handles the mail for a domain. |
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MySQL MySQL is an open source relational database management system that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility. |
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ODBC Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface for accessing a database. By using ODBC statements in a program, you can access files in a number of different databases, including Access, dBase, DB2, Excel, and Text. |
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Open source Open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge. |
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Password Protected Directories A feature that allows you to protect information on your web site by specifying a single user or multi-user password protected directory. Information stored in password protected directories is not accessible to the general site visitor. |
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Perl Open source CGI scripting programming language. |
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PHP PHP is a scripting language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. |
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phpMyAdmin A tool written in PHP used to handle the administration of MySQL databases. |
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POP3 POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and download using a mail client such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Thunderbird. |
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Real Media Real Audio and Real Video is a client-server software system and file format(s) that allows visitors to play audio and/or video-based content in real time as they are being downloaded. |
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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the latest news from Web sites. |
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Search engine Software that searches for data based on some criteria, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. |
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SEO (search engine optimization) Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden inside meta tags. |
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Shockwave A technology developed by Macromedia for embedding multimedia content in web pages. |
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SMTP SMTP is the protocol used to send emails between servers and from a mail client and to a mail server. |
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Spam Unsolicited bulk email. Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk messages are messages that are sent massively and contain identical content. |
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Spam Threshold Spam Threshold is a score assigned to a piece of mail. This score is based on a set of rules that mail is checked against for known spam issues. The lower this threshold, the lower the score has to be before something is marked as “Spam”. While the spam score can vary from 0 to 10 or more, a spam threshold of spam threshold of 6.5 is considered quite lenient, while 3.5 would be considered very strict. |
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SSI SSI is a set of HTML tags that allow dynamic content on a web page. SSI is most typically used to "include" the same file on numerous pages, thus simplifying updates. |
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Subdomains A domain name created by adding a prefix to an existing domain name. For example support.doteasy.com is a subdomain of doteasy.com. |
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Web Storage This is the amount of storage space allocated to your hosting account. You can use this space to store HTML, graphic, audio, and any other files that make up your website. The amount of web storage space you need depends on the size of your webfiles.Email storage is separate. |
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Website Statistics Web Stats is a web server log file analysis program. The Doteasy Ultra Hosting and Unlimited Hosting plans uses the Webalizer application. |
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Whitelist A whitelist is a list of “good” – or known – addresses or domains to accept email from. |
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WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) A graphical interface to an application or program that shows how the end-result will look as it is being produced, eg a WYSIWYG HTML editor. |
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XML XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information. |
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