Access - Microsoft's application for creation and maintaining databases. It is commonly used by developers who maintain online databases running on Windows NT.

ASP (Active Server Pages) - Active Server Pages are HTML documents that are typically embedded with Microsoft's Visual Basic scripts or Jscript. These scripts are processed by the server before being served to the user.

ActiveX - ActiveX is a set of properties that specify in what way applications share information with each other. These properties are known as ActiveX Controls.

Aliased Nameserver - An aliased nameserver is one that has been labeled as your own except that it is actually owned by your web hosting provider. This allows domains hosted on your server are listed as "your-domain.com" rather than "your-providers-domain.com". Aliased nameservers are often offered with reseller accounts.

Apache - A web server program. Apache is one of the world's most popular web server programs, it was built and is maintained by a group of open source programmers and it is often used because of it's excellent performance, security features and that it is free.

Bandwidth - The amount of data that can be transferred at a given moment to or from a server. The larger the bandwidth value the higher amount of traffic your site can handle at one time.
CGI - Short for Common Gateway Interface, a script that processes data supplied by the user, such as in a form application.

CGI-BIN - This is the directory on a web server where CGI scripts are stored.

Co-located Hosting - This type of hosting gives complete control over their server. You are responsible for supplying the physical hardware, the software that runs on the hardware and the administration of the server, the web hosting provider wil supply you with the Internet connection and rack space to house your server.

Cookie - A cookie is a text file sent from a web server to a user's web browser. Cookies are typically sent back and forth between between the two in order to exchange data such as registration information, or to prepare custom content to the user.

Dedicated Hosting - This hosting feature allows a web site to have its own server. It is more flexible than shared hosting as webmasters have full control of the server, including choice of operating system. Server administration is still taken care of by the hosting provider.

Diesel Generator - A diesel engine powered generator used for providing a backup power supply in the event of a power outage.

Domain Names - Domain names are the words users enter into the address bar of their browser to visit a site. These domain names are attached to a DNS. The DNS (Domain Naming System) is used to translate these domain names into IP addresses. Each web site on the Internet has an IP address behind the name.

Firewall - A firewall is a software application designed to protect web servers. They are typically used to protect web servers from attacks or unauthorized access.

Flash - A popular application designed by Macromedia. Flash is widely used on the Internet as it requires little bandwidth, which makes it friendly to users with low speed connections.

Frontpage - A site design and management application created by Microsoft.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - A method to allow users and web servers to transfer files.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) - The language used by web browsers and web servers to communicate. Server side operations such as database processing, while maybe performed in a different language must all be output back to the web browser in HTML to be viewed.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) - The protocol used to tranfer HTML files across the Internet. HTTP requires a client browser and a HTTP server.

IP Address- An IP address is a unique number that is used to identify a computer on the internet.

ISP- A company that provides internet services and connect the computers of the consumers to the internet through dial up, DSL and cable connection.

IIS- IIS is web server software from Microsoft.

Java Script- Java Script is a scripting language that is used to add interactive and dynamic elements to a website.

Linux Hosting- A type of hosting that supports Linux.

Load Balancing- Load balancing is a technique of dividing the load of a single website or services over the multiple servers.

Log File- A log file is a file that records the activities of the web server.

.Net Hosting- A type of the web hosting that supports the .Net applications.

OC1- OC1 is a type of the fiber optic connection that is capable of transferring the data at 51.85 mbps.

PSTN- Public Switch Telephone Network. Regular telephone network.

Router- A router is a network communication device that is used to connect the two or more different networks with each other.

Reseller Hosting- In Reseller hosting, account owner allocate hard disks' space and bandwidth to the number of resllers. There are many Top Reseller Hosting providers.

Shared IP Address- An IP address that is shared by the multiple websites.

Shopping Cart- A shopping cart is software that is used to make the site’s products catalogue for online ordering.

SSL- SSL stands for the secure socket layer that is used for the encrypted authenticated communication.

Shockwave- Shockwave is a web based application by Macromedia that is used to view the entertainment, movies, images, flash, songs, rich-media chat, games and interactive product demos.

SMTP- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol that is used to send the emails over the internet.

SQL- Structured Query Language. A specialized language that is used to send the queries to the database.

Server- A server is a specific type of computer that provides the services to the clients.

Site Monitoring- Site monitoring is a type of the service that is used for monitoring the website. It sends alerts to the administrators in case of any problem.

TCP/IP- TCP/IP is a suite of the protocols. To be on the internet your computer must have installed the TCP/IP suite.

Telnet- Telnet is a command that is used to login from one internet site to another.

UNIX Hosting- A type of web hosting that supports UNIX.

UK Web Hosting- UK Web Hosting is a type of web hosting in which hosting servers are based in UK.

USENET- A worldwide system of the discussion groups.

VPS Hosting- VPS sands for Virtual Private Server. There are many Top VPS Hosting providers.

WAMP- (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) - WAMP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, MySQL and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known LAMP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.

WAP-( Wireless Application Protocol) An open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services instantly.

Web host - The server where your web site's html files, graphics, etc. reside. Lunarpages is a web hosting company. Our servers host customer's web sites and files.

Web Mail - email that can be accessed via a browser based email service.