LOGIN  PASSWORD ESOLUTIONS ONLINE HOSTING PORTAL	home > hosting > glossary Active Server Pages An Active Server Page (ASP) is an HTML page that includes one or more scripts that are processed on a Microsoft web server. ASP is somewhat similar to a server-side include or a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) application in that all involve programs that run on the server, usually tailoring a page for the user. Typically, the script in the web page at the server uses input received as the result of the user's request for the page to access data from a database and then builds or customises the page on the fly before sending it to the requestor. Agent Log This log file stores data about agents used to enter the site, such as browsers or any other Internet-based software and all related data. Anonymous FTP Server An anonymous FTP server is a central server on which you can place files for your friends to pick up at a later date. It requires no login or password (generally the username is anonymous and the accepted password is usally an e-mail address). Restrictions to such FTP access need to be carefully set as any unauthorised users will be able to enter and download or upload files. ASP.NET ASP.NET (sometimes referred to as ASP+) is the latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology (ASP). ASP.NET is different than its predecessor in two major ways: It supports code written in compiled languages such as Visual Basic, C++, C#, and Perl, and it features server controls that can separate the code from the content. Although ASP.NET is not backwards compatible with ASP, it is able to run side by side with ASP applications. ASP.NET files can be recognised by their .aspx extension. ASPEmail & ASPMail Both ASPEmail and ASPMail are an active server component for sending e-mail messages using an external SMTP server in an ASP or VB environment. They support multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, HTML format, embedded images and sounds, non-US ASCII character sets, secure mail, and high-performance message queuing. ASPSecured ASPSecured is a great security management application that you can use to develop secure ASP pages and protect parts of your applications. You can password protect pages to groups and just associate users to the groups. User accounts can be set to automatically expire. You can mass e-mail all of the users in your database based on demographics. Users can register with the user signup page, and if a user forgets their password, they can use the password lookup script. There is a free version available as well as a commercial version with the purchase of a license. The free version works but with several limitations. Autoresponder An autoresponder is used to send an automatic e-mail in response to an incoming e-mail message. This allows for the sender to know the e-mail has been received, which is important due to the asynchronous nature of the e-mail system. They are often used by company employees to alert people they are away on vacation, thus delaying a potential response. Bandwidth Traffic Each time a web page, image, audio, video, and other elements of your website is accessed by your visitor, traffic is generated. Your aggregate traffic is the sum of outward-bound, inward-bound, e-mail, and FTP traffic. Your monthly traffic allowance is calculated as 31 times the daily traffic allowance. Catch-All Account A catch-all account allows any e-mail of the form, anything@esolutionsonline.com.au, to be forwarded or placed into a single e-mail address. For example, webmaster@esolutionsonline.com.au, info@esolutionsonline.com.au and anything@esolutionsonline.com.au, will all be sent to the same e-mail address. This is useful for monitoring e-mails that are being sent to your domain. CGI Resource The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard way for a web server to pass a web user's request to an application program and to receive data back to forward to the user. When the user fills out a form on a web page and sends it to the server, it usually needs to be processed by an application program. The web server typically passes the form information to a small application program that processes the data. This method or convention for passing data back and forth between the server and the application is called the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). cgi-bin Resource The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI Programs are stored. The bin part of the name is a short-hand version of the word binary. Most programs found in cgi-bin directories are text files. ColdFusion ColdFusion is a programming language based on standard HTML that is used to write dynamic webpages. ColdFusion enables you to incorporate live data into dynamically created web pages. For example, with ColdFusion your online store can actually deal with real-time inventory levels, enabling you to notify your customers of any out of stock items. ColdFusion web applications can contain XML, HTML, and other client technologies such as CSS and JavaScript. Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server CDONTS (Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server) is an Microsoft component and is used for sending e-mails from websites using ASP. Crontab A cron is a utility that allows tasks to automatically run in the background of the system at regular intervals by use of the cron daemon. Crontab (CRON TABle) is a file which contains the schedule of cron entries to be run and at what times they are to be run. This can be quite useful. For example, you may have a script that creates upper air maps for your website that you wish to run every 12 hours (after the data comes in), or you may have a personal temporary directory that you wish to be cleaned out once a day to keep your quota from being exceeded. This is where cron scheduling comes in to play. Database A database is an organised collection of records which might include customer, patient or client contacts and information. A database is like an electronic filing system that enables you to retrieve data efficiently and quickly. Some examples of various database systems include MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Directory Index Allows the users to treat their own files as the default index page. Disk Storage Disk storage can be divided into several sub categories. Web storage is the amount of physical disk space that is allocated to host your website. This can vary in size and the more web storage you have, the more images, information and data you will be able to present through your website. Database storage is the amount of physical memory that your database consumes. Furthermore, the amount of storage that your e-mails consume is called the mailbox storage. DNS Records DNS can be considered something similar to a phone book. When you move from one location to another, your name stays the same, but your phone number may change. In order to point your name to the new phone number, you must contact the telephone service provider so they assign you the new phone number and update all directory information to reflect you as pointing to this new phone number. In this way, the IP number can be compared to a phone number: When someone calls http://www.example.com, your ISP looks at the DNS server, and asks "how do I contact example.com?" The DNS server responds: "It can be found at 198.105.232.4". As the Internet understands it, this can be considered the phone number for the server, which houses the http://www.example.com web site. The DNS records for your domain are kept on your hosting server in the place called DNS zone. When you register a domain by means of the control panel, all DNS records are automatically created for you, but in some rare cases you may need to add custom records to your DNS zone. An example would be when you want all email to be processed by an external mail server rather than by the built-in mail system. However, such user intervention requires knowledge of DNS configuration and clear understanding of what is to be done. Domain Alias An alternative domain name that points to an existing site. You can have several domain aliases that point to one original domain or website. They are like nicknames. They allow Internet users to access pages without having to know the exact domain name. For example, www.eso.com.au directs you to www.esolutionsonline.com.au. Customers want it because it increases the likelihood that their page will be used if they can use multiple names to get to the same place. Furthermore, domain aliases: Point to the same IP as the real domain Have a DNS zone of their own Have a mail service of their own Share web services with the primary domain Can't have sub-domains Can't have aliases Can't be accessed through FTP Domain Name The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is the most general. When you enter a domain name into your web browser (e.g. www.your-business.com), the server will match the domain name to a special address called an IP address (e.g. 131.124.231.187). A given IP address may have more than one domain name but a given domain name points to only one IP address. Dundas Mailer The Dundas Mailer is an extremely fast, flexible and reliable component used to send web-based e-mails from Active Server Pages (ASP). You can also use it to post articles to news sites. Dundas Pie Chart The Dundas Pie Chart is a commercial quality component that has been designed for use with ASP pages and gives ASP developers the ability to include great looking pie charts in their applications. Dundas Upload Dundas Upload is an extremely flexible and reliable component that lets you accept, save and manipulate files uploaded with a web browser, and is designed to work with Active Server Pages (ASP). Error Log This log file stores data about errors generated by the server (e.g. Page Not Found error) or by your CGI scripts. Error Page When an Internet user is visiting your website and for example, tries to request a page that does not exist, the web server will return to them an error page that details the nature of the error. With customisable error pages, the webmaster is able to customise the details of the error page to include details such a technical support contact or business details. FrontPage Extensions Also called FrontPage Server Extensions. These are a set of server-side scripts and programs which enable users of Microsoft FrontPage to use its special components (called Web Bots) which allow users to make use of features such as full-text website searching or hit counters. FTP FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is a method used to upload and download your website between your own computer and our servers. This allows you to set up, change, or maintain your website at any time. FTP Sub-Account FTP sub-accounts are additional logins and passwords to a particualr FTP server account. This allows friends or colleagues of a person with a FTP server account to independently use it without the need to create virtual FTP server and posess a dedicated IP. H-Sphere H-Sphere is a powerful web hosting control panel that allows the user total control over their web hosting package. H-Sphere comes with fully customisable features that allow you to manage your e-mail accounts, setup your databases, set your disk storage quotas, purchase additional resources or simply add a personal touch to the way your control panel looks. View a demo of the H-Sphere system! Image Map An image map is typically a graphic with clickable areas called links (or "hyperlinks") and can take you to different sections of a website or to other websites. For example, an image of a country might allow users to click on a city or region which will then bring up information or another web page about that place. An image map can be referred to as "server-side" or "client-side." In a server-side image map, the information as to where the "hot spots" or hyperlinks should jump to is stored on the server. This means when you click on a "hot spot," the browser asks the server what web page or URL you should be sent to next. In terms of our hosting, our servers support server-side image maps. A client-side image map stores the information as to where the "hot spots" or hyperlinks should jump to right in the web page itself. This means when you click on a hot spot, the browser knows what web page or URL you should be sent to next. When you are browsing a site off-line, these will work the same way as if when you are online. IP Address Every computer connected to the Internet must have a unique address known as an IP (Internet Protocol) address. The IP address is a numeric address written as a set of four numbers separated by dots, for example 130.102.42.17. The address provides a unique identification of a computer and the network it belongs to. A dedicated IP address for a website means that the domain is mapped to a particular IP address and no other website shares that same IP address. A website that has a dedicated IP address, can also be view by simply typing in the IP address into the address bar of your Internet browser. Mail Domain Alias A mail domain alias is similar to a domain alias but instead works on the mail services. If for exmaple eso.com.au is a mail domain alias to esolutionsonline.com.au, then every mailbox on esolutionsonline.com.au will have a counterpart mailbox on eso.com.au. For example, if there exists the mailbox address info@esolutionsonline.com.au then there will also be a mailbox address info@eso.com.au. Mail Forwarding Mail forwarding is an e-mail service in which your e-mail is automatically sent (forwarded) from one or more e-mail address, to another (possibly several) specified e-mail address. This is useful if you have already established a known or preferred e-mail address or if you have several e-mail addresses and would like the mail addressed to them to be forwarded to another e-mail address. Mailbox Alias Mailbox aliases work in a similar fashion to mail domain aliases. However, instead of having an entire mailing domain alias, mailbox aliases are individual and are set for a particular mailbox only. The mailbox and its alias share the same mail domain. For example, if I have the mailbox address info@esolutionsonline.com.au, then I can have a mailbox alias info2@esolutionsonline.com.au that simply points to info@esolutionsonline.com.au. Mailing List An e-mail based discussion group. Sending one e-mail message to the mailing list's list server sends mail to all other members of the group. Users join a mailing list by subscribing. Subscribers to a mailing list receive messages from all other members. Users have to unsubscribe from a mailing list to stop receiving messages forwarded from the group's members. Our hosting services provide a mailing list server that takes care of the distribution, subscription and deletion from the mailing list. mnogoSearch mnoGoSearch is a full-featured web search engine software for intranet and Internet servers. mnoGoSearch software has a number of unique features, which makes it appropriate for a wide range of applications from search within your site to specialised search systems such as cooking recipes or newspaper searches, ftp archive search, MP3 search, news articles search or even national-wide portal search engine. ModLogAn ModLogAn is similar to Webalizer but it also supports FTP, RealAudio and other protocols. ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer which is able to generate reports based on 15 different input formats from variuos sections (HTTP, FTP, e-mail, firewall, ISDN, etc). As a special feature it can combine multiple input files from clustered servers. MS SQL Microsoft SQL Server is an industrial-strength relational database server capable of efficiently processing high volumes of critical data. Used in conjunction with Active Server Pages, SQL Server provides a powerful platform for developing e-commerce and other data-driven websites. MS SQL Manager MS SQL Manager is a powerful graphical tool for Microsoft SQL Server administration and development. It makes creating and editing MS SQL Server database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts, manage users and their privileges, build SQL queries visually, extract, print and search metadata, export data to 14 available formats and import them from most popular formats. MySQL MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. Because it is open source, anyone can download MySQL and tailor it to their needs in accordance with the general public license. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility. Most agree, however, that it works best when managing content and not executing transactions. ODBC Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) 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. In addition to the ODBC software, a separate module or driver is needed for each database to be accessed. osCommerce osCommerce is an online shop solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available as an open source based solution released under the GNU General Public License. Its feature packed installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort. View a demo of osCommerce! Parked Domain Domain registries require the use of name servers or hosts for every domain registered. In other words, every domain name has to be linked to a name server for it to be valid. Some people do not have their own name servers at the time of registration or they simply do not wish to have a website for a particular domain but rather just want to occupy it. It is a convenient way to hold or park a domain name for an extended amount of time. Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL) is an interpretive programming language designed to process text. It is typically the language used for CGI scripts. This is another example of an acronym morphing into a word (Perl is now preferred over PERL). While developed originally for UNIX, versions are now available for different platforms. Perl syntax is flexible and some Perl programmers attempt to make the most compact code possible. Perl modules and add-ons are available to do almost anything. PHP In web programming, PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux web servers. PHP (the initials come from the earliest version of the program, which was called Personal Home Page Tools) is an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology. phpBB phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. POP3 Mailbox A POP3 e-mail address is one that works by retrieving e-mails from a central server. E-mails are then retrieved by logging on to these servers with your login name and password using an e-mail client, such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora. The e-mails are then downloaded to your computer and deleted from the server. It works similarly to the postal system, hence the name Post Office Protocol (POP). PostgreSQL A sophisticated object-relational database management system supporting almost all SQL constructs, including transactions and user-defined types. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is a community of companies and people co-operating to drive the development of PostgreSQL, the worlds most advanced Open Source database software. Redirect URL Also know as URL forwarding, a redirect URL is when the user types in one address (URL) for a website and is then redirected to a site, often on a different server than the domain. Often the URL name entered will be short, easy to remember URL while the destination page is actually defined by a much longer, harder to remember URL. It occurs when a web server tells the client browser to obtain a certain requested page from a different location. The new URL may be on the same server or a different one and may itself be subject to redirection. The user is normally unaware of this process except that it may introduce extra delay while the browser sends the new request and the browser will usually (although not always) display the new URL rather than the one the user originally requested. Referrer Log This log file stores the list of URLs from which visitors are referred to your site. Server Side Development Server-side development involves writing code that is executed on the web server, which in turn generates HTML to be viewed in a browser on the client's machine. It is commonly used to interface between databases and to create dynamic content. Examples of various server-side environments are ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl and CGI. Secure Shell A secure shell is a telnet type connection made to a remote host. This connection is protected with SSL 3DES 128bit encryption. Secure shell is also known for short as SSH. It is pronounced S-S-H. SSH is a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network. Secure Sockets Layer SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL uses a program layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. SSL is included as part of both the Microsoft and Netscape browsers and most web server products. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate. Server Side Includes SSI stands for a Server Side Includes, which is a type of HTML comment. This comment directs the web server to dynamically create data for the web page. They can also be used to execute programs and insert the results of that program to the web page. Pages that have this included usually end with an .shtml extension. SiteStudio SiteStudio is a powerful online tool that enables people with little or no knowledge of HTML to design and construct their own website. There is no need to know anything about FTP, Telnet, HTTP or imaging software. If you can surf the Internet, then you'll be able to build your own professionally looking website. View a demo of SiteStudio! Shockwave/Flash A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc. that enables web pages to include multimedia objects. To create a Shockwave object, you use Macromedia's multimedia authoring tool called Director. You then insert a reference to the shocked file in your web page. To see a Shockwave object, you need the Shockwave plug-in, a program that integrates seamlessly with your web browser. Shockwave supports audio, animation, video and even processes user actions such as mouse clicks. Flash is another technology that is used in conjunction to make animations and cartoons. SpamAssassin SpamAssassin is a mail filter which attempts to identify spam using text analysis and several internet-based realtime blacklists. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam, also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail. Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application. SpamAssassin typically differentiates successfully between spam and non-spam in between 95% and 99% of cases, depending on what kind of mail you get. Stopgap Domain A stopgap domain is usually treated as a temporary substitute. Another term for a stopgap domain is an instant domain alias. A stopgap domain is not a real domain and does not allow the user to have any domain name, DNS zone or e-mail services. However, stopgap domain users can have IP-only access if they purchase a dedicated IP address. The appearance of a stopgap domain can look something like: username.eNNN.esolutionsonline.com.au. Futhermore, stopgap domains: Have an IP address (shared or dedicated) Can have web service Can't have mail services Can't have its own DNS zone Can be accessed through FTP Can't have sub-domains Can't have aliases Sub-Domain A sub-domain is also a domain name. Domain names are hierarchical with the part on the right being the most general and working towards the left of a domain name, it gets more specific. If a normal domain name comes in the form of www.esolutionsonline.com.au, then a sub-domain in the esolutionsonline.com.au domain could be support.esolutionsonline.com.au or products.esolutionsonline.com.au. Sub-domains: Have an IP address (shared or dedicated) Can have web and mail services Can't have its own DNS zone Can be accessed through FTP Can have sub-domains Can have aliases Third Level Domain A third level domain is another name for a sub-domain. In the Domain Name System (DNS), the next highest level of the hierarchy underneath the second level domains. In a domain name, that portion of the domain name that appears two segments to the left of the top level domain. In terms of our hosting service, a third level domain refers to that of esolutionsonline.com.au. So, if third level domains are part of your hosting package, then you are entitled to register something like yourbusiness.esolutionsonline.com.au. Throttle Resource The Throttle resource allow you to throttle your traffic. The Throttle module is used to reduce the load on your bandwidth by delaying or refusing requests to your sites. Transfer Log This log file stores combined data about every visit to a website, including remote host IP (i.e. visitor's IP), time of request (i.e. when visitor requested the page), first line of request, etc. Urchin Urchin is a web analytics software package designed to analyze traffic for one or more websites and provide highly accurate, useful, easy-to-understand reports on-demand. Urchin sets the bar with the most advanced visitor tracking methods in the industry. Urchin's reports allow you to optimise your website and save money by increasing the effectiveness of your marketing dollars. Urchin is the only analytics product to use Adobe's SVG technology to display stunning charts and graphs that load instantly. Change your report's date range or use Urchin's report side filters to modify the information you are viewing and Urchin's graphics update in a blink. View a demo of Urchin! Virtual FTP Server If you have two separate domains on the same machine then you need to be able to support virtual FTP servers. Basically, this allows an administrator to configure their system so a user FTPing to ftp.esolutionsonline1.com.au gets one FTP banner and one FTP directory and a user FTPing to ftp.esolutionsonline2.com gets another banner and directory even though they are on the same machine and use the same ports. Virtual FTP servers make supporting multiple domains a lot less costly and are easier to maintain than multiple FTP servers on multiple machines. In the case of hosting, a virtual FTP server will allow you to give access to more than one of your directories and specify a different set of permissions for each directory, etc. Webalizer The Webalizer is a fast, web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. WebMail The e-mail addresses we allocate are POP3, meaning that to check your e-mail, you will need an e-mail client such as Outlook or Outlook Express to download your e-mails to your computer. With WebMail you are able to check your e-mails simply through your web browser. This enables you to check your e-mail where ever there is an Internet connection and not be restricted to your computer only. View a demo @Mail WebMail!
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