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CERN
(Conseil
Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) A nuclear research laboratory
where the World Wide Web was invented.
Certificate
Digital
ID used for SSL transactions. It includes owner's public
key, the name of the owner, the issuer, hostname, and the
expiration date.
Certificate
Authority
An
issuer of Security Certificates used in SSL connections
CGI
Common
Gateway Interface. A set of rules that describe how
a Web Server communicates with another piece of software on
the same machine, and how the other piece of software (the
'CGI program') talks to the web server. A CGI program can
be written in any language like Perl or C/C++ and it is often
stored in a special directory like /cgi-bin. CGI is
often used to process data from HTML forms.
cgi-bin
A
directory on the server where the executable CGI scripts reside.
Channel
Definition Format (CDF)
A
way of defining the server-push channels for accessing frequently
changing web content.
Client
A
computer program that requests a service from the server program,
usually over the network.
Client/Server
A
network architecture where a system is divided into two parts:
the client and the server.
clustering
Connecting
many computers and making them appear as one machine. This
is done to increase reliability and performance.
Co-location
(colo)
it
is a service whereby a company that owns a server houses it
in another company’s data center due to the greater security,
stronger backbone or other technological reasons.
Cobalt
RaQ
Server
appliance made by Cobalt specifically for hosting companies.
ColdFusion
Cold
Fusion is a scripting language used on web pages to interface
with. MS Access, dBASE, FoxPro, and Paradox databases. If
you use Cold Fusion, you will usually need a host which uses
an NT operating system.
command-line
interface
The
opposite of the GUI (Graphical User Interface). A way of interacting
with a computer system using the keyboard and a text-only
display. Usually more powerful, but less user-friendly thatn
a GUI.
Control
Panel
Control
panel included in web hosting packages is an online web-based
application that allows you to easily manage different aspects
of your account. A Web site Control Panel provides a
simple user interface for maintaining and monitoring your
Web site. Features of the Control Panel vary among providers,
but most include site administration, design, statistical
reporting, and account maintenance tools.
Cookie
The
most common meaning of 'Cookie' on the Internet refers to
a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser
that the Browser software is expected to save and to send
back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests
from the Server. Cookies might contain information such as
login or registration information, online shopping cart information,
user preferences, etc.
CPU
Central
Processing Unit. The most important part of the computer.
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