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Are you confused with so many technical terms? Do not
worry its often hard to keep so many terms in mind.
This section is specially desinged to explain most of
the terms which you should read & understand before
you choose your web hosting service provider.
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Web
Hosting Glossary
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- FAQ
(Frequently
Asked Questions) -- FAQs are documents that list and answer
the most common questions on a particular subject. There
are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming
and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who
have tired of answering the same question over and over.
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- FDDI
(Fiber
Distributed Data Interface) -- A standard for transmitting
data on optical fiber cables at a rate of around 100,000,000
bits-per-second (10 times as fast as Ethernet, about
twice as fast as T-3).
Finger
An
Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet
sites. Finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal
information, but the most common use is to see if a person
has an account at a particular Internet site. Many sites do
not allow incoming Finger requests, but many do.
- Fire
Wall A
combination of hardware and software that separates a LAN
into two or more parts for security purposes.
Flame
Originally, flame meant to carry forth in a passionate manner
in the spirit of honorable debate. Flames most often involved
the use of flowery language and flaming well was an art form.
More recently flame has come to refer to any kind of derogatory
comment no matter how witless or crude.
Flame
War When an online discussion degenerates into a series
of personal attacks against the debaters, rather than discussion
of their positions. A heated exchange.
- FTP
(File
Transfer Protocol) -- A very common method of moving files
between two Internet sites. FTP is a special way to login
to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving
and/or sending files. There are many Internet sites that
have established publicly accessible repositories of material
that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the
account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous
ftp servers.
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