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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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- hit
As
used in reference to the World Wide Web, 'hit' means a single
request from a web browser for a single item from
a web server; thus in order for a web browser to
display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 'hits' would
occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one
for each of the 3 graphics. 'hits'
are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server,
e.g. 'Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month.'
Because each 'hit' can represent anything from a request
for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document)
all the way to a request that requires some significant
extra processing (such as a complex search request), the
actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost impossible
to define.
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- Home
Page (or Homepage) Several
meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser
is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning
refers to the main web page for a business, organization,
person or simply the main page out of a collection of web
pages, e.g. 'Check out so-and-so's new Home Page.'
Another
sloppier use of the term refers to practically any web page
as a 'homepage,' e.g. 'That web site has 65 homepages and
none of them are interesting.'
Host
Any
computer on a network that is a repository for services
available to other computers on the network. It is
quite common to have one host machine provide several services,
such as WWW and USENET. This
term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email
or a domain. See Email hosting and Web Site hosting for more
details.
- HTML
(HyperText
Markup Language) -- The coding language used to create Hypertext
documents for use on the World Wide Web. HTML looks
a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround
a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear,
additionally, in HTML you can specify that a block of text,
or a word, is linked to another file on the Internet. HTML
files are meant to be viewed using a World Wide Web Client
Program, such as Netscape or Mosaic.
HTTP(HyperText
Transport Protocol) -- The protocol for moving hypertext
files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client
program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the
other end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the
World Wide Web (WWW).
Hypertext
Generally,
any text that contains links to other documents - words or
phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and
which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.
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