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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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- IMHO
- (In
My Humble Opinion) -- A shorthand appended to a comment
written in an online forum, IMHO indicates that the writer
is aware that they are expressing a debatable view, probably
on a subject already under discussion. One of many shorthands
in common use online, especially in discussion forums.
- Internet
- (Upper
case I) The vast collection of inter-connected networks
that all use the TCP/IP protocols and that evolved from
the ARPANET of the late 60's and early 70's. The
Internet now (July 1995) connects roughly 60,000 independent
networks into a vast global internet.
- internet
- (Lower
case i) Any time you connect 2 or more networks
together, you have an internet - as in inter-national or
inter-state.
- InterNIC
- InterNIC
(now known as Network Solutions) once held an exclusive
contract with the U.S. government to assign domain names
ending with a .com, net, and .org. Since their contract
expired, the U.S. government has opened the monopoly once
held by Network Solutions and now there are many different
registrars who can register these domain names.
- Intranet
- A
private network inside a company or organization
that uses the same kinds of software that you would find
on the public Internet, but that is only for internal
use.
As
the Internet has become more popular many of the tools
used on the Internet are being used in private networks,
for example, many companies have web servers that are
available only to employees.
Note
that an Intranet may not actually be an internet -- it
may simply be a network.
- IP
Number
- (Internet
Protocol Number) -- Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique
number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g.161.113.245.2
Every
machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number
- if a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really
on the Internet. Most machines also have one or more Domain
Names that are easier for people to remember.
- IRC
- (Internet
Relay Chat) -- Basically a huge multi-user live chat facility.
There are a number of major IRC servers around the
world which are linked to each other. Anyone can create
a channel and anything that anyone types in a given channel
is seen by all others in the channel. Private channels can
(and are) created for multi-person conference calls.
- ISDN
- (Integrated
Services Digital Network) -- Basically a way to move more
data over existing regular phone lines. ISDN is rapidly
becoming available to much of the USA and in most markets
it is priced very comparably to standard analog phone circuits.
It can provide speeds of roughly 128,000 bits-per-second
over regular phone lines. In practice, most people will
be limited to 56,000 or 64,000 bits-per-second.
- ISP
- (Internet
Service Provider) -- An institution that provides access
to the Internet in some form, usually for money.
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