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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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- Name
Servers
- A
computer that performs the mapping of easily remembered
domain names to IP addresses. Sometimes referred to as a
host server.
- Netiquette
- The
etiquette on the Internet.
- Netizen
- Derived
from the term citizen, referring to a citizen of the Internet,
or someone who uses networked resources. The term connotes
civic responsibility and participation.
- Netscape
- A
WWW Browser and the name of a company. The Netscape
(tm) browser was originally based on the Mosaic program
developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA).
Netscape
has grown in features rapidly and is widely recognized
as the best and most popular web browser. Netscape corporation
also produces web server software.
Netscape
provided major improvements in speed and interface over
other browsers, and has also engendered debate by creating
new elements for the HTML language used by Web
pages -- but the Netscape extensions to HTML are not universally
supported.
The
main author of Netscape, Mark Andreessen, was hired away
from the NCSA by Jim Clark, and they founded a company
called Mosaic Communications and soon changed the name
to Netscape Communications Corporation.
- Network
- Any
time you connect 2 or more computers together so that they
can share resources, you have a computer network. Connect
2 or more networks together and you have an internet.
- Newsgroup
- The
name for discussion groups on USENET.
- NIC
- (Networked
Information Center) -- Generally, any office that handles
information for a network. The most famous of these on the
Internet is Network Solutions, which is where new domain
names are registered. Another definition: NIC also refers
to Network Interface Card which plugs into a computer and
adapts the network interface to the appropriate standard.
ISA, PCI, and PCMCIA cards are all examples of NICs.
- NNTP
- (Network
News Transport Protocol) -- The protocol used by client
and server software to carry USENET postings
back and forth over a TCP/IP network. If you
are using any of the more common software such as Netscape,
Nuntius, Internet Explorer, etc. to participate in newsgroups
then you are benefiting from an NNTP connection.
- Node
- Any
single computer connected to a network.
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