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What is an IP Address?
2. What is FTP?
3. What is Apache?
4. What is an Auto responder?
5. Bandwidth
6. Difference between pop3 and Web mail
7. What is IIS?
8. What is a Meta tag?
9. How to create MRA (Multiple Recipient Address)
10. What is ColdFusion?
11. What is Data Transfer?
12. What is a dedicated IP?
13. What is Disk Space?
14. What is Email Forwarding?
15. What is Fire Wall Protection?
16. What is SSL?
17. What is Raw Logs?
18. Active X
19. Applet
20. ASP
21. CGI
22. CSS
23. HTML
24. What is MIME?
25. Ping
26. Perl
27. SMPT
28. SSH
29. Trace
30. XML
31. What is Pop3 account?
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What is an IP Address? |
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Internet Protocol Address, a number used to uniquely identify
a computer or device on an internal network or the Internet.
On the Internet, IP addresses must be registered to identify
each computer/device and avoid duplication. |
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What is FTP? |
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File Transfer Protocol, protocol used to transfer files over
the Internet. FTP makes it possible for a user to transfer files
between remote locations on a network. This protocol also allows
users to use FTP commands, such as listing files and folders,
to work with files on a remote location. |
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What is Apache? |
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Open source web server software. Apache is found primarily
on Unix-based operating systems, but is also available for Windows
and other platforms. |
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What is an Auto responder? |
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A program that sends an automatic form response to incoming
emails. Most auto responders involve a standard response sent
to all emails received at a certain address. However, custom
auto responders are also available to auto respond based on
a set of user-defined rules |
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Bandwidth |
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Bandwidth is the total number of bytes you use in a month.
The easiest way to explain it is with an example. Let's suppose
that you have a page with 5,000 bytes of text and 55,000 bytes
of graphics, for a total of 60,000 bytes on your page.
If you get a 100 hits a day that is 60,000 bytes X 100 or
6 megabytes a day. Now multiply that by 30 days and you get
180 megabytes per month. That's only 3,000 hits in a month
(which isn't enough hits to stay in business). Most of the
ISP's give you 300 megabytes or so. But what if you have 10
pages the same size or you get 200 hits a day, in both cases
you are way over your bandwidth limit. |
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Difference between pop3 and Web mail |
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Any EM can be web-based EM, POP EM or BOTH.
Web based EM means; you can check your emails from the web
based email manager program.
POP3 EM means, you can send and receive your emails from
your mail software reside on your terminal. Software’s
like outlook express, outlook, Netscape messenger, Eudora
are compatible with the POP3 accounts.
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What is IIS? |
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Internet Information Services. Microsoft Web server software
that uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol to deliver World Wide
Web documents. IIS includes various functions like security,
CGI, HTTP, FTP servers, Mail server etc |
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What is a Meta tag? |
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Basically the search engines read pages that have been submitted
to it via a submission form. From there it reads the entire
page, boils it down to essential keywords and adds all the links
it finds to the search list. These keywords are known as Meta
tags. So, you need to insert the MetaTag in your files.
To generate MetaTags for your site you may use any one of
the following URLs.
http://www.anybrowser.com/MetaTagGenerator.html
http://metatag.discoveryvip.com/
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How to create MRA (Multiple Recipient
Address) |
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1. Login to HELM > Hosting Plan > Resource Limit >
Email Resources > Enter a value for the MRA
a. The first MRA value indicate the total number of MRA can
be created
b. The second option "MRA List Size Limit" is the
total number of email accounts can be setup under 1 MRA
2. Go to HELM > Domain > you should get the MRA Option
displayed.
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What is ColdFusion? |
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Coldfusion is a Macromedia technology, which allows the programmer
to a proprietary scripting language directly within an html
document on the server. The server runs the code to generate
the final page, which is returned to the client's browser. This
style of embedding a server parsed language directly within
an html file is very similar to PHP, ASP and JSP. |
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What is Data Transfer? |
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The total amount of outbound traffic from a website*, typically
measured in gigabytes (Gb). |
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What is a dedicated IP? |
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An IP address dedicated to a single website. Dedicated IP
addresses are mainly needed for SSL. |
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What is Disk Space? |
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The amount of hard drive space on the server that is available
to your hosted websites |
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What is Email Forwarding? |
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Automatically sends email messages from one email address
to another email address. Also known as email redirection. |
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What is Fire Wall Protection? |
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A security system that prohibits unauthorized access to a
network. A firewall may be hardware, software, or both. |
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What is SSL? |
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Secured Sockets Layer, a protocol enabling encrypted, authenticated
communication over the Internet |
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What is Raw Logs? |
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Another name for a server's log files, the line-by-line activity
of a server, not the summaries of this activity. With the raw
logs, you can take your data and use it with any number of specialty
log analyzers for more advanced analysis. |
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Active X |
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Microsoft component standard. Customized class programming
& reusability of code packed into one object called component.
Whole technology called Active X component. |
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Applet |
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Applets a member of Java language, Java applets are commonly
used to add effects and interactivity to a web site, for anything
from text effects to games |
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ASP |
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Active Server Pages. Microsoft server programming technology,
which actually works server side, combined with scripting language
like VbScript or JavaScript. |
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CGI |
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A set of rules that describe how a Web server communicates
with another application running on the same computer and how
the application (called a CGI program) communicates with the
Web server. Any application can be a CGI program if it handles
input and output according to the CGI standard. |
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CSS |
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A cascading style sheet is a document containing style information
that can be referenced by various web pages. Styles define look
and layout of content on web pages and allow writers more control
over how content is appeared in web browsers. |
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HTML |
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A set of "markup" symbols or tags inserted in a
text .le intended for display on a World Wide Web browser. The
markup tags tell the Web browser how to display a Web page’s
content, words and images. HTML is a subset of Standardized
Generalized Markup Language (SGML). |
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What is MIME? |
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension, standard system to
recognize the file extension on Internet. Also used for binary
attachment in email for e.g. graphics, audio, and video. |
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Ping |
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A utility that verifies connections to one or more remote
hosts. Ping determines and checks that whether a particular
IP system on a network is functional. Ping is useful for diagnosing
IP network or router failures |
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Perl |
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Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. A programming
language used to create CGI programs. |
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SMPT |
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The TCP/IP standard protocol for transferring electronic
mail messages between points on the Internet. SMTP specifies
how two mail systems interact and the format of control messages
they exchange to transfer mail. SMTP is a protocol for transferring
email between points on the Internet |
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SSH |
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Secure Shell (SSH), known as Secure Socket Shell also, is
a Linux based command line interface and protocol to get secure
access of remote computer. |
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Trace |
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This utility determines the route taken to a destination
by sending echo packets to the destination. For e.g. tracert
mydomain.com will display different destination route from your
PC to destination server. Useful to find breakage between routes. |
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XML |
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eXtensible Markup Language. Based on SGML standard. XML makes
possible to created user specified tag (HTML tag). Saved with
.xml extension & can be embedded into web pages. |
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What is Pop3 account? |
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A POP3 account is a "mailbox" that holds your emails
on the server until you view them (download them) with an email
program. An email program is software that runs on your computer,
such as "Outlook Express" or "Eudora" or
"Pegasus Mail". There are literally thousands of other
email programs available, we recommend that you use "Outlook
Express", as it comes for free with every Microsoft Windows
installation |
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