Glossary of Terms Auto Responder
An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an e-mail message, and then sends back a previously prepared email to the sender, letting them know it was received or that certain actions are being taken. Most of you probably already have a basic idea of what this is when you go on vacation and you create an auto response at your work to let everyone that emails you know that you will be away for the next week. Autoresponders are frequently used to handle requests for additional information or to confirm sales or other online transactions. Once you configure your autoresponder, it sends e-mail with no further action required on your part, making your web site interactive around the clock. [Close window] Browser (Web Browser)
It is software used to locate web pages on the WWW and then display them on your computer monitor. Once connected to the Internet, your browser fetches documents from various web servers, translates the HTML, and displays the results for you. [Close window] Catch-all Email Account
A lot of hosts offer a Catch-all Email account. This means that anything@yourdomain.com will go to you. This way, you can have Sales@abc.com, Support@abc.com, WebMaster@abc.com, and so on - with all of it going to the root email account. This also helps when a user makes a typo in the email address, as long as they get the domain correct. [Close window] Control Panel
An online package of tools permitting easy site management and editing. [Close window] Data Transfer
This is the amount of data that is transferred from the server as visitors view the pages of your web site. It includes the HTML files, images, Flash files, JavaScript, etc. As a general rule, 250MB of data transfer a month will allow approximately 20,000 - 40,000 page views a month. [Close window] Disk Space
This is the amount of space allocated for your website on our server. Most small business websites take up less than 5 MB of webspace in total. If you have a lot of graphics and images you might required slightly more space. [Close window] Domain Name
The unique name that identifies an Internet site. With any of our packages, you can setup your own domain name specifically for your business, e.g., www.yourdomain.com. You can then set up email accounts as anything@yourdomain.com. If you don't have your own domain name we can provide a sub-domain at 5gl.net, e.g., http://yourdomain.5gl.net although we would recommend that you register your own domain name. You can check for domain availability and register them here. [Close window] E-Mail Aliases
An e-mail alias redirects mail sent to one e-mail address to another. E-mail aliases are a great way to stay organized and on top of your incoming emails. For example, you can set up an alias for mail concerning sales, billing, support, general information, etc. [Close window] FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
It is a way of uploading and downloading files across the Internet. Most web sites are uploaded to the Internet by means of an FTP program. This is how the web site you create on your computer at home is transferred (uploaded) to the Internet. [Close window] HTML
Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is the code that web pages are written in. [Close window] POP E-Mail Account
POP E-Mail accounts are regular e-mail accounts. Mail will be sent to address@yourdomain.com and stored on our mail servers. The number of addresses you can create will depend on the package you select. To check your mail you can use programs such as Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora. You can also access your email via our Webmail service when you are not at your regular computer. Alternatively email can be forwarded to any other account. [Close window] For other terms see webhostsonline.com [Close window] |