Autoresponders
When a user sends an email to another address with autoresponders enabled, the autoresponder will automatically deliver a prewritten message back to the sender of the message.

Browser
A program used to look at various internet resources such as websites. As browsers get more advanced, they are able to view more than website including gopher and newsgroups. Common web browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. However, over the past few years, Netscape has lost a huge market share to Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer dominates the browser market with over 80% of the market share. The latest version of Internet Explorer is version 6.0

CGI script
CGI stands for common gateway interface. Basically, CGI scripts are scripts written to take advantage of the common gateway interface. When a user enters a website and does any submitting to it such as searching, it uses the common gateway interface. Scripts help make these functions work since they are already prewritten. They are like programs.

Data Transfer
Data Transfer is used whenever any elements of your website is accessed by a visitor. In other words, when a visitor accesses your website, traffic is taken up. When the visitor loads a video from the website or listens to audio, traffic is taken up.

Detailed Usage Statistics
These statistics give you detailed graphical information about where your visitors are coming from. The data are very specific and can show you what times your site is visited most often, which page is most popular, average data transfer per visit, etc.

Disk Space
Everything you upload to the website is stored on a disk and consumes disk space. The amount of disk space we provide in all of our plans is more than sufficient for most basic websites.

Domain Alias
These are additional names that are used to point to the same website. This is a useful feature if you want users to access your website using a variety of domain names.

Email Forwarding
This feature allows you to have email sent to one address be forwarded to another. For example, if you own the name bob@superspiders.com and you want each incoming mail to be forwarded to sally@superspiders.com, you would enable email forwarding and this would allow you all email sent to bob to be forwarded to sally.

FrontPage Extension
This features is needed if you plan to use Microsoft FrontPage to produce and edit your website. We support all variation of frontpage including 1998, 2000 and 2002. With frontpage, publishing a professional website is not only easy but also not time consuming thanks to its library of website templates

Internet Service Provider (ISP) - A company that provides internet access to the mass medium of the world wide web. Examples include Earthlink and Mindspring.

MySQL
This is an advanced database that allows you to store variables such as customer data. Most advanced ecommerce use this database due to its reliability and speed.

POP3 Email Accounts
This is one of the most common email accounts. Basically, these email boxes allow the user to download their email to an email client such as Microsoft Outlook. Each pop3 email account is protected by a password. Unlike web based email, pop3 email is downloaded to the computer so you wouldn't have to be online to read your messages.

RealAudio/RealVideo
RealAudio and RealVideo are Realmedia G2 technology developed by Real Networks. These are streaming video and audio delivery system for the Internet. This technology is similar to Windows Media which allows you to view video and audio on the internet in streaming mode.

Security Certificate - Information stored on a file that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure connection. Basically this certificate contains information about who it belongs to, who it was issued by, a unique serial number and an encrypted fingerprint which is used to verify contents of the certificate.

Shopping Cart
Online shopping carts basically keep a track of what customers have ordered from your e-commerce store. Customers have the option of adding and removing items for the shopping cart. Towards the end, they will be able to view the final price that will be debited from their card before approving the order.

Secure Server (SSL)
This is a basically a server that encrypts information sent to the website so hackers can not intercept the input data from the website. SSL is a standard for transmitting confidential data such as credit card numbers over the Internet. Most true business sites support this feature which allows more security in data transmitted over the WWW. This is the standard minimum safe security level for true business on the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that is transferred over the SSL connection.

SMTP server - This is the server used to send electronic email on the internet.

Windows Media - A competing multimedia format against Realplayer that allows users to play streaming multimedia files such as videos and audio over the internet without downloading the entire file.

Disk Storage Space - Amount of storage space for files provided for each hosting account. Everything that gets uploaded to the server consumes disk space including images, videos and much more. We give you plentiful amount of disk space that is suited for most average websites.

Data Transfer (Traffic) - The amount of data that is being transferred from the server. Every time someone logs onto your website, data transfer occurs. Everything that is loaded and downloaded from the website takes traffic. The amount of traffic we provide in our plans is more than enough to handle a large amount of users

Server Operating System
The operating system that serves your website. Redhat Linux and FreeBSD are both from the UNIX software family. Windows 2000 is a Microsoft product.

Shared IP address
A shared IP address is the standard web hosting option. This allows for several users to share the same IP address and system resources. With a shared IP address however SSL and FTP hosting is not allowed.

Shopping Cart
Online shopping carts basically keep a track of what customers have ordered from your e-commerce store. Customers have the option of adding and removing items for the shopping cart. Towards the end, they will be able to view the final price that will be debited from their card before approving the order.

Traffic
The amount of data that is being transferred from the server. Every time someone logs onto your website, data transfer occurs. Everything that is loaded and downloaded from the website takes traffic. The amount of traffic we provide in our plans is more than enough to handle a large amount of users

SMTP server
This is the server used to send electronic email on the internet. Many ISP providers have them for you to use, however they require you to use their usernames and password to send mail.

Windows Media
A competing multimedia format against Realplayer that allows users to play streaming multimedia files such as videos and audio over the internet without downloading the entire file.