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Hosting Glossary
PHP
HTML 4.01
CSS 2.0
Core Javascript 1.5
XHTML 1.0
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Hosting that I
personally recommend
"Below are few hosting companies that I personally recommend. I insist
that you research their web hosting services first and compare with
other host before you decide to sign up. Ask yourself. What the few
main requirements that you are looking for in a host and decide carefully by
comparing the features, price and most importantly, hosting support" -
HostPulse.com Founder, Terence L
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ServerDispatch.com - Price starts at US$159 per month. Generous amount
of hard disk space, control panel features, bandwidth, memory size. The
company offers good server management system. Please research before
purchasing.
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WebsiteSource.com - One of the good
VPS plans I
have tried and tested.
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ExaBytes.com - One of the many hosting
companies in Asia that is worth
researching. One of my hosting plans had its server changed frequently which
I thought there has been interruptions, but service is still available while
under maintenance.
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IpowerWeb.com - Recently, one of the
host that we have
pleasant dealing with. Hosting is affordable, but features may be
limited.
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SingleHop Dedicated
Servers - In the year of 2008, I highly rate this company as one of the
very best dedicated hosting companies around. Technical support staff has
been friendly and it is easy to reach the management if there are any
unsolved problems.
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Hosting Glossary
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Packet
A unit of data used to send information across the Internet. Most types of network communications use the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layer of the TCP/IP protocol to split messages into a number of discrete packets before transmitting them.
Packet-Switched
Describes a network that sends data one packet at a time, rather then as a continuous stream.
Password
A sequence of characters required to log in or otherwise gain access to a computer system.
Payment Gateway
Applying to e-commerce, a payment gateway is software that is a hosted on a server that routes financial transactions between the merchant and the bankcard processing associations (Credit Card).
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association is an international trade association that has developed standards for devices, such as modems and external hard disk drives that can be plugged into notebook computers.
PDA / Personal Digital Assistant
A small, totally portable electronic device that combines computing, telephone/fax, and networking features. A typical PDA can function as a cellular phone, Fax sender, and personal organizer.
PDF / Portable Document Format
A file created by Adobe's Acrobat software. PDF files are designed for distributing documents electronically, and thus contain original fonts, graphics and other design elements that faithfully record the layout of the original.
Pentium4
Pentium 4 (P4) is the latest Intel processor (codenamed Willamette), released in November 2000. The new processor has a viable clock speed of 1.5 gigahertz (GHz) - as compared to the 1 GHz of the Pentium 3 - and is likely to be available with a rate of at least 2 GHz by the end of 2001.
Perl / Practical Extraction and Report Language
An interpreted scripting language for scanning text files, extracting information, and printing reports. Perl is widely used for creating CGI applications. Created by Larry Wall.
Permission List Marketing
Companies seeking to target a large number of new prospects can pay to access the subscribers permission list managers. These services play an intermediary role between customers and marketers. Customers, consumers and professional users are invited to register with the service and, ideally, choose from among a number of categories about which they would like to receive commercial announcements. The service then sells access to those consumers to marketers.
List managers do not release the email addresses of their subscribers to the marketers. Rather, the marketer supplies the message to the list manager, who relays it to the service's subscribers on the marketer's behalf.
PGP / Pretty Good Privacy
A widely-used method of ensuring the security and integrity of data transferred across the Internet -- whether it is e-mail, Usenet postings, or submissions to Web sites. Through use of the digital equivalent of keys, users can authenticate messages from each other.
PHP
PHP (Personal Home Page Tools) / Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language that is used primarily on Linux Web servers to create dynamic Web pages. PHP script is enclosed within special PHP tags. An HTML page that includes a PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of ".php" ".php3," or ".phtml".
PICS / Platform for Internet Content Selection
The PICS is a controversial Web site ratings standard introduced by the W3C, which associates actual content with associating labels - metadata. Filtering software can be used to exclude sites if the PICS is deemed inappropriate.
Ping
A small program used to check for the presence and response time of a remote computer.
Ping Storm
A flood of large packets sent to a computer a computer by a ping program, either to test the machine's ability to manage large volumes of traffic or, occasionally, deliberately to cause it to malfunction.
Pixel
Short for "picture element", the smallest unit in a digital image, appearing as a dot on the computer screen. Digital images are measured in pixel size dimensions (e.g., a "100 x 200" image, 100 pixels wide by 200 pixels high). In Web multimedia, each pixel in an image can be defined as a hypermedia anchor (a technique known as image mapping), providing a link to another image, file, or document on the Web.
PKE / Public Key Encryption
An encryption system that uses two keys, a public key for encrypting messages and a private key for decrypting messages, to enable users to verify each other's messages without exchanging secret keys.
PKI / Public Key Infrastructure
A complex way of administering large public key encryption schemes.
Platform
Broadly, the combination of an operating system and a processor to form a system on which application programs can run.
Plexus
A set of modular WWW server software written in Perl - More information.
Plug-In
A small piece of software that extends the capabilities of another larger program.
PNG / Portable Network Graphics
PNG is a file format designed primarily to replace the older GIF format. PNG files, which are lossless (meaning they don't lose any detail when they are compressed) support up to 48-bit truecolor or 16-bit grayscale and typically compress about 5% to 25% better than GIF files. Not support animations like GIFs do.
POP / Point of Presence
A site that has a collection of telecommunications equipment, usually refers to ISP or telephone company sites.
POP / Post Office Protocol
A protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Most e-mail applications (sometimes called an e-mail client) use the POP protocol, although some can use the newer IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). There are two versions of POP. The first, called POP2, became a standard in the mid-80's and requires SMTP to send messages. The newer version, POP3, can be used with or without SMTP.
POP Accounts
Users can retrieve e-mail directly from POP3 mailboxes on the mail server to the computer using an email program such as Eudora or Outlook.
POP3
The latest version of the Post Office Protocol, a standard for retrieving E-mail. (see POP)
Pornography
One of the Internet's biggest businesses. As the world's media never tire of pointing out, pornography is widely available on the Net, in both commercialized subscription form and for free.
Port
1) Logical, a software constructed location on a server for "listening" or "opening" to different kinds of protocols used on a network. HTTP servers, for example, use port 80, Telnet 23, and Gopher 70 by default, but other port numbers can be assigned for special applications. You may see a port number after the server name in a URL.
2) Physical, a hardware connection for computer input and output. The physical connection for a printer or modem on a computer is known as a communications port.
Portability
A characteristic of a program which can run on any platform without modification.
Portal
An electronic gateway to the World Wide Web. The portal is really an extension of the Search Engine idea, but instead of providing lists of sites matching someone's search criteria, it relies on a selection process to choose starter sites that new users might be interested in visiting.
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface for computer environments. A set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability. IEEE1003.1 defines a UNIX-like operating system interface, 1003.2 the shell and utilities, and 1003.4 real-time extensions.
Postscript
A page description language from Adobe Systems Inc. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical shapes and sampled images on printed or displayed pages. A program in PostScript can communicate a document description from a composition system to a printing system in a device-independent way. Many printers now interpret PostScript directly.
PPP / Point-to-Point Protocol
A data communications standard for transmitting information between two computers using a serial interface.
PPTP / Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
A technology developed by Microsoft, U.S. Robotics, and others to enable VPN to work securely over the internet without exposing their communications to intercept.
Private Key
A type of key used to decode encrypted messages, known only to the sender and recipient of a message.
Protocol
A set of rules that determines how two computers should communicate with each other.
Proxy Server
A computer that controls traffic between a Local Area Network and the wider Internet.
Public Key Cryptography
A cryptographic system in which messages are encrypted with a key split into two parts.
Pull
Pull means searching the information and then pulling that information into the browser.
PURL / Persistent URL
Persistent URL. Instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet resource, a PURL points to a resolution service that associates the PURL with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client.
Push
Push is the term used for technologies that are used to regularly deliver information directly to a client's computer.
Push Media
Content that is delivered automatically, rather that waiting for someone to come and get it.
