Technical Terms L-R
Linux: a system originally created by Linus Torvalds, a free open-source operating system based on Unix.
Log file: A Log file is a text file maintained on a server that displays where all files accessed are located.
Mailing List Software: a promotional tool that distributes newsletters and updates to customers.
Meta Tag: A Meta Tag is an html tag that contains information for search engines about a specific web site. Meta tags contain key words or phrases alerting search engines on what a site is about so that it generates beneficial traffic from users requesting related information.
Meta Title (Title Tag): the title for a web site that is inserted with meta coding. Meta Titles help search engines to direct appropriate results to web sites from searches.
Mx Records: part of the DNS that include information about the mailservers and priorities for a specific domain name.
Name Server: a host or computer server that has the software and the data (zone files) necessary to resolve domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) numbers. Domain names require a minimum of two name servers hosted on separate networks.
Operating System: shares a computer system's resources including the processor, memory, disk space, network and bandwidth.
Parking: reserves a domain that is inactive. Parked domains will display a temporary Web Page until the site is active.
Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language): a script that processes text.
Permalink: links to a specific article in the archives of a blog and remains valid after the article is no longer listed on the front page of the blog.
Phishing: a form of Internet fraud used to steal personal and payment information. To avoid Phishing, make sure an ssl certificate is enabled before making a payment or submitting valuable information to a website. If an ssl certificate is installed on the site the address will start with https. This will make the chances of third party viewing less likely.
Podcasting: a way of sharing audio and video files online that often utilizes feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
Pop3 Server: a server that connects email clients like Outlook and Apple Mail with mail servers.
Primary Server: or Primary Name Server of a domain is where other name servers are directed for authoritative information regarding the domain and its corresponding IP.
Propagation: the time frame a process undergoes while the request or modification is being completed.
Protected Registration: prevents most domains transfers, domain expiration and helps to maintain important domain information.
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives): technology involving the simultaneous use of two ore more hard disk drives to achieve higher levels of performance, dependability and larger data volume sizes.
RAM: Random Access of Memory is used by programs in performing system tasks.
Real Time: the time in which reporting of events or recording of events occur at the time of the event.
Registry: a database associating DNS information with an individual, a legal entity or operational entity.
Robots (search engine robots): Sometimes called "spiders" - read text and follow links - "crawl" a site - to gather information for search engine databases.
RSS (Rich Site Summary): a method of subscribing to news sites and blogs that will display the updates from that source on your webpage.
RSS Feed: provides items containing short descriptions of web content or articles with a link to the full version of the content.
Ruby on Rails: an open source web application framework written in Ruby to simplify web development and create more efficient results.