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Scalability: Scalability is the ability of a piece of software or hardware to increase in size as necessary.
Screen shot: an image of a Web site or document you can save, email or send to other users online.
Shell Account: A Shell Account permits users to edit their files online in real-time instead of making changes to their site offline and then updating the changes.
Simple Control Panel: a basic control panel available with most Linux based servers.
Sitemap: allows a webmaster to inform engines of URLs on a site that are available for crawling.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol): a TCP/IP protocol that governs electronic mail transmission and reception program.
SMTP Server: a computer forwarding Internet email messages using SMTP protocol like Send mail.
Social Bookmark: allows users to take bookmarks suggested by others and add them to their own personal collections. These bookmarks can be received by subscription.
SPAM: SPAM is any junk email or unsolicited email.
SPAM Filter: allows users to block messages from known spammers.
Spiders: software robots that crawl websites and gather information for search engine databases from web content and links.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer): a protocol used to manage the security of a message transmission on the Internet.
Static IP: is a fixed IP address, meaning that the IP will remain unchanged each login for the user.
Statistics: typically refers to data provided by software on web servers that keep track or usage information on website and compile it into a user-friendly format. Statistics often include how many visitors come to a site, which pages receive the most requests and how much time is spent browsing the site.
Support: telephone, live or email technical support provided to a registrar's customers to help with resolving technical difficulties and site issues.
T1 Connection: a phone or data connection that supports the transfer of up to 1.544Mbits of data per second. T1 Connections are commonly used by businesses and ISPs.
Technical Contact: typically the individual or company managing the primary domain name server.
Trackback: sends a ping to another site equipped for Trackbacks, notifying the site that a new link was created. For example, Trackbacks notify the author of an entry that the post has been added to another blog.
Transfer Concierge: the department that specializes in resolving issues that may prevent a domain transfer from being completed successfully.
Unique IP Address: a specific IP address to which a site or network can be assigned.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator): the address defining the route to a file or any other Internet facility. Commonly interchanged with the terms "address" and "domain."
Video Streaming: provides video data or content on a web page while it is being played on a remote client. This feature is used for live updates on websites.
VPS (Virtual Private Server): uses a software platform which allows a hosting service provider to multiplex a single dedicated server into multiple virtual server machines. This provides a private and protected web services infrastructure operating as an independent server within the host machine.
Web Based Email (Webmail): used when logging into an email interface online with a username and password to check and compose email messages, as opposed to utilizing MS Outlook or another mail client software.
Web Feed: allows users to subscribe to sites that update or add new content routinely.
Weblog (Blog): online journal of thoughts on a specific topic, usually displayed in reverse chronological order.
WHOIS: a central database which tracks domains and IP registrations and lists the owner contact email, phone number and address.
XML (Extensible Markup Language): is a language allowing developers to create unique markup tags. All XMLtags are defined by the programmer and may be interpreted differently in different applications.