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| bandwidth |
An amount of data transfer. Whenever someone accesses your website, an amount of bandwidth is used depending on the amount of data that was transferred. |
| cPanel |
A web-based, third-party application that lets you administer your web hosting account. |
| domain name |
Domain names are human-friendly versions of website addresses. Like postal addresses, house numbers and postcodes don't mean a great deal to humans, but they do to the postal system. Domain names provide humans with a more meaningful address of a website whereas computers translate domain names to a form that they can use, but that isn't very meaningful to people. |
| email |
An electronic messaging service that allows information to be transmitted and sent through the Internet. |
| FTP |
A method of transferring files over the Internet from one computer to another. |
| IP address |
Much like a postcode, an Internet Protocol (IP) address identifies a machine connected to a network. You can find out your own IP address by visiting a website such as http://www.whatismyip.com/ |
| nameservers |
Defines where a domain and its services are hosted. |
| parked domain |
A secondary domain name that is configured to redirect to a primary domain e.g. example.co.uk -> example.com. |
| spam |
Unsolicited Commercial Email. Otherwise known as junk email. Email that is not solicited. Can also be described as the act of sending unsolicted email. |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. This is a website address that appears in your browsers address bar
e.g. http://www.example.com |
| web hosting |
A service that allows a website to be published on the World Wide Web and made available for others to access. |
| webmail |
The use of email through a web browser. |
| website statistics |
Information about a website and it's visitors that allows analysis of many different aspects of how a website is being used. |
| website traffic |
The flow of visitors to a website. |
