Glossary of Terms Used
CGI-BIN
CGI (Common gateway interface) - A
standard describing how web applications provide responses to HTTP
requests. CGI is used to provide dynamic and automated services on
website. One of the most common applications is to take information
supplied in forms on websites, manipulate the information and do things
such as send emails with the forms contents in it.
Domain Pointing
Allows multiple domains to be
pointed at the same website. For example you may have a domain of
www.yourcompany.com.au but also another domain of www.yourcompany.com.
Domain pointing allows you to have as many domains as you like pointed to
the same website at no extra cost, but they will all be pointed to the
same first page of your website.
You can modify the htaccess file
to redirect the url to its own index page free of charge which any web
developer worth their money will know how to do. This will allow you to
have multiple web sites for one hosting fee only.
Email Aliases
Email Aliases allow multiple email
addresses to be used by the same person. For example if you have an email
of john.smith@somecompany.com.au, you could also have email aliases of:
- sales@somepcompany.com.au
- info@somecompany.com.au
- john@somecompany.com.au or
- accounts@somecompany.com.au
all delivered to the same email address
of john.smith@somecompany.com.au.
Further more you can use a wildcard
such that anything printed in front of '@somecompany.com.au' goes to
john.smith@somecompany.com.au. So if someone mis-spelled your email
address and sent it to jon.smithe@somecompay.com.au you would still
receive the email.
FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer
Protocol. FTP is the unix way of moving files from one computer to
another. SCP is a secure version of FTP and should be
used in preference to FTP.
PHP
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting
language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically
generated Web pages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for
several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so
writing a database-enabled web page with PHP is fairly simple. The most
common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. See
http://www.php.net for more details.
Webmail
Webmail included-choose from NeoMail, Horde
or Squirrel Mail. Webmail allows you to check email from any computer
while you are away from your home or office
POP Accounts are email boxes. Each
POP account can receive email independently of other email accounts on
your account. One or more email addresses can be assigned to each POP
account. A mail client such as Netscape Mail or Outlook is used to collect
email from POP accounts. One POP account is usually assigned to each
different person. Mail Aliases are used to allocate multiple email
addresses to each POP account.
SCP
SCP stands for Secure Copy. SCP
provides Secure (encrypted transfer of data over insecure networks) file
transfer and is rapidly replacing ftp as the default means of transfering
files. SCP runs on the SSH protocol. One of the nicest differences between
SCP and FTP for web-developers is that SCP connections will not timeout
after 3 minutes or so, you can keep an open connection to the web-server
as long as your internet connection remains online.
SSH
SSH stands for Secure Shell. SSH
provides Secure (encrypted in much the same way that SSL works) Shell
access over the internet. SSH is basically a secure version of Telnet.
SSL
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer.
SSL enables the encryption of all information transfered between a website
and you computer.
There are 2 different levels of
encryption that can be used 40Bit and 128Bit. With todays technology 40Bit
encryption can be broken, 128 Bit on the other hand cannot be broken in a
realistic timeframe.
Shared SSL
With all ezi hosting packages
clients have access to a shared ssl 128 Bit directory such as https://www.ezihosting.com/secureyourdomain/forms.htm
as standard. If you require a secure url such as https://www.yourdomain.com
you will need to purchase your own ssl certificate. With certificates
purchased from us we will install them free,
Sub-domains allow you to create
second-level domain names, taking the form of subdomain.yourdomain.com.
Sub-domains are useful to create sub-sections of your website.
SQL servers are database programs
running on our web servers. We run MySQL
Telnet
Telnet provides remote access to a
command line interface on remote machines.
SSH must be used in preference to
telnet for security reasons, SSH provides the same functionality as Telnet
in a secure environment. |
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