Administrator
A user that has the login privileges required for access to a control panel.

Anonymous FTP
A method by which files can be transferred over the Internet through FTP (File Transfer Protocol) without the use of a password or the creation of a user account.

Application
A general term used to describe software components.

Autoresponder
A mail utility that automatically sends a standard reply message to an email message. Same as responder.

Backup
To copy data files and configuration files from one location to another location or FTP server to preserve usable copies in case of system failure. see also restore.

Bandwidth Quota
The amount of network space assigned to a user on a server.

cgi-bin
The directory on a Web server where CGI scripts are typically stored.

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
A set of rules describing how a Web server should communicate with another application running on the same computer, and in reverse. Any program can be a CGI program if it can handle input and output according to the CGI standard.

CPU Quota
The percentage of central processor unit time assigned to a user or a server.

Delimiter
A character marking the beginning or end of a unit of data.

Delta Value
The percentage of change in a quantity.

Disk Quota
The amount of disk space, in megabytes, assigned to a user

Domain
An Internet address or a subsection of the Internet.

Domain Name
An alphabetic name that identifies one or more IP addresses.

Drag-and-Drop
In graphical user interfaces, the act of using the mouse to move an icon or an object into a window or onto another icon or object.

Email Alias
A nickname mapped to one or more real email addresses. Aliases are commonly used for email distribution lists and for delivering the same email message to more that one email address at once.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
A protocol used to transfer files over the Internet. FTP includes functions to log on to the network, list directories, and copy files. FTP operations can be performed by typing commands in a command line or by using an FTP utility running under a graphical interface. Anonymous FTP allows you to use an FTP site without a password and without creating a user account.

Forward Message
Redirecting (or forwarding) your email messages from one mailbox to another. When you create a Forward on your email account, your email messages can be redirected to another location without the sender knowing the new address.

Graphical User Interface (GUI)
An interface between a user and a computer that is graphics-based and incorporates icons, menus, and a mouse.

Home Directory
The directory assigned to a system user at login; the directory a user starts out in.

Host Name
The name assigned to a computer.

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) mail server
A common mail server used for Internet email, similar to POP3, but in addition to holding incoming email messages until a user logs in to the email account and downloads the messages, it allows users to archive email messages into folders, share mailboxes with other users, access multiple mail servers at once, and more efficiently access email attachments.

Internet Protocol (IP)
The protocol used to format packets and rules of transmission and reception over the Internet.

IP-based site
A site with a unique IP address.

IP address
The numeric identifier of a computer or device on the Internet. The format of an IP address is a 32-bit numeric address written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255.

Memory Quota
The amount of memory assigned to a user.

Name-Based site
A site with a unique host name but shares an IP address with another server.

Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3) mail server
A common mail server used for Internet email. It holds the incoming email messages until you log on to the email account and download the messages. All stored email messages and attachments are downloaded at the same time.

Protect Directories
An option that allows you to limit access to Web pages and data that resides on your server by using password protection.

Responder
A mail utility that automatically sends a standard reply message to an email message.

Restore
To completely or partially return your system to a previous file configuration state by uploading backup files from an archive.

Reverse Domain Name System (Reverse DNS)
Name resolution software that looks up an IP address to obtain a domain name. It performs the opposite function of the DNS server, which turns names into IP addresses.

Scheduled Backup
Moving or copying data files and configuration files on your server to a local system or FTP server at specified times.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
An Internet security protocol that encrypts data when it is transferred over the Internet. Enabling SSL allows you to transfer data securely between your Web server and your visitor's Internet browser.

Sendmail Server
An SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) mail server that routes SMTP email messages through the Internet to be stored on a mail server, such as POP3 or IMAP. SMTP is the most widely used email protocol on the Internet.

Server
A computer and other device that allocates and manages the sharing of resources for a network. A server provides information or other services to its clients. While a server usually refers to an entire machine, it can also refer to a particular daemon on that machine.

Server-Side Include (SSI)
A type of HTML comment that directs the Web server to dynamically generate data for the Web page whenever it is requested. An SSI includes a special sequence of characters (tokens) on an HTML page. As the page is sent from the HTTP server to the requesting client, the page is scanned by the server for these special tokens. When a token is found, the server interprets the data in the token and performs an action based on the token data.

Service
A single client or service that can be installed on a server.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
The most widely used email protocol on the Internet.

Simple Network Management Protocol (NM)
A network management protocol used for configuring and monitoring devices on IP networks.

Spam
Unsolicited or junk email messages.

Subdomain
A smaller component of a root domain name.

Telnet
A common terminal emulation protocol that connects computers locally or across the Internet. It allows a user at a local computer to log on to a remote computer and run a program.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
The address that defines the route to a file on the Web or any other Internet facility. The URL contains the protocol prefix, port number, domain name, subdirectory names, and file name.

User
A person who has an account or a user name on a site, for example, Bob234.

User Administrator
Users who have login privileges required for access to the User Administrator control panel.

Vacation Message
A mail utility that automatically sends a standard reply message to an email message.

Zone
A unit of domain name space managed by one DNS server.