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Email Exchange

Take advantage of a comprehensive hosted Exchange solution. We have paired the features of Exchange 2010 with superior Customer Support and offer it to you at a cost that is far less than managing, licensing and maintaining an Exchange infrastructure in-house.

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Bandwidth & Connectivity

Connect with Webhosting.net's carrier service as your bandwidth partner. Our LAN and WAN data services connect server to server; server-to-office or server-to-other-data-center. Grow your company without being constrained by bandwidth limits. Contact your dedicated Carrier Account Representative today!

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Virtual Windows/Linux Hosting

Webhosting.net's Virtual Hosting Solutions [VHS] provides a virtual Linux or Windows Server 2008 infrastructure in a secure, fully managed server environment with administration tools necessary to construct and manage a professional Enterprise-class presence on the Internet.

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Disaster Recovery

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Premier Web hosting

Through reliable network performance and uptime your company will receive low latency and high availability eliminating network congestion. We are focused on delivering the best hosting solutions. Find out how:

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Virtual Desktop

Eliminate the traditional costs of computer ownership while keeping your company virtually connected. Access your company's desktops with just an internet connection and a personal desktop, laptop or tablet. Simply log in with a password and find out how you can access your desktop in the cloud.

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Whether you are a beginner in the hosting industry or a professional, there are always new words and phrases being used to clarify the World Wide Web and Web hosting industry. See our Webhosting.net Glossary Terms, that consists of the most frequently used terms in the Web hosting industry.

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10' server racks:

A rack which holds servers and is 10 feet high.

99.99% Uptime:

We guarantee that your site will be operational 99.99% of the time.

ASP:

A language for creating dynamic applications. ASP can stand for Application Service Provider or Active Server Pages. An Application Service Provider offers access to applications and related services on a rental basis via the Internet.

AbleCommerce:

AbleCommerce lets you rapidly produce protected high quality online storefront.

Anonymous FTP:

Allows anonymous access to an FTP server (See FTP).

ASP DotNet:

ASP.NET is a set of technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework for building Web applications and XML Web Services. ASP.NET pages execute on the server and generate markup such as HTML, WML or XML that is sent to a desktop or mobile browser. ASP.NET pages use a compiled, event-driven programming model that improves performance and enables the separation of application logic and user interface. ASP.NET pages and ASP.NET XML Web Services files contain server-side logic (as opposed to client side logic) written in Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, or any .NET compatible language. Web applications and XML Web Services take advantage of the features of the common language runtime. IE type safety, inheritance, language interoperability, versioning, and integrated security.

Authentix:

Authentix is a basic verification website protection. It keeps your users name and passwords confidential.

Auto Responder:

A program that responds automatically to incoming e-mail.

Bash:

Bash is the "Born-Again-Shell". Primarily available on UNIX system.

CGI:

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a typical way for a Web server to pass a user's demand to an application program and to return the results.

Control Panel:

The web interface that gives you administration rights to manage the users' whole account. Click here for a demo.

Cooling System Backup:

The secondary outlay of cooling when the primary fails.

Cold Fusion 3.5 4.5, and 5.0:

Cold Fusion is at present a dominant milieu for Web-based database applications. Cold fusion can run on Windows NT, Unix and Linux environments. In addition you can control information in SQL or Access databases.

CSH:

C Shell. Originated from the original BSD shell. It has lots of enhancement, such as job control and command history. In addition it has a log out configuration file.

CyberCash:

Is an Internet transaction exchange for the internet. It allows for online payment methods. Now owned by VeriSign.

Data Transfer:

The movement of data from one point to another on a network.

Diesel Generator:

Diesel generators are used as electricity backups in case of electrical failure.

Disk Storage:

The amount of actual Hard Drive space that your site takes up,i ncluding stored e-mails, HTML files, Databases, and log files.

DNS:

A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name.

Domain Registration:

The process/service of registering a domain.

Domain Pointers:

A domain referencing another domain. This can allow multiple domains to point to the same website.

E-mail:

Electronic mail.

E-mail Aliasing:

A service which allows multiple e-mail accounts to point to a single e-mail account.

E-mail Control Panel:

The "web interface" that allows full control for setting up e-mail accounts.

E-mail Forwarding:

A process of forwarding email from one account to another.

E-mail accounts:

An identifier for a user to send & receive email.

Error Log:

A text file where error messages are stored.

Ethernet Card:

Also known as a NIC (Network Interface Card). Allows a computer to be connected to a network.

Flash:

A program designed for graphic animation. A file format transporting interactive vector graphics and animations over the World Wide Web. In addition Flash is bandwidth friendly.

FreeBSD:

Berkeley Software Design. FreeBSD is a superior operating system for Intel ia32 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98, architectures.

FTP:

File Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to transfer files over the internet.

Host:

Usually meant as a synonym for either 'computer' or 'IP address'.

Hostname:

A name which can be resolved (using a DNS) into an IP Address.

Intel:

A major manufacturer of computer chips.

IP Address:

Internet Protocol Address.

Java:

A high-level programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java Development Kit (JDK):

Java Development Kit enables you to write Java applets that conforms to the latest applet API for Java.

KSH:

Korn Shell is an interactive command language that provides access to the UNIX system and to many other systems on many different nodes on which it is implemented.

Linux:

A free operating system where improvement is freely accepted, yet credited. Originally developed by Linus Torvalds.

Mailing List:

A list of e-mail addresses to which periodic e-mail may be sent.

Meet-Point-Room:

A room where all the carriers terminate their connections in our datacenter.

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions:

Front Page Web Hosting permits Microsoft FrontPage Extensions that provides Web designers of different skill the skill to create intranet and Internet sites with simplicity.

Microsoft Netshow, Window Media:

Software used for Microsoft specific video/audio applications that require media lay out.

MIME:

Short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A requirement for designing non ASC messages so they can be transferred over the internet.

Miva Merchant:

Miva Merchant is a "dynamic" browser-based storefro

nt growth and management system that allows clients to create many online stores. It can be operated from anywhere the internet is available.

Modem:

A piece of hardware that allows the computer to connect to a network via a phone line.

Monthly Fee:

Price per month.

MS Access Database:

Reasonably priced database software developed by the Microsoft Corporation that is powerful enough to handle the smaller clients' data without the expensive licensing.

MS Frontpage2000:

HTML editor produced by Microsoft.

MS Index Server:

A Microsoft Index Server's purpose is to permit Web searching on corporate intranets and Internet sites.

MSQL:

An Open Source Software relational database management system which employs a subset of ANSI SQL or Structured Query Language (Mini SQL).

MSSQL 7.0 and 2000:

A relational database produced by Microsoft.

MSSQL 7.0 and 6.5:

Microsoft's more conventional database software.

MS Visual InterDev 6.0 and 7.0:

A web application development platform produced by Microsoft.

MySQL:

An open source relational database management system that uses Structured Query Language (SQL).

Name Server:

A machine on the network, which allows you to resolve hostnames into IP addresses.

Network router:

A piece of equipment connecting local access networks.

Novell:

A server grade operating system platform.

'One-Click' software packages

Included for all virtual hosting packages, this facility allow you to install a wide variety of software packages directly from your HSphere Control Panel.

One-Time Set up Fee:

Price incurred in one sum payment intended for the set up.

One Year Domain Registration:

The actual registration, or recording of you domain for one year.

Open Database Connectivity:

(ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) for accessing a database.

Password Protection:

The ability to protect an object using a password.

PaymentNet:

A high performance method of processing merchants' need by allowing online transaction.

Perl:

Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage.

PHP:

PHP(Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source, server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages.

POP3:

(Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail. E-mail is received and detained for you by your Internet server.

PostgreSQL Database:

An extremely powerful Open Source Relational Database.

Pre-installed CGI scripts:

A standard for management programs on a server from a Web page.

Private Label:

A full solution including branded DNS, to run your own Internet Service Provider. Very popular with resellers who want to be their own solutions provider, but who do not want the problems of handling the technological aspect or hiring the manpower to run it.

Private Label DNS:

Domain Name Servers that are marked with your domain name as the primary and secondary domain name.

QuickTime:

Produced by Apple Computer. QuickTime is a video encoding technology.

RAID:

Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. An array of disk drives that utilize two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance.

RAID 0:

Utilizes a data striping method by splitting information amongst the array of drives, but offers no redundancy although it does improve performance.

RAID 1:

This provides mirroring of data across the system and offers minor redundancy.

RAID 5:

Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripes error correction information. This is the best out of any RAID solution for data recovery. It requires a minimum of 3 hard-drives, and at least 1 online spare.

Raw Log Files:

A text format file where critical log data is stored.

Real Audio/Video:

A Transport Protocol used for transmitting data such as audio and video from server to a user.

Real Media:

A type of file which you can download and view.

Server Side Includes (SSI):

Commands that are placed in HTML pages, and checked on the server at the same time as the pages are being served.

Shockwave:

Developed by Macromedia. Allows web page to include multimedia objects such as animation.

Shopping Cart:

A piece of software which facilitates online purchasing.

Solaris:

A Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. Originally developed to run on Sun's SPARC workstations, Solaris now runs on many workstations from other vendors.

SSL:

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol for encrypting a message transmission on the Internet.

Static IP:

Is an assigned IP Address that does not change.

Statistics:

Raw logs files establishing the amount of hits that were incurred on a site.

Storage:

The capacity of a device to hold and retain data.

Sub-Domains:

A third level can be defined to identify a particular host server at the Internet address.

Sun Servers:

Servers producers by Sun Microsystems.

Tape Back-Up:

Files and data recovery solution. Tapes are used to store data.

TCSH:

TCSH is a command language interpreter. TCSH is used for an interactive login shell, and a shell script command processor.

TLD:

Top-level domain which refers to the suffix attached to Internet domain names. There are a limited number of predefined suffixes, and each one represents a top-level domain. Examples of top-level domains include: .COM .NET .ORG .CA .INF .BIZ .US .NAME .CO .UK .TV .CC

Traffic:

The amount of data to pass though a specific location or transport.

Twenty Four Hour Support:

Support is available 24 hours a day.

UPS:

Short for Uninterrupted Power Supply. Aids in the continuous flow of power.

Video Streaming:

A method for transferring video such that it can be processed as a firm and continuous stream. With streaming, the client can start presenting the data before the whole file has been transmitted.

VB Script:

A scripting language developed by Microsoft.

Web Mail:

An interface that accesses your e-mail from a web browser to anywhere in the world.

Web Page Statistics:

Statistics are the requests for files that people have requested from a Web site.

Web Site Backup:

Data back-up solution. All back-ups are usually backed up to tape.

Website Builder:

Software that permits you to build your web site online.

Web Site Control Panel:

Control Panel is a clever applet that permits you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. Click here for a demo.

Web Statistics:

The raw data collected from visitor visiting your web site.

Windows 2000:

One of the window operating systems produced by Microsoft

Windows NT:

One of the window operating systems produced by Microsoft. Windows NT supports preemptive multitasking.