Webmaster dictionary
The Webmaster Dictionary: A list of terms, acronyms, and companies that most webmasters should, or want to, know about. Covers Apache to WordPress.
A Terms
- Amazon S3 - Amazon Simple Storage Service. Object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere
- Apache - The Apache web server software
- AWS - Amazon Web Services.
B Terms
- Bandwidth - For shared hosting: typically refers to the total amount of transfer allowed per month.
C Terms
- Cloud - Marketing jargon. For most companies, this means something slightly different than every other company.
- Cloud Hosting - Typically refers to virtualized, scalable, and fault tolerant hosting... but not always.
- CloudFlare - A company specializing in enhancing website performance, security, and reliability. Offers DNS, CDN, WAF, DDoS Protection, and much more.
- cPanel - A commonly provided control panel for linux hosts offering PHP and some other languages. Includes tools for Mail accounts, databases,
- CPU - In hosting: typically refers to the amount of CPU resources allocated to your account or virtual server. Actual performance varies based on many factors, so one company offering 1 core of CPU may actually be more than another company offering two.
- CSR - Certificate Signing Request. Generated using an SSL key and used to request an actual SSL certificate from a certificate authority.
D Terms
- DB - Database. Typically MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- DDoS - Distributed denial of service attack. Many computers are used to overwhelm the resources of a target system, typically to disrupt or take a website offline.
- Dedicated Server - Leased server hardware dedicated soley to your account. May be managed or unmanaged.
- Digital Ocean[1] - A cloud computing company offering a range of VPS and related services.
- Disk space - Typically refers to the amount of disk space allocated to your account or server. Bad things can happen when your disk is 100% used.
- DNS - Domain name system. Think of it like a phone book for the internet. Converts the domain name you type into the IP address your computer should connect too.
- Droplet - Marketing term used by Digital Ocean to describe their VPS.
- Dynamic page - Unlike static pages, which do not change after being uploaded to the web server, dynamic pages make use of backend languages and databases to construct a response to be sent to the client instead of sending their own source code. Examples include WordPress and most PHP scripts.
Pending
This page is a work in progrss. More terms and definitions coming soon.
- Entry Processes
- Firewall
- Ghost
- Git
- Github
- Heroku
- HTTP
- httpd.conf - Main configuration file for the Apache web server
- HTTPS
- ICAAN
- IMAP
- IP Address
- MariaDB
- Managed server
- Memcache
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Nginx
- NodeJS
- Passenger
- Perl
- PHP
- POP3
- PostgreSQL
- Premium Hosting
- Python
- Railgun
- Rails
- RAM
- Redis
- Registrar
- Reseller Hosting
- Ruby
- Shared Hosting
- SMTP
- SSD
- SSL
- SSL Certificate
- SSL Certificate Key
- Static page
- Storage
- TLD
- TLS
- Transfer
- URL
- VPS
- WHM
- WHOIS
- WHT (Web Hosting Talk)
- WordPress
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