Question   What is Bandwidth?
      Answer    When you access a web site, you are downloading a file. This file can be an HTML web page, a GIF image, a MIDI sound file, or a coMBination of these. These files are downloaded to your computer and displayed in your web browser.
Each time you download a file, data is being transferred. The amount of data depends on the size of the file. If you download a web page that is 1 kilobyte (1,024 bytes), or 1 KB, in size, then 1 KB of data has been transferred. If 100 people access that same web page, then 100 KB of data has been transferred.
    Term           Meaning           NuMBer of Bytes
    KB           kilobyte           1,024
    MB           Megabyte           1,048,576
    GB           Gigabyte           1,073,741,824
Bandwidth is the term used to measure the amount of data being transferred from your web space. This does not directly relate to the nuMBer of 'Hits' a web site receives. One single hit to a web page that is 100 KB in size uses the same amount of bandwidth as 100 hits to a 1 KB page.

Question   What is a Name Server?
      Answer    A name server is a computer that contains a list of domain names and the associated IP addresses. When a domain name is typed in a Web browser's address bar, the name server associates that with the IP address, and the correct Web site — barring any unforeseen difficulties — opens in the Web browser window.

Question   What is DNS?
      Answer    DNS stands for Domain Name Server [Domain Name System], The domain name system is a global network of servers that translate host names like www.get-hosting.net.net into dotted numerical IP (Internet Protocol) addresses, like 66.79.173.60

Question   What is FTP?
      Answer    FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is how you transfer your website pages from your computer to the host computer (sever)
When you log on to the server for the first time you may notice that there are files and subdirectories already present in your web space.
We recommend not altering the sub-directories in any way other than adding your files into them or changing permissions.
You will find a file called index.html which is the default page for your site and as you upload your site this page will be over written by your own index.html
The index.html page is the page that the browser automatically defaults to when your site is requested by a visitor
CGI scripts must be in the /cgi-bin subdirectory and have file permissions set to the correct chmod otherwise they will not run correctly
Upload your graphic files (such as .jpg or .gif files) in 'Binary' mode and HTML or scripts in 'ASCII' mode
You can create an unlimited number of subdirectories (folders) within your web space to organize your site using the FTP command 'mkdir'
Your site can be updated as many time as you require with FTP access 24 hours a day 7 days a week
There are many FTP programs which you can use to upload your site to the server, WS FTP Pro from Ipswitch is a popular FTP program and easy to use

Question   What is PHP?
      Answer    PHP is a server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages. The programming syntax is very similar to Perl but is much easier than comparable Perl or ASP to learn. PHP supports the most common databases like MySQL Sybase or Oracle and you can integrate external libraries to generate PDF documents or for parsing XML. It is an open-source language which is supported by groups of delvelopers

Question   What is Perl?
      Answer    Perl is an high-level programming language and has become the premier scripting language of the Web, as most CGI programs are written in Perl. It is widely used as a prototyping language and makes it possible for different systems to work well together. Perl can be used for an infinite number of automated tasks from simple forms or guest books to more complex programming. It is primarily UNIX but you will find Perl on a wide range of computing platforms. Because Perl is an interpreted language programs are highly portable across different systems

Question   What is MySQL?
      Answer    MySQLis a database management system and a database is a structured collection of data. It may be anything from a list of products on your site or the large amounts of information in a corporate network. To add, access, and process data stored in a computer database, you need a database management system. Since computers are very good at handling large amounts of data, database management plays a central role in computing, as stand-alone utilities, or as parts of other applications MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust Structured Query Language database server. It is is a relational database management system which stores data in separate tables rather than putting all the data in one big storeroom which adds speed and flexibility. The tables are linked by defined relations making it possible to combine data from several tables on request.

Question   What is a CGI-BIN?
      Answer    The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is the standard by which external programs can interface with a HTTP web server CGI programs can be designed to handle an information request to a database, take the results and assemble an HTML document and return this document to your browser

Question   What is a POP3 Mailbox?
      Answer    It is the electronic equivalent of a mail pigeonhole box and is set up with a username and password so only those who know both can access the mail. This allows management or employees to have their own e-mail boxes yet still access the email using @yoursitename.co.uk domain name. Another way to use POP3 is to have a common password but different boxes for different tasks. The boxes can be labelled accounts - sales - enquiries etc which separate your e-mail so that tasks can be performed in order of priority or accessed by the relevant member of staff, Accounts read the accounts mail, sales reads the sales mail and so on

Question   What is a Subdomain?
      Answer    In DNS hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain name. DNS hierarchy consists of the root-level domain at the top, underneath, which are the top-level domains, followed by second-level domains and finally subdomains. For example, in the domain name name.domain.com, 'name' is a subdomain of the larger second-level domain 'domain.com'.

Question   What is an AdonDomain?
      Answer    Addon domains are additional domains on your account that act as their own site. The files for these Addon's go into the folder which will be made when you make the addon.