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Glossary of Web Hosting TermsA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Access logs for seeing who visits your site Access logs record data about who visits your site. The logs include information such as the referrer, IP address, and type of browser. You can specify the number of days logs are kept before they are deleted.
Yahoo! offers interactive features like guestbook, counters, and stock quotes, which are simple to add to your web site.
A snapshot is a record of your web site at a particular point in time. Hourly, daily, and weekly snapshots are taken of your web site. You have the option of restoring files from any of these snapshots. Snapshots are kept for 30 days before being recycled.
Business Edition email accounts Yahoo! Mail - Business Edition is included with Business Standard (25 separate email accounts) and Business Professional (35 separate email accounts). Each account comes with 25 MB of storage and the web interface is ad-free. With Yahoo! Mail - Business Edition, you can also use your favorite email program (such as Outlook® or Eudora®) via SMTP and POP.
Whenever a visitor comes to your site, data is sent from our web servers to your visitor's computer. This data can be composed of web pages, images, movies, sound files, programs, compressed files, or anything else on your site that can be viewed or downloaded by visitors. All this requested data added together equals your total data transfer. The more visitors you have, the higher data transfer limit you'll need. You can always buy additional data transfer as your site grows.
Allows you to collect mis-addressed messages (e.g., wrongname@your-name.com) and have them delivered to a specific email account like you@your-name.com.
Your web site consists of text, graphics, sound, or video files that occupy disk space on a server. If you already have this data on your computer, check the combined size of those files to help you select a hosting package with enough or more disk space. You can always buy additional disk space as your site grows.
A domain name is also called a web address. Like a memorable street address, it can help people find you online. You can register your own name, your company's name, key words to describe your business, or even a short phrase - whatever will make your web address easy to remember for your friends or customers. Once your domain is registered, you can build a public web site at your own web address (e.g., www.my-domain.com) and create a personalized email address (e.g., me@my-domain.com).
Create multiple email accounts for yourself, friends and associates with your own domain name, such as you@your-name.com, business@your-name.com, and family@your-name.com.
Email forwards enable you to have email messages redirected to a specific email account. For example, you can set up the email account sales@your-name.com to forward all messages to your account you@your-name.com. These forwards can be added or deleted at any time.
When you receive email, the messages occupy disk space on a server. The more email you get, the more storage space you need. Yahoo! Web Hosting packages offer different amounts of email storage space. Packages that include multiple email accounts give you an amount of storage for each account.
To ensure the professional appearance of your business email, Business Edition email messages do not include Yahoo! advertising taglines. Recipients see only your unique email address (chiefwidget@widgetdesigns.com) and the custom email signature you create.
You can create personalized error pages to end visitor confusion and direct people to new pages. A "404 not found" page is displayed when a visitor tries to view a page that doesn't exist or has been moved. Instead of a generic "page not found" message, you can tell visitors where an old page has moved and how to find the new content. A "401 authorization required" page is only displayed if you have set up a password-protected area for your site and a visitor enters the wrong login information. A custom error message can help visitors enter the correct login information.
The File Manager is a web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, copy, rename, and delete HTML files. File Manager also provides information about your disk space usage, and it links to other useful tools and popular features such as add-ons and Site Statistics.
Microsoft® FrontPage®, is a software program for creating and managing web pages. You can work exclusively in the familiar Office® interface without having to program, or take direct control of your HTML code. FrontPage 2002 supports collaborative web authoring and more.
FTP for putting files on the server FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is a convenient, easy way to send multiple or large files across the Internet. It is a very useful tool for building and editing your web site. Simply download an FTP client to access your Yahoo! Web Hosting web site and load new pages and images.
A byte is the smallest unit of data measurement in computers. The following
conversions give you an idea of how big a gigabyte is:
Integration with Yahoo! Mail inbox Send and receive email from any computer in the world through the Yahoo! Mail web interface. You can still use your own domain name, but you don't have to worry about configuring a new email client if you don't want to.
A byte is the smallest unit of data measurement in computers. The following
conversions give you an idea of how big a megabyte is:
Yahoo! Web Hosting packages are offered for a low monthly fee, conveniently charged to your Yahoo! Wallet - a free service that securely stores your credit card information so shopping online is safer, easier, and faster. You don't need to write a check each month because Wallet pays your bill automatically.
Yahoo! Web Hosting features an extensive online Help area where you can read instructions for getting started and see answers to frequently asked questions.
In addition to a monthly service fee, Yahoo! Web Hosting packages require a one-time fee to set up your account. This fee will be charged to your Yahoo! Wallet - a free service that securely stores your credit card information so shopping online is safer, easier, and faster.
Yahoo! PageBuilder is a free, full-featured web page building program. You don't need to know HTML or how to draw -- just use PageBuilder to drag and drop elements into your page, choose colors and clip art, and create a personalized, interactive web site. PageBuilder runs in web browsers capable of supporting Java, such as Netscape® Navigator® and Microsoft Internet Explorer®.
Yahoo! PageWizards help you quickly choose and personalize templates to create a stylish web page. PageWizards take you step-by-step through the process of adding text and images to your page. pBack to top
Password-protected user accounts Password protection allows you to control who can view your site or various areas within it. For instance, you may want to create a special area for photos or other information that you want only your family to see. You can place all these photos and web pages in a folder (called a subdirectory on a web site) and give your family members usernames and passwords so they can view the special area. You could also create a subdomain, such as family.mydomain.com, that can only be accessed by entering a password you provide to the user.
The Business Starter package comes with Yahoo! Mail Personal Address. With Personal Address, you get up to 10 addresses to match your domain, such as you@yourbusiness.com. Personal Address is also integrated with your current Yahoo! Mail account, so it's incredibly easy to use.
A domain name is also called a web address. Like a memorable street address, a
unique domain name allows people to find you easily online. Yahoo! Web Hosting offers a
personalized domain name that includes:
PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP allows you to do many of the same functions as C and PERL - connecting to a database, reading and writing files, etc. MySQL® is considered the most popular open source database in the world. Fast and powerful, it is perfect for high-traffic, heavy-load sites. Using PHP scripting to read and write to your MySQL database gives you ultimate control of your site.
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including web development, GUI development and more. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tidy, elegant, minimal). Its major features are that it's easy to use, supports both procedural and object-oriented (OO) programming, has powerful built-in support for text processing, and has one of the world's most impressive collections of third-party modules.
You can send and receive your you@your-name.com email from your favorite email program (such as Outlook or Eudora) via POP and SMTP. SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a protocol for sending email messages between servers over the Internet. Post Office Protocol (POP) is a protocol used to retrieve email from a mail server.
If you have a question or need help, the priority email form sends it directly to our Customer Care associates for prompt follow-up and resolution.
Remote loading of your files on another web site Remote loading is linking to or accessing your Yahoo! Web Hosting account files from a location other than your Yahoo! Web Hosting site, such as an auction site. In other words, you can host all of your images on Yahoo! Web Hosting, then reference these images from any web site.
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You can place a customized search engine on your site so visitors can easily search for information on your site. You can customize the search box as well as the results page.
SiteWizards enable you to create a professional, multi-page web site without any HTML coding. There are 20 business-oriented designs, including generic product or service templates, that let you publish a professional-looking site quickly. Pages can be customized further using other tools, such as File Manager or Page Builder.
SSL is an accepted standard for transferring information securely across the Internet. It encrypts data passed between the server and the browser, so that unauthorized parties cannot interpret sensitive, confidential or personal information, such as a phone number or address. Offered in Business Standard and Business Professional. A subdomain is also known as a "third-level" domain and is a great way to create memorable web addresses for various areas of your site. For instance, Yahoo! uses subdomains for its services, such as mail.yahoo.com and music.yahoo.com.
All Web Hosting packages give you free, web-based tools to help you design and manage your web site:
Toll-free technical phone support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
All your email accounts can be set up to automatically respond to incoming messages. This is a good feature to use if you're on vacation, if you don't check your mail frequently, or if you would like to create an automated response to frequently asked questions, such as pricing or hours of operation.
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