Tooltips:Web Hosting Terms
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Web Hosting Terms
- Dedicated hosting
- A premium service where the user (companies or large organisations) have dedicated access to a server cpu, memory and bandwidth resources.
- Domain Name
- The name selected by a person or company (Registrant) to use as the name of their website or presence on the Internet, registered though a Domain Registrar. For example mh370wiki.net
- Domain Privacy
- A service which hides personal information from a public lookup like whois. Available in the USA and perhaps some other countries.
- Domain Registrar
- A company that manages (and registers) domain names
- Domain reseller
- A company that works with a Domain Registrar and sells domain name registrations.
- Website Hosting Providers often act as domain resellers
- Hosting Provider
- A company that that manages server infrastructures or a data center to provide end-users with space for data and access to the Internet for websites
- IANA
- A standards organisation responsible for IP address allocation. Blocks of IP Addresses are assigned to Regional Internet Registries.
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
- ICANN
- Organisation that oversees domain name registration. Ensures each domain name is unique.
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
- ISP
- Internet Service Provider A company that provides end-users (businesses, home computers and wi-fi) access to Internet services.
- Registrant
- The person or company that owns a domain name
- Shared Hosting
- Multiple hosted websites which share CPU, memory and bandwidth resources on the same server.
- Second Level Domain
- The Second Level Domain (SLD) is the registered part of a domain name that uniquely identifies the website, and precedes the top level domain in a website address. For example, in the domain name mw.mh370.wiki, mw is a Subdomain, mh370 is a Second Level Domain, and .wiki is a (generic) Top Level Domain (gTLD).
- Subdomain
- A user-defined tag which precedes the registered domain name and used to identify a separate section of a website.
- Top Level Domain
- Top Level Domain country code (ccTLD) examples are .au (Australia), .ca (Canada), .de (Germany) .fr (France), .ru (Russia), .uk (United Kingdom)
- Top Level Domain generic (gTLD) are not country specific. Originally gTLDs were the .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, .mil suffix to a domain name. Additional gTLDs include .wiki
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator A web address including the protocol and domain followed by the path to a specific webpage.
This page is transcluded into the Glossary.
To see where transcluded content is used, Select the Tools Menu --> What links here
This section is enclosed within noinclude tags and is visible here but not transcluded.