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Featured Web Hosting Term: Subdomain - A subdomain is a division of a Web site, a section set apart with a different sub-domain name. For example, subdomains of Web site "domain.com" could be "support.domain.com," "clients.domain.com," etc. |
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- Control Panel - An online interface often...
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- Data Transfer - Also: Bandwidth. The amount...
- Database - A collection organized records...
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- Email Forwarding - When email sent to...
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- Firewall - Software and/or hardware combination...
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- FrontPage Extensions - A set of programs...
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- IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol...
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- Managed Web Hosting - A dedicated server complemented...
- MB - Megabyte. A million bytes...
- Merchant Account - Enables the processing of...
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- WAP - Wireless Application Protocol. A...
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