COMMON TERMS

Anonymous FTP
Allows visitors to upload and/or download predetermined files from designated directories without usernames or password. This is different from "FTP access."

Autoresponders
Sends an automated email response to incoming email sent to a specific address. One autoresponder per email address. e.g. Visitor X sends an email to sales@fastwebsites.com. Autoresponder sends an prewritten message to visitor X automatically.

CGI script
Used to supplement basic HTML to make your website more interactive and functional. e.g. hit counter, guest book, order form, and etc. You as our customer have free access to our library of CGI scripts that will enhance your website. Most of our plans come with its own local cgi-bin to store custom cgi scripts that you may have written or found else where on the web.

Connectivity

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
DSL is a technology that delivers high-bandwidth information to homes and small businesses over ordinary copper telephone lines. Assuming your home or small business is close enough to a telephone company central office that offers DSL service, you may be able to receive data at rates up to 6.1 megabits (millions of bits) per second.

Cable Modem Access
A cable modem allows you to hook up your PC to a local cable TV line and receive data at about 1.5 mbps. This data rate exceeds that of the prevalent 28.8- and 56-kbps telephone modems. Cable modems attach to a coaxial cable line to communicate with a cable modem termination system at the office of the local cable TV company.

Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
ISDN allows for digital transmission over ordinary telephone lines. Home and business users who install ISDN adapters (in place of their modems) can download data very quickly (up to 128 kbps). ISDN is available from your phone company in most urban areas.

Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up access to the Internet is provided via an analog modem. These modems are available in many different speeds: 14.4 kbps (kilobits per second), 28.8 kbps, 33.6 kbps, and 56 kbps (a.k.a. 56k). Analog modems support various standards as well; however, this is irrelevant now that the V.90 modem standard has been adopted as the global communications standard by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union), a United Nations agency.

CyberCash
Used for secure processing of credit card transactions. It works with all popular browsers in the market and other Web store software applications.

Detailed Usage Statistic/ Access to Raw Log File
We give you a detailed graphical and tabular usage statistics of your website grouped by weeks, days, and hours so you can track how many hits you are getting, from where those hits are coming from, which page is the most popular, how much data transfer is occurring, and more. You also have access to raw log files so you can analyze the usage using even more sophisticated programs.

Disk Space
Used to store everything related to your website such as your regular html files, images, multimedia files, anonymous ftp files, POP mail messages, cgi-scripts and any other files that make up your website.

Domain Alias
Allows additional domain names to point to your website. e.g. Company X registered two domain names, A and B. It decides on A as its default website. Then domain B becomes a "domain alias" of domain A. Whenever someone types in domain B, he/she/it is automatically "pointed" to domain A.

Domain Name
Basically an easy to remember internet address in plain alphabet which computers will translate into an ugly IP address which is a long set of numbers. e.g.fastwebsites.com and .com A more formal definition is below:
"An addressing construct used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet. Domain names provide a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses, which can be translated by the Domain Name System (DNS) into the numeric addresses (Internet Protocol (IP) numbers) used by the network. A domain name is hierarchical and often conveys information about the type of entity using the domain name. A domain name is simply a label that represents a domain, which is a subset of the total domain name space. Domain names at the same level of the hierarchy must be unique, for example there can be only one com at the top level of the hierarchy, and only one netsol.com at the next level of the hierarchy." from InterNIC

Domain Name Registration
In order for visitors to find your website using the domain name of your choice, you need to do two things, both of which are handled by Fastwebsites.COM. First, you need to reserve your domain name . Second you need to provide us with the nameserver of your domain name.
If you order any of our Webhosting plans or want to park your domain name, we will handle the above process for free. If you are not yet ready to have a website but want to reserve just the name, FASTWEBSITES.COM can handle that as well. This is a good idea since domain names are going fast.

Email Forwarding
e.g. X sends an email to webmaster@yourname.com. Our server receives the mail and immediately forwards it to you@yourisp.com.

FrontPage Extension
In order for you to use all the features that come with your Microsoft FrontPage WebPages editor, FrontPage extension should be installed for your account. You may request that FrontPage extensions be installed for your account when you place your order, or you may do so at a later date by send email to support@fastwebsites.com.

FTP Access
Used to up and download your website to and from our server to your computer. You have unlimited access to your account 24 hours a day 365 days a year to set up and maintain your web site

mSQL
A database engine used for accessing database. We have support for creating a simple searchable database. A more complex database-website interface requires custom programming.

POP3 Email Accounts
These are your email mail boxes in our server that can be accessed directly to retrieve your mail using such programs as Eudora, Outlook Express, and Netscape Mail. Each POP3 account has its own password to ensure privacy. You will be able to check your email anywhere around the world where you have access to the Internet.

RealAudio/RealVideo
Real Networks' RealAudio/Video system is a client-server based, meaning both the browser and the server must have RealAudio/Video components for it to work, streaming audio/video delivery system for the Internet. You can create and deliver audio/video-based streaming multimedia content through the Internet to audiences worldwide. We include step-by-step instructions for including RealAudio/Video in your Web pages.

Shopping Cart
Keeps track of what your customers have ordered on-line as they add and remove items from their virtual "shopping cart." When the customer is ready to check out, the program tallies the order for your customer to review. If the customer decides to submit the order, the program will email the order information to the email address of your choice and a "receipt" to your customer.

Secure Server (SSL)
One method of ensuring that information entered through your website is protected from preying eyes. Information submitted via a secure form is sent to the server in an encrypted mode. Most commonly used for credit card transactions.