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The information placed on this page intended for the clarification of some webhosting properties, that can help our visitors to choose the right hosting solution that fits their requirements.

STORAGE SPACE refers to the amount of server disk storage assigned to your account. All the files of your web site must be placed within this special volume. So it is essential to have enough storage space especially for sites containing pictures, graphics, MP files and video clips. One simple page takes something about 100 KB storage, audio and video files require much more space.

BANDWIDTH or monthly data transfere determines the amount of information transmitted from and to your web site. Each time every single page of your site is viewed by a visitor, or an e-mail is send or received, or any data is uploaded using FTP - respective volume of data transfere is deducted from the monthly quota defined by the bandwidth volume of your hosting plan. Big web sites and high traffic require more bandwidth.(See our Big Sites and Bandwidth page)

DOMAIN PARKING adds additional domain names to your hosting account. These domain names have no proper hosting but are "parked" within your main host. Parked domain has it`s own name and web address, but no specific contain - it only redirects visitors to the contain of the main web site increasing traffic and visibility of your site.

ADD—ON DOMAIN is a domain pointer that allows to use one main account for hosting some additional websites that can have their own content and domain name, but share the storage space and bandwidth of your main hosting account.

SUBDOMAIN creates a separate URL and web presence within your same main hosting account. Subdomain is also known as "third-level" domain and it can create a memorable web address for various sub-sites of your site. The basic syntax looks like: http://subdomain.yourdomain.com .

E-MAIL FORWARDING is used when you want some specific e-mail to be forwarded to the different address on the Internet.

SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION tool allows to submit your site to the top search engines with a click of a button. The submission is necessary to make your site visible to Internet visitors.

ANONIMOUS FTP means the ability to upload and download files to and from server without having a login username and password.

FRONT PAGE EXTENTION allows you to use Microsoft Front Page software to create and mantain your web site.

CGI is the abbreviation for "Common Getaway Interface". CGI-BIN directory gives you a possibility to place your own custom CGI scripts, which are not supported by basic HTML, for instance "guest book" or "hit counter". You can find many free CGI scripts available on the web.

SSI - Servre Side Includes - is including a bit of HTML code by server in to the web pages before they are presented to the browser. For instance you can display the date and time on your web pages.

SSL - Secure Socket Layer - is the encripting protocol used to securely transmit private information via the Internet. There are two options to use SSL on your website: Shared SSL Certificate which is usually free with your hosting account and Personal SSL Certificate which you can purchase for an additional payment.

SHOPPING CART tool allows your customers to browse the entire on-line store and view a consolidated list of all selected items before purchasing and purchase multiple items with one single payment. This convinient way to accept credit card and bank account payments can be fully integrated with your website.

MIVA MERCHANT is a browser based storefront development and management system that allows to create on-line stores from anywhere in the world. MIVA is a trusted e-commerce solution provider enabling on-line businesses across the Internet.

BACKUP is necessary in case there is a failure of the harddrives with loss of data. The reliable web hosting service backups the data on their servers every 24 hours so you should always have your web site pages safe.

CONTROL PANEL is a convinient way of managing your website. You can change site information, mail boxes etc. using your control panel tools.

DEDICATED SERVER is the most powerful and effective hosting service. The host provides your own server and all other hardware to house your sites so you do not share the server with anyone else. This is usually necessary for big businesses or web sites with a very big content volume and amount of traffic.(See our Dedicated Servers page)

E-COMMERCE is becoming the common way of doing business on-line, that includes buying and selling of goods and services via the Internet, creating and managing on-line stores, accepting credit card payments etc.(See our E-commerce page)

SITE BUILDER a software used to ease the process of creating a website, that contains templates, fonts, clip art and layout designes.

VPS - Virtual Private Server - provides nearly all the features of a dedicated server on a machine that is really shared by some webhosting customers. VPS is the less expensive alternative to real dedicated server.(See options at Hosting Reseller page)

URL - Uniform Resource Locator - the address of the web site on the world wide web. For example: http://www.domain.com

HTTP - HyperText Transfere Protocol - the protocol by which HTML files move across the Internet.

HTML - HyperText Markup Language - the code that web pages are written in. Some site building software allows anyone to build a web page visually and then interprets your layout into HTML code for you.

IP ADDRESS is a unique number given to each domain name that is used to specify hosts and networks.

FTP - File Transfere Protocol - a program that uploads the data to the hosting server. After building a web site on your computer you have to upload it to your hosting server using some FTP program.