Glossary of Terms

Address Book: With your E-mail Address Book you can create and maintain a customized database of information about your contacts, including each person's phone number, fax number, wireless number and e-mail address. Each e-mailbox comes with a full-featured, Web-based address book that lets you remotely access your contacts from anywhere in the world.
Autoresponders: When a message is sent to the e-mail address with an active autoresponder, the message is automatically replied to with a pre-written message. Such messages are typically used for an Out of Office message.

Backups and Restore: Network Solutions will create a regular backup of your Web site to restore for later if necessary.

Catch All E-mail Addresses: A Catch-All E-mail address accepts and delivers any message not addressed to a specific e-mailbox at your domain name to the e-mailbox you specify as Catch-All. This way, no e-mail sent to your domain will be lost.
CGI-Bin Directory: A directory on the server where the executable CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts reside.
Counter: A Counter shows you how many page views or hits occurred on a certain Web page on your Web site.

Disk Storage: Your Web disk Storage (or data storage) consists of HTML files, graphics, audio clips, e-mail, and all other files that make up your Web site. The amount of disk Storage you need depends on what your Web site will be used for. If you will only be publishing text, 1MB of Storage is equal to approximately 100 pages of text. However, most Web sites include graphics and as your online business grows, you may also include interactive customer features such as forums which use significantly more Storage.; Another reason you may need more disk Storage is if you are offering software or audio/video files for your visitors to download. You would then need to store these products within your allotted disk storage and again, all these items will take more Storage.
Data Transfer: Data Transfer is the amount of data transmitted over an Internet connection in a given time. It is used up by traffic to your Web site and also sending and receiving e-mail. For example if someone views a 1MB Web page on your site 1MB of data transfer is used. If 10 people view it then 10MB of transfer will be consumed. If you send an e-mail with a 2MB attachment it will use 2MB of data transfer. The amount of transfer that you require while choosing a host depends on two factors:; 1. The size of your site and; 2. The popularity of your site.; If your Web site provides large audio/video files, computer programs, and audio / video downloads then you should consider a package with a large amount of data transfer. For example, if you have a video file that is 1.5 MB in size and 100 visitors download the file during one day. This means that 1.5 GB (1.5MB * 100 visitors) of transfer will have been used. If you multiply that by 30 days for the month it comes to 45 GB.; Flash Web sites and Virtual Reality (VR) sites require the most transfer of all.

E-Commerce (Miva Merchant™): Miva Merchant™ is a pre-packaged storefront system that allows you to create a shopping cart, online catalogs and a credit card processing system for your e-commerce Web site.
E-mail Aliases: Aliases are additional, disposable incoming e-mailbox addresses that you can create for special or short-term uses, such as info@janesbagels.com, or sales@janesbagels.com. You may want to use an alias when you don't wish to share your primary e-mail address. All messages sent to an alias will be delivered to your primary e-mailbox. All messages sent from an alias will use the primary e-mailbox address in the 'From' address of your message.
E-mail Marketer™ by Constant Contact®: Constant Contact®, Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing™ helps small and mid-sized business and associations develop an ongoing relationship with their customers and site visitors. Constant Contact makes it easy and affordable to build and manage permission e-mail lists, create and send eye-catching HTML e-mail newsletters, announcements and promotions, and track results.
E-mailbox Storage: Each Network Solutions e-mailbox comes with 500MB of storage. If you would like more storage, we suggest that you POP your e-mail to your favorite Mail software like Microsoft® Outlook. This way you don't have to closely monitor your e-mailbox storage.
E-mailboxes: E-mailboxes are essentially e-mail addresses that you can use to communicate with your customers and promote yourself with a personalized e-mail address like orders@janesbagels.com. Each e-mailbox from Network Solutions comes with an address book, virus and spam protection, Web Mail, POP and SMTP access, e-mail aliases, e-mail forwarding, calendar and much more.
External Mail: If you frequently use multiple e-mail accounts, the External Mail feature allows you to POP mail from those e-mail accounts into your Network Solutions e-mail account. This way you can conveniently view all of your e-mail from one location.

FileManager: FileManager is a multi-user, Web-based file directory and remote command manager for Unix operating systems.
File Storage: A Web-based file storage application that allows you to store and share files securely, quickly and simultaneously via the Web.
Form Mail Scripts: Form Mail scripts let you create forms to place on your Web site that users can fill out. All results are then e-mailed to you to review.
FrontPage® 2002 Extensions: Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE) are used frequently by hosting providers to enable users to upload their FrontPage-created sites. Microsoft® FrontPage® is a Web site creation and management software tool that allows you to create and maintain Web sites.
FTP Accounts: File Transfer Protocol is the method of transferring files between two computers and a method of gaining access to files stored in a remote computer.; Multi-User FTP gives you the ability to assign permissions to someone else to FTP pages to your site or you can even restrict it to a specific directory.

Guestbook: A Guestbook allows your Web site visitors to digitally sign in and make comments about your site.

IMAP: (Internet Message Access Protocol) - IMAP is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. You can view just the heading and the sender of the mail and then decide whether to download the mail. You can sync e-mail with your Palm, Blackberry or other portable e-mail device. You can also create and manipulate folders or mailboxes on the server, delete messages etc. IMAP over SSL is also available for secure e-mail transmissions.
Instant Messenger™: Web-based instant messaging software that allows users connected to your site to have real-time conversations and send files between them.
Internet Bookmark Manager: Lets you save your bookmarked Web sites and send your bookmarks to friends and coworkers as e-mail attachments.

Java Servlets: Java Servlet technology provides Web developers with a simple, consistent mechanism for extending the functionality of a Web server and for accessing existing business systems.
Journal Manager: Powerful Web-based journal manager lets you share your journal entries with other people by defining unlimited guest accounts with configurable read/write/delete permissions.

Logfile Access: This allows you to view the log files for performance as well as for the number of visitors to your site. Log files can be used for reporting purposes.

Media Streaming: Media Streaming allows for real-time transmission of audio and video files from your Web site. Network Solutions offers Windows Media Streams. One stream is equivalent to one current online listener.
Message Board: Enables you to create your own message boards so that the users of your Web site can interact with each other.
Multi-User Calendars: A multi user calendar is a powerful Web-based application that lets you integrate event scheduling, tasks, journals/diary, bookmarks, discussion forums and notes support in one unified platform.

Password Protected Directories: For additional security you can create passwords on all directories for your Web site content.
Perl: Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language with strong capability to process text. Commonly used for writing CGI Scripts.
Photo Albums: A Web-based, digital photo storage application allowing you to store and share digital photos securely, quickly and simultaneously via the Web.
PHP: A server-side, HTML-embedded, open source scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Network Solutions currently runs PHP version 4.
phpMyAdmin: PhpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.
Point External Domains: Hosting accounts typically let you point to several external domains. The ability to point to external domains lets you assign different domains to a hosting package. For example janesbagels.com can point to def123.com.
Polls: You can create voting polls on your Web site to gauge your site visitors' opinions.
Post Office Protocol (POP, POP2 or POP3): POP is a process that transfers your e-mail messages from our servers to your computer's hard drive. You can access your messages using an e-mail program installed on your computer. POP allows you to:
Private Registration: When you register a domain name, your address, e-mail and phone number are published in the public WHOIS database. ICANN requires this personal information to be available for anybody to view on the Web. Private registration allows you to use alternate contact information rather than your own personal information for the "WHOIS" database when registering a domain name.

Real Audio/Video Stream (10): RealMedia streams allow for real-time transmission of audio and video files from your Web site. One stream is equivalent to one current online listener. See also 'Media Streaming' or 'Streaming Media' for more information.

Search Engine Submission: This includes the submission of your Web site to search engines and a complete analysis of your site, identifying improvement on your Web site that can help your Web site get indexed by search engines more successfully.
Server Side Includes (SSI): A type of HTML comment that directs the Web server to dynamically generate data for the Web page whenever it is requested. SSIs can also be used to execute programs and insert the results.
Shared SSL: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides encrypted communications on the Internet. This is used primarily for financial transactions that take place over the Internet. Shared SSL provides secure Web server access without requiring you to purchase a digital key. This means you will avoid additional cost, but you will be required to access your secure content in a form similar to the following: https://secure.networksolutions.com/username
SMTP: Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol used in sending and receiving e-mail. However, since it is limited in its ability to queue messages at the receiving end, it is usually used with one of two other protocols, POP3 or IMAP, which let the user save messages in a server mailbox and download them periodically from the server. In other words, users typically use a program that uses SMTP for sending e-mail and either POP3 or IMAP for receiving e-mail.
Spam/Spam Filter: While originally used to refer to e-mail that was sent without explicit permission from the recipient, now it's used more broadly to refer to any unwanted e-mail. Spam filters attempt to identify spam e-mail and prevent it from being delivered to your inbox.
MySQL Database: A fast and flexible relational database management system that utilizes SQL. SQL or Structured Query Language is a common language used to access databases.
Streaming Media: Streaming data refers to multimedia files, such as video clips and audio, that begins playing seconds after it is received by your computer from the World Wide Web. The media is delivered in a "stream" from the server so that you don't have to wait several minutes or longer to download multimedia files.
Subdomains/Directory Pointers: The partitioning of a domain name, usually a 3rd level domain name. It allows for specialization of domains. For example, mail.domain.com would be where domain.com's mail users would check their mail.

Task Manager: Powerful Web-based task manager lets you enter tasks each day and provides alerts to keep your projects on time.

Unlimited E-mail Forwarding: When you set up forwarding for your e-mail account, messages addressed to your e-mailbox are automatically sent to the other mailbox you choose. You can enter any valid e-mail address as a destination for your forwarded messages. You can also choose whether you want to keep copies of your forwarded messages.

Virus Scanning: PC viruses can cripple your computer or wipe out your files, and e-mail is now a common method of computer virus transmission. E-mail from Network Solutions is set up to detect and clean viruses from all incoming messages and file attachments (including those that are compressed) before they get to your computer.

Web Mail: Web Mail allows you to access your e-mail account from anywhere using a Web browser. You should use Web Mail when you cannot access the computer that you have set up with POP access.
Webalizer® - Web Site Statistics: Webalizer® is a Web server log file analysis program that enables you to monitor your Web site's performance. It produces usage reports that can be viewed in a standard Web browser.
Windows Media Streaming: Microsoft® Windows Media Streaming allows for real-time transmission of audio and video files from your Web site. One stream is equivalent to one current online listener.