Glossary
Hosting glossary
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- T3
- Dedicated telecommunications line providing 44 Mbps of bandwidth. T3 lines are often used by ISPs to connect to the Internet backbone.
- Tcl
- Tool command language. Simple scripting language and library often used for GUI, string-manipulation, testing, and integration of multiple components.
- TCP
- (Transmission Control Protocol) is the most important of the network protocols used in the Internet.
- TCP/IP
- (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). This protocol suite is the de facto standard for the today's Internet. TCP is a higher level protocol that runs on top of the IP protocol.
- Telnet
- Character-based protocol for connecting with remote systems. Still popular among hosts, but it is being replaced by much more secure SSH access.
- Terabyte (TB)
- 1024 gigabytes
- TIA
- Telecommunications Industry Association. Another telecommunications standards organization.
- TLD
- Top Level Domain. The domain name elements at the right, such as .com, .org or .gov. Recently, new TLDs like .pro or .museum were added to supplement older TLDs. ccTLDs (country code TLDs), like .uk or .fr are used per-country.
- Traceroute
- A computer program that lists network hosts visited by a packed on the way to its destination. Very useful for network debugging.
- Traffic
- Data packets being transmitted over a network.
- Twisted Pair
- A pair of wires twisted one around the other. Very common in the networking applications.
- Unicode
- A 16 bit ISO 10646 character set. It can accommodate way more characters that ASCII, thus allowing for easier internationalization.
- Unix
- A family of multi-user operating systems, first developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1970s and then licensed to many universities. A basis for Linux, a very popular operating system among web hosts.
- UPS
- Uninterruptible Power Supply. UPS keeps the server running on a battery for several minutes after a power outage, allowing for a clean shutdown without loss of data. UPS can also shield the server from line voltage spikes and drops.
- Usenet
- Network of all the newsgroups in the Internet.
- UTP
- (Unshielded Twisted Pair). Similar to the STP, but without the shielding metal layer. It is more prone to interference but is less bulky that the STP cables.
- UUencode
- It is a method of sending binary files using email - similar in purpose to MIME.
- VBScript
- Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition. Interpreted scripting language (subset of MS Visual Basic language) for creating scripts that can be embedded in HTML pages or for creating ActiveX Controls. Meant as an alternative to JavaScript. Here is the…
- viewer
- An stand-alone application used to display files of different formats. For example a QuickTime move viewer or a JPG file viewer.
- Virus
- A virus is a malicious program written to do as much harm as possible. Viruses can spread themselves over the network.
- VPN
- (Virtual Private Network). A virtual private network is a method of accessing the private network in a secure way over public communication lines and networks.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the world wide web.
- Webmaster
- A person responsible for the maintenance of a particular website.
- Wide Area Network (WAN)
- A set of computers that are to far apart to constitute a LAN. In fact, WANs are very often composed of a number of Local Area Networks interconnected together.
- WWW
- World Wide Web (or Web) is the most popular Internet service. It allows access to the information and services from the web servers. A web browser is needed to use the Web.
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language. A meta-language, abbreviated version of SGML, used to specify other document types used on the Web. Accepted as a format in 1998 to replace dependence on HTML extensions. MSIE 5.5 and Netscape 6 both support XML.
- XML processor
- A program that can XML documents and access their content.
- XMODEM
- A file transfer protocol. Rather slow.
- YMMV
- Your Mileage May Vary
- YMODEM
- Popular file transfer protocol. It is faster than XMODEM.
- ZMODEM
- A file transfer protocol. It's the fastest of XMODEM and YMODEM and thus the most popular.