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Dictionary of terms used on our website

Below is a list of technical terms used on this website. Click on the links to get the term's definition. If you do not find the term you are looking for, do not hesitate to contact our client support.
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Email Alias
Email Aliases are different names for the same mailbox. Mail can be redirected from a generic department name to a real person. For example, you can redirect sales@yourcompany.com to your sales manager's mailbox, or marketing@yourcompany.com to your marketing manager.

CGI-BIN
CGI-BIN is a directory where you should store your CGI scripts. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external applications with the web server. A CGI program is executed in real-time. Funio supports many different types of scripting languages, such as Perl, PHP, ASP, etc.

E-Mail
E-Mail (Electronic Mail) is a means of sending messages electronically to other people. Like regular mail, you must have an address (eg: you@yourdomain.com), and must specify a recipient (eg: yourfriend@hisdomain.com). Several programs are freely available for sending mail (Outlook Express, Eudora, etc..). E-mail is included in every package in Funio.

FAQ
FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions.

FTP
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows files to be transferred over the Internet and is still the most popular and quickest way to transfer large amounts of files on the Internet. An FTP address looks a lot like an HTTP, or Website, address except it uses the prefix ftp:// instead of http://. FTP is part of the application layer of the ISO/OSI network model and is the most popular way web site owners / webmasters upload their web site files to the Internet. There is a range of FTP programs on the market which are both free or cost very little.

FrontPage (FrontPage Extensions)
With most of our hosting plans you have the option to install the FrontPage extensions with your domain. This means if you use Microsoft FrontPage to create your site you will be able to make use of the full range of features offered with this software.

Automated Hosting
Automated hosting allows you to modify most of your hosting options online in real time via web interface.

Web Hosting
Web hosting allows you to have your website present and accessable globally on the internet 24 hours per day 7 days per week.

Identification
In our system term "identification" represents a unique code that is used to distinguish one user from another. This code is assigned to you upon subscribtion. Note that you are allowed to purchase more than one hosting plan using the same identification code.

Management Interface
Management interface allows to modify your hosting options in real time. For example you can change your password, add/remove email accounts, create web backups.

Megabyte (MB)
Megabyte is a unite of measure, there are 1,048,576 bytes or 1024 kilobytes in 1 megabyte.

Password
A password is an unspaced sequence of characters used to determine that a computer user requesting access to a computer system is really that particular user.

Domain name
Domain names are the names you enter into your web browser or are part of the information behind email addresses. A domain name is a way to identify and locate computers connected to the Internet. A domain name must be unique; no two organizations on the Internet can have the same domain name so it may not be possible for you to have your first choice of domain name as it may already have been registered. Each domain name corresponds to numeric IP addresses which is used by the Internet to transmit data. The Domain Name System completes the task of matching domain names to IP addresses so that users of the Internet only have to remember domain names, not numbers.

Hosting Package
Hosting package is a collection of services and options offered by our solution. We carry many diffrent hosting plans to satisfy wide variety of clients.

Reliability
We use this term to describe the uptime of our network. We guarantee a 99% uptime (or in any given year, we garantee that there will be at most 96 hours of down time).

Server room
Is an area where our central servers and networking equipment are located. The server room is equipped with several measures to ensure high availability and reliability : physical security measures (24/7 monitoring by security personel), environmental control (controlled temperature), and backup systems (several redundant connections to the internet, uninterruptible power sources, or UPS, etc).

Members Section
Members secton is a password protected area of site with the user management interface.

Web Server
Web Server stores webpage and website documents. Essentially, it is a computer connected to the internet.

Domain Transfer
There are two types of Domain transfer. The first one is when the domain is transfered from one registrar to another. Second type is when the domain remains registered with the same registrar but it's DNS record is modified.