Is There A Cost Difference In Regard To Initial Costs or A Yearly Annual Maintenance Fee?
It varies
ASP
Application Service Provider. It's an organization that hosts software application inside of its own facilities, which is also called "cloud computing" or "software as a service".
Cron Job
Functions such as backup and maintenance procedures.
DNS
Dynamic Name System, which is the naming convention that divides the Internet into logical domains that are specified in the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) as a 32-bit portion of the total address.
Disk Space
An amount of computer storage space on the random-access memory devices, such as a hard drive, USB flash drive, or floppy.
Domain Name
The letters and numbers that are used to form a web address on the internet.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol, which is a standard Internet protocol that is used to transmit and exchange large amounts of data and information over a network.
Who uses an FTP?
Large companies
List of FTP's that can be downloaded off the internet.
Downloadable Internet Browsers
File Manager
The software that manages data files.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol, which is the beginning of most web addresses, signals a request to recieve or transmit files over the internet.
Host
Providing, running, and maintaining a computer system.
Hosting Bandwidth
The level of data and traffic that's allowed to travel and transfer between your site, users, and the Internet.
Hub
A centeral point of interconnection for LAN or LAN segment. Hub's act as passive LAN concentrators and repeaters, that usually has a single internal collapsed backbone that has a signalling rate of 10/100 Mbps.
IP Address
The decimal number that defines the routing information of the information of the Internet user.
ISP
Any company that provides Internet to it's customers.
MySQL
A popular SQL-based relational DBMS for both the web and embedded applications.
PHP
An HTML-embedded scripting language which is used to write web pages.
Parked Domain
Additional domains hosted on your account which display the same website as your priary domain as well as sharing web statistics.
Perl
A popular scripting language which runs on a variety of platforms.
Protocol
The origional draft or record of a document.
Router
A computer networking device which allows multiple devices to access the Internet simultaneously through a single IP address.
SSL Certificate
A digital certificate used with the most popular security protocol on the Internet.
Server UpTime
The amount of time that a server staued up and running. The higher uptime percentage, then their servers stay up and running a high percentage of the time.
Subdomain
The lower-level component of a domain name.
Switch
A mechanical, electromechanical, or eletronic device that can either open, close, or change the connections in an eletrical circuit.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator, which is the address of a website on the internet.
Web Server
The software that delivers web pages and other documents to browsers by using the HHTP protocol.
Web page
A hypertext document (also known as HTML) on the World Wide Web, which is often hyperlinked to others to be viewed in a web browser.
Webmaster
The person who is responsible for maintaining, designing, and developing a website(s).