This list, although not comprehensive, is offered to help you be as informed as possible when choosing WebWolf Services as your web hosting or site design supplier. Need info on a term not shown here? Let us know.

Bandwidth   (Data transfer or traffic) This is the amount of data that is transferred each time someone views your website or you upload or download files to or from your web space. Each time a webpage, an image or other file is accessed, bandwidth is generated.

CGI bin   (Common Gateway Interface) A directory for storage of scripts (programs) used to produce dynamic content on a web site such as guest books, visitor counters, discussion boards or email forms.

cPanel    The control panel which allows you administrative access to the functions related to your webspace such as setting up email accounts.

Domain Name    A set of alphanumeric characters followed by a suffix such as .com, .net, .org, or .info. WebWolfServices.com is an example of a domain name.

DNS   The Domain Name System is the system that translates internet domain names (e.g., webwolfservices.com) into IP numbers (e.g., 165.113.245.2) so that other computers connected to the internet can find that domain.

Email:  POP3 account  (Post Office Protocol)  The protocol used to transfer email from and to your computer's email client such as Eudora or Outlook. The cPanel process used to set up email accounts has an automatic feature to set up your email in Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Outlook Express.

Email:  Webmail   An application that allows you to read and write email using a web browser from anywhere in the world.

FTP   (File Transfer Protocol) Used for transferring files over the internet. FTP is used to download or upload a file from or to a server using the Internet. Applications such as CuteFTP or WS_FTP (or Fetch for Apple computer users) are used for this activity. cPanel also has a file upload action which will allow you to upload files from your desktop to your web space.

MySQL   Application used in ecommerce website solutions and other database driven applications to hold a collection of data. SQL databases are used to store information such as ecommerce store inventories, postings to a discussion board, survey results or postings to a guestbook.. Pronounced “my ess cue el” and not “my SEE kwill.”

Nameservers     Addresses (e.g., ns1.webwolfservices.com and ns2.webwolfservices.com), much like your house address, which point your domain to the proper web hosting server so that when someone enters your URL in their brower's address bar, your web page is displayed correctly in their browser. You will use the nameservers sent to you in your Welcome to WebWolf email after signing up for a WebWolf Services hosting account.

Parking     Domain names registered with the InterNIC (and therefore reserved), but not active for website or ecommerce service. Parking domain names is useful if you have a domain name that you would like to reserve, but do not intend to use immediately.

PHP   (Hypertext Pre-processor) A server side scripting language used to create dynamic content. The ecommerce solutions from WebWolf Services use PHP scripts.

POP     (Post Office Protocol) The Internet standard for inbound mail from your web hosting account. POP technology allows you to retrieve email from your web hosting account and download it to your local computer via an email software program.

Propagation     The time it takes for your DNS settings to register across the Internet and become completely active.

SMTP     (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The Internet standard for host-to-host mail transport. SMTP servers control all the outgoing mail from your domain based web hosting account.

SSL   (Secure Sockets Layer) Protocol which allows transmitting private documents and data via the Internet. SSL uses a private key to encrypt data transferred over a SSL connection. The protocol is necessary when collecting confidential user information such as cardit card numbers. The URL of a page protected by SSL will start with https: instead of http:

Storage space  Measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes, this is the amount of space your account is allowed to utilize for files (pictures, documents, etc) on the WebWolf Services server.

Subdomain     An address which operates just below your top level address. Subdomains are easy to remember addresses that serve as extensions of your top level domain name. A subdomain looks like this: anything.mydomain.com

URL     (Uniform Resource Locator) A web address which can be typed into your browser. By typing the address "www.webwolfservices.net" into your Internet web browser, you'll be taken to the WebWolf Servcices website.

Webmail     An Internet address associated with your hosting account, where you can go to send and retrieve your email, rather than having to download it to your local computer.