Glossary Definitions starting with Letter H

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A glossary is defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field. This Web Hosting Glossary section is specially designed to explain most of the terms that you should read and understand before you choose your web hosting service provider.

Typically associated with Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS ), a hack exploits the way a specific browser processes ( parses ) code to alter the style declarations it receives. Hacks are required where the browser implementation of the CSS specification is either incomplete or incorrect (and a consistent screen design is required across a number of different browsers).

As used in reference to the World Wide Web, 'hit' means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server ; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 'hits' would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics.

'Hits' are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server, e.g. 'Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month.' Because each 'hit' can represent anything from a request for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document) all the way to a request that requires some significant extra processing (such as a complex search request), the actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost impossible to define.

Several meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers to the main web page for a business, organization, person or simply the main page out of a collection of web pages, e.g. 'Check out so-and-so's new Home Page.' Another sloppier use of the term refers to practically any web page as a 'homepage,' e.g. 'That web site has 65 homepages and none of them are interesting.'

Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network . It is quite common to have one host machine provide several services, such as WWW and USENET . This term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email or a domain. See Email hosting and Web Site hosting for more details.

This term can be used to refer to the housing of a web site, email or a domain. See Email hosting and Web Site hosting for more details.
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Host Platform

This is the platform of the hosting providers servers. Hosting companies will typically having a hosting platform based upon Windows 2000 (Win2K), Windows NT or Linux. If you have a basic web site that does not make use of server side applications such as a database then you do not need to worry which platform is used.

The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web . HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate how it should appear, additionally, in HTML you can specify that a block of text, or a word, is linked to another file on the Internet. HTML files are meant to be viewed using a World Wide Web Client Program, such as Netscape or Mosaic.

Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed.