Web Hosting Glossary Terms starting with Letter W
Terms that will help you understand hosting services. Internet reference and glossary of Web Hosting Terms and Definitions. Please select a letter to jump to that section of The Glossary.
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.
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the world wide web.
WAV
An audio file format. Very accurate, but offers no compression, thus resulting in very large files.
WAIS
(Wide Area Information Servers) -- A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the Internet . A prominent feature of WAIS is that the search results are ranked (scored) according to how relevant the hits are, and that subsequent searches can find more stuff like that last batch and thus refine the search process.
WAN(Wide Area Network) -- Any internet or network that covers an area larger than a single building or campus.
See also:(LAN)
Web Hosting
The business of providing the storage, connectivity, and services necessary to serve files for a website.
Web Hosting Control Panel
A web interface offered by hosting companies so customers can administer their account.
Web Mail
Email that is accessed via a web browser.
See also:(Email)
Web Server
A computer that stores web pages and delivers them on request to the web browsers of client computers.
Web Search Engine Directories
Search engines crawl the web looking for keywords. They act as the Internets evolving list of databases that are used to find sites that pertain to information specified by the user. Alta visa, Google, Hot Bot, and C4 are just a few of the many search engines that exist on the WWW.
Web Space
The amount of space reserved for your website on a server. Typical 10 to 20 page websites are about 2-3 Megs. Larger website like e-commerce stores are much larger in size.
Web Standards
Authoring web content to the specifications recommended by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) is often referred to as a 'web standards' approach.
As the W3C specifications are developed independent of corporate interests, they provide a standard reference point for both browser developers and web content authors. If both developers and authors correctly implement the specifications, then a webpage will look and function consistently, across all browsers.
Web Stats is a web server log file analysis program. It produces usage statistics from your website's server logs. The statistical results are presented in both columnar and graphical format. Yearly, monthly, daily and hourly usage statistics are presented, along with the ability to display usage by site, URL, referrer, user agent (browser) and country.
Web Tv
WebTV is an alternative to accessing the internet through a personal computer. Through the proprietary WebTV browser users can access email and website and the "value-added" interactive dimension promised by digital television.
As for the quality of interaction; the user must use a modified remote control to select options and a wireless keyboard for typing, television screens have not been designed with on screen reading in mind and HTML support is equivalent to Internet Explorer 3.
Wireless Application Protocol is the connection standard for delivering information to wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Wireless Markup Language is the syntax used to describe information to be displayed on WAP devices (such as mobile phones and PDAs).
Whois
An Internet utility that returns information about a domain name or IP address. For example, if you enter a domain name such as Adovis.com, WHOIS will return the name and address of the domain's owner.
Windows Socket
(WinSock). Windows Sockets is a standard way for Windows-based programs to work with TCP/IP. You can use WinSock if you use SLIP to connect to the Internet.
(World Wide Web) -- Two meanings - First, loosely used: the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the universe of hypertext servers (HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together.
See also:(Internet)
