| Word | Description |
| Administrator | System administration generally refers to configuring a computer or computer systems, software, Databases etc. It involves creating users, user groups, accesses, setting up network configurations, IP addresses and so on. It involves installing software patches such as the Operating System upgrades. 'Administrator' is also the default super user account on all Windows Servers. |
| Advanced Support | Advanced Support is an option for having non standard work done on your server. Normally the charge for this is $99.00 USD per hour. If you are interested create a ticket in serverportal.com to dedicated and we will quote the work and and perform it in a timely manner. |
| Apache | is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun Java System Web Server), and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. The majority of all web servers using Apache are Linux web servers. |
| apt-get | The Advanced Packaging Tool, or APT, is a free user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on the Debian GNU/Linux computer operating system and its variants. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from binary files or by compiling source code. |
| CDonts | CDONTS is primarily used by Web developers as a thin client for mailing Web forms. The DLL for CDONTS, also known as Cdonts.dll, is installed with Microsoft Windows NT Option Pack 4. The SMTP service must also be installed. Windows NT Option Pack 4 installs with backward compatibility for Microsoft Windows 2000. |
| CentOS | is a community-supported, freely-available operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution.[1] CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System. |
| Console | A console is a keyboard/mouse combination that connects directly to the Dedicated Server for the purpose of rebooting. Normally our servers are freestanding, that is to say that they do not have a keyboard and mouse hooked up. When a reboot request is received, we connect a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the server to allow direct access to the machine. This prevents data loss upon unexpected shutdown. |
| Daemon | in multitasking operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user; they are usually initiated as background processes. |
| DNS | Stands for Domain Name Service. This is the road sign system of the internet. DNS provides a relationship between IP address's and a Domain name. If you wish to use Codero's name servers you will have to set the name servers for that domain to ns1.codero.com and ns2.codero.com. |
| Domain Name | A name that identifies one or more IP addresses. For example, the domain name microsoft.com represents about a dozen IP addresses. Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages. For example, in the URL http://www.codero.com/, the domain name is codero.com. Because the Internet is based on IP addresses, not domain names, every Web server requires a Domain Name System (DNS) server to translate domain names into IP addresses. |
| Fedora | is an RPM-based, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software." |
| Firewall | A firewall is a protective system that lies, in essence, between your computer network and the Internet. When used correctly, a firewall prevents unauthorized use and access to your network. The job of a firewall is to carefully analyze data entering and exiting the network based on your configuration. It ignores information that comes from an unsecured, unknown or suspicious locations. A firewall plays an important role on any network as it provides a protective barrier against most forms of attack coming from the outside world. |
| Frontpage | FrontPage is a web authoring tool that allows you to create and manage your web. It helps you to manage the pages in your web as well as create and edit web pages in a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) fashion.There are four versions from the network: FrontPage 97/98/2000/2003. FrontPage 2003 will be the last version of FrontPage to be released. The product has reached its EOL, End Of Life, date with the company. This means that there will be no new versions released and no new updates or features will be added to this product by Microsoft. |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol. FTP is a service that runs on servers that allows people to transfer large files. If you are going to send large attachment, upload websites or move large amounts of data you should use FTP. Our servers with Plesk have FTP running on them by default. |
| httpd.conf | httpd.conf is a configuration file which is used by the Apache HTTP Server. It stores information on various functions of the server, which can be edited by removing or adding a number sign "#" at the beginning of the line, thus setting values for each directive. |
| LAMP | The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows: * Linux, referring to the operating system; * Apache, the Web server; * MySQL, the database management system (or database server); * PHP, A web scripting language The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package. |
| My.cnf | The my.cnf file is the file used to configure MySQl. MySQL optimization such as number of connections, how long connections are kept open etc are kept in this file. Editing this file can only be done via command line ssh. |
| MySQL | is an open source relational database management system. MySQL can be used for a variety of applications, but is most commonly found on Web servers. Many database-driven websites that use MySQL also use a Web scripting language like PHP to access information from the database. MySQL commands can be incorporated into the PHP code. |
| open_basedir | The open_basedir function defines the locations or paths from which PHP is allowed to access files using functions like fopen() and gzopen(). If a file is outside of the paths defined by open_basdir, PHP will refuse to open it. You cannot use a symbolic link as a workaround, because the path that the symbolic link resolves to falls under the restrictions of the open_basedir function. |
| Optimized | To increase the speed or computing power of a service or application. When is comes to httpd service or MySQL aplus.net can optimize these services through Server configuration. This is often in the form of Advanced Support |
| PHP | is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. It generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform free of charge. |
| php.ini | The configuration file (php.ini) is read when PHP starts up. For the server module versions of PHP, this happens only once when the web server is started. For the CGI and CLI version, it happens on every invocation. The core php.ini directives you can set to configure your PHP setup are defined in this file. Directives handled by extensions are listed and detailed at the extension documentation pages respectively |
| Plesk | is a control panel made by the Parallels company. Aplus.net supplies Plesk as a platform independent Gui that make the administration of Domains, E-mail, Statistics simpler than administrating the Operating system itself. |
| RDP | is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a networked computer. Clients exist for most versions of Windows (including handheld versions), Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and other modern operating systems. The server listens by default on TCP port 3389.[1] Microsoft refers to the official RDP server software as Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services. |
| Remote Desktop | is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a networked computer. Clients exist for most versions of Windows (including handheld versions), Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and other modern operating systems. The server listens by default on TCP port 3389.[1] Microsoft refers to the official RDP server software as Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services. |
| Service | is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention. Windows services can be configured to start when the operating system is booted and run in the background as long as Windows is running, or they can be started manually when required. |
| SSL | Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. |
| Statistics | A program used to measure traffic examples of Statistics programs that come with Plese are AWStats and Webalizer. Statistics can measure how many hits you are getting on your domain where they come from and how many are unique. You can view Statistics on your web site by enabling them in Plesk at the web hosting preferences page. |
| Telnet | A terminal emulation program for TCP/IP networks such as the Internet. The Telnet program runs on your computer and connects your PC to a server on the network. Telnet is often used to test to see if services are running on remote servers for example you can issue the command telnet domainname.com 25 to see if mail is running on a server hosting that domain. |
| Traffic | In website hosting, the term "bandwidth" or "traffic" is often incorrectly used to describe the amount of data transferred to or from the website or server within a prescribed period of time, for example bandwidth consumption accumulated over a month measured in Gigabyte per month. The more accurate phrase used for this meaning of a maximum amount of data transfer each month or given period is monthly data transfer. |
| Web Stats | Web Stats is a web server log file analysis program that resides on a web server. It produces usage statistics from a website's server logs. This information details the traffic on the website and where it is coming from. |
| Webalizer | is an application that generates web pages of analysis, from access and usage logs, i.e. it is web log analysis software. It is one of the most commonly used web server administration tools. |
| WYSIWYG | WYSIWYG (pronounced /ˈwɪziwɪɡ/), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, slide presentation or even the lighting for a theatrical event. |
| yum | yum is a software package manager. It is a tool for installing, updating, and removing packages and their dependencies on RPM-based systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm. Features include: * Support for multiple repositories * Simple configuration * Dependency calculation * Fast operation * RPM-consistent behavior * Package group support, including multiple-repository groups * Simple interface yum uses an online repository by default, but you can also configure it to use a local repository of packages. For more information on yum, see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum |
