Glossary

The term “web hosting” is derived from the English word host, and its literal translation is that of a householder, owner, or keeper.

Even though it is more frequently used in the sphere of banking operations, the word “account” is also used in our terminology.

C++ is an object-oriented programming language which is considered to be the best language for large-scale application development by many users.

Disk space is the hard disk space (HDD) of the server that is provided to users based on particular hosting plan parameters.

DNS is a system by means of which domain names on the Internet are translated into IP (Internet protocol) addresses.

Email forwarding is used when a user manages multiple email boxes (email addresses) simultaneously and finds it difficult to track each one separately.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a relatively new and better protocol for email checking as compared to POP3.

The IP address is a unique 32-bit number used by computers when they communicate to each other in a local network or on the Internet.

"Domain parking" is a term which means: directing several domain names to the same content (website). For examle company-name.com and company-name.bg.

Upon new hosting account activation the public_html directory contains the 401.shtml, 403.shtml, 404.shtml, 500.shtml files.