Web JargonDomain Name / yourname.com?
Your address on the Internet , we can purchase this for you. in the case of .com addresses they are for 1 year at a time and can be purchased in multiples of 1 year up to 10 years. Cost $14 year.
Bytes , Kbytes, Mb , Gb?
These are measurements of size.
1 text character is a byte, a Kbyte is 1024 bytes, a Mb is 1024 Kbytes, and a GB is 1024 Mb
Images are also measured in this way, for example, the computer picture to your right is 9K in size, and a single image can be larger than all the text on the page.
Web space / disk space?
The amount of space required to store your Web site. The space required varies depending on the number of pages and images used, and whether you use a database driven site. We can discuss with you the sort of size needed if required.
Bandwidth / Transfer?
The amount of information sent to/from your web site by people looking at your site in a given period. This is can be approximated as the page size * the number of times the page has been shown. For example.
1,000 viewings of a 20 Kb page = 20,000 Kb = 20mb
10,000 viewings of a 20 Kb page = 200,000 Kb = 200mb
10,000 viewings of a 50 Kb page = 500,000 Kb = 500mb
Remember Bandwidth is the amount of data provided to and from your site, so this includes email as well. If you are sending or receiving lots of large files, you need to ensure you have enough bandwidth.
E-mail addresses?
Addresses belonging to your domain for E-mail to be sent. For example, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . All our packages provide matching email addresses, so each person or department can have their own email address
CGI-BIN/perl/php?
Program languages to generate dynamic sites such as retail and marketing site
MySql database?
Is used to store information on your products or portal enabling your web site can the access this 'database' and present up to date information to your users.
What is HTML?
HTML, an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a programming language that delivers most of the worlds websites today. It is read and understood by Web Browsers for example Internet Explorer, that decodes the program and displays the intended information on the computer screen.
What is PHP?
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page and is ideally suited to dynamic websites rather than static sites. It can do a multitude of things to include communicating to a database.
