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Hosting Definitions

Anyone that has not hosted a website or that is new to web hosting may have questions on what exactly some of the hosting "lingo" is. We have provided some of the more common definitions for the Hosting terms that you may run across.

• Autoresponder: An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an e-mail message, and then sends back a previously prepared email to the sender, letting them know it was received or that certain actions are being taken. For instance, if you have a support email set up and you want to let the customer know that the support team is working on their request, you can set up an autoresponder with that information.

• Bonus Domain: Also referred to as "Parked Domains". An example of this would be if you have an online candy wrappers store and you want the domain names candycovers.com, candycovers.net, candycovers.org, etc... and you want each of these domain names to point to your online website. This is a way many people use so that anyone who is looking at the candycovers domains will only go to the one online flower delivery store. If you would like to park a domain name with WAHM Website Hosting, there are NO setup fees and NO monthly fees.

• Catch All Email: The catch-all email account is always a nice feature to have. This means that any email that is sent to your domain will go to you. So, even if you do not have a direct email set up, to a direct place, it will still come to your root email. So, you can have support@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com, and even a misspelled word of upport@yourdomain.com will all go to your root email.

• Cron Job: Cron Jobs are used to execute scripts on the server at particular times or days. For example, if you are running an expiring domain script, you may want it to run at a particular time within the day for the best results, instead of remembering to do it at the exact time each and every day, you could simply schedule it to run whenever you need it to run.

• Disk Storage: This refers to the amount of server disk storage that you have in your account. This space holds all of your files. Scripts, such as CGI, and PHP scripts, HTML files, images, POP3 Mail Messages, and all other files that make up your website are the files that are counted towards your storage space. If you need more disk space, you will need to upgrade to the next package.

• FrontPage: MS FrontPage is software that you may use create and maintain your website. This is a very popular program that makes your website maintenance easy by providing a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to edit your webpages.

• MySQL Database: This is a type of database. MySQL Databases run on the Linux operating system. Databases provide FAST access to stored data, alot faster than stored information on flat files. Depending on the account that you signup with, you will receive 0-4 databases. If you need another database, we will add additional databases for a one time setup fee of $20.00. No monthly fees are added.

• POP3 email accounts: Accounts that you setup using your domain name for instance: katie@yourdomain.com or support@yourdomain.com. You can manage your POP3 email accounts easily in the Mail Manager portion of your Control Panel.  You can also add accounts to your control panel with specified logins and passwords for easy management through programs like Outlook Express.

• SMTP: Also referred to as Simple Mail Transport Protocol. This is the main protocol used to send email on the Internet. Most email is sent and received through the Internet using SMTP.

• Scripts: These are special programs that have been written in languages like PHP, Perl, or ASP.  Things like Message Boards, Banner Management Systems, and Guestbooks run on scripts.  Scripts must be installed to run. We offer an installation service, take a look at our Orders Page for more information.  You receive 11 free CGI scripts with your hosting account, these are: Simple CGI wrapper, Random HTML Generator, Simple Guestbook, Advanced Guestbook, Counter, Java Clock, Countdown Box, CGI Email, FormMail Clone, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner.

• Site Statistics: Statistics are a wonderful thing to monitor to see how your online business is doing.  There are a few different stats methods that you can monitor, and these are found within your control panel.  Awstats provides some pretty statistics that are easy to read and understand.  Statistics like Hits, Page Loads, and Uniques are gauged as well as referring sites, and search engines. 

• Spam: This is UNWANTED email.  Spam has been a terribly annoying occurrence that unfortunately is difficult to combat.  Earthlink uses a Spam Guard that may be the most effective at this point, but our user Control Panels also come with an Email Filtering system to filter out your email, as well as a Spam Blocker that you may manually activate.  Please understand that we do not tolerate SPAM in any way, and we will terminate anyone's accounts if they are found to violate this rule.

• Transfer: Also known as Bandwidth. Depending on what your visitor requests to view on your website is what will gauge data transfer.  Data can be made up of your webpages, images, or anything else that can be viewed or downloaded by your visitors.  The more popular your website is, the more data transfer you will need.  If you have purchased a plan that does not have enough data transfer, you can simply purchase additional transfer for $10/GB.