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Anonymous FTP
Allows visitors to upload and download specified files from designated directories without usernames or passwords. Anonymous FTP differs from standard "FTP Access" which requires usernames and passwords.
Bulletin Board
WWW Board is a threaded World Wide Web discussion forum and message board which allows users to post new messages, follow-up to existing ones, and more.
Calendars, Shared and Private Web Based
Web based Private calendars are readable and writable by one Email user, while shared access calendars can be assigned to specific domain users with read only or read/write access.
CreditCards / Checks Accepted
We accept MasterCard, VISA, Discover, and American Express credit cards. We also will accept personal checks, however you must make a full year's payment to create a new account. If paying by check, your account will not be accepted or become active until your check has cleared.
Autoresponders
Sends an automated Email response to each incoming message that is sent to a specific address. Each Email address on your account can have a different autoresponder. An example: Joe sends an Email to sales@AldenHosting.com. The autoresponder for this Email address sends a prewritten message back to Joe automatically.
CGI script
Used to supplement basic HTML to make your website more interactive and functional. Hit counters, guest books, order forms, and many other useful features can all be programmed in CGI scripts. Alden Hosting offers a free library of CGI scripts that you can use to enhance your web site. These can be found and installed from your EZ Site Control Panel. All of our plans come with their own local cgi-bin directory where you can store custom CGI scripts that you may have written yourself or found elsewhere on the web.
Data Transfer per Month
Each time a web page, image, audio, video, and other elements of your website are accessed by your visitor, traffic is generated. Your aggregate traffic is the sum of outward-bound, inward-bound, Email, and anonymous FTP traffic. Our daily data transfer allowances are high enough that most of our users stay within the limit. Traffic overage will be charged according to the additional traffic pricing (see our additional items pricing page).
Detailed Usage Statistic/ Access to Raw Log File
Alden Hosting gives you detailed graphical and tabular usage statistics for your website grouped by weeks, days, and hours. Using this information, you can track how many hits you are getting, where those hits are coming from, which page is the most popular, how much data transfer is occurring, and more. Access to raw log files allows you to analyze the usage using even more sophisticated programs.
Disk Space
Everything related to your website is stored on disk: your regular html files, images, multimedia files, anonymous ftp files, POP mail messages, cgi-scripts and so on.
Domain Alias
Allows additional domain names to point to a common website. This feature is useful when you want users to be able to access the same web site through a number of different addresses. An example: Acme Corporation registers two domain names, A and B. It places its web site at A, and makes B a domain alias of A. Whenever someone types in the address of domain B, they are automatically redirected to domain A.
Domain Name Computers connected to the Internet identify each other using numerical IP addresses, which are very difficult for humans to remember. A Domain Name is an easy-to-remember Internet address in plain alphabet (such as "AldenHosting.com") which is translated automatically into the IP address. A more formal definition is given by InterNIC:
"An addressing construct used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet. Domain names provide a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses, which can be translated by the Domain Name System (DNS) into the numeric addresses (Internet Protocol (IP) numbers) used by the network. A domain name is hierarchical and often conveys information about the type of entity using the domain name. A domain name is simply a label that represents a domain, which is a subset of the total domain name space. Domain names at the same level of the hierarchy must be unique, for example there can be only one com at the top level of the hierarchy, and only one netsol.com at the next level of the hierarchy."
Domain Name Registration
In order for visitors to find your website using the domain name of your choice, you need to do two things. First, you need to reserve your domain name with InterNIC, the organization that registers domain names. Second, you need to provide InterNIC with the nameserver of your domain name, so that the IP address for your domain name can be disseminated throughout the Internet.
Alden Hosting can help with both steps. If you order any of our Webhosting plans, we will handle the above process free of charge. If you are not yet ready to have a web site but want to reserve just the name, Alden Hosting can handle this procedure for you also.
Domain names are going fast. Go to our domain registration page. to register yours!
Email Forwarding
When email forwarding is activated, messages sent to a certain email address are forwarded to another address. For example: Joe sends an email to webmaster@yourname.com. The message is forwarded immediately to you@your-ISP.com.
FormMail
FormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wise solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.
FrontPage 2002 Extension
In order for you to use all the features that come with your Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002 WebPages editor, FrontPage Extension should be installed for your account. You may enable this feature by going to your EZ Control Panel.
FrontPage Web Administrator
The FrontPage Web Administrator can Fix some Frontpage upload and server applications problems by performing a "Server Check" and "Recalculate the Web" to detect and repair your Frontpage webs. By using the links on this page, you can perform tasks such as adding a new user, inviting people to your site, configuring settings for your Web site, and adding or deleting a subweb.
FTP Access
Used to upload and download your website between your own computer and the Alden Hosting Web servers. You have unlimited FTP access to your account 24 hours a day 365 days a year, allowing you to set up, change, or maintain your web site at any time.
Guestbook
Guestbook allows you to set up your own comments page. From there, visitors can add entries to your guestbook and they will be displayed with the most recent at the top and scrolling down, or vice versa. Other options include the ability to limit HTML in the entry, link to e-mail address with mailto tag, use a log to log entries, redirect to a different page after signing, emailing whenever a new entry is added, and much more.
IMAP Email Server
A protocol allowing a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server. It permits manipulation of remote message folders (mailboxes), in a way that is functionally equivalent to local mailboxes. IMAP includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages; searching; and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions thereof. It does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as SMTP.
Java Server Pages
(JSP) A freely available specification for extending the Java Servlet API to generate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSP specification was written by industry leaders as part of the Java development program. JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages that combine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content. Separating the user interface from content generation allows page designers to change the page layout without having to rewrite program code. JSP was designed to be simpler than pure servlets or CGI scripting. JSP uses XML-like tags and scripts written in Java to generate the page content. HTML or XML formatting tags are passed back to the client. Application logic can live on the server, e.g. in JavaBeans. JSP is a cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, which only runs in IIS on Windows NT. Applications written to the JSP specification can be run on compliant web servers, and web servers such as Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, and Microsoft IIS that have had Java support added.
Java Servlets
A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Applets are also written in Java but run inside the JVM of a HTML browser on the client. Servlets and applets allow the server and client to be extended in a modular way by dynamically loading code which communicates with the main program via a standard programming interface. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet." There is no such thing as a "serverlet."
Java Servlets Manager
In many production environments, it is very useful to have the capability to deploy a new web application, or undeploy an existing one, without having to shut down and restart the entire container. In addition, you can request an existing application to reload itself, even if you have not declared it to be reloadable in the Tomcat 4 server configuration file.
To support these capabilities, Tomcat 4 includes a web application (installed by default on context path /manager) that supports the following functions:
* Deploy a new web application, on a specified context path, from the uploaded contents of a WAR file.
* Install a new web application, which can be anywhere on the server's disks.
* List the currently deployed web applications, as well as the sessions that are currently active for those web apps.
* Reload an existing web application, to reflect changes in the contents of /WEB-INF/classes or /WEB-INF/lib.
* List the OS and JVM property values.
* List the available global JNDI resources, for use in deployment tools that are preparing elements nested in a deployment description.
* List the available security roles defined in the user database.
* Remove an installed web application.
* Start a stopped application (thus making it available again).
* Stop an existing application (so that it becomes unavailable), but do not undeploy it.
* Undeploy a deployed web application and delete its document base directory.
MySQL
A database engine. Alden Hosting provides support for creating a simple searchable database. More complex database-website interfaces requires custom programming. More information on mySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.org.
PERL
A high-level programming language, started by Larry Wall in 1987 and developed as an open source project. It has an eclectic heritage, deriving from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, various Unix shell languages, Lisp, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Originally developed for Unix, it is now available for many platforms. PERL's elaborate support for regular expression matching and substitution has made it the language of choice for tasks involving string manipulation, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing CGI scripts. The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written PERL code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write.
PHP: Hypertext Processor
(PHP) A server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. PHP is Open Source software.
Python:
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface.
POP3 Email Accounts
These are your Email mail boxes on our server that can be accessed directly to retrieve your mail using such programs as Eudora, Outlook Express, and Netscape Mail. Each POP3 account has its own password to ensure privacy. You can check your Email from anywhere around the world if you have access to the Internet.
RAID
RAID, short for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a method whereby information is spread across several disks, using techniques such as disk striping (RAID Level 0) and disk mirroring (RAID level 1) to achieve redundancy, lower latency and/or higher bandwidth for reading and/or writing, and recoverability from hard-disk crashes. Over six different types of RAID configurations have been defined.
Referrer Log
Referrer logs add extended tracking capability to your web site statistics and access-log. You will know where your customers are coming from. For example, you will know what keywords they typed in to find your site and what search engine they came from. It provides invaluable information for your marketing efforts.
Ruby:
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.
Search Engine
A remotely accessible program that lets you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. There are several types of search engines; the search may cover titles of documents, URLs, headers, or the full text.
Secure Server Layer (SSL)
A method of ensuring that information entered through your website is protected from prying eyes. Information submitted via a secure form is transmitted in an encrypted mode. SSL is most commonly used for credit card transactions.
SSI (Server Side Includes)
SSI are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology. The decision of when to use SSI, and when to have your page entirely generated by some program, is usually a matter of how much of the page is static, and how much needs to be recalculated every time the page is served. SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information, such as the current time. But if a majority of your page is being generated at the time that it is served, you need to look for some other solution.
Shopping Cart
Keeps track of what your customers have ordered from your Internet store. Customers add and remove items from their shopping cart, and then the order is tallied when they are ready to check out. If the customer decides to submit the order, the program Emails the order information to the address of your choice and sends a confirmation to the customer.
Simple Search
The simple search CGI script was written to allow people to set up a search of their site, so their users could enter keywords and find all documents matching those keywords. It was written to be simple, so there are not many options.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
The SMTP protocol is defined in STD 10, RFC 821, and is used to transfer electronic mail between computers, usually over Ethernet. It is a server-to-server protocol, so other protocols are used to access the messages. The SMTP dialog usually happens in the background under the control of the message transport system, e.g. sendmail but it is possible to interact with an SMTP server using telnet to connect to the normal SMTP port 25.
Spam Assassin
SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
Spam Corral
The sendmail virus/spam filter (Spam Assassin) redirects all received spam to the spam corral, instead of delivering it. However, it is possible that a piece of spam could be valuable or even that a non-spam message be misidentified as spam and corralled by mistake. The spam handling programs in this package make dealing with spam simple and easy.
The notification program is run once a day by a cron job, whereupon it will send email notification messages to all recipeints of spam, summarizing each of the messages received since the last time it was run. When a user receives notification, they can optionally reply to the message, listing any pieces of spam which they wish to see and it will be remailed to them (this time it passes through the filter unscathed).
Streaming MultiMedia Server
Streaming Server is server technology which allows you to send streaming QuickTime data to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. It is based on the same code as Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server. Supports QuickTime (.mov), MP3 audio (.mp3), or MPEG-4 (.mp4) files.
Web-Based Email
Web-Based Email is a standards-based webmail package that allows you to access your Email from any Web browser on the Internet. It includes built-in support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. Web-Based Email has all the functionality you would want from an Email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.
Anonymous FTP
Allows visitors to upload and download specified files from designated directories without usernames or passwords. Anonymous FTP differs from standard "FTP Access" which requires usernames and passwords.
Bulletin Board
WWW Board is a threaded World Wide Web discussion forum and message board which allows users to post new messages, follow-up to existing ones, and more.
Calendars, Shared and Private Web Based
Web based Private calendars are readable and writable by one Email user, while shared access calendars can be assigned to specific domain users with read only or read/write access.
CreditCards / Checks Accepted
We accept MasterCard, VISA, Discover, and American Express credit cards. We also will accept personal checks, however you must make a full year's payment to create a new account. If paying by check, your account will not be accepted or become active until your check has cleared.
Autoresponders
Sends an automated Email response to each incoming message that is sent to a specific address. Each Email address on your account can have a different autoresponder. An example: Joe sends an Email to sales@AldenHosting.com. The autoresponder for this Email address sends a prewritten message back to Joe automatically.
CGI script
Used to supplement basic HTML to make your website more interactive and functional. Hit counters, guest books, order forms, and many other useful features can all be programmed in CGI scripts. Alden Hosting offers a free library of CGI scripts that you can use to enhance your web site. These can be found and installed from your EZ Site Control Panel. All of our plans come with their own local cgi-bin directory where you can store custom CGI scripts that you may have written yourself or found elsewhere on the web.
Data Transfer per Month
Each time a web page, image, audio, video, and other elements of your website are accessed by your visitor, traffic is generated. Your aggregate traffic is the sum of outward-bound, inward-bound, Email, and anonymous FTP traffic. Our daily data transfer allowances are high enough that most of our users stay within the limit. Traffic overage will be charged according to the additional traffic pricing (see our additional items pricing page).
Detailed Usage Statistic/ Access to Raw Log File
Alden Hosting gives you detailed graphical and tabular usage statistics for your website grouped by weeks, days, and hours. Using this information, you can track how many hits you are getting, where those hits are coming from, which page is the most popular, how much data transfer is occurring, and more. Access to raw log files allows you to analyze the usage using even more sophisticated programs.
Disk Space
Everything related to your website is stored on disk: your regular html files, images, multimedia files, anonymous ftp files, POP mail messages, cgi-scripts and so on.
Domain Alias
Allows additional domain names to point to a common website. This feature is useful when you want users to be able to access the same web site through a number of different addresses. An example: Acme Corporation registers two domain names, A and B. It places its web site at A, and makes B a domain alias of A. Whenever someone types in the address of domain B, they are automatically redirected to domain A.
Domain Name Computers connected to the Internet identify each other using numerical IP addresses, which are very difficult for humans to remember. A Domain Name is an easy-to-remember Internet address in plain alphabet (such as "AldenHosting.com") which is translated automatically into the IP address. A more formal definition is given by InterNIC:
"An addressing construct used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet. Domain names provide a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses, which can be translated by the Domain Name System (DNS) into the numeric addresses (Internet Protocol (IP) numbers) used by the network. A domain name is hierarchical and often conveys information about the type of entity using the domain name. A domain name is simply a label that represents a domain, which is a subset of the total domain name space. Domain names at the same level of the hierarchy must be unique, for example there can be only one com at the top level of the hierarchy, and only one netsol.com at the next level of the hierarchy."
Domain Name Registration
In order for visitors to find your website using the domain name of your choice, you need to do two things. First, you need to reserve your domain name with InterNIC, the organization that registers domain names. Second, you need to provide InterNIC with the nameserver of your domain name, so that the IP address for your domain name can be disseminated throughout the Internet.
Alden Hosting can help with both steps. If you order any of our Webhosting plans, we will handle the above process free of charge. If you are not yet ready to have a web site but want to reserve just the name, Alden Hosting can handle this procedure for you also.
Domain names are going fast. Go to our domain registration page. to register yours!
Email Forwarding
When email forwarding is activated, messages sent to a certain email address are forwarded to another address. For example: Joe sends an email to webmaster@yourname.com. The message is forwarded immediately to you@your-ISP.com.
FormMail
FormMail is a generic www form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wise solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.
FrontPage 2002 Extension
In order for you to use all the features that come with your Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002 WebPages editor, FrontPage Extension should be installed for your account. You may enable this feature by going to your EZ Control Panel.
FrontPage Web Administrator
The FrontPage Web Administrator can Fix some Frontpage upload and server applications problems by performing a "Server Check" and "Recalculate the Web" to detect and repair your Frontpage webs. By using the links on this page, you can perform tasks such as adding a new user, inviting people to your site, configuring settings for your Web site, and adding or deleting a subweb.
FTP Access
Used to upload and download your website between your own computer and the Alden Hosting Web servers. You have unlimited FTP access to your account 24 hours a day 365 days a year, allowing you to set up, change, or maintain your web site at any time.
Guestbook
Guestbook allows you to set up your own comments page. From there, visitors can add entries to your guestbook and they will be displayed with the most recent at the top and scrolling down, or vice versa. Other options include the ability to limit HTML in the entry, link to e-mail address with mailto tag, use a log to log entries, redirect to a different page after signing, emailing whenever a new entry is added, and much more.
IMAP Email Server
A protocol allowing a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server. It permits manipulation of remote message folders (mailboxes), in a way that is functionally equivalent to local mailboxes. IMAP includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages; searching; and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions thereof. It does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as SMTP.
Java Server Pages
(JSP) A freely available specification for extending the Java Servlet API to generate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSP specification was written by industry leaders as part of the Java development program. JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages that combine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content. Separating the user interface from content generation allows page designers to change the page layout without having to rewrite program code. JSP was designed to be simpler than pure servlets or CGI scripting. JSP uses XML-like tags and scripts written in Java to generate the page content. HTML or XML formatting tags are passed back to the client. Application logic can live on the server, e.g. in JavaBeans. JSP is a cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, which only runs in IIS on Windows NT. Applications written to the JSP specification can be run on compliant web servers, and web servers such as Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, and Microsoft IIS that have had Java support added.
Java Servlets
A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Applets are also written in Java but run inside the JVM of a HTML browser on the client. Servlets and applets allow the server and client to be extended in a modular way by dynamically loading code which communicates with the main program via a standard programming interface. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet." There is no such thing as a "serverlet."
Java Servlets Manager
In many production environments, it is very useful to have the capability to deploy a new web application, or undeploy an existing one, without having to shut down and restart the entire container. In addition, you can request an existing application to reload itself, even if you have not declared it to be reloadable in the Tomcat 4 server configuration file.
To support these capabilities, Tomcat 4 includes a web application (installed by default on context path /manager) that supports the following functions:
* Deploy a new web application, on a specified context path, from the uploaded contents of a WAR file.
* Install a new web application, which can be anywhere on the server's disks.
* List the currently deployed web applications, as well as the sessions that are currently active for those web apps.
* Reload an existing web application, to reflect changes in the contents of /WEB-INF/classes or /WEB-INF/lib.
* List the OS and JVM property values.
* List the available global JNDI resources, for use in deployment tools that are preparing elements nested in a deployment description.
* List the available security roles defined in the user database.
* Remove an installed web application.
* Start a stopped application (thus making it available again).
* Stop an existing application (so that it becomes unavailable), but do not undeploy it.
* Undeploy a deployed web application and delete its document base directory.
MySQL
A database engine. Alden Hosting provides support for creating a simple searchable database. More complex database-website interfaces requires custom programming. More information on mySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.org.
PERL
A high-level programming language, started by Larry Wall in 1987 and developed as an open source project. It has an eclectic heritage, deriving from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, various Unix shell languages, Lisp, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Originally developed for Unix, it is now available for many platforms. PERL's elaborate support for regular expression matching and substitution has made it the language of choice for tasks involving string manipulation, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing CGI scripts. The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written PERL code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write.
PHP: Hypertext Processor
(PHP) A server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. PHP is Open Source software.
Python:
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.
Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface.
POP3 Email Accounts
These are your Email mail boxes on our server that can be accessed directly to retrieve your mail using such programs as Eudora, Outlook Express, and Netscape Mail. Each POP3 account has its own password to ensure privacy. You can check your Email from anywhere around the world if you have access to the Internet.
RAID
RAID, short for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a method whereby information is spread across several disks, using techniques such as disk striping (RAID Level 0) and disk mirroring (RAID level 1) to achieve redundancy, lower latency and/or higher bandwidth for reading and/or writing, and recoverability from hard-disk crashes. Over six different types of RAID configurations have been defined.
Referrer Log
Referrer logs add extended tracking capability to your web site statistics and access-log. You will know where your customers are coming from. For example, you will know what keywords they typed in to find your site and what search engine they came from. It provides invaluable information for your marketing efforts.
Ruby:
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable.
Search Engine
A remotely accessible program that lets you do keyword searches for information on the Internet. There are several types of search engines; the search may cover titles of documents, URLs, headers, or the full text.
Secure Server Layer (SSL)
A method of ensuring that information entered through your website is protected from prying eyes. Information submitted via a secure form is transmitted in an encrypted mode. SSL is most commonly used for credit card transactions.
SSI (Server Side Includes)
SSI are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology. The decision of when to use SSI, and when to have your page entirely generated by some program, is usually a matter of how much of the page is static, and how much needs to be recalculated every time the page is served. SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information, such as the current time. But if a majority of your page is being generated at the time that it is served, you need to look for some other solution.
Shopping Cart
Keeps track of what your customers have ordered from your Internet store. Customers add and remove items from their shopping cart, and then the order is tallied when they are ready to check out. If the customer decides to submit the order, the program Emails the order information to the address of your choice and sends a confirmation to the customer.
Simple Search
The simple search CGI script was written to allow people to set up a search of their site, so their users could enter keywords and find all documents matching those keywords. It was written to be simple, so there are not many options.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
The SMTP protocol is defined in STD 10, RFC 821, and is used to transfer electronic mail between computers, usually over Ethernet. It is a server-to-server protocol, so other protocols are used to access the messages. The SMTP dialog usually happens in the background under the control of the message transport system, e.g. sendmail but it is possible to interact with an SMTP server using telnet to connect to the normal SMTP port 25.
Spam Assassin
SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam.
Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.
Spam Corral
The sendmail virus/spam filter (Spam Assassin) redirects all received spam to the spam corral, instead of delivering it. However, it is possible that a piece of spam could be valuable or even that a non-spam message be misidentified as spam and corralled by mistake. The spam handling programs in this package make dealing with spam simple and easy.
The notification program is run once a day by a cron job, whereupon it will send email notification messages to all recipeints of spam, summarizing each of the messages received since the last time it was run. When a user receives notification, they can optionally reply to the message, listing any pieces of spam which they wish to see and it will be remailed to them (this time it passes through the filter unscathed).
Streaming MultiMedia Server
Streaming Server is server technology which allows you to send streaming QuickTime data to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. It is based on the same code as Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server. Supports QuickTime (.mov), MP3 audio (.mp3), or MPEG-4 (.mp4) files.
Web-Based Email
Web-Based Email is a standards-based webmail package that allows you to access your Email from any Web browser on the Internet. It includes built-in support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. Web-Based Email has all the functionality you would want from an Email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.
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