AnonFTP - Anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) this feature allows your guests to upload content (files) to an incoming directory on your web site.

Archive Manager - The archive manager is a tool available in your control panel. This feature provides a means of backing up files on your site by compressing them. Backing up files is a sound practice, in case the original files should become damaged. Compression reduces the size that your files use, freeing space.

Bandwidth - The total amount of traffic generated by your site. If you deliver 1000 pages a day of 50.0 kilobytes each, including images and other files in them, then your web site will consume 50 megabytes of bandwidth per day, about 1.5 gigabytes per month. Over 90% of all web sites never go above 5Gb of data transfer per month.

CGI BIN - A special directory in your site where common gateway interface (CGI) scripts are stored. CGI scripts are executable programs, having CGI scripts in this special, protected directory keeps your site secure.

Control Panel - The Control Panel facilitates the management of your web site's hosting account. This useful and easy to use control center provides a way for you to quickly access and view all account information. With the wide array of tools that come with your account, you'll be able to manage e-mail accounts, directories, passwords, view your site's statistics, etc; all with the click of your mouse. As your business grows, you can add additional features, as they are needed.

Cybercash Support - Online credit card processor. If you are using Cybercash, you can then install the local configuration for your domain on our servers, via the control panel.

Data Transfer (MB) - Same as Bandwidth.

Detailed Site Statistics - An option available in your control panel. You can view many statistics about the usage of your web site using this option. You'll be able to see how many visitors have come to your site, the most visited pages, visitors per day, etc.

Disk Space(MB) - Disk space refers to the amount of space allocated on our servers to keep your web site files. Just one Mb is enough space to store several hundred HTML pages and images. Our smallest, most affordable plan offers 75Mb.

Domain Name - For instance, "yourname.com" is a domain name. It is a unique name that identifies a web site on the Internet.

E-mail Addresses - Electronic mail. This service lets you send messages to other users with an e-mail address. Webtronite's e-mail addresses plans are very generous, providing you with plenty of address to be set up with your account.

File Manager - An option found in your Control Panel. The File Manager Option allows you to perform file management tasks such as creating files and directories, setting the read, write or execute permissions on the files and directories in your site, renaming or deleting files or directories, and changing the password for directories that are password-protected.

Form to e-mail - Once installed, this feature allows you to receive e-mail from your users by using a web form. The Form-mail option in your control panel has step-by-step instructions on how to use this option on your web site.

Form to PGPmail - This option is much like Form to E-mail. The difference is that it uses your PGP key to encrypt the message.

Frontpage extensions - Frontpage is an HTML editor developed by Microsoft. It is a tool used to create web pages. Some features of MS FrontPage require that special server extensions be installed on the server. All our plans have this feature available.

FTP - Short for File Transfer Protocol. An FTP client is used to upload/download files to/from a server.

Gateway - A device used to connect networks using different protocols, so that information can pass from one system to another.

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) - A widely used image file format. It is appropriately used for images that contain few colors, or large areas of the same color.

Gigabyte - 1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on the standard used.

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language. A language developed for writing pages for the World Wide Web. HTML allows a designer to create the code needed to program a web site, specifying fonts, graphics, links, etc.

InterNIC - The official domain name registry of the Internet.

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is the graphics format most commonly used for photo images on the Internet. Using JPEG, developers create web sites that load fast, while keeping image quality high.

Kilobyte (Kb) - A thousand bytes. Most buttons used on web pages average about 2Kb. 1,000Kb equals 1Mb. A 3.5" floppy disk can contain 1.37Mb. CDs can contain from 650 to 700Mb.

Mail Manager - An option in your control panel. The Mail Manager provides several ways of managing the mail accounts you set up on your account.

Mailing Lists - This option comes included with your account. Mailing lists allow you to send e-mail to a large number of contacts, fast and efficiently. You can manage your mailing list through the control panel. Mailing lists may cover a wide spectrum of topics, including technical, or social and recreational areas of interest.

Midi Files - Musical Instrument Digital Interface file. In other words, sound files you can play on your computer. All the popular MIDI file types are supported on our servers.

MIME Type Manager - The Mime Type option, available in your control panel, allows you to specify which types of files you can open with your web browser.

MySQL - A database server using SQL (Structured Query Language), the most popular and widely used database language in the world. What makes MySQL so attractive as database server is its speed, ease of use, and robust architecture.

Network - Two or more computers connected, sharing resources. The Internet is perhaps the largest network.

Newsgroups - The name for discussion groups on USENET.

Node - Any single computer connected to a network.

Page Access Counters - An option available in your control panel. It allows you to have a hit counter on your site, allowing you to see how many times a page that has the counter has been visited.

PHP 3.0 - A server-side scripting solution already in use on over 72,000 World Wide Web sites. This version of the popular scripting language includes support for all major operating systems (Windows 95/NT, most versions of UNIX, and Macintosh) and web servers (including Apache, Netscape servers, Web Site Pro, and Microsoft Internet Information Server).

PGP - Short for Pretty Good Privacy It is a method of encryption that can be applied to scripts that you use to send e-mail.

Plug-in - Usually a small software that adds more functionality to a larger software. For example, whenever you see a Macromedia flash movie on your browser, it is being played the flash plug-in working within your browser. Our plans support most popular plug-ins.

POP - Acronym for Post Office Protocol, a protocol used for retrieving mail from a remote server.

Raw Log Files - Files generated by a web server with information about your web site. With these files, you can use your own analysis program to view your statistics information. This is feature that will be useful to advanced users mainly. Remember to view your site's statistics by clicking the icon/option in your control panel.

Real Audio - Popular format used to provide streaming audio on the Internet. Our servers support real audio/video streaming.

Real Video - Popular format used to provide streaming video on the Internet. Our servers support Real Video streaming. If you have a video presentation you would like to show on your site, you can use Real Video.

Search Engine - The Search Engine options in your web site's control panel allows you to install the Search Engine feature on your site. Once installed, place the necessary code on your HTML pages. Visitors to your site will be able to easily search and find the content they need.

Server - A very fast, reliable, industrial-grade computer designed to host web sites and files. A web site server is connected to the Internet via high speed connections.

Shockwave - A program, available as a plug-in, which enables a browser to view files created with Macromedia Director or Macromedia Freehand. Most web pages that incorporate multimedia, uses Shockwave.

SSL Server - Secure Socket Layer. Simply puts, a Secure Server. This is the industry standard technology used to perform secure transactions on the Internet, such as placing credit card orders. Our servers support SSL, we use Apache-SSL. For SSL to work in your domain, you must acquire a secure certificate from Thawte or Verisign. Once you have your certificate, you can install it on your web site by using the control panel.

Static IP Address - Each of our hosting accounts comes with a unique, static IP address. This means that the address will never change. This provides you with a solid, permanent address.

Telnet - The command and program used to log in remotely to other computers on the Internet. This Terminal Emulation protocol program, uses a command line interface.

URL Redirect - This feature allows you to change the file that appears when a visitor goes to a specific address.