The Hosting LexiconHosting companies speak their own language: VPS, uptime, CDN, managed, bandwidth. This lexicon defines those terms plainly, grouped by subject, with a short history to show where they came from. Every definition cites a source.
A
- Acceptable use policy (AUP) · Plans and billing
- Apache HTTP Server · Server software
- Application server · Static and dynamic
B
- Backup · Security terms
- Bandwidth · Performance terms
- Burstable billing · Plans and billing
C
- Cache · Performance terms
- Certificate authority (CA) · Security terms
- Cloud hosting · Types of hosting
- Colocation · Types of hosting
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) · Static and dynamic
- Content delivery network (CDN) · Performance terms
- Content management system (CMS) · Static and dynamic
- Control panel · Server software
D
- Data transfer · Performance terms
- Database · Server software
- Dedicated server · Types of hosting
- Denial-of-service attack (DDoS) · Security terms
- Domain validation · Security terms
- Dynamic site · Static and dynamic
F
- FTP · Server software
H
- HTTP · Server software
- HTTP status code · Server software
- HTTPS · Security terms
- Hypervisor · Types of hosting
I
- Inode · Plans and billing
- Introductory price · Plans and billing
L
- LAMP stack · Server software
- Latency · Performance terms
- Load balancing · Performance terms
M
- Managed hosting · Types of hosting
- Migration · Plans and billing
N
- nginx · Server software
O
- Overage · Plans and billing
P
- Pay as you go · Plans and billing
- PHP · Server software
R
- Renewal · Plans and billing
- Reseller hosting · Types of hosting
- Resource limits · Plans and billing
S
- Serverless · Static and dynamic
- Service level agreement (SLA) · Performance terms
- SFTP · Server software
- Shared hosting · Types of hosting
- Snapshot · Security terms
- SSH · Server software
- SSL · Security terms
- SSL certificate · Security terms
- Static site · Static and dynamic
- Static site generator · Static and dynamic
T
- TLS · Security terms
U
- Unlimited · Plans and billing
- Unmanaged hosting · Types of hosting
- Unmetered · Plans and billing
- Uptime · Performance terms
V
- Virtual host · Server software
- Virtual private server (VPS) · Types of hosting
W
- Web application firewall (WAF) · Security terms
- Web host · Types of hosting
- Web server · Server software