Terms Glossary
Anonymous FTP
This feature will let visitors to
your site upload and download specified files from directories or
folders you designate from within your control panel. These
visitors shall not need any username or password to upload or
download files. Anonymous FTP differs standard "FTP Access" which
requires usernames and passwords.
Autoresponders
This features sends out an
automated email or response to every new incoming email. . Each
email address on your account can have a different autoresponder
and the specific information in your autoresponder can be
customized. An example: Jon sends an email to
sales@Superstacks.com. The autoresponder for this email address
automatically sends a preconfigured email message back to Jon
letting him know we received his email.
CGI script
This scripts are used as a
supplement to regular HTML. They are frequently used to increase
functionality and make websites more interactive. Hit counters,
guest books, order forms, and many other useful features can all
be programmed in CGI scripts. Superstacks.com offers a free CGI
Library you can access from your control panel. The library comes
with preconfigured banner rotator, clock, formmail and other
pre-written cgi scripts. 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 else where on the web.
AuthorizeNet
Used for secure processing of
credit card transactions. AuthorizeNet works is made to function
properly with most widely used browsers in the market as well as
other Web store software programs.
Data Transfer per Month
Each time a web
page, image, audio, video, and other elements of your website is
accessed by your visitor, traffic is generated. Your aggregate
traffic is the sum of outward-bound, inward-bound, email, and
anonymous FTP traffic. Your monthly traffic allowance is
calculated as 31 times the daily traffic allowance.
Superstacks.com, unlike most other web hosts does not charge an
extra fee any traffic to your site
Detailed Usage Statistic/ Access to Raw Log
File
Superstacks.com 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. These features are fully accessible
24 hours everyday from your control panel
Disk Space
Everything related to your website
is stored on disk on our server hard drives: your regular html
files, images, multimedia files, anonymous ftp files, POP mail
messages, cgi-scripts and so on.
Domain Alias
This feature lets 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: AJ Holdings registers
two domain names, A.com and J.com. It places its web site at
A.com, and makes J.com a domain alias of A.com. Whenever someone
types in the address of domain J.com they are automatically
redirected to domain A.com. Superstacks.com charges NO extra fees
for this feature. Our clients can have as many free domain aliases
as possible.
Domain Name
Computers connected to the
Internet identify each other using numerical IP addresses, which
are very difficult for humans to memorize. A Domain Name is an
easy-to-remember Internet address in plain alphabet (such as
"Superstacks.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. Superstacks.com in
association with an ICANN Accredited registrar can help you with
both at a nominal fee.
Email Forwarding
When email forwarding is
activated, messages sent to a certain email address are forwarded
to another address. For example: Jon sends an email to
webmaster@yourname.com. The message is forwarded immediately to
you@yourdomain.com.
FrontPage Extension
In order for you to use
all the features that come with your Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000
WebPages editor, FrontPage Extension should be installed for your
account. You may request installation of this feature when you
place your original order. You may do so at a later date by
sending email to support@Superstacks.com .
FTP Access
FTP is used to upload and download
your website files from your local computer to our servers or from
our servers to your local computer. 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 of the day
or night.
Web Based Email
Our Web Based Email allows
you to check your email on the fly from any location in the world,
as long as there is a live connection to the internet. It is very
much like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail - only without the banner ads. All
emails sent to you are accessible from our web based email
interface and can be deleted, stored, read or replied
to.
POP3 Email Accounts
These are your email mail
boxes in our servers 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
that you have access to the Internet.
RealAudio/RealVideo
Real Networks'
RealAudio/Video® system is a streaming audio/video delivery system
for the Internet. It is client-server based, meaning both the
browser and the server must have RealAudio/Video® components for
it to work. You can create and deliver streaming multimedia
content through the Internet to audiences worldwide. We include
step-by-step instructions for including RealAudio/Video® in your
Web pages.
Referrer Log
Referrer logs add extended
tracking capability to your Webstats and access-log. By turning it
on, 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.
Shopping Cart
Keeps track of what your
customers have ordered from your Internet store. Customers add and
remove items from their shopping cart, and tallies their order
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 conformation to the customer.
Secure Server (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. See "CyberCash" for an alternative
method