Glossary of Terms

LAN
Local Area Network - A network that connects computers in a small, pre-determined area (like a room, building or set of buildings). LANs can also be connected to each other via telephone lines and radio waves. Workstations and personal computers in an office are commonly connected to each other with a LAN. This allows them to have send/receive files and/or have access to the files and data. Each computer connected to a LAN is called a node.

Leased Line
Refers to a phone line (connection) that is rented for exclusive 24-hour/7-days-a-week use from one computer or network to another, or for constant access to the Internet. Also called a dedicated line.

Link
Text and/or an image area on a Web page that a user can click on to connect to or reference another document. Commonly, links connect two Web pages or Web sites. They can also reference a different part of the same document, linking to a file which will download to your computer or triggering the launching of an external or helper application which will then process the clicked-on file.

LINUX
Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source development and free software; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.

ListServer
ListServer lets you set up automated mailing lists on the server. It comes with a control to add/edit/delete users and to send new messages to your user group (each message has a limit of 1000 words). This package allows for 300 mailing list subscribers per list.

Load Balancing
Load Balancing is the act of breaking apart what would traditionally be handled on one server into multiple servers. When a request is made to a virtual domain name, for instance, smtp.registeredsite.com, the Load Balancer chooses the physical server that has the most available resources and sends the request to that server. This improves performance overall and helps ensure a more reliable uptime.

Log File Access
Raw log files are used to track the hits to your website. You can access them from your root directory.