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Glossary Articles
What does this website status code mean?
Added on Wed, Apr 1, 2015
What each website code means and what problem it might be explaining. Read More
What are cookies?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What a cookie is and how it works with websites. Read More
What are Time to Live (TTL) values?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What Time-To-Live values are and how you can adjust them in your Domain Control Panel. Read More
What are zone files?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What a Zone File is and how you can edit it in the Domain Control Panel. Read More
What does FQDN mean?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What a Fully Qualified Domain Name is. Read More
What does the MX record do?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What an MX record is and how to change it. Read More
What is a CNAME?
Added on Thu, Mar 5, 2015
What the CNAME record is and how you can change it in your Domain Control Panel. Read More
What is a Domain Reference?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What a domain reference is and how to set up one for your website. Read More
What is a Nominet Tag or IPSTAG and how do I change it for my domain name?
Added on Tue, Mar 10, 2015
What a Nominet tag, also known as an IPSTAG, is and how to change it in your Domain Control Panel. Read More
What is an autoresponder?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What an autoresponder is and how you can set one up. Read More
What is ASP?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What ASP is and how it can be used on your website. Read More
What is DKIM and can I send emails using it?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What DKIM is and how it can be used. Read More
What is FTP?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
Explaining what FTP is and how it works. Read More
What is Java and what can it do?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What Java is and how you can use it on your website. Read More
What is JavaScript?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What JavaScript is and how you can use it on your website. Read More
What is MySQL and what does it do?
Added on Thu, Feb 26, 2015
An explanation of what MySQL and how to use it. Read More
What is NSLOOKUP?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What NSLOOKUP is and how to use it to look up information. Read More
What is Perl and what can it do?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What Perl is and how you can use it on the website. Read More
What is PHP?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What PHP is and how it can be used on your website. Read More
What is PING?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What PING is and used for within web hosting and networking. Read More
What is Python?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What Python is and how you can use this programming language on your website. Read More
What is SMTP?
Added on Tue, Mar 31, 2015
What SMTP is and how you can use the Heart Internet SMTP server. Read More
What is the difference between POP3 and IMAP?
Added on Wed, Mar 25, 2015
The differences between POP and IMAP email protocols. Read More
What is Traceroute?
Added on Fri, Mar 13, 2015
What Traceroute is and how to use it for web hosting management. Read More
What is XML?
Added on Wed, Apr 1, 2015
What XML is and how it can be used. Read More
 
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