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
- Aisle containment · Data centres
- Apache HTTP Server · Server software
- Application server · Static and dynamic
- Availability zone · Regions and zones
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
- Common mix-ups · Domain name or web host? The difference
- Container · Cloud service terms
- Content delivery network (CDN) · Performance terms
- Content management system (CMS) · Static and dynamic
- Control panel · Server software
- Cooling · Data centres
D
- Data centre · Data centres
- Data transfer · Performance terms
- Database · Server software
- Dedicated server · Types of hosting
- Denial-of-service attack (DDoS) · Security terms
- Does a small site need this? · Regions and zones
- Domain validation · Security terms
- Dynamic site · Static and dynamic
E
- Environments · Staging site
F
- Fire protection · Data centres
- FTP · Server software
H
- How close a copy is it? · Staging site
- How the two get joined · Domain name or web host? The difference
- HTTP · Server software
- HTTP status code · Server software
- HTTPS · Security terms
- Hypervisor · Types of hosting
I
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) · Cloud service terms
- 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
- Platform as a service (PaaS) · Cloud service terms
R
- Rack · Data centres
- Redundancy · Data centres
- Region · Regions and zones
- 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
- Software as a service (SaaS) · Cloud service terms
- SSH · Server software
- SSL · Security terms
- SSL certificate · Security terms
- Staging · Staging site
- Static site · Static and dynamic
- Static site generator · Static and dynamic
T
- Testing comes first · Staging site
- TLS · Security terms
- Two different jobs · Domain name or web host? The difference
U
- Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) · Data centres
- Unlimited · Plans and billing
- Unmanaged hosting · Types of hosting
- Unmetered · Plans and billing
- Uptime · Performance terms
V
- Virtual host · Server software
- Virtual machine · Cloud service terms
- Virtual private server (VPS) · Types of hosting
W
- Web application firewall (WAF) · Security terms
- Web host · Types of hosting
- Web server · Server software
- What staging is for · Staging site
- Where the names come from · Cloud service terms
- Who provides each one · Domain name or web host? The difference
- Why hosting plans mention it · Staging site
- Why the choice of region matters · Regions and zones
- Why the split is useful · Domain name or web host? The difference
- Why use more than one zone? · Regions and zones