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| ISP | An organization that maintains a connection to the Internet and rents access (i.e., hosting service) to customers. |
| ASP | An organization that provides some types of application functionality and hosting (e.g., contact management, e-commerce) in addition to Internet access for a Web site. |
| ASCII | The format used to transfer and store text data. |
| Social Engineering | A practice used by hackers to try to trick people into revealing sensitive information. |
| Web Site Publishing | The process of uploading files to a Web server. |
| Link checking | A site maintenance process that involves methodically reviewing a functionality on each page to prevent the site from looking outdated or neglected. |
| FTP | An Internet protocol used to transfer files between computers without corruption or alteration. |
| User feedback | A direct or indirect source for information about your site's functionality and design, and which often contributes to site revisions |
| Binary | The format used to transfer and store non-text data. |
| Web site host | A Web server that has a dedicated connection to the Internet. |
| FTP client | The software tool generally used to transfer Web page files to an HTTP server. |
| Denial of service | An attack on a server that consumes all of the server's available network bandwidth. |