| A | B |
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| Web Host | A business that rents our server space on which you store all of your website's files. |
| Shared hosting | You share space with other sites on a server |
| Dedicated hosting | Your site is the only one on the server |
| server | A special computer directly connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. Its purpose is to "serve" up your web pages so people can view them. These have special applications that can deliver content to the client making the request. |
| uptime | How often your site is online and accessible. Usually stated as a percentage like 99.1%. |
| storage space | How much you are allowed to store on your account. HTML files, images, video, audio, etc. |
| URL | A Uniform Resource Locator or web "address". |
| IP Address | Each computer on the Internet is assigned a specific numerical address. Each domain name is associated with an IP address. |
| Client | A software program/device that requests to see a web page. When it receives the codes, it can render them and display the web page. Examples are browsers, smartphones, etc. |
| domain name | Tells you who owns the site (mrssanchez.com). It can also tell you the nature of the web site, such as a commercial site, an educational site, etc. |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol. The most common way to copy files to your web server. |
| DNS | Domain Name Server. This "matches" the name (mrssanchez.com) with its numeric IP address |
| bandwidth (data transfer) | The amount of data that can be transferred. |
| .com | commercial |
| .biz | business |
| .info | information site (similar to .com sites) |
| .net | network organization sites |
| .org | organizations, usually non-profits |
| .edu | educationa., accredited post-secondary institutions only |
| .gov | government |
| .mil | military |
| .jp | Japan |
| .us | United States |
| .uk | United Kingdom |
| .fr | France |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This organization keeps track of domain names and IP addresses. It manages the internet's domain name system. |
