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| .uk domain name | As part of a hosting package from Internet Central Ltd, we offer a free .me.uk or .co.uk domain name for the life of the hosting package. |
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| 21CN | 21CN is BT's next generation network, currently being rolled out with a completion date of 2012. |
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| 3G | Third Generation Mobile Communications Technology - 3G is the third generation of mobile network technologies offering multimedia and Internet access whilst roaming. 3G offers greater speeds over the previous 2G technology, up to forty times. |
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| Active X | ActiveX enables interactive content on the Internet. These can be a significant security threat as they can automatically and secretly install ActiveX controls which can then access files on your computer. |
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| ADSL | ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), is the most commonly known dsl technology, otherwise known as Broadband. ADSL provides asymmetric speeds, offering a faster download speed with a slower upload, meeting residential Internet user requirements over traditional copper telephone lines. |
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| ADSL/Broadband migration | A migration is a process used to move your Internet service from one provider to another, a MAC code is required to provide a seamless transfer. |
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| ADSL2+ | This is a form of ADSL offering faster speeds of data transfer, up to 24Mb/s downstream whilst upload speeds could increase to 1Mb/s. The technology is due to roll out as part of BTs upgrade to the 21CN network. |
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| Adware | Programs running on infected machines, with an idea to advertise products and/or services. They can occur in the form of computer security. |
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| Aliases | An alias is an alternative name/title for an account, this is useful when you want one account accepting mail for several email addresses. |
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| ASP.Net Database | ASP.Net is a web application framework from Microsoft, it can be used to build websites, application and web services. |
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| Auto Responder | An auto responder sends a reply automatically when an email is sent to a specified email address. The auto responder is setup on the server through the control panel. |
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| Bandwidth | Bandwidth is the "width" of a channel used for communication. The term bandwidth can refer to analogue - the range of frequences used to transmit a signal or digital - the rate of data transmitted in bits per second. In a hosting environment, websites or server, bandwidth is used to describe the amount of data which can be transmitted over a given period of time. |
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| Bot | A bot is a term assigned to an individual computer in a larger network, botnet. |
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| Botnet | A number of hijacked remotely controlled computers used as a method of spreading viruses/worms. |
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| Broadband | Broadband is a generic term for an affordable method of connecting to the Internet using DSL technology, typically ADSL. |
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| Browser | A browser is an application used to view Internet pages, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera. |
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| CGI scripts/Perl | CGI (Common Gateway Interface), is a standard for interfacing external applications with information servers. This is very useful for when querying a database and displaying the results on the webpage. Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language), is a dynamic programming language used for a great number of varied tasks, such as extracting information from a text file and printing out a report or for converting a text file into another form. |
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| CMD | Command - when this is used in the run box a DOS prompt box is opened allowing commands to be run, such as ping, ipconfig. This is particularly useful when troubleshooting network difficulties. |
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| Contention Ratio | A contention ratio is the maximum number of users sharing the bandwidth on the connection from the local exchange to the provider. Internet Central offers two contention ratios 50:1 meaning a user will never have to share the connection with more than 49 other users and 20:1, a maximum of 19 other users. |
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| Control Panel | A control panel is a graphical interface provided to enable easy administration of the server individual to your website and email hosting. Through the control panel you are able to create, amend and delete email accounts, upload files for your website, query statistics on the traffic. There are two levels of access available, site administrator, set to grant permissions over the whole site, and the user admin, a user is able to login and administer that one account. Internet Central Ltd reserves a permission level above site administrator to monitor the server and setup additional sites/users. |
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| Cookie | A cookie is a piece of information stored within a text filecreated by a web server and stored on a users computer, this assists in increasing web browsing speeds. They can be used to remember preferences on a web page, your user name and password entered in a form for example. |
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| DDoS | DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service, an attack of thousands of computers, (usually part of a botnet) on a specific target in an attempt to take it offline and cause downtime. |
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| Disk Space | Disk space is the amount of hard drive space available on the server for your website and email. This space also contains any log files. It is advisable to opt for a package which is potentially too much as it can later be downgraded very easily. If the disk space is exceeded the server will not accept any more mail for the domain and so the space needs to be carefully monitored if an low package is opted. |
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| DNS | DNS, Domain Name System, computers and other networking devices understand digital data in the form of 1s and 0s, (binary), these can make up an IP address, allowing a computer to access remote sources, such as web addresses. The function of DNS is to resolve these IP addresses to domain names for the users and back again for computers to understand. For example, www.internet-central.net has no meaning to a computer, it must be resolved using DNS to discover the source IP address of 212.57.232.65. The computer can then go through the process of communicating with network devices to display the web page. |
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| DSLAM | A device installed within the telephone exchange terminating copper pairs to provice xDSL commections, this is to become obsolete with MSANs in 21CN. |
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| Ethernet | Ethernet is a local area network protocol capable of supporting up to 1Gbit/s over standard shielded twisted pair. |
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| Frontpage Extensions | Microsoft FrontPage, used for creating and publishing websites/webpages requires server side scripts for some elements to work correctly, such as hit counters, email processing, and data collection. Our servers contain these scripts so that your Microsoft FrontPage can operate as you wish. |
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol - FTP is a protocol used for uploading and downloading files to/from a server. |
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| FTP Access | Data (music, pictures, files, web pages), can be uploaded via differnet means, the most common method is through ftp, usually through an application such as FileZilla. All of our servers support the ability to upload data throught his method. |
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| Gateway | A gateway when used in network infrastructure is an interface enabling networks to communicate with one another, usually a router. |
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| Hosts File | The host file is a local directory used when translating a web address entered in a browser to a numeric IP address. If the address can be found in the host file it will be used first, if not the computer will connect to the DNS server to resolve. There are some malware which edit the host file to point to a completely different site. |
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| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - HTTP is a set of rules (a protocol) for transferring files (text, video, graphical, sound) over the world wide web, the protocol is used between a browser and web servers. |
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| Intermittant | Intermittancy is used to describe a services uptime, where the uptime is very short and drops. It is commonly heard on an Internet connection where the service drops out frequently. |
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| IP | Internet Protocol - IP is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, a standardized method of transporting information through the Internet. |
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| iPass | iPass is a service provided by Internet Central Ltd to allow users to travel globally and still connect to the Internet via dial up, wireless and ethernet cabled connections, whilst paying local rates rates rather than high International fees. The service works through an application installed on the connecting device offering the ability to see connection hot spots prior to travelling. The service is always ugrading for free and covering an increased scope of devices; Vista, Windows Mobile 6, Symbian mobile phones to name a few, in a growing number of locations; airports, hotels, restaurants, coffee houses, football stadiums for example. |
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| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network, ISDN a system of digital, high bandwidth telephone lines, offering connection speeds of 128Kbps, (high speed dial up connections). |
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| ISP | An ISP, Internet Service Provider, is a company/organisation providing users with access to the Internet. |
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| Keylogger | A keylogger is a program installed on a machine designed to record every keystroke, obtaining information from the user. |
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| LLU | Local Loop Unbunding - LLU is the process of allowing additional telecommunication providers use of the connections from an exchange to the customers premise. |
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| Mailing List | A mailing list is the collection of users and email addresses used to send material to more than one recipient. |
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| Malware | Malware, Malicious software a term used for all unwanted malicious software on a users computer. |
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| Man-In-The-Middle | An attack where a hacker intercepts the traffic between a users computer and the server. This method allows the hacker to pick up on card details, bank security information. |
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| Modem | A modem (Modulator-Demodulator) is used to receive signals sent over a telephone line (analog) and convert them into a form recognisable for the receiving computer/network (digital). |
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| MS Access Database | Our servers are capable of supporting Microsoft Access databases (.mdb) |
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| MSAN | A piece of equipment installed within an exchange offering telephony, ISDN, and xDSL in one combined package. |
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| MySQL Database | MySQL is a relational database management system, which runs as a server providing multiple access to more than one database. MySQL is very popular and used for web applications, the database integrates very well with PHP, combined MySQL and PHP run content management systems such as e107, Joomla, and Mamo for example. |
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| Packet Sniffing | When packets are "sniffed" a software is inspecting individual data packages received by a computer to find out more of the purpose of the machine. Login details can be obtained through this method. |
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| Pharming | An attempt to steal personal information using false web sites. Pharming attacks seed false information on Internet DNS servers that provide location information. The result is that individuals are directed to web sites to seem to be genuine, but are actually false. The term is pronounced as farming. |
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| Phishing | Phishing is another scam techique used to fool the user into entering secure information into what is believed to be a genuine web site. This method is usually accessed through instant messaging or email. |
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| PHP scripting | PHP (personal home page tools) is a general purpose computer scripting language suited for web development. PHP usually runs on a web server and has been noted to work effeciently on a unix server. |
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| POP3 Mailboxes | A pop3 mailbox is an account on a server configured to accept mail for a user or users. This is the typical method of accepting mail for a domain, an account must be setup on the server and then a corresponding account setup on a computer to login with a username and password. |
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| POTS | POTS, Plain Old Telephone Service is an analog traditional phone service usually found at residential and small businesses. A broadband connection can be placed over this to provide Internet connection. |
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| PowerTools | Our unix servers offer the ability to easily install the applications listed below: - Crafty Syntax Live Help -
- Formmail PHP Script -
- A tool to parse information submitted on any HTML form and send it to specified users.
- Gallery Photo Album Management System -
- A tool to create and maintain photo albums on your Web site.
- Invision Bulletin Board -
- A forum solution for your Web site.
- PHP Support Tickets -
- A simple, secure, and powerful solution to customer relations.
- PHP Web Calendar -
- Web Based Calendar system built using the PHP language.
- PHP-Nuke Content Management System -
- An advanced content management system.
- PHPLinks -
- An extremely efficient link farm with full search capabilities.
- PHPOpenChat Chat System -
- A high performance chat engine.
- PHPlist -
- Personalized mailing list manager/customer relationship management system.
- PHProjekt -
- An open source groupware suite.
- PhpBB Bulletin Board -
- A bulletin-board system built using the PHP language.
- PostNuke Content Management System -
- A community, content, collaborative management system for building dynamic Web sites.
- XOOPS eXtended Object Oriented Portal System -
- A dynamic object-oriented open source portal system written in PHP.
- b2 Weblog -
- A classy news/weblog tool (aka logware).
- osCommerce Online Store -
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| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network - PSTN is the standard telephone service, provided over copper wires. A fully working PSTN service is required before adsl can be installed. |
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| QoS | A measure of how good a service is on a broadband connection, it can be represented in percentages, allowing measurements of resources to be guarentteed for different types of traffic. |
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| Real-Time Scanner | A scanner which runs in the background allowing a user to continue working without any noticable loss in performance. |
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| Router | A router is a hardware device allowing a network to connect to neighbours allowing data to be passed between them. Modern routers also incorporate a modem allowing access to the Internet and advanced local facilities. |
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| SDSL | SDSL, Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line, a similar product to adsl, offering equal download and upload speeds. SDSL will not work over a standard copper line and so has to be installed on order. |
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| SMTP Forwarding | Mail can be sent directly to your server and not through an account setup on our shared platform, this is smtp forwarding. This method of mail collection is used with exchange or InTY servers for example. |
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| SPAM | SPAM is a loose term used to identify unwanted email, usually advertising products and services. |
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| Spam/Junk Filtering | Internet Central Ltd have built internal scanners offering virus and spam protection. When the mail passes through the scanners a series of rules are implemented and a score is awared. Depending on this score the mail is either denied, passed through with the subject amended to indicate possible spam or is passed unchallenged as not spam. If the mail contains a virus or potentially contains a virus the mail is denied and a message sent down to the intended recipient stating a message was blocked. |
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| UK Dial UP | The ability to connect to the Internet using a dial up number provided to you for free from Internet Central Ltd. The service is chargeable and are made to your phone bill at about 3.5 pence per minute. This is useful should your primary internet connection become unavailable or you are unable to use current means. |
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| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol - WAP is a standard allowing mobile devices to access the Internet. |
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| Web/FTP Statistics | Our servers are capable of collecting usage logs and providing graphical and data tables representations of the data collected. Through the logs it is possible to understand how much traffic routes to your website during the day/week/month/year. |
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| WebMail access | WebMail, is the ability to access mail stored on the server through a login portal, found at http://www.yourdomain/webmail. This is very useful when travelling or experiencing difficulties with your local computer. |
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| WiFi | A facility on provided on firewalls and routers allowing access to local resources and the Internet without a joining cable. |
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