Web Hosting Glossary
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 Access
Microsoft's advanced database creation and maintenance software. It is very popular among developers who maintain online databases with Windows NT.

Active Channel
An Active Channel is frequently updated information residing on a Web server. Through a CDF (Channel Definition Language) capable browser, users can subscribe to the channel.

ActiveX
A set of properties that define how applications are to share information with each other. These properties are known as controls.

AJAX
AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a scripting technique for silently loading new data from the server. For more information on AJAX click here.

Anchor
In HTML anchors are created with the .. construct. The opening A tag of a source anchor has an HREF (hypertext reference) attribute giving the destination in the form of a URL - usually a whole node or "page".

Anonymous FTP
A method of uploading or downloading files using the File Transfer protocol (FTP). Primarily used to download public files, the user can login using their e-mail as a username, and "anonymous" as a password.

Apache
One of the world's most popular Web server programs, Apache was built by a group of open-source programmers and is often used because of its outstanding performance, strong security features and the fact that it is free.

ASP
Short for "Active Server Pages" ASP is a specification developed by Microsoft for developing dynamic Web pages. All pages that use this specification use the .ASP file extension. Click here to visit our ASP.NET Showcase

Auto reply
By activating the auto responder, a sender receives an automatic response of your choice. For example, if the automatic reply is activated on contact@yourdomain.com, all emails sent to this address will be returned to the sender along with a message of your choice. You can then send another response.

Automatic image resizing
The system automatically shrinks images so that an image only has to be uploaded once and is then available in various views (thumbnail, normal, large, etc).