Glossary of Terms

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Access logs
Add-ons
Auto-Responders (Email)
Data transfer / bandwidth
Disk Space
Domain name
Email Account
Email Forwarding
Error Pages
FrontPage®
FTP
Gigabyte
Megabyte
Nameservers
Password-protected user accounts
PHP/MySQL
Password-protected user accounts
PHP/MySQL
POP and SMTP email access
SSL - Secure Socket Layer

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Access logs: Access logs record data about who visits your site. The logs include information such as the referrer, IP address, and type of browser. You can specify the number of days logs are kept before they are deleted.

Add-ons: LFH offers interactive features like web statistics, e-commerce, shopping cart, password protected directories, nationwide internet access, and guest book, which are simple to add to your web site. Offered in all packages. Some are free and some involve additional monthly charges.

Auto-Responders (Email): All your email accounts can be configured to automatically respond with a predetermined email message to incoming email. This is a good feature to use if you're on vacation, if you don't check your mail frequently, or if you would like to create an automated response acknowledging sender's email.

Data transfer (bandwidth): Whenever a visitor comes to your site, data is sent from our web servers to your visitor's computer. This data can be composed of web pages, images, movies, sound files, programs, compressed files, or anything else on your site that can be viewed or downloaded by visitors. All this requested data added together equals your total data transfer. The more visitors you have, the higher data transfer limit you'll need. You can always buy additional data transfer as your site grows. Offered in all packages.

Disk Space: Your web site consists of text, graphics, sound, or video files that occupy disk space on a server. If you already have this data on your computer, check the combined size of those files to help you select a hosting package with enough or more disk space. You can always buy additional disk space as your site grows. Offered in all packages.

Domain name: A domain name is also called a web address. You can register your own name, your company's name, key words to describe your business, or even a short phrase - whatever will make your web address easy to remember for your friends or customers. Once your domain is registered, you can build a public web site at your own web address (e.g., www.yourfirm.com) and create a personalized email address (e.g., you@yourfirm.com). Offered in all packages.

Email accounts: Create multiple email accounts for yourself, staff and associates with your own domain name, such as you@yourfirm.com.

Email forwarding: Email forwards enable you to have email messages redirected to a specific email account. For example, you can set up the email account sales@yourfirm.com to forward all messages to your account you@your_home_isp.com. These forwards can be added or deleted at any time.

Error pages: You can create personalized error pages to assist visitors who have tried to access a page on your site that doesn't exist, or existed at one time but has been changed. A "404 not found" page is displayed when this happens. Instead of a generic "page not found" message, you can tell visitors where an old page has moved and how to find the new content. A "401 authorization required" page is displayed if you have set up a password-protected area for your site and a visitor enters the wrong login information. A custom error message can help visitors enter the correct login information.

FrontPage®: Microsoft® FrontPage®, is a software program for creating and managing web pages. You can work exclusively in the familiar Office® interface without having to program, or know any HTML code. Designs+ utilizes FrontPage® 2000/2002 and Custom Web Designs may be published with FrontPage® or other authoring tools. FrontPage® can be installed on all LFH websites and is necessary in many. When installed, it takes up approx. 20 MB of Disk Space.

FTP: FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is a convenient, easy way to send multiple or large files across the Internet. It is a very useful tool for building and editing your web site. Simply download an FTP client to access your LFH web site and load new pages and images. We recommend and support FileZilla.

Gigabyte: A byte is the smallest unit of data measurement in computers. The following conversions give you an idea of how big a gigabyte is:
1000 Bytes (B) = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
1000 Kilobytes (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1000 Megabytes (MB) = 1 Gigabyte (GB)

Megabyte: A byte is the smallest unit of data measurement in computers. The following conversions give you an idea of how big a megabyte is:
1000 Bytes (B) = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
1000 Kilobytes (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1000 Megabytes (MB) = 1 Gigabyte (GB)

Nameservers: LawFirmHosting.com's nameservers associated with your domain tell world wide internet servers where to find your domain name when someone types your domain name into their browser. When transferring a domain name, in order to re-delegate your domain to LawFirmHosting.com, you must contact your registrar and ask them to make the following changes, or we can make the changes with proper access to your account:

* Direct the "Primary Nameserver" to ns0.lawfirmhosting.com (I.P. 208.234.1.34)
* Direct the "Secondary Nameserver" to ns1.lawfirmhosting.com (I.P. 216.117.186.139)

Password-protected user accounts: Password protection allows you to control who can view various areas in your site. For instance, you may want to create a special area for a client to access confidential documents or other information that you want only selected people to see. You can place all these documents in a folder (called a subdirectory on a web site) and give your clients / associates usernames and passwords so they can view the special area.

PHP/MySQL: PHP is a widely-used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP allows you to do many of the same functions as C and PERL - connecting to a database, reading and writing files, etc. MySQL® is considered the most popular open source database in the world. Fast and powerful, it is perfect for high-traffic, heavy-load sites. Using PHP scripting to read and write to your MySQL database gives you ultimate control of your site.

POP and SMTP email access: You can send and receive your you@yourfirm.com email from your favorite email program (such as Outlook or Eudora) via POP and SMTP. SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a protocol for sending email messages between servers over the Internet. Post Office Protocol (POP) is a protocol used to retrieve email from a mail server.

SSL - Secure Socket Layer: SSL is an accepted standard for transferring information securely across the Internet. It encrypts data passed between the server and the browser, so that unauthorized parties cannot interpret sensitive, confidential or personal information, such as a credit card number, phone number or address.

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