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30-Day Money Back Guarantee - Your satisfaction
is assured. To back up our commitment to you,
No Ad Web will refund your first months service fee if
you cancel within the first 30 days. No strings, no
hassles; just quality service to help your business
grow.
99.9% Network Uptime - State of the art facilities
and equipment in dual data centers keep you up and
running. Our systems are fully redundant and staffed
around the clock. UPS and generator back up ensure your
site stays up.
ASP (Active Server Pages) - Microsoft NT
scripting language which allows you to design web pages
that can make displaying, manipulating and editing
databases quick and easy.
Audio / Video Streaming - FREE Audio / Video
Streaming - No Ad Web servers support
many types of audio and video files. Give your visitors
a multimedia experience and enhance your web presence.
Upload content and stream to your visitors. They can
play your files with Real Players, Winamp and Windows
Media players on their clients. Unlimited streams -
unlike other providers we don't charge you per stream.
An Autoresponder is similar to an alias, but it
also will send an automatic e mail reply back to the
sender. You can have an unlimited number of
Autoresponders for no additional cost. This is
configurable in your Control Panel.
Bandwidth - How much data you can send through
a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A
full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. A fast
modem can move about 15,000 bits in one second.
Full-motion full-screen video would require roughly
10,000,000 bits-per-second, depending on compression.
cPanel w/ Xskin -
All of No Ad Web's low cost
virtual hosting plans come with the industry leading
cPanel 5 website control panel. From cPanel, you are
able to control almost every aspect of your
website/hosting account. You have the ability to manage
email accounts, ftp accounts, mailing lists, anonymous
ftp, MySQL databases, files, install cgi scripts, chat
rooms and
much more. Click here to check out CPanel
features.
CGI-BIN - Your exclusive cgi-bin lets you
run executables or test your scripts. ("Common Gateway Interface")
- an interface standard for executing a server-side
program to generate a webpage with dynamic content.
CGI scripts which conform to this standard are usually
written in Perl, Python, or C/C++.
Custom Error Messages - The quickest way to lose
a visitor to your web site is to have an outdated page
which produces a "404-Page Not Found" error.
Custom Error Messages allow you to customize
error pages which instead of displaying a dead link,
will either redirect your visitors to a main page or
explain to them the error that was encountered and how
they can get to the correct page.
Disk Space/Storage -
Everything
related to your website is stored on disk: your regular
html files, images, multimedia files, anonymous ftp
files, POP mail messages, cgi-scripts and so on. 5
MB will handle about 100 average web pages depending on
graphics, etc.
Domain Name/Web Address - The
internet address that people will use to visit your
website.
The Domain Name is mapped to an IP address (the physical
point on the internet). You can register your own
personal domain name
www.yourname.com
($14.95). Or you can choose a
No Ad Web subdomain name i.e.:
http://yourname.No Ad Web.com
DNS
- Domain Name Server (See
Name Servers Below)
Domain Parking - Parked domain names are domain names that point
to an existing web site. You can park as many domain
names under your account as you want at no charge. All
email addressed to a parked domain will come to the
default email address on your main account. Parked
domains do not have their own IP address or control
panel
Email
- Electronic mail. You can create multiple email accounts for
yourself at your own domain name, such as
you@yourname.com, family@yourname.com and
business@yourname.com . You can also create accounts for
friends or associates to use at your domain name.
Email Aliasing / Forwarding - Email
forwarding will automatically redirect any mail sent to
an email address on your domain name to another
specified email account. For example:
info@yourname.com could be forwarded to you@hotmail.com
Email Autoresponders - Provides an
automatic reply from your email addresses back to your
visitors. This feature allows you to respond to customer
inquiries instantly and efficiently.
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FTP
(File Transfer Protocol) - an Internet standard for
uploading and downloading files over the Internet.
Host
- A computer which provides file storage and services to
other computers on a network. Every web page, file,
email, or online service is stored ("hosted") on a
computer (a "server") which is connected to the
Internet.
HTML
(HyperText Markup Language) - the coding ('markup')
language used to create Hypertext documents, or web
pages.
ISP (Internet Service Provider) - An
institution that provides access to the Internet in some
form, usually for money.
ICANN - oversees the domain name Registry and
Registrars for the ".Com .Net .Info .Biz and .Org TLD's.
JavaScript - A programming language used in web pages.
Message
Board ("web board" or "forum") - A program on a web
site with a form which allows visitors to read and post
messages on the website, usually on a specific subject.
Meta
tag -
A hidden tag in your HTML
code that describes some aspect of your site. When
someone uses a search engine to find a Web site that
provides information on a particular subject, the search
engine uses the information contained in your pages'
meta tags to determine if your site is a "match."
MySQL -
A widely used relational database management system for
SQL databases. These are multi-user, multi-threaded SQL
database engines offering speed, robustness and ease of
use. SQL is a standardized language that makes it easy
to store, update and access information. MySQL is fast,
flexible and allows you to store logs as well as
pictures. Detailed information can be obtained at
www.mysql.net.
Name Servers - the
Internet's equivalent to a phone book. A name server
maintains a directory of domain names and matching IP
addresses. They use these directories to enable
computers on their networks to find web sites and other
resources. The entry for an individual domain within one
of these directories is called its zone file.
OC-12/T3 Connectivity - Our customers benefit
from Industrial strength infrastructure like dual OC-192
fiber optic connectivity (up to 622 MegaBytes per second
each), multiple backbones from UUnet, AT&T, Sprint, and
Cwix, dual OC-12 Lucent and Alcatel multiplexers which
reside in our own facility, Bay switches and hubs, Cisco
7000 series routers and ultra-fast, multi-processor RAID
servers. No Ad Web boasts the largest Internet connection in
the entire Sprint Mid-Atlantic region. We have two
complete SONET rings for maximum redundancy, fault
tolerance, and load balancing. No Ad Web servers are among the
fastest in the industry.
Password protected directories - Allows you
to set up secure and private areas on your web site for
authorized visitors only. Limit access based on
subscribers, employees and visitors.
PHP -
A server-side scripting language.
Propagation -
The process of notifying name servers around the world
when your site location changes to a new IP address or
when you have registered a new domain name on the
Internet. Propagation can take up to 72 hours.
POP3 Email -
(Post Office Protocol)
Email boxes that you can access when on the road. If you
have Internet access, you can check your POP email from
anywhere.
Using POP3
you will be able to down load your mail from the server
to your local computer.
RealAudio® and RealVideo®
The streaming audio and
video delivery systems for the Internet developed by
RealNetworks. The system is client-server based, meaning
both the browser and the server must have
RealAudio/Video components for it to work.
SMTP
(Simple Mail Transport Protocol) - the main Internet
protocol for sending email.
SSI
(Server-Side Includes) - a server-side scripting
language.
SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer) - a transaction security standard
which provides data encryption, server authentication,
and message integrity. It is most often used on
websites that accept credit card numbers or other
private information.
Script Library - No Ad Web gives you access to
many free CGI and Java scripts to create more
interactivity on your current site. Many of these are
accessible through your control panel.
Search Engine Submit
cPanel allows you to submit your web site details to
several search engines at one time.
Spam Assassin - Use this service from
your control panel to stop spammers from sending email
to you and your customers.
Subdomain
- Sub-domains are domain names with the form
anything.yourname.com.
They are also known as third level domains.
Telnet - The command and program used to login
from one Internet site to another. The telnet
command/program gets you to the login: prompt of another
host.
URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) - The web address, or
location, of a website or file on the Internet. For
example, www.No Ad Web.com is a URL.
Virtual Domain - means having
your own domain (http://www.yourname.com) without
having to install expensive server hardware and
software. With a Virtual Domain, you utilize our
server's storage space, however, you are still
professionally represented via your own personal
Internet web address domain name (www.yourname.com) and
by your own personal e mail address domain name (you@yourname.com).
WYSIWYG
-
What You See Is What You Get.
The term used for Web
design applications that display HTML documents on
screen as they will appear in a Web browser. These
applications make it possible for you to create Web
pages without learning the HTML programming language.
WAP Enabled - All No Ad Web Sites are WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol) enabled at no additional
cost. This provides cell phone users with access to your
website.
Web Hosting -
In order to have a web
site on the internet you first need to have a web
server. Unfortunately, owning a Web server can be very
costly and requires technical expertise that most
businesses don't have. This is where web hosts such as
No Ad Web come in.
No Ad Web provides the equipment and other
technical resources that you need without the headaches
that come when you have to do it yourself.
You can think of a web
host as the landlord of building. A landlord rents out
storefronts to various businesses. Each business
decorates and runs their store differently, and doesn't
worry about the maintenance of the building. In a
similar way a web host rents out space on a web server
to various businesses. Each business builds their own
web site and never has to worry about the maintenance of
their web server.
In other words, No Ad Web, the web host, provides the place on the
internet where your web site lives. It's a lot cheaper
than buying your own server, and you don't have to hire
the technical staff to take care of it.
Web Mail - Enables
you to read your emails online anywhere around the
globe.
Web Statistics - Find out where your
visitors are coming from and what pages they visit the
most.
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