Active Server Pages (ASP) – Microsoft’s first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages.

Apache - a web server developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.

ASP.NET – a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services.

ASP.NET MVC – Microsoft added this framework to ASP.NET. It allows software developers to build a Web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller.

Cloud hosting – resources of many machines are available for a website to utilize on demand, making scalability a large advantage to a clustered hosting solution.

Colocation center – a type of data centre where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service provider(s) with a minimum of cost and complexity.

Contextual advertising – a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile browsers.

Cost per action (CPA) - an online advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to the advertisement.

cPanel – a unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel utilizes a 3 tier structure that provides functionality for administrators, resellers, and end-user website owners to control the various aspects website and server administration through a standard web browser.

Dedicated hosting – a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone.

Domain name - an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).

Domain name system (DNS) - a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants.

DotNetNuke – an open source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application’s content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and web sites.

Email hosting – an Internet hosting service that runs email servers.

Email marketing – a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience.

Email service provider (ESP) – offers email marketing or bulk email services.

Fantastico – a commercial script library that automates the installation of web applications to a website.

Green hosting – a recent addition to the field of website hosting which involves a given website hosting company attempting to prove that they are not having any negative impact on the environment in an attempt to attract green consumers.

Internet Information Services (IIS) – a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows.

Internet marketing – the marketing of products, or, services over the Internet.

Joomla! – a content management system platform for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets.

Linux - a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel.

MySQL – a relational database management system.

Organic search results – listings on search engine results pages that appear because of their relevance to the search terms, as opposed to their being adverts.

PageRank – a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set.

Paid inclusion – a search engine marketing product where the search engine company charges fees related to inclusion of websites in their search index.

Pay per click (PPC) – an Internet advertising model used on websites, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked.

Perl – a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

PHP – a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development, to produce dynamic web pages.

Reseller hosting – a form of web hosting wherein the account owner has the ability to use his/her allotted hard drive space and bandwidth to host websites on behalf of third parties. The reseller purchases the host’s services wholesale and then sells them to customers for a profit.

Ruby – a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.

Search engine marketing (SEM) – a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion.

Search engine optimization (SEO) – the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.

Shared hosting – a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.

(Microsoft) SharePoint – a collection of products and software elements that includes, among a growing selection of components, Internet Explorer–based collaboration functions, process management modules, search modules and a document-management platform.

(Microsoft) SQL Server – a relational model database server produced by Microsoft.

Virtual dedicated server (VDS) – see Virtual private server (VPS).

Virtual private server (VPS) - a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.

Web design – the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.

(Microsoft) Windows - collectively describes any or all of several generations of Microsoft operating system products.

WordPress – a very popular blog publishing application and content management system.

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