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Email Forwarding

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Email forwarding is the operation of redirecting email from one email address to another email address. Email forwarding can also redirect mail going to one address and send it to one or several other addresses. Vice versa, email items going to several different addresses can converge via forwarding to end up in a single address [...]

FTP

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) This is the process of transferring files to a web site’s server. For example: If John Doe were to create his web site on his local computer at home, he would need a way to get that web site to the actual server that hosts his site so that the public [...]

HTML

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a simple markup language used in writing website documents. It provides a means to create structured documents such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms.

IIS

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

IIS is an informational web server created by Microsoft used for Windows operating systems. Some site building programs are only compatible with specific IIS versions.It is the world’s second most popular web server in terms of overall websites behind the industry leader Apache HTTP Server. The services provided currently include FTP, FTPS, SMTP, NNTP, and [...]

Java

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Java is a programming language released as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform. The language formed by much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) [...]

Joomla

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Joomla is a free, open source content management system written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database system to store information.

JSP

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Java Server Pages (JSP) is a technology that lets you mix regular, static HTML with dynamically-generated HTML.

Name Server

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Name server, also called a host, is the server that will hold a list of all the IP addresses within its network. A name server is similar to a phone book. It is a directory that tells the Internet where to find your web site and where to deliver your email ect. In other words, [...]

POP3

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

POP stands for Post Office Protocol. This is a protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. Most e-mail applications use the POP protocol. The newest and most widely used version of POP email is POP3 email. IMAP is another internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. You will see the term POP3 / IMAP [...]

SMTP

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

SMTP or Simple Mail Transport Protocol is is an Internet standard for Email transmission across Internet Protocol networks. Some clients and servers typically only use SMTP for sending messages to a mail server & POP / IMAP to access their mail box while some other agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages.