There are quite a few abbreviations used in relation to web hosting. You could find it quite confusing if you didn’t know what they meant. Some of the more popular abbreviations which are used are listed below.

 

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line is type of communication technology that allows users to transfer data at high speed. Because it is using frequencies which are not used by telephone calls, the information can be sent much quicker along copper wire. And it allows for telephone calls to be made at the same time as internet use.

 

DNS The way in which domain names are transferred into internet protocol addresses is referred to as Domain name systems. The internet can’t work with domain names but instead depends on these IP addresses for finding pages.

 

FTP File transfer protocol is the most common way of downloading or uploading files to and from a server.

 

Gb Gigabyte is the term given to an amount of information storage. There are 1024 megabytes in every gigabyte.

 

HTML In order to create web pages, a certain code is quite often used and this is known as hypertext mark-up language (HTML).

 

HTTP hypertext transfer protocol is the method by which HTML is transferred across the web.

 

IMAP Access of messages across the web by your email program is referred to as internet message access protocol.

 

ISP this is your internet service provider. Your ISP is the service you use to connect to the web.

 

IP The way in which data is transferred between computers via a server is called internet protocol.

 

IP address How the internet recognises a server is by a series of numbers known as the internet protocol address. When searching for websites the internet uses an IP address and not a domain name.

 

SEO Getting a website ranking higher in the results pages of the search engines is known as search engine optimisation.

 

Anybody thinking about venturing into internet marketing should have UK web hosting dealt with beforehand. But the world of web hosting can be confusing. For example, you may come across free web hosting or even dedicated servers while searching different options.