Glossary of Terms and Services

Below is a list of hosting terms and services provided by AlexanderJonas.com and our partner NetNation Communications Inc.


Disk Space

Disk space is a measure of hard drive storage, normally measured in megabytes (MB).

Monthly Bandwidth

Bandwidth is a measure of network resources, normally measured in megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB).


POP mailbox

The POP mailbox feature is a means to store email messages so that they can be retrieved by the owner from anywhere on the internet.


Email Forwarding

The email forwarding feature allows you to automatically forward mail from one POP mailbox to any internet email address.

Email Aliasing

The email aliasing feature allows you to have multiple addresses for one POP mailbox.

For example, you could have sales@abc.com and info@abc.com and help@abc.com as aliases to a single POP mailbox.

Auto Responder

The auto responder feature allows you to automatically send a text file reply when you receive an email.

This is useful if you want to let people know that you are on vacation and will not be able to immediately reply to their email.

Autoresponder Wizard

The simple configuration panel allows setting the autoresponse email either by emailing to the autoresponder or by editing the email online. Email attachments and string matching are also supported. To access this new feature, login to User Services at http://userservices.netnation.com and select the "Mail control panel" link. To create a new autoresponder, simply enter an alias and a final recipient, and select "New autoresponder" from the pull down list.

Graphical Usage Statistics

The graphical usage statistics feature creates graphs that depict the amount of traffic to your site, which documents are being accessed, and who is accessing them. Click here to view a demo.

Web based control panel

The web based control panel is a interface you can use to administer your account online. You can configure email (POP) accounts and aliases, change your account password, check the disk space usage, order additional services or view your statistics. Click here to view a demo.

Web based File Manager

SiteMgr can perform many of the file operations needed to manage a web site. You can use it to navigate the directories of your web site, viewing a list of files in each. You can also copy, create, delete, edit, move and upload files, as well as create and delete subdirectories. Last but not least you can also change permissions and run a script that tries to fix the most common cgi errors. SiteMgr can be accessed as http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/sitemgr.cgi
Click here to view a demo.

Counter wizard

Allows you to configure a counter easily. Once you choose the desired look of the counter, the program will give you an HTML code that you can copy and paste to your web page. Click here to view a demo.

Feedback form wizard

Allows you to add/delete entries into your mail.list file. Click here to view a demo.

Personal CGI directory

The personal cgi directory feature allows you to run any cgi script from a directory located inside your home directory, provided the script conforms to the terms and conditions of usage agreement.


Secure Transactions

The secure transactions feature uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to provide for site authentication and peer to peer secure communication.

This feature allows you to safely transmit and receive sensitive information such as credit card numbers or passwords.


FTP server

The FTP server feature allows you to serve files using the File Transfer Protocol.


Hit Counter

The hit counter feature is a graphic that displays the number of times that page has been accessed.

CyberCash

CyberCash enables you to securely process credit card transactions 24 hours a day, seven days a week to a new global marketplace. CyberCash works with all popular browsers, as well as the majority of Internet hardware, software, servers, communication protocols, and Web store applications.

Flash

Macromedia Flash is the standard for interactive vector graphics and animation for the Web. Web designers use Flash to create beautiful, resizable, and extremely compact navigation interfaces, technical illustrations, long-form animations, and other dazzling effects for their site. Graphics and animation will anti-alias and scale based on the viewer's screen size, providing high-quality viewing.

Truespeech

TrueSpeech is a high quality speech compression software that compresses speech down to as much as 1/40th its original size. Since regular speech files are normally large, compression using TrueSpeech enables them to be transferred faster and more easily. Support for TrueSpeech real-time audio is available for use in your Web pages.

Real Audio & Real Video

Real Networks' RealAudio and RealVideo system a client-server based streaming media delivery system for the Internet. Providers of news, entertainment, sports, and business content can create and deliver audio-based streaming multimedia content through the Internet to audiences worldwide.

HTTP Streaming

HTTP streaming is an alternative approach to serving Real Audio files on the Web. Although this technique is not well-suited for high-volume sites serving numerous simultaneous streams, many smaller Web sites can benefit tremendously from this simple and inexpensive approach. This technique relies on HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) which is already used by all Web servers to store and transmit ordinary text and graphics files on the Web. Click here to see our demo.