Access database
An easy-to-use database application that integrates with many Microsoft? Office products. Access is a good choice if you want to use data from an existing Microsoft Office product or if you do not have large amounts of data. All Sysol Windows 2000 plans support Microsoft Access databases. You can connect to your Access database using an ODBC connection (DSN connection) or a DSN-less connection.
Affiliate Program
The Sysol program that enables organizations and individuals to collect a commission for referring qualified clients interested in receiving Sysol services.
Annual price
The cost for hosting for 12 months. You can sign up for a Web hosting account annually, which enables you to secure your Web presence and obtain an annual pricing discount.
Apache
An open-source Web server for Linux, Windows 2000 and other platforms. Originally developed in 1995, Apache has become the most popular Web server in use today, due to its powerful feature set and excellent performance.
Sysol's Linux platforms are available with Apache 1.3.x.
ASP
Active Server Page. An HTML page that contains scripts (VBScript or JavaScript) that are processed by a Web server before the page displays to the user. ASP pages end with the extension ".asp." Because ASP pages are dynamically generated, they enable you to tailor, or customize, your Web content to the customer.
ASP is a feature of Microsoft? IIS? (Internet Information Server) and is supported by Sysol's Windows 2000 platforms.
Autoresponder
An automated email reply sent in response to each incoming message for a specific email address. For example, you can use an auto-response to automatically send every customer who contacts you via email a standard "Thank You" email response.
For each email address/alias on your Sysol account, you can set up a different auto-response.
Bandwidth
Also referred to as your Monthly Traffic. The monthly measurement of data coming in and out of the server, and specifically your Web site. Sites are given a guide amount of potential traffic they can receive.
Bandwidth is measured in gigabytes (GB) and is calculated and recorded when a file is downloaded. 1 GB of bandwidth provides approximately 100,000 hits (which are individual requests for files including images, web pages and multimedia) a month. Additional bandwidth can be added to your account as needed.
Catch-all email account
A type of email account designed to "catch" any email messages addressed to your domain (@yourdomain.com) but not addressed to an actual POP3 email account or email alias.
Every hosting plan comes with one catchall account as well as a certain number of POP3 email accounts.
Certificate Authority
An organization that issues and manages security certificates that are used to establish credentials and verify identities when performing electronic transactions.