Web Hosting Jargon explained in simple english

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Diskspace
Diskspace is the amount of hard disk drive space that you have to store your files on our server. This quota includes space for your website, email accounts and databases. Don't worry if you exceed your quota - just contact us to upgrade your account!

POP3 Email Accounts
Emails to your domain are delivered to a master POP3 email account (or mailbox) which comes standard with every plan. You can access this mailbox with many email clients including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora Mail.
Additional POP3 mailboxes allow you to give mailboxes to other users - your colleagues, friends, or even just to separate and sort your emails. For example, you can have a mailbox 'sales@yourdomain.com' and 'support@yourdomain.com' instead of having every email routed to your master mailbox.

Bandwidth / Monthly Traffic / Transfer
Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred between your site and the browsers of the visitors accessing your site. For example, if your hosting plan comes with 1GB of monthly traffic, your visitors can download or transfer up to 1GB of data from your website before you exceed your allocation.

Unlimited FTP AccessFTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows you to connect to our server to upload and download files to and from your website. To connect, you need a FTP client such as SmartFTP which can be downloaded from www.smartftp.com or one of the many other free FTP clients available. Our servers allow you unlimited FTP access, 24 hours a day.

Daily WWW Access Logs / Web Statistics
Our servers will provide you with daily logs that log all hits and visits to your website. You will have access to web statistics software that runs on our server daily to generate useful reports from your daily WWW access logs. These include colourful charts, graphs and tables that tell you everything from how many visitors you have to what the most popular files, times and days are.

Email Forwarding / Autoresponders
Email forwarding allows you to forward or redirect emails sent to a particular address to another address. Email autoresponders automatically send a preset responder to the sender when an email reaches a particular email account.

Web-Based Email (Webmail)
Web-based email or webmail allows you to check, receive, compose and send emails from a web browser. This is useful when you do not have access to your normal email client (Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, etc) but have access to a browser.

Sub-Domains
A subdomain allows you to have domain names such as http://support.company.com, http://you.yourname.com or just about anything else you wish. Subdomains are useful and easy to remember.

MySQL Databases
MySQL is the world's most popular Open Source Database, designed for speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use. At CyberHostUK, we combine the power of MySQL with the ease-of-use of phpMyAdmin to administer your database.

Control Panel
Our control panel allows you to easily configure email accounts, change passwords, manage databases and do a lot more with the click of the button. cPanel is reknowned for being the world's most advanced and user-friendly website management tool.