Web Hosting Glossary Terms starting with Letter E
Terms that will help you understand hosting services. Internet reference and glossary of Web Hosting Terms and Definitions. Please select a letter to jump to that section of The Glossary.
A glossary is defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field. This Web Hosting Glossary section is specially designed to explain most of the terms that you should read and understand before you choose your web hosting service provider.
E-Commerce
Electronic Commerce. Refers to the general exchange of goods and services via the Internet.
E-Commerce Hosting
An e-commerce hosting plan option that allows a merchant to accept orders online.
E-mail (Electronic Mail)
A communication system that allows you to send text, files and/or graphical messages over the Internet.
See also: ( Chat Room )
E-mail Aliases
Aliases are additional, disposable incoming e-mailbox addresses that you can create for special or short-term uses, such as info@janesbagels.com, or sales@janesbagels.com. You may want to use an alias when you don't wish to share your primary e-mail address. All messages sent to an alias will be delivered to your primary e-mailbox. All messages sent from an alias will use the primary e-mailbox address in the 'From' address of your message.
E-mail Autoresponders/ListsAn autoresponder will send a standard response e-mail message (based on a text file you specify) to anyone who sends an e-mail to a specific e-mail address (which you specify) at your domain.
E-mail Forwarding
Automatically sends email messages from one email address to another email address.
E-mail Hosting
Web hosting plan that allows users to send and store email, may or may not come with hosting for a website.
E-Mail POP Account
An actual e-mail account on your web host's e-mail server. POP stands for Post Office Protocol.
E-mail Spam
Unwanted, unsolicited email. Email spam usually pertains to unsolicited commercial messages sent in bulk by people you don't know.
Encryption
A very common method of networking computers in a LAN . Ethernet will handle about 10,000,000 bits-per-second and can be used with almost any kind of computer. See Also: Bandwidth , LAN
EthernetA local-area network (LAN) protocol developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. Ethernet uses a bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps. It is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards. A newer version of Ethernet, called 100Base-T (or Fast Ethernet), supports data transfer rates of 100 Mbps. And the newest version, Gigabit Ethernet supports data rates of 1 gigabit (1,000 megabits) per second.
ExtranetA part of the company's network that is made accessible for some group of people. Sometimes protected by a password or some other kind of authentication. It allows users to access some of the non-public data, e.g.. a person's credit card balance.
