Web Hosting Glossary Terms starting with Letter K

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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.

Kermet

Protocol for transferring files over the modem connection. It's very slow.

Keyword

In text editing and database management systems, a keyword is an index entry that identifies a specific record or document or a searchable term extracted from a data set during indexing.
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Kilobyte

A thousand bytes. Actually, usually 1024 (2 10 ) bytes.