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Glossary of Terms

30 Day Guarantee

We want you to be happy with our web hosting services. Therefore, all web hosting plans include an unconditional 30 day money back guarantee. Whatever the reason, you can cancel your account within 30 days of activation and receive a full refund.
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Account Manager

Allows you to add, modify, and remove email accounts and more
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Additional Search Tools

Includes keyword verification, internet search satuation, and link popularity
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Advanced Search Submission

Ability to submit your web site to 100+ popular internet searches (google, MSN, alltheweb, and much more)
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Anonymous FTP Access

Allow anyone using the FTP software access a special directory for files on its disk drive. This service is called Anonymous FTP because the user name used to sign in is "anonymous."
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Anti-Virus

All Web Hosting plans come with Anti-Virus powered by ClamAV. Our servers are updated daily with the latest virus signature files to ensure that we are current with the latest known viruses. When the sender sends you an email that could be infected with a virus, the email is bounced back to the sender with the explanation. This way, the infected email never gets into your email account.
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Bandwidth / Data Transfer (per MB)

The amount of data transfer that is included with each web hosting plan, measured in MegaBytes. This includes accessing your web site, sending and receiving email, uploading and downloading files, or any access to your web hosting account. As you can see, it all depends on how popular your web site becomes or how often you access your email or files. However, all our plans should have enough bandwidth for your needs with options to add more bandwidth or upgrade your web hosting plan if you need them. If you wish to purchase additional bandwidth, you have the option to do so for $2.50 per month for every 1GB of additional bandwidth you want.

You can monitor your bandwidth usage using your TierHost Control Center.
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Basic Scripts

Basic Scripts include guestbook, counter, clock, FormMail, Search engine for your website, and more
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Basic Search Submission

Ability to submit your web site to 6 popular internet search sites (google, alltheweb, lycos, and more)
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Broken Link Validator

With the Link Validation Spider, the spider will crawl your web site to check for broken links
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Business Toolkit

Small Business Guide with sample forms and contracts
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Crontab Manager

Allow you the ability to schedule and automate repetitive tasks on the server that hosts your web site
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Custom Error Pages

Error pages are displayed to users when any one of a variety of errors occur, such as when a user enters an incorrect URL or is not authorized to access a specific directory in your web site.

Custom Error pages give you the ability to manage and develop these error pages
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Dedicated IP Address

A dedicated IP address is only necessary if you want your web site to secure / encrypt transactions or accept credit cards online. By adding a Personal Secured Certificate with your Dedicated IP Address, your web site can now be securely accessible. Ex. https://www.mydomain.com
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Default Address

the default Email address is used if an email is sent to an address that does not existing
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Disk Space (per MB)

The amount of storage that is included with a web hosting plan, measured in MegaBytes (1 MB = 1000 KiloBytes). An average web page could take about 1 to 2 Kilobytes or more, while an image (GIF files are smaller than JPEG files) could take up to 500 Kilobytes. As you can see, it all depends. However, all our plans should have enough space for your needs with options to add more storage or upgrade your web hosting plan if you need them. If you wish to purchase additional disk space, you have the option to do so for $0.05 per month for each additional 1MB of storage you want.

You can monitor your storage usage using your TierHost Control Center
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Email Accounts

You can access your email accounts from your web site; or you can access your email accounts by receiving and sending your emails using your own email software such as Outlook, Eudora, etc.

We do not limit the size of your email accounts. However, you are limited by your overall disk space in your web hosting account
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Email Autoresponders

Ability to create automatic responses for specific email addresses
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Email Forwarders

Ability to redirect incoming emails to another email address
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FrontPage extensions

Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your web site using Microsoft FrontPage. These extensions can occasionally become corrupted, so you can uninstall and then reinstall the extensions whenever required.
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File Manager, FTP, SSH/SCP

You can create and manage unlimited number of FTP accounts, which are used to upload and download files to your web hosting account. If command line access is required, Secure Shell (SSH) is also included for secure command line functionalities. In addition, a web-based file manager system is included to manage your files and folders from the web.
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Hot Link Protection

Hotlinking is when another web site points directly to any of your web site's images or files so they can include them on their web pages. Hot Link Protection can prevent hotlinking by only allowing named sites (such as your own web site) to access files on your site.
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Instant Backup and Restore

With instant backup and restore, you have the ability to backup and restore your web site using your web hosting account or a remote server.
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IonCube Loader

Provide developers the ability to execute PHP applications that are encrypted by IonCube Encoder
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IP Deny Manager

Allows you to block access to your web site from specific IP addresses.
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Keyword Selector Tool

Entering a keyword or keyphrase will result in the number of times that term was searched in the last month and related searches that includes your term
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Mailing Lists

Ability to add multiple emails to a list so you can email them faster and easier.
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Meta Tag Generator

By filling out a basic form, it will automatically generate the Meta-Tag code for your site
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MIME Manager

MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. This option provide you with the ability to set local MIME types specific to your web site needs
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MX Record Manager

By altering your MX (Mail Exchange Record) Record, you can point your email to another mail server, if this is required.
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mySQL Databases

Popular database that's commonly used by web developers when developing a database driven web application
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OpenPGP

Ability to encrypt you emails for secure online communication. Only some Email clients support openPGP (ex. Outlook and Eudora)
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Parked/Pointed Domains

Parked/Pointed Domain allows you to "point" or "park" additional domain names to your existing web site.
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Password Protect Directories

You can protect directories within your web site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict access by directories and store sensitive material online.
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PayPal Shopping Cart

PayPal's free Shopping Cart is fully compatible and is a low-cost way for you to create a simple web site for online shopping. It can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps.
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Perl CGI

Perl is a scripting language used by advanced developers to develop dynamic web sites, database web applications, backend processes, and more
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Personal Secured Certificate (SSL)

A Personal SSL Certificate, plus a dedicated IP address, will provide your web site with a 128bit encryption for secure data transmission. Such encryption (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique encryption codes) is also used by banks and trusted e-commerce stores.
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PHP

Personal Home Page (PHP) is a scripting language used by advanced web developers to develop dynamic web sites, database web applications, and more
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PHPMyAdmin

A web-based tool to manage your mySQL databases
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POP3/SMTP Mail

With each email account, you have an option to use your local email software to manage your emails. By using your local email software (ex. Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora) that supports POP3 and SMTP, you can keep your emails on your local computer. Therefore, saving disk space for your web site content and pages.
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SCP (Secured Copy) Access

Ability to securely transfer files from your local computer to your web hosting account. SSH is required.
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Search Engine Optimisation

A variety of tools to help you improve your web site's ranking in internet searches in and outside the United States
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Server Side Includes

A technique used by developers for embedding processing directives inside HTML files.
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Shared Secured certificate (SSL)

By using our shared certificate, you have the ability to secure your web site with a certificate that is used by others without having to purchase your own personal certificate. However, by using a shared certificate, the secured url to your web site will tie to a common url, not your domain name (ex. it would be https://host##.tierhost.com/mydomain instead of https://www.mydomain.com)
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SpamAssassin

All Web Hosting plans come with Anti-Spam powered by SpamAssassin. Our servers are constantly monitoring for spam emails. When an email is sent to you and is identified as spam, that email will be sent to you as an attachment to notified you but also allowing you to view the attachment in case the email was falsely identified.
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SSH (Secured Shell) Access

Ability to securely access your web hosting account using command line and shell
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TierHost Control Center

The TierHost Control Center provides you the ability to access all your resources in one area. Many web hosting companies provide you with multiple locations and multiple usernames and passwords in order to access your web hosting account, email, software, and any other resources. This can can very frustrating and confusing.

By having the TierHost Control Center, you now have a single location and one username and password to access all your resources. However, for security, we provide a separate user account to access your billing account information.
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Web Mail

With each email account, you have an option to use Horde, a web-based email software to manage your emails. By using Web Mail, you can keep your emails on your web hosting account, limited only by disk space. To view more details and features, please access the Web Software section for more details...
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Web Site Banner

Allows you to create a set of revolving banner images, normally used for advertising.
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Web Site Domains

With web site domains, you can create multiple websites with one web hosting account using different domain names. Ex. www.mydomain1.com and www.mydomain2.com
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Web Site Log Manager

Provide you the ability to manage your web site statistics data by archiving, deleting, etc.
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Web Site Search

Ability to create a quick search engine for your web site that will help your visitors find information easily.
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Web Site Statistics

With web site statistics, you can graphically view and analyze your web site (and subdomain) traffic including number of visitors, number of unique visitors, search phrases used by your visitors, etc. You have a choice between popular tools such as AWStats and Webalizer. To view more details and features, please access the Web Software section for more details...
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Web-based File Manager

Ability to manage your files in your web hosting account through your browser
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Wireless Device Enabled (WAP)

Provide developers the ability to develop web sites that are accessible from a web accessible wireless device
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Zend Optimizer

Provide developers the ability to optimize the executing of PHP applications that are encrypted with Zend Encoder
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