Internet Glossary - P
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Page View
Measurement of web page display frequency. Each time a page is displayed,
count one page view.
PageRank
PageRank is Google's patent pending technology that rates the "importance"
of a given web page. PageRank is used by Google (among other things) to
determine a page's rank on Google's query results page.
Password Protection
Ability to protect any web pages you do not want the general public to
view. It is used for private pages, member-only sites and for security
reasons. Password protection tools are available with a NumaTek
hosting account free of charge.
PFI
Abbreviation for Pay For Inclusion.
PHP
PHP (Parser Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting
language used to create dynamic web pages. PHP can perform any task that
a CGI program can do, but its strength lies in its compatibility with
many types of databases. PHP was created sometime in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
During mid 1997, PHP development entered the hands of other contributers.
Two of them, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans, rewrote the parser from scratch
to create PHP version 3 (PHP3). Today, PHP is shipped standard with a
number of web servers, including RedHat Linux.
POP Email Accounts
POP (Post Office Protocol) is the method of sending e-mail from a server
to an end user. NumaTek
hosting users have the option to retrieve e-mail directly from POP3
mailboxes on our mail server using an email program such as MS Outlook,
Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. Each hosting account includes a Master POP
account which can receive all email and control the settings for any optional
configurable POP accounts. The additional POPs can be assigned unique
id's and passwords to ensure privacy.
Proxy Server
Most large businesses, organizations, and universities these days use
a proxy server. This is a server that all computers on the local network
have to go through before accessing information on the Internet. By using
a proxy server, an organization can improve the network performance and
filter what users connected to the network can access. A proxy server
improves Internet access speeds from a network primarily by using a caching
system. Caching saves recently viewed Web sites, images, and files on
a local hard drive so that they don't have to be downloaded from the Web
again. While your Web browser might save recently viewed items on your
computer, a proxy server caches everything accessed from the network.
That means if Bob views a news story at cnn.com at 1:00 and Jill views
the same page at 1:03, she'll most likely get the page straight from the
proxy server's cache. Though this means super-fast access to Web pages,
it also means users might not be seeing the latest update of each Web
page. The other main purpose a proxy server is to filter what is allowed
into the network. While HTTP, FTP, and Secure protocols can all be filtered
by a proxy server, HTTP is the most common. The proxy server can limit
what Web sites users on the network can access. Many organizations choose
to block access to sites with objectionable material such as hacking information
and pornography, but other sites can be filtered as well. If an employer
notices workers are spending too much time at sites like eBay or Quicken.com,
those sites can be blocked by the proxy server as well.
