This PPT serves the purpose of increasing the knowledge of the reader with regard to certain frequently encountered, useful terms related to the World Wide Web.

1. Useful Terms Related
to the World Wide Web

2. Table of Contents
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Generators (Web Statistics Generators)
Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Graceful Reboot
Greylisting
Gzip
Htaccess
Htpasswd
HELO
Home Directory
Horde Webmail
Hostname
Hotlink (Inline Link)

3.  The log statistics for a user’s web server are compiled by these software
applications. cPanel & WHM includes three statistics generators. These
are- Analog, AWStats, Webalizer. A server’s web statistics and software can
be managed by server administrators in the “Statistics Software
Configuration” interface in WHM by following the path, WHM -> Home ->
Server Configuration -> Statistics Software Configuration.
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Generators (Web Statistics Generators)

4.  It refers to the value that is used by the system to identify a resource. It is
somewhat similar to UUID, which is a more common identifier. GUID is
mainly used by Microsoft products.
 To digress, a website hosting company provides the server space and the
necessary technologies that are required to make a website accessible
over the Internet. The “Best Website Hosting Company”, the “Best
Windows Hosting Company India” and the “Best Cloud Hosting Company”
are certain terms that refer to website hosting companies.
Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
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5. GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
 It is a suite of tools that serves the purpose of signing and data
encryption. The user usually uses these tools for signing emails. A
user can create and manage GnuPG keys in the “Encryption”
interface in cPanel, by clicking on cPanel -> Home -> Email ->
Encryption.
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6. Graceful Reboot
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It is the method that is meant to store new system information, prior to the
shutdown of the server. It is the preferred way for restarting a user’s server.
Such a reboot is the opposite of a forceful reboot. WHM interface allows
graceful reboots to be performed.

7. Greylisting
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It is the service that ensures a server’s protection against spam or unwanted
email. When this feature has been enabled, any email that originates from a
sender that the server can’t recognize is rejected temporarily by that mail
server. It can be enabled by using the “Greylisting” interface in WHM, by
clicking on WHM -> Home -> Email -> Greylisting.
In the event that the email is licit, the server from which it originated tries to
resend it after some delay. The server accepts the email, post a sufficient
lapse of time.

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1-800-123 -8156
Whoa! That’s a big number, aren’t you proud?

9. Gzip
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It is a program. It is used to compresses files, so that disk space can be
conserved. The .gz file extension is used by the compressed files. It reduces
transfer times to a minimum. Additionally, it makes it easy to transfer
multiple files.
Gzip is often used with the tar command by Unix and Linux systems, in order
to create a tarball file. Here the .tar.gz file extension is used.
A system’s gzip compression level can be set in the “Tweak Settings” interface
in WHM, by clicking on WHM -> Home -> Server Configuration -> Tweak
Settings.

10. .Htaccess
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It is a file that is present in a specific directory. It contains the configuration
information of the directory. Such a file might have authentication
instructions in it.
In the context of websites, its files are stored on the server space that is
leased by website hosting companies. Terms that indicate a website hosting
company are, the “Best Website Hosting Company”, the “Best Windows
Hosting Company India” and the “Best Cloud Hosting Company”.

11. .Htpasswd
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It refers to a file that exists in a specific directory where an .htaccess file is
also present.
An .htpasswd file has encrypted password information in it from the time
when the authentication for the directory had been set up by the owner.

12. Hello
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It refers to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) command. It is sent by an
email server or client in order to identify itself at the time when it connects
with some other email server. This command begins the process where an
email is sent, which is followed by the server’s domain name being sent. This
command is usually used by older email clients. That is because such clients
do not need service extensions.

13. Home Directory
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It refers to the highest-level directory of a cPanel account. It has all the files
and directories that are used by the account’s websites. The files in a home
directory cannot be viewed by the visitors until these exist in the
public_html directory or in one of its subdirectories.

14. Horde Webmail
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It is a webmail client in cPanel & WHM. With its aid users can check emails
through a browser. Horde can be used in the Webmail interface in cPanel.
Custom Horde data behavior is included in cPanel & WHM.

15. Hostname
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It refers to a server’s human-recognizable name across the Internet. It is
unique. The server hostname is distinct from the user’s domain name.
A server’s hostname can be specified or changed by system administrators in
the “Change Hostname” interface in WHM, by clicking on WHM -> Home ->
Networking Setup -> Change Hostname.

16. Hotlink (Inline Link)
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It is that direct link which embeds a file (a video or an image) from a user’s
site into another website. In the event that another site embeds a user’s files,
the user’s bandwidth is used by it to serve those files.
Hotlinking can be prevented by accessing the “Hotlink Protection” interface
in cPanel, by clicking on cPanel -> Home -> Security -> Hotlink Protection.

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