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Hosting Terminology >> H
- Hit As used in reference to the World Wide Web, “hit” means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server ; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 “hits” would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics. “hits” are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server, e.g. “Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month.” Because each “hit” can represent anything from a request for a tiny document (or even a request for a missing document) all the way to a request that requires some significant extra processing (such as a complex search request), the actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost impossible to define. - Home Page The main web page or index page for a web site. - Host Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network . It is quite common to have one host machine provide several services, such as WWW and USENET. - HTML This is the code that web pages are written in. The next time you visit a web site, go to View > Source on your browser to take a look at what the coding of a web site looks like. - HTTP (Hyper Text Transport Protocol) This is the protocol for transfering files across the Internet. You see it everytime you type a web site in your browser http://... - Hypertext Generally, any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause another document to be retrieved and displayed. |
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