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The following glossary defines common web hosting terms.
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium. An international industry consortium that develops standards for the world wide web.
WAV
An audio file format. Very accurate, but offers no compression, thus resulting in very large files.
Web Mail
Email that is accessed via a web browser.
Web Server
A computer that stores web pages and delivers them on request to the web browsers of client computers.
Webmaster
A person responsible for the maintenance of a particular website.
Whois
Most registries maintain a database of domain names and their associated contact information. Users can query these databases through a program called Whois.
Windows Hosting
Web hosting that supports any version of Windows, a family of operating systems by Microsoft.
WWW
(World Wide Web) - Two meanings - First, loosely used: the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the universe of hypertext servers (HTTP servers) which are the servers that allow text, graphics, sound files, etc. to be mixed together.
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