Are you often feeling lost about rare terms, abbreviations or words used on the Web Hosting and Web Development world?
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Server Glossary Explained
Here you will find the most common IT terms related to web hosting, web development and cpanel control panel that are often used in our cPanel Tutorials. Start digging around and get familiar with the web hosting lingo.
We are updating this list on a weekly basis, that’s why you will find not all the terms are linked.
| cPanel & WHM | Databases |
| cPanel cPanel Addons CloudLinux WHM Webmail EasyApache | MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB NoSQL SQL Server |
| DNS | Domain Names |
| DNS Bind DNS Check DNS Propagation DNS record DNS Zone PowerDNS | Domain Name Domain Registrar Domain Transfer ICANN TLD |
| Hosting Services | |
| Email Google Apps MTA MX RBL Roundcube Squirrelmail Zoho Mail | Cloud Hosting Datacenter Dedicated Hosting Email Hosting VPS Shared Hosting |
| Protocols | OS |
| FTP HTTP HTTP2 IMAP SMTP SSH SSL / TLS | BSD CentOS Debian Linux Ubuntu Unix Windows Server |
| Web Development | Web Servers |
| CSS HTML PHP Perl Python NodeJS Drupal Joomla Magento Prestashop WordPress | Apache Cherokee Lighttpd LiteSpeed Nginx Microsoft IIS |
| Web Development | System Administration |
| IP Address ISP URI URL Website | Bash Scripting Daemon DDOS CSF Firewall Kernel Sysctl Systemctl System Administrator |