Hosting Glossary

Kubernetes is an open-source, extensible, portable platform that automates software management, deployment, and scaling of containerized services and workloads

Bandwidth in website hosting is the quantity of data a site can transfer to its users in a particular timeframe

A Web Host Manager (WHM) is cPanel’s web application providing customers with administrative control of their Dedicated Virtual Private Server

Domain privacy protection is a service that keeps contact information anonymous by replacing authentic contact details with those of the privacy service and randomly generated email addresses.

Every website starts with a domain and a name. A record must

DNS propagation is the time taken for changes to a Domain Name Server (DNS) update to disseminate across the internet

Time to live (TTL) is a system that limits the lifetime of data packets traveling across the internet before being discarded by a router

An IP address is a specific address that identifies a device on a local network or the internet

A domain name registrar (DNS registrar) is a business that sells internet domain names and handles registration

A Domain Name System (DNS) is a decentralized and hierarchical naming system that identifies computers accessible via the internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks

A web server can be software, hardware, or these working together. Regarding software, a web server comprises parts that control how web users access hosted files

Caching is data storage that enables high-speed fast access to computed or previously retrieved data rather than accessing its primary storage location