Web Hosting Jargon Buster
Disc Space
The amount of physical space devoted to holding your "content." This will be manly your web site files, but can include stored email and databases.
Monthly Traffic
When people visit your site, data is sent from our servers to their computer. This data can be composed of web pages or anything else on your site that can be viewed or downloaded by visitors. It also include email received and downloaded to your PC. Every month this requested data is added up, to give your total data transfer.
POP3 Email
The "pop" in POP3 stands for "post office protocol." It's a client/server protocol for collection email on a server from individual mail accounts. You can configure the users and passwords from a straightforward online control panel.
Email Redirects
This is sometimes known as "Email Forwarding." Rather than collecting your email off our server, you can arrange for mail addressed to your domain to go to mailboxes hosted elsewhere (perhaps at your ISP).
Mail Responders
The ability create automated responses to incoming email. This is quite handy when you are out of the office, or on holiday and can't respond in person immediately.
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