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 PCT

Personal Communications Technology , An enhanced version of Secure Socket Layer.

 PCX

A file format that compresses its image data with RLE-type compression, used by early versions of...

 PHP

PHP is an free, open-source server-side scripting language. PHP code can be embedded in HTML. PHP...

 POP

Point of Presence, also Post Office Protocol , Two commonly used meanings: Point of Presence and...

 POP3 Account

Storage space for e-mails delivered via the most recent version of the Post Office Protocol...

 PPP

Point to Point Protocol , Most well known as a protocol that allows a computer to use a regular...

 PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network , The regular old-fashioned telephone system.

 PTR

Pointer Record , A host name for reverse mapping (IP-address-to-host-name). The opposite is...

 Packet Switching

The method used to move data around on the Internet. In packet switching, all the data coming out...

 Page

A single document in a World Wide Website written using the HTML language.

 Page title

A text string identifying a page.

 Paragraph style

Paragraph style specifies the type of font to use in a paragraph, along with the font's size, and...

 Parking (Domain Name)

Registries require the use of name servers or hosts for every domain registered. Parking is the...

 Password

A code used to gain access to a locked system. Good passwords contain letters and non-letters and...

 Path

The portion of a URL that identifies the folders containing a file. For example, in the URL...

 Perl

Popular Extraction and Report Language , Open source CGI scripting programming language. Written...

 Ping

A network management tool that checks to see whether you can communicate with another computer on...

 Plug-in

A (usually small) piece of software that adds features to a larger piece of software. Common...

 Port

Port can refer to more than one meaning. First and most generally, a place where information goes...

 Posting

A single message entered into a network communications system. E.g. A single message posted to a...

 Primary DNS

The Primary Domain Name Server for the customer's domain. These are the DNS IP numbers, usually...

 Process Quota

The number of processes a user can run simultaneously on a server. This number is based on the...

 Propagation

The process whereby the nameservers throughout the world have updated their records for a...

 Properties

The settings and values that characterize an item on the web, such as the title and URL of a web,...

 Protect Directories

An option that allows you to limit access to Web pages and data that resides on your server by...

 Protocol

A method of accessing a document or service over the Internet, such as File Transfer Protocol...

 Proxy server

An Internet server that acts as a firewall, mediating traffic between a protected network and the...

 Push button

A form field that allows the user to submit a form or reset the form to its initial state.

 Python

Interpreted programming language, sometimes offered by hosts for server-side scripting.