| Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive Web pages or powerful Web-based applications, which are easy to develop and modify. ASP is only available with Windows accounts. |
| ASP.NET is the next generation of Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP), a feature of their Internet Information Server (IIS). ASP.NET is different from ASP in two major ways: it supports code written in compiled languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Perl, and, it features server controls that can separate the code from the content, allowing WYSIWYG editing of pages. ASP.NET is only available with Windows accounts. |
| A full read/write/execute access directory for all CGI scripts. Most pre-made scripts come built in designed to use this folder in your website so modification shouldn't be needed to the source code. A cgi-bin folder is included with both Unix and Windows accounts. |
| ColdFusion MX makes Internet application development and deployment
faster and easier than any other solution available today. Easily extend
or integrate with Java or .NET applications, connect to enterprise data
and applications, create or consume web services, or interface with SMS
on mobile devices or instant messaging clients. Add powerful application
services for business reporting, rich-forms generation, printable document
generation, full-text search, and graphing and charting. |
| Microsoft FrontPage Extensions are a set of server-side scripts and programs
which enable users of Microsoft FrontPage to use its special components
(called Web Bots). The extensions can be installed for Microsoft Internet
Information Services (IIS) and on other Windows (usually Windows NT)
and UNIX web servers. FrontPage Extensions are included with both Unix
and Windows plans. |
| PHP (a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is an open-source, server-side HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. A dynamic Web page is a page that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information. PHP is freely available and used primarily on Linux (UNIX) Web servers, and as an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. As with ASP, the PHP script is embedded within a Web page along with its HTML. Before the page resolves, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script. An HTML page with PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of ".php," ".php4," or ".phtml." |
| Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. Perl scripts are not embedded within HTML pages and do not download to the web browser but reside on the server. They execute by being triggered from commands within HTML pages or other scripts and may produce HTML output that does download to the web browser. Perl 5 is included with both Unix and Windows plans. |
| Commands that can be included in web pages that are processed by the web server when a user requests a file. The command takes the form <!--#include virtual="/path/to/file"-->. A common use for SSI commands is to insert a universal menu into all of the pages of the web site so that the menu only has to be changed once and inserted with SSI instead of changing the menu on every page. |
| Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:. Shared SSL is included with both Unix and Windows plans and the secure URL will be https://username.dexaweb.com. |
| A dedicated SSL certificate allows you to have the peace of mind with the security of your website's transactions while using a URL familiar to you because it's the one you already use. SSL certificates are available for as low as $46.65 per year! |
