Monthly Charge

This is your per month cost for i-Gad to maintain your domain on our server. We offer competitive quarterly rates and further discounted annually rates. [Back]



Hard Disk Storage

The amount of storage available to your domain for HTML pages, graphics, special programs, etc. [Back]



Monthly Transfer

In general refers to the amount of information which can be transferred from your domain downloaded to a client machine, measured in megabytes and gigabytes. This refers to the file sizes of HTML pages, graphics and special programs requested by the client's browser. This number is determined by the number of hits to your web site as well as the number of pages/files requested by the visitor. Any FTP uploads and downloads done to maintain your web site are NOT included in this number. [Back]



POP EMail Accounts

Point Of Presence, and Post Office Protocol. Post Office Protocol refers to the way EMail software such as Eudora gets mail from a mail server. When you obtain a SLIP, PPP, or shell account you almost always get a POP account with it. It is this POP account that you tell you EMail software to use to get your mail. Point Of Presence usually means a city of location where a network can be connected to, often with dial up phone lines. [Back]



Toll Free Support

Use our toll free number if you have any questions or comments (800-760-7942). [Back]



Domain Name Registration

A domain name is a unique name that identifies an Internet site. A domain name only points to one server. A domain is assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) Number which is assigned by the service provider.

When a domain is transferred from one server to another is assigned a different IP Number. Internic is then notified by us to make a modification to your domain. Your new IP Number is used to access you site until the modification request is completed by Internic and other parties involved. A new domain should be active in 2-3 days. i-Gad does not bill for or collect Internic registration fees. The domain billing is sent to the billing contact for the domain via surface and EMail.
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CGI-BIN Support

Common Gateway Interface that describe how a web server communicates with another piece of software on the same machine, and how the other piece of software (the CGI program) talks to the web server. Usually a CGI program is a small program that takes data from a web server and does something with it, like putting the content of a form into an EMail message. CGI-BIN is usually the name of the directory on the server that stores CGI programs. Although the BIN refers to binary, most cgi programs are text files -- scripts that are executed by binaries located elsewhere on the same machine. [Back]



SSI Enabled

Server Side Includes command enabled. SSI are HTML-like commands that the server executes as it parses an HTML file. Generally a file extension of .shtml indicates that SSI commands are present in that HTML file. A common use for SSIs is to provide a signature file or logo in each file you create. The Include file resides on the web server and is included whenever any HTML file that contains the include command is requested, hence the name Server Side Includes. SSis increase the workload on the server. Some service providers do not enable this option. [Back]



Unlimited EMail Forwarding

EMail that is forwarded to the EMail address of one that is generally established with your local internet service provider instead of storing it on our server. [Back]



SSL Encryption

Secure Sockets Layer protocol designed by Netscape Communications to enable encrypted, authenticated communications across the internet. SSL is used mostly in communications between web browsers and web servers. URL's that begin with "https" indicate that an SSL connection will be used. SSL provides 3 important things: privacy, authentication, and message integrity. In an SSL connection each side of the connection must have a Security Certificate, which each side's software sends to the other. Each side then encrypts what is sends using information from both its own and the other side's Certificate, ensuring that only the intended recipient can decrypt it, and that the other side can be sure the data came from the place it claims to have come from, and that the message has not been tampered with. [Back]



Web Trends

Web Trends is a statistics report which provides an easy way to read log files that hold valuable information about your site. With Web Trends you can see how many people have accessed your site, from where and how often. Web Trends includes easy to read graphic representations of this important data. If you have selected Web Trends to be added to your site, you can access this information as follows:
http://youripaddress/report
To view a sample of Web Trends go to ??????????????????
To have Web Trends added to your plan contact as 800-760-7942. [Back]



Real Audio

Real Audio is a browser helper application that allows you to play sound files in real time. This add-on requires a modification on the server to be supported in any web application. You can download Real Audio as a self-extracting archive file. [Back]



Cyber Cash

Service provider of secure internet payment solutions worldwide. Used to accept secure, real time payments on your web site. [Back]



FTP Access

File-Transfer Protocol is the standard TCP/IP used for transferring files on the internet. This is how HTML pages, graphics and programs are uploaded to and downloaded from the server your web site resides on. Generally FTP access is made available with an account and a password on a remote computer. Anonymous FTP refers to the remote computer accepting logins from anybody. [Back]



Telnet Access

Part of the TCP/IP protocols where users generally lon in to a UNIX shell account on a remote system using a text-based or graphics-based terminal program. Your computer becomes a terminal on the remote system. Telnet can be used to navigate the remote system, run programs, perform file maintenance, etc. [Back]