Hosting terminology
Plain definitions of the terms used on this site.
- Admission
- The process by which a company is introduced, screened, verified and accepted as a client of Eurabelt Custodial Hosting.
- Admission pass
- A confidential code sent to an admitted company’s signatory. It opens the order pages for a browser session.
- Bandwidth (traffic)
- The amount of data transferred between your sites and their visitors in a month.
- Browsable backups
- Daily copies of your account you can open and restore from the control panel, file by file.
- Cloud architecture
- A platform where mail, databases and websites run on separate groups of servers rather than on one machine.
- Control panel
- The Hepsia web application where you manage domains, sites, mail, databases and invoices.
- Dedicated IP address
- An internet address used by your account or server alone.
- Dedicated server
- A physical server leased to one company, with full administrative access.
- DNS
- The system that translates a domain name into the address of the server that answers for it.
- Domain registrant
- The legal holder of a domain name. With us, always your company.
- EPP code
- The transfer code a registry requires before a domain moves to another registrar.
- Eurabelt Verified
- The public register of admitted companies and the seal their websites carry.
- Hosted domains
- The number of separate domain names whose websites an account can serve.
- KVM
- Full virtualisation: each virtual server runs its own kernel with reserved resources.
- ModSecurity
- A web application firewall that blocks known attack patterns before they reach your site.
- NVMe
- Solid-state storage connected directly to the processor bus, much faster than older disks.
- OpenVZ
- Container virtualisation: servers share the host kernel and are quick to deploy.
- Root access
- Full administrative control of a server’s operating system.
- Sanctions screening
- Checking a company and the people behind it against official sanctions lists.
- Semi-dedicated server
- A managed hosting account on a machine shared by very few customers, with a large resource allowance.
- SSL certificate
- A credential that encrypts traffic to a site and proves the site belongs to its domain.
- Support ID
- Our identifier on the shared sales and support lines: 325863. Quote it on every call.
- Uptime
- The share of time a service is available. Our network guarantee is 99.9%.
- WHOIS
- The public record of who holds a domain. ID protection replaces personal details with forwarding details.
- ZFS
- A file system that checks data as it is read and repairs silent corruption.