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CGI
Short for Common Gateway Interface, a CGI program is designed to accept
and return data to a Web server. CGI programs can be written in any
language, including C, Perl, Java, Visual Basic etc.
Cgi-Bin
A directory on the server where the executable CGI scripts reside.
Co-located Hosting
A method of hosting where client-owned hardware is located at hosting
provider's facility. Co-location facilities offer the customer a secure
place to physically house their hardware as opposed to locating it in
their offices or warehouses - where the potential for fire, theft, or
vandalism is greater. Click here to visit our Colocation Showcase.
Cold Fusion
A web application server, ColdFusion is a server-side scripting
language web development tool. It uses HTML-like tags called CFML,
which allow back-end ODBC database connectivity, data manipulation and
validation within web pages. Read more on Cold Fusion Hosting.
Control Panel
Especially valuable for dedicated or co-located solutions, many web
hosts offer control panels that allow hosting clients to fully
configure and modify their server from any Web-enabled computer.
Cookie
A Cookie is a piece of data that is saved in the user's browser by the
web server. It is used to customize user's browsing experience.
Cron
A UNIX command used to schedule jobs to be executed at some time in the
future, typically on a periodic or regular basis. When used as a daemon
process, the cron runs continuously and executes in response to
specified events.
CSS
An extension to HTML to allow styles,
e.g. colour, font, size to be specified for certain elements
of a hypertext document. Style information can be included
in-line in the HTML file or in a separate CSS file (which can
then be easily shared by multiple HTML files). Multiple
levels of CSS can be used to allow selective overriding of
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