WAIS

Wide Area Information Servers , A commercial software package that allows the indexing of huge quantities of information, and then making those indices searchable across networks such as the...

 WAN

Wide Area Network , Any internet or network that covers an area larger than a single building or campus. Usually a sum of smaller LANs .

 WEBppliance

An application that provides Web hosting services. When installed on a Linux server, WEBppliance is a robust Web hosting appliance that is easily managed through user interfaces. WEBppliance is...

 WWW

World Wide Web , Two meanings : First, loosely used: the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using Gopher, FTP, HTTP, telnet, USENET, WAIS and some other tools. Second, the...

 Web Host

A web host is a new type of company specific to the Internet. The web host basically provides your web site a home on the Internet so that it may be accessed from anywhere in the world. The idea is...

 Web Server

A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software (such as Apache or...

 Web Site

A Web site is a collection of Web pages that reside together on the World Wide Web and are connected. Web site also refers to the server space allocated to a specific customer in a shared "virtual"...

 Web Site Traffic Reporting

Reporting software to provide information such as the frequency of hits, page views, amount of data transfer, and total transfer sizes.

 Webmaster

An individual who manages a web site. Depending on the size of the site, the Webmaster might be responsible for any of the following: Making sure that the web server hardware and software is...

 Whois

An Internet utility that returns information about a domain name or IP address. For example, if you enter a domain name such as yahoo.com, whois will return the name and address of the domain's owner.

 WinSock

Windows Sockets , is a standard way for Windows-based programs to work with TCP/IP. You can use WinSock if you use SLIP to connect to the Internet.