Glossary List

Glossary Definition
Amazon EC2 Short for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, it runs scalable resources with cloud technology as web service based on XEN.
API Short for Application Programming Interface, it specifies the interaction between some software components, such as hard disk drives or video cards. API sometimes could be used to manage server, like reboot server or checking its status.
Auto Scaling Auto Scaling automatically scale up server capacity seamlessly with the real-time demand to ensure stable server performance.
Auto-Failover Auto-Failover enables automatically switching to a redundant or standby server or network upon the failure or abnormal situations.
Backup and Restore Wizard Backup Wizard and Restore Wizard is a user-friendly interface for backup and restore purposes. Users could easily create entire or partial backup for the server environment and restore data from the last backup saved.
Catch Alls Catch-alls refers to a mailbox on a domain that will catch all of the emails addressed to the domain that do not exist in the mail server. Configuring a catch-alls address can help avoid losing emails due to misspelling.
Cloud Control Panel Cloud Control Panel makes it easy to take overall control of Cloud Servers, such as accessing console, monitoring usage status and server rebuild/reboot, etc.
Container Container which named as operating system-level virtualization is a server virtualization method where the kernel of an operating system allows multiple isolated user-space instances, instead of only one.
Coppermine Coppermine is a functional and full-featured web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.It is a free software which can be installed on tge webspace.
cPanel cPanel is an easy-to-use control panel that provides integrated simplified management of servers and websites.
Data Redundancy Data Redundancy means storing the data duplicate in more than one field or including a data factor as a separate entity which can be easily inferred from information in existing data fields.
Dedicated Bandwidth Dedicated Bandwidth refers to the bandwidth which is is dedicated for a specific server or virtual machines, which is not shared with others.
Drupal Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework (CMF) and content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is widely used as a back-end system for websites, knowledge management and business collaboration.
eCommerce eCommerce exists where buying or selling of goods or services are conducted over the internet. Apart from trading, eCommerce also covers the data exchange in financing and payment aspect of transactions.
Email Alias Email Alias refers to a condition that a mailbox is having more than one email address. For example, and could point to the same mailbox by applying email alias.
Email Antivirus Gateway A anti-spam and anti-virus filters is installed in mail server gateway to provide protection for mail system.
Email Archiving Design for users to archive all received and sent emails messages for backup and review at any time.
File Manager File manager is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations performed on file manager are: create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, search, and modify file attributes, properties and file permissions.
Firewall Rules Firewall rules would filter the traffic passing through from one side of the router to the other. Rules can be created for either inbound traffic or outbound traffic.
Hardware Firewall Service Advanced security delivered by Fortinet Fortigate 1240B Firewall with multiple threat recognition system.
High Availability High availability refers to a system or component that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.
Hotlink Protection Hotlink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to the contents on own website. It is only available for linking to file types that without specified.
Hypervisor Hypervisor is a piece of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
I/O speed Short for Input/Output speed. It refers to the speed of communication between an information processing system and the outside world.
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service refers to host company provisions equipment to support operations, including storage, hardware, servers and networking components. The service provider owns the equipment and is responsible for housing, running and maintaining them.
Image Backup Image backup is a copy of the operating system and all the data associated with it, including the system state and application configurations, which is saved as a single file that is called an image.
Image Template Image template is a image file with a standardized group of hardware and software settings that can be used repeatedly to create new virtual machines configured with those settings.
IMAP Short for Internet message access protocol. It is a protocol for e-mail retrieval which synchronizes emails from server.
Infrastructure Infrastructure commonly refers to the physical hardware used to interconnect server side and the client side. It also refers as everything that supports the flow and processing of information.
Internal Traffic Internal traffic refers to the traffic within private network formed by multiple servers without going through the public network.
ISO Image ISO image refers to files transformed from CD/ DVD format. It is a type of disk image which is composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc.
Joomla Joomla is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. It is built on a model-view-controller web application framework that can also be used independently.
Load Balancer Load balancer is a device or software that acts as a reverse proxy and distributes the workloads of network or application across a number of servers.
Mail Forwarding Mail forwarding refers to the operation of re-sending or redirecting an email message to another email address.
Microsoft Hyper-V Aka Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor that enables platform virtualization in Windows Servers.
Migration Migration is a process of transferring data between storage types, formats, computer systems or hardware.
Moodle Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment which is a free software e-learning platform.
MX Record Short for Mail eXchanger record, a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server.
Open Source Open Source is a computer program which with source code available and open to the general public for use or modification from its original design.
Operating System(OS)
Operating System (OS) Templates is a collection of operation system and software that can manage computer hardware resources.
osCommerce osCommerce is an e-commerce and online store-management software program.
Outgoing Traffic The data transfer from server side to users side/ external servers, such as the data transfer of users downloading files from a web server, or emails delivery from one server to another server.
P2V Short for Physical-to-Virtual The process of migrating operating system, applications and data from a physical server to a virtual machine.
PaaS Short for Platform as a service, which provides pre-configured cloud servers with dedicated resource. Everything is ready for building servers.
Odin Odin allows server administrator to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface.
POP3 Short for Post Office Protocol, a protocol used to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.
Python Python is a type of widely used programming language, often used as a scripting language.
RAID10 A RAID level used for both replicating and sharing data among disks. RAID1 stands for mirroring and RAID0 stands for stripping.
Remote Console Remote Console allows users to access server through remote control to on/off and reboot the server. For example, it enable users to view the screen and control a server with keyboard and mouse remotely even when the server is disconnected from network.
Remote Desktop/
Remote Desktop Connection
Remote Console allows users to access applications and data on a remote computer over a network through Remote Desktop Protocol. It works on Windows platform only.
Root Access A administrator level log-on for servers, which allow users to take full control of the server, including server configuration or rebuild.
Ruby On Rails Ruby On Rails is an open source web application framework which runs on the Ruby programming language
SaaS Short for Software as a service, a cloud computing service that provides a computing platform and application such as Maybe Salesforce, Dropbox, Google Apps.
SAN SAN is a dedicated storage network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage.
Scalable CPU, RAM & DISK With Scalable CPU, RAM & DISK, users can increase the capacity of dedicated resources for their servers when needed.
Server Clone Cloning the whole physical server to create a new one based on existing one.
SMTP Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. A protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers or from email client (eg, Outlook) to mail server.
SSD Short for Solid-State Drive. A data storage device with no moving mechanical components, it runs much faster than tranditional Hard Disk.
SSH Short for Secure Shell, is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, authenticate the remote computer and allow it to authenticate the user.
SSL Certificate Short for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a security protocol to ensure secure transactions between a server and a client. It allows the web browser to verify the identity of a secure site before sending private personal information, such as bank account or credit card numbers via the HTTPS protocol.
Sub Domain Sub Domain is a child domain that is part of a larger domain name hierarchy. For example, in the domain name, "hk" is a subdomain of the larger domain "".
Unlimited Traffic Traffic is the amount of data sent and received by the server. It is usually presented in MB within a certain period of time. Ximbo does not limit the traffic for all the virtual server packages.
V2V Short for Virtual-to-Virtual. It refers to the migration of a virtual machine, including operating system, applications and data, to another virtual machine. Some migration tools are available on market to streamline the operation.
Virtual Machine Virtual Machine, in short form VM, is a fictive server that able to execute programs like a physical machine. It provides a complete platform to execute an operating system to run different programs and can be able to connect to external network (internet).
Virtual Network A virtual network forms a link between two virtual machines without physical connection by implementing network virtualization.
Virtualization Virtualization refers to a hardware platform, operating system, storage and network stimulation. Virtualization creates a virtual machine that able to operate like a physical machine with an operating system.
Web Disk Web Disk is an application on cPanel to manage and manipulate files on server across multiple devices, including PC, mobile, or certain types of softwares.
Web Traffic The amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site.
Windows Windows is an operating system with graphical user interface developed by Microsoft Corporation. Ximbo provides multiple versions including Windows Server 2012 Standard, Windows Web Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
WordPress WordPress is a popular open source blogging and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. It features with a plug-in architecture and a template system allowing users to build websites instantly.
Xoops Xoops is an open source content management system based on PHP. The module architecture allows users to create and modify websites with numerous themes.
ZenCart ZenCart is an open source online store management system based on PHP, MySQL and HTML which supports multiple languages and currencies.

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