cache
a computer memory with a short access time. Normally used for storage of instructions or data.
case sensitive
The ability to distinguish between uppercase (i.e., capital) letters and lowercase (i.e., small) letters.
cell
An individual area in a table into which to place data.
Cert or certificate
An SSL certificate or Secure Socket Layer certificate is protocol used to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers.
CGI-BIN
A subdirectory with your public_html folder where CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts are placed to be executed.
chmod
The change mode command, which is only used on UNIX systems. It changes or sets the permission of a file or a directory. You can chmod an FTP program or you can also make these changes with our File Manager available in cPanel.
Typical Permissions:
777 - (on our servers should be set to 755 or 644)
666 - (on our servers should be set to 755 or 644)
755
644
cloaking
Cloaking is showing different versions of your content to different visitors. It is most often used to show different content to search engines spiders than you show to your human visitors.
CMS
Content Management System. A Program or Script designed to provide easy web site creation and management.
CNAME Record
CNAME records are "canonical name" records used to point an entry to another name.
Comment
A comment is a component of a programming language that allows the programmer to tell the parser to ignore anything within the comment. The method for indicating a comment varies from language to language.
cookie
A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard disk. Cookies enable a Web site to store information on user's computers that is later retrieved and used when accessing that site again.
cpanel
A web-based administration tool that many hosting providers provide
for users to configure their accounts using an graphical interface.
Cpanel theme
A Cpanel theme is a preset package containing graphical
details, used to customise the look and feel of the cpanel.
cron job
A command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, it is used to
schedule commands to be executed periodically.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets is a feature of HTML developed by the W3C. With
Cascading Style sheets users can create style templates that specifies how
different text elements paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, fonts, etc. appear
on a web page.
Custom Error Pages
A custom error page is a feature of most Web server
software that allows you to replace default error messages with ones you
create.
