Web Hosting Glossary

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  • Vacation auto response - All Yahoos! Email accounts offer a vacation auto response feature, which allows you to automatically reply to incoming email messages. You might create an automatic reply when you're going on vacation, if you don't check your mail frequently, or — perfect for small business owners — if you'd like to generate an automated response to frequently asked questions, such as pricing or hours of operation.  
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  • Vacation responders - All your email accounts can be set up to automatically respond to incoming messages. This is a good feature to use if you're on vacation, if you don't check your mail frequently, or if you would like to create an automated response to frequently asked questions, such as pricing or hours of operation. Offered in all packages.  
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  • VBScript - VBScript is a scripting language supported by the Internet Explorer only. It was developed by Microsoft and based on the syntax of Visual Basic.  
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  • Viewer - Another name for a help application. 
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  • Virtual Hosting - Also called Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) hosting. Virtual Hosting partitions a server into several Virtual servers that each act likes dedicated servers. Allows users to have the features and benefits of a dedicated server at much less cost.  
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  • Virus - A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance". 
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  • Virus Scanning - Scanning out for viruses by using an anti virus software is known as virus scanning.  
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  • Visitor profile - Your Site Statistics reports provide visitor profile information: details about those who view your site. The visitor profile report includes information such as which browsers and operating systems your visitors use, whether their browsers support Java and JavaScript, and their screen resolutions. You can use this information as you make changes to your site design; for example, if most of your site visitors use the Netscape browser instead of Internet Explorer, you'll want to make sure your pages look great when viewed with Netscape.  
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  • VPN - Virtual private network (VPN) is a private data network that makes use of the public telecommunication infrastructure, maintaining privacy through the use of a tunneling protocol and security procedures. The idea of the VPN is to give the company the same capabilities at much lower cost by using the shared public infrastructure rather than a private one.  
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