Glossary

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines.

SSL refers to the now deprecated Secure Sockets Layer. In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the ownership of a public key.

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email authentication method designed to detect forging sender addresses during the delivery of the email.

A shared web hosting service is a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for electronic mail transmission.

A Start of Authority record (abbreviated as SOA record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing administrative information about the zone, especially regarding zone transfers. The SOA record format is specified in RFC 1035.

Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service.

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage.

SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network.

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.