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Hosting Terms

RAID / Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
A category of disk drives that employ two or more drives in combination for fault tolerance and performance. RAID disk drives are used frequently on servers but aren't generally necessary for personal computers. There are a number of different RAID levels. The three most common are 0,3, and 5.

Realaudio
A program for listing to music and other sound across the Internet.

RealAudio / RealVideo
Real Audio/Video is a client-server based streaming media delivery system for the Internet. Both the browser and the server must have RealAudio/Video components for it to work. You can create and deliver audio/video-based streaming multimedia content from your web site.

Realnames
A commercial system designed to take the pain out of remembering and using URLS. The RealNames system assigns real, simple words to complex Web addresses, so that they can be accessed through a direct navigation system rather than a hit-and-miss Search Engine-based process.

Real-time
The transmission of data in the real-world present according to our experience of time. Real-time communications are usually synchronous, like telephone conversations, video-conferencing, MUDs, and "live" satellite broadcasts. The Internet can be used for real-time communications and information delivery, and there are already successful implementations of real-time video and audio on the Net.

Recurring Fees
This refers to regular, usually monthly, charges for maintaining a merchant account. Recurring fees include the discount rate, transaction fees, statement fee, and monthly minimum.

Redirect
By using particular HTML - code in a Web page, one can redirect the visitor seamlessly to another Web page.

Re-engineering
The examination and modification of a system to reconstitute it in a new form and the subsequent implementation of the new form - More information.

Registered User
A user of a Website with a recorded name and password.

Registration Authority
A company that verifies requests for a digital certificate and authorizes the relevant certificate authority to issue it.

Relational DBMS
A DBMS based on the relational model developed by Codd. It allows the definition of data structures, storage and retrieval operations, and integrity constraints. In such a database, the data and relations between them are organised in tables. INGRES and Oracle are well-known examples.

Relative URL
The Internet address of a page or other World Wide Web resource with respect to the Internet address of the current page. A relative URL gives the path from the current location of the page to the location of the destination page or resource. A relative URL can optionally include a protocol, for example, the relative URL doc/sample.htm refers to the page sample.htm in the directory doc, below the current directory.

Remailer
An Internet site that allows people to send anonymous E-mail.

Remote Access
Access to a computer system or network from a distant location, usually by dialing in with a modem.

Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is the provision of web hosting services to other companies. The reseller can buy the services and repackage it, and act as Web hosts companies for other companies, under its own company or brand name, usually repackaging it and/or adding something to it.

RFC / Request For Comments
The documents that contain the standards and other information for the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet in general. They can be found at several sites through anonymous FTP.

RISC / Reduced Instruction Set Computer
One whose design is based on the rapid execution of a sequence of simple instructions rather than on the provision of a large variety of complex instructions.

Roaming
The ability to access one or several mobile networks from any point of attachment, either by taking a mobile terminal along (terminal roaming), or by inserting an User Identification Module (UIM) in different Terminals (UIM Roaming)

Robot
An autonomous program set to perform a task over a network, like indexing file contents on servers or checking hypertext links in Web files. See spider.

ROT13
A simple encryption scheme for text messages, it which each letter of the alphabet is rotated with the one 13 places behind or ahead of it.

Router
A device that decides how and where to send Internet traffic. A router examines the address information carried by each packet as it arrives at a network and chooses the best route to send it to its final destination.

RSA
A powerful encryption scheme based on principles of Public Key Cryptography. It is named after its creator - Rivest, Shamir and Adleman.

RSAC
A system for rating the content to websites, commonly built into browsers and other online products.

RSS / Rich Site Summary
RSS is an XML grammar for sharing data.RSS was first developed by Netscape to drive channels for Netscape Netcentre.

RSVP / Resource Reservation Protocol
RSVP is a new emerging protocol that allows channels on the Internet to be reserved for the multicast transmission of video and other high-bandwidth messages.

RTF / Rich Text Format
A method of encoding text formatting and document structure using the ASCII character set. By convention, RTF files have an RTF filename extension.

RTFM / Read The F**king Manual
A reply to a query which could have been answered by reading instructions.

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