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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people who have tired of answering the same question over and over.

FCC
(Federal Communications Commission). U.S.A. telecommunications regulatory organization. It controls standards that pertain to electronic and electromagnetic transmission and also licenses the frequencies and bandwidth for the commercial use.

FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
A cable used for transmitting data as a light wave. A fiber optic cable is composed of one or more optical fibers. It is more expensive that copper wire, but offers higher transmission speeds and allows for communication over larger distances.

Fibre Optic Cable
A cable used for transmitting data as a light wave. A fiber optic cable is composed of one or more optical fibers. It is more expensive that copper wire, but offers higher transmission speeds and over larger distances.

FileManager
FileManager is a multi-user, Web-based file directory and remote command manager for Unix operating systems.

File Restore
File Restore allows the end-user to restore their website¡¯s content from a series of time-based periods (one hour, one day, etc.).

FileSystem Database Support
FileSystem Database support allows you to read, write and search file-based databases on the server. This includes various types of delimited text files (such as tab or comma-delimited files) as well as the most popular Linux database file formats.

Filtering
Screening network packets for certain properties, such as the source or destination address, protocol used or even a pattern in the data. It is used in firewalls in order to decide if the traffic is to be forwarded or rejected. Provides the basis for network security.

Finger
An Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet sites. Finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal information, but the most common use is to see if a person has an account at a particular Internet site. Many sites do not allow incoming Finger requests, but many do.

Firewall
Firewall refers to either software-only or separate software and hardware combination that serves to protect an internal network or a computer from attacks and unauthorized access by sitting between the Internet and the internal network.

Flame
An insulting email message sent to an individual as punishment for not adhering to the netiquette. Can be sometimes seen in the newsgroups or on internet message boards.

Flash, Flash Generator
Flash is a plug-in and web development application from Macromedia. Files created in Flash combine animation, sound and interaction and take advantage of a vector-based format to minimize file size.

Flash Generator takes advantage of the application architecture to produce Flash elements dynamically.

Form
HTML documents designed with fill-in text boxes, lists of options, and other elements that allow the user of the form to send information back to the web server. (E.g. registration form, order form, etc.)

FormMail
Automatically sends information completed within a form via email to the email address specified by the end user.

Forwarding
When referring to email addresses, forwarding allows you to send email sent to a specific box to another box. The second box may or may not be hosted with us. For instance, you could set "bobp@domain.com" to forward to "bobp@aol.com".

Front Page
Front Page is an HTML editor made by Microsoft. It is commonly used to create web pages.

FrontPage®2002 Extensions
Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002 Server Extensions (FPSE) are used frequently by hosting providers to enable users to upload their FrontPage-created sites. Microsoft® FrontPage®is a Web site creation and management software tool that allows you to create and maintain Web sites.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous ftp servers.

FTPmail
Using email messages to access the FTP sites. Requires a special software installed on the server.

Fully-Redundant
A system that is fully-redundant is set up so if the main system fails, a backup system takes over automatically. Our data center is fully-redundant. We have two methods of connecting to the INTERNET, two methods of fire suppression and more so that our data is continually protected and uninterrupted.