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Glossary — Letter A

Clear definitions for technical terms in hosting, servers, DNS, security, WordPress, and digital marketing. 300 terms available

A Record

A Record is a DNS resource record that maps a hostname (such as example.com or www.example.com) to a...

DNS

AAAA Record

AAAA Record is a DNS record type that maps a hostname to an IPv6 address, enabling clients to reach ...

DNS

ACID

ACID is a set of database transaction properties: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability....

Databases

AI Hosting

AI Hosting is a hosting setup optimized for running artificial intelligence workloads such as model ...

Hosting Types

AI Inference

AI Inference is the process of using a trained machine learning model to generate outputs from new i...

AI & ML

AI Model Serving

AI Model Serving is the process of deploying trained machine learning models so they can handle real...

AI & ML

Angular

Angular is a TypeScript-based front-end framework for building single-page web applications using a ...

Web Development

Anycast DNS

Anycast DNS is a DNS routing method where the same IP address is advertised from multiple geographic...

DNS

Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server is an open-source web server that delivers websites and web applications over HTT...

Servers & Server Software

API

API is an application programming interface that defines how software components communicate using a...

Web Development

Application Server

Application Server is software that runs business logic for web applications, sitting between a web ...

Servers & Server Software

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a broad set of techniques that enable software to perform tasks associate...

AI & ML

Authoritative DNS

Authoritative DNS is the part of the Domain Name System that provides the final, trusted answers for...

DNS

Auto-Scaling

Auto-Scaling is a cloud and hosting capability that automatically increases or decreases compute res...

DevOps & Admin