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Technical Glossary

Glossary — Letter M

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

MAC Address

MAC Address is a unique hardware identifier assigned to a network interface, used to distinguish dev...

Networking

Machine Learning

Machine Learning is a branch of artificial intelligence where software learns patterns from data to ...

AI & ML

Magento Hosting

Magento Hosting is web hosting optimized for running Adobe Commerce (Magento), focusing on performan...

Hosting Types

Mail Server

Mail Server is a server system that sends, receives, stores, and routes email for a domain or organi...

Servers & Server Software

Mailbox Quota

Mailbox Quota is a storage limit assigned to an email mailbox that caps how much space messages, att...

Email

Mailing List

Mailing List is an email distribution group used to send messages to many subscribers from a single ...

Email

Malware

Malware is malicious software designed to infiltrate, damage, disrupt, or gain unauthorized access t...

Security

Managed Hosting

Managed Hosting is a hosting model where the provider handles key server and platform operations suc...

Hosting Types

Managed WordPress Hosting

Managed WordPress Hosting is a hosting service optimized specifically for WordPress, where the provi...

Hosting Types

MariaDB

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses SQL and is designe...

Databases

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory, distributed key-value caching system used to speed up dynamic websites an...

Databases

Minecraft Hosting

Minecraft Hosting is a specialized game server hosting service designed to run a persistent Minecraf...

Hosting Types

Minification

Minification is the process of reducing the size of website code files by removing nonessential char...

Performance

Model Training

Model Training is the process of teaching a machine learning model to make predictions by adjusting ...

AI & ML

MongoDB

MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data as flexible JSON-like documents rathe...

Databases

MX Record

MX Record is a DNS record type that tells other mail servers which hostnames accept email for a doma...

DNS

MySQL

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that stores data in structured...

Databases