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Glossary — Letter R

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

Rack Server

Rack Server is a physical server designed to mount in a standard 19-inch equipment rack, typically i...

Servers & Server Software

RAID

RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple physical drives into one logical unit to improve...

Hardware & Infrastructure

RAM

RAM is a computer server memory that temporarily stores data and instructions for active processes s...

Hardware & Infrastructure

React

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces by composing reusable components and effi...

Web Development

Recursive DNS

Recursive DNS is a DNS resolution service that accepts a client query and then performs the full loo...

DNS

Redemption Grace Period

Redemption Grace Period is a post-expiration phase in the domain lifecycle when a deleted or expired...

Domains

Redis

Redis is an in-memory key-value data store used for caching, session storage, real-time analytics, m...

Databases

Reseller Hosting

Reseller Hosting is a hosting arrangement where one account holder buys server resources in bulk and...

Hosting Types

REST API

REST API is an application programming interface that follows Representational State Transfer princi...

Web Development

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI pattern that improves a language model's answers by fi...

AI & ML

Reverse DNS

Reverse DNS is a DNS lookup method that maps an IP address back to a hostname using PTR records in s...

DNS

Reverse Proxy

Reverse Proxy is a server component that sits in front of one or more origin servers and forwards cl...

Servers & Server Software

Root Access

Root Access is the ability to log in as the superuser on a server and perform unrestricted administr...

DevOps & Admin

Router

Router is a networking device or software service that forwards data packets between different netwo...

Networking

Ruby

Ruby is a high-level, interpreted programming language widely used for web development, scripting, a...

Web Development

Ruby Hosting

Ruby Hosting is a web hosting environment optimized to run Ruby applications, typically using the Ru...

Hosting Types

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework written in Ruby that speeds development th...

Web Development