Certificate
Digital ID used for SSL transactions
including owner's public key, the name of the owner, the issuer,
hostname and the expiration date.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface. CGI scripts are a small program written
in a script language such as Perl that functions as a glue between
HTML pages and other programs
on the web server.
cgi-bin
A directory on the server where the executable CGI scripts reside.
Cold-Fusion
ColdFusion is a server-side scripting language developed by
Allaire. It comes with ColdFusion Studio, a visual IDE. Other
popular server-side scripting languages are ASP, Perl, PHP,
TCL, Python, and JSP.
Co-location (colo)
Putting a web server in a datacenter that provides high-speed
Internet connection, security, environment, backup power, and
technical support. Unlike the dedicated
server, the client controls both hardware and software.
Control Panel
An online web-based application included in web hosting packages
allowing you to easily manage different aspects of your web
hosting account, e.g. uploading files, adding email accounts,
setting up databases...
Counter
Used for tracking the number of visitors to your web site.
Crawler (also known as spider)
Software used by search engines to index web sites.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets. A style-sheet determines how the HTML
document is displayed by the browser.