Glossary

Canonical definitions of the concepts referenced across the blog.

Desarrollo Web

SSL certificate

An SSL certificate is a digital file that authenticates a website’s identity and encrypts the data travelling between the browser and the server. It is what turns an http:// address into https:// and puts the padlock in the browser bar.

Web domain

A web domain is the human-readable address that identifies a site on the internet (for example alkitu.com). It acts as a DNS alias over the server’s actual IP address, which is the part nobody memorises.

Web hosting

Web hosting is the service that stores a site’s files on an internet-connected server and serves them on request. Without hosting a site exists as code on a machine, but is not publicly reachable.