CGI:
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. CGI is one method by which a web server can obtain data from (or send data to) databases, documents, and other programs, and present that data to viewers via the web.
More simply, a CGI script is a program intended to be run on the web. A CGI program can be written in any programming language, but Perl is one of the most popular. On our servers you will get a cgi-bin directory that your scripts should normally be uploaded to, however your CGI scripts will work both inside and outside of this directory.
FastCGI:
FastCGI is a method to improve the speed of almost any scripting language
PHP:
PHP is a server side HTML embedded scripting language.
PERL:
Perl is one of the most common CGI scripting languages used today.
Ruby on Rails:
Ruby On Rails is an open-source web framework that’s built for productivity
(we’ll talk about this later).
Python:
Python is a programming/scripting language that can be used on many different computers and operating systems.
SSI:
Server Side includes, refers to Perl based HTML commands that direct a server to generate on-the-fly contact for web pages.
Cron:
Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.
Frontpage:
Frontpage is a website creation tool that can be used to both create and upload your site when FP extensions are installed.
Curl:
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with url syntax.
GD:
GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats.
ImageMagick:
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats.
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