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Scalability: How much a piece of technology is able to be expanded or grow as it is needed.

Server: A computer on a network used to manage network resources. On the Internet, a server's main task is to store files, process requests and deliver Web pages to users. Sometimes, the term "server" is also used to refer to the software running on a server machine (for example, Apache, WIndows 2000, etc.).

Server Side Includes: Server side includes (SSI) is a set of HTML tags that allow dynamic content on a Web page. SSI is most typically used to "include" the same file on numerous pages, thus simplifying updates.

Shared Hosting: In shared hosting, multiple sites are hosted on a single server, so each account ends up "sharing" server space with other accounts.

Shopping Cart System: Software that enables E-commerce by providing a "cart" or "basket" that users can add items to and later checkout.

SMTP: Stands for "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol," SMTP is used for sending email.

SQL: Stands for "Structured query language." A language used to for requesting information from a database. SQL can also be used to update, insert, and delete data.

SSL: Stands for "Secure Socket Layer." A technology used to provide secure transactions on the Internet. URLs that use an SSL connection start with "https."

Subdomain: A subdomain is a subdivision of a larger domain. For example, "mail.yahoo.com" is a subdomain of "yahoo.com."

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