“What is an e-mail?”. E-mail stands for Electronic Mail, which is mail that being sent out in electronic form. You do not have to write a mail using paper, then put into an envelope, put a stamp on it, lastly put into the mailbox and wait postman to come and collect it. So, if you are using this traditional way of mailing, it will probabily takes minimum 3 to 1 week to reach the receiver, depending on your location and country you are sending. Meanwhile, if you are using e-mail to send, the receiver will recieve your mail within minutes, after you have click the ‘send’ button.

“What is Autoresponder?”. An autoresponder is an auto e-mail system that is being setup by owner, in order to send out e-mails out to subscriber at a specific time. Give an example, the owner have 8 articles that need to send out to subscribers in 8 weeks time, each article a week. The owner can easily setup an autoresponder with these 8 articles preset inside the system, and put in the time frame for each message to send out. Once a user subscribe to the article, the system will being activated and it will automatically send those 8 articles to subscriber in 8 different weeks.

“What is hosting?” Hosting like a big size and high speed harddisk, that stores all websites in it. Before you can store your website inside the hosting, you must subscribe to one of the hosting company first. Then you need to point your domain name to that hosting company, then only you can start storing your website under that hosting company. You can imagine that this ‘big and high speed harddisk’ is being switched on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Whenever an internet user key-in your domain name in their browser, it will direct bring them to the hosting company’s harddisk and start retrieving your webpage from there.

“What is FTP Programme?” FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, it is used to transfer your designed website files from your local harddisk to your host.

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