Cheat sheet: What keeps running
The 37 terms of this lesson, part by part, with the French word a team in France would use.
1. A website is rented piece by piece
- Domain namenom de domaine
- the readable name of a website, such as
leboncoin.fr, which its owner rents by the year. - Registrarregistrar, bureau d'enregistrement
- a company that sells and renews domain names, such as OVH or Gandi.
- Renewalrenouvellement
- paying again for a service before it ends, such as a domain name each year, so that it keeps working.
- Hostinghébergement
- the service that stores a site's files and sends them to visitors.
- Certificatecertificat SSL
- a digital file that proves a site really owns its address, which the browser checks before it shows the padlock.
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Free planoffre gratuite
- a free level of an online service, with limits on how much you can use it.
2. When one piece stops
- Grace perioddélai de grâce
- the short time after a domain name expires, when the owner can still renew it before anyone else can buy it.
- DNSDNS
- the internet's directory, which converts a domain name into the IP address of the site's server.
- Hostinghébergement
- the service that stores a site's files and sends them to visitors.
- Certificatecertificat SSL
- a digital file that proves a site really owns its address, which the browser checks before it shows the padlock.
- Back endback-end
- the part of a site that runs on a server, such as accounts, data and rules, which visitors never see.
- Outside serviceservice tiers, service externe
- a service from another company that does one job for a site, such as payments, sending emails or maps.
- Free planoffre gratuite
- a free level of an online service, with limits on how much you can use it.
3. Is the site broken for everyone, or only for me?
- Firewallpare-feu
- a filter that blocks some connections on a network, for example to some sites from inside a company.
- Status pagepage de statut
- a public page where a service shows whether it is working now and lists its recent problems.
- Registrarregistrar, bureau d'enregistrement
- a company that sells and renews domain names, such as OVH or Gandi.
- Hosting providerhébergeur
- the company that rents you the servers where a site is stored, such as OVH or Netlify.
- Logslogs, journaux
- the record a server keeps of what it did, with the time of each action and any errors.
- Quotaquota
- a limit on how much you can use a service in a given time, such as a number of map views per day.
- Deploydéployer, mettre en prod
- to publish a new version of a site, so that visitors see the changes.
4. Before the builders leave
- Handoverpassation
- the moment when the builders give the site, its accounts and its documents to the client.
- Renewalrenouvellement
- paying again for a service before it ends, such as a domain name each year, so that it keeps working.
- Shared mailboxboîte mail partagée
- a company email address that several people can read, such as an address for the whole web team.
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Restorerestaurer
- to replace the current data with a backup, to recover lost data or to check that the backup works.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Uptime monitoringmonitoring, supervision
- a service that checks a site every few minutes and alerts you when it stops answering.
- Lock-indépendance au fournisseur
- the situation where leaving a tool is hard, because your site and data only work inside it.
5. What to ask
- Renewalrenouvellement
- paying again for a service before it ends, such as a domain name each year, so that it keeps working.
- Free planoffre gratuite
- a free level of an online service, with limits on how much you can use it.
- Pluginplugin, extension
- an add-on, often made by another company, that gives a tool such as WordPress a new feature.
- Backupsauvegarde
- a copy of a site's data kept in a safe place, to recover it after a loss or an error.
- Restorerestaurer
- to replace the current data with a backup, to recover lost data or to check that the backup works.
- Security updatemise à jour de sécurité
- a new version of a piece of software that fixes a weakness attackers could use.
- Handoverpassation
- the moment when the builders give the site, its accounts and its documents to the client.
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