File Hosting & AI Glossary
917 terms explained — file hosting, static sites, domains and DNS, AI artifacts, file formats, HTML and CSS, SEO, accessibility, running a site and what people publish, alongside AI chatbots, LLMs and RAG. Look something up, or browse a category.
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HTML, CSS & the Browser
The vocabulary for reading a page you did not write — elements, selectors, layout, the DOM — and for working out which part is causing what you are looking at.
Running & Maintaining a Site
What happens after publishing — monitoring, backups, migrations, expiring domains and certificates, and where the bill actually comes from.
What People Publish
The things that actually get put online as a link — pitch decks, menus, CVs, galleries, documentation, data rooms — and what each one needs to work well.
File Formats & Media
What each format actually is, which ones a browser can display, and how the wrong content type turns a page into a download.
Search Engines & SEO
How a published page gets found — crawling, indexing, titles and structured data — and why a generated single-page app often gets found by nobody.
Accessibility & Standards
Making a published page usable by everyone — alt text, contrast, keyboard access and screen readers — plus the standards and laws that now ask for it.
AI Artifacts & Generated Sites
What an AI tool hands you when it builds something — artifacts, canvases and generated pages — and what it takes to put one online at an address of your own.
Sharing, Links & Measurement
Getting a file to the people who need it — links, embeds, previews and QR codes — and reading what happened afterwards.
Security, Abuse & Privacy
The headers that protect a hosted page, the abuse a public host has to handle, and the privacy rules that apply once visitors show up.
File Hosting & Sharing
How files get online and stay there — uploads, shareable links, storage, limits, and the controls that decide who can open what.
Static Sites & Deployment
Sites made of files rather than servers — how they are built, what goes in them, and what happens between your folder and a live address.
Domains, CDN & Web Delivery
Everything between a visitor and your file — domain names, DNS records, certificates, caching, compression and the numbers that describe how fast it all felt.
AI Chatbots & Conversational AI
Core concepts behind intelligent chatbots, virtual assistants, and conversational interfaces that understand and respond to human language.
Knowledge Base & Content Management
Terms related to organizing, storing, and retrieving structured knowledge that AI systems use to answer questions accurately.
Customer Support & Experience
Key concepts in delivering exceptional customer service, measuring satisfaction, and blending AI automation with human expertise.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
The architecture and techniques behind grounding AI responses in real documents, reducing hallucinations and enabling up-to-date answers.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Foundational concepts in how large language models are trained, fine-tuned, evaluated, and deployed in real-world applications.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
The linguistic and computational techniques that enable machines to read, understand, and generate human language.
Prompt Engineering
The art and science of crafting instructions that guide AI models to produce accurate, consistent, and useful outputs.
AI Infrastructure, Safety & Ethics
The systems, standards, and principles that underpin responsible AI deployment — from model serving and observability to bias, fairness, and governance.
A–Z Index
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A RecordA/B Testing for ChatbotsAbsolute PathAbuse ReportAcceptable Use PolicyAccess ControlAccess LogAccessibility AuditAccessible NameAccessible PDFActive LearningADA ComplianceAdaptive RAGAdversarial PromptingAdversarial RobustnessAfter-Call WorkAgent AssistAgent UtilizationAgentic RAGAI AlertingAI AlignmentAI ArtifactAI AuditAI BiasAI ChatbotAI ChatbotAI Code GenerationAI Cost OptimizationAI DashboardAI EthicsAI GovernanceAI Incident ResponseAI LoggingAI RegulationAI Risk AssessmentAI SafetyAI WatermarkingAI-Generated WebsiteAI-Powered ChatbotAlgorithmic FairnessAlt TextAnchor TextAnnotation QualityAnnual ReportApex DomainAPI DocumentationAPI GatewayAPI SecurityAPI TokenApproximate Nearest NeighborARIA LabelArticle PerformanceArticle RatingArtifact ExpiryArtifact HostingArtifact SandboxAspect-Based Sentiment AnalysisAsset BundlingAsync AttributeAtomic DeploymentAttention MechanismAudit LogAutomated Content ScanningAutomated ResponseAverage Handle TimeAVIF File
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BacklinkBag of WordsBandwidth LimitBase ModelBase64 EncodingBatch InferenceBeam SearchBenchmark EvaluationBERTBi-EncoderBlue-Green DeploymentBM25Bot ResponseBot TrafficBounce RateBrand GuidelinesBreadcrumb NavigationBreakpointBroken LinkBrotli CompressionBrowser CompatibilityBrowser StorageBuild ArtifactBuild StepByte-Pair Encoding (BPE)
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Cache Hit RatioCache InvalidationCache-ControlCallback RequestCanary DeploymentCanned ResponseCanonical URLCapacity PlanningCaptionsCarousel MessagesCase StudyCatastrophic ForgettingCDNCertificate RenewalChain-of-Thought PromptingChain-of-Thought PromptingChangelog ArticleChannel IntegrationCharacter EncodingChat TranscriptChat WidgetChatbot AnalyticsChatbot APIChatbot BrandingChatbot BuilderChatbot DeflectionChatbot DeploymentChatbot FeedbackChatbot HandoffChatbot MemoryChatbot OnboardingChatbot OrchestrationChatbot PersonaChatbot PlatformChatbot TemplateChatbot TestingChatbot TrainingChatGPT CanvasChecksumChromaChunk OverlapChunk SizeChunked UploadClaude ArtifactClickjackingClient DeliverableClient GalleryClient-Side RenderingClient-Side RoutingCloud AICloud StorageCNAME RecordColour ContrastComing Soon PageConcept DriftConcurrent ChatConsole ErrorConstituency ParsingConstitutional AIContainerizationContainment RateContent AuditContent ClusterContent CrawlerContent DeduplicationContent FilteringContent FreshnessContent Gap AnalysisContent HierarchyContent LifecycleContent LinkingContent ModerationContent Review WorkflowContent Security PolicyContent TaxonomyContent TemplateContent VersioningContent-DispositionContext LengthContext WindowContext WindowContext WindowContextual AwarenessContextual CompressionContextual HelpContinuous DeploymentContinuous TrainingContrast RatioConversation APIConversation DesignConversation FlowConversation HistoryConversation LoggingConversation StarterConversational AICookie ConsentCore Web VitalsCoreference ResolutionCorpusCorrective RAG (CRAG)CORSCosine SimilarityCost per GigabyteCourse HandoutCrawl BudgetCritical CSSCross-EncoderCross-Lingual TransferCross-Site ScriptingCSS ClassCSS GridCSS SelectorCSS SpecificityCSS VariableCSV FileCumulative Layout ShiftCustom 404 PageCustom DomainCustomer ChurnCustomer Effort ScoreCustomer ExperienceCustomer FeedbackCustomer JourneyCustomer Lifetime ValueCustomer OnboardingCustomer PortalCustomer RetentionCustomer Satisfaction ScoreCustomer SegmentationCustomer SuccessCustomer Support
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Dark ModeData AugmentationData ConnectorData DriftData ExportData GovernanceData LabelingData LineageData PipelineData PrivacyData ResidencyData RetentionData URIDDoS ProtectionDeep LinkDefer AttributeDeflection RateDense RetrievalDependency ParsingDeploy PreviewDeploymentDeployment LogDeveloper ToolsDialogue Act ClassificationDialogue ManagementDialogue ManagementDifferential PrivacyDigital Business CardDigital InvitationDigital MenuDigital PortfolioDirect LinkDirect Preference Optimization (DPO)Disaster RecoveryDiscourse AnalysisDisparate ImpactDistributed TracingDMCA TakedownDNSDNS PropagationDNS RecordDNS TTLDoctypeDocument ChunkingDocument EmbeddingDocument HostingDocument IngestionDocument LoaderDocument OutlineDocument ParsingDocument TrackingDocumentation SiteDOCX FileDOM ElementDomain ExpiryDomain NameDomain TransferDownload LinkDowntimeDrag-and-Drop UploadDuplicate Content
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Edge AIEdge FunctionEdge NetworkEgress FeeEmail Attachment LimitEmail SupportEmbed CodeEmbedded ChatbotEmbedding CacheEmbedding ModelEmbedding PipelineEmergent AbilitiesEN 301 549Encoder ModelEncryption at RestEncryption in TransitEntity ExtractionEntity ExtractionEntry PointEnvironment VariableEPUB FileError MonitoringES ModuleEscalation ManagementEscalation to HumanETagEU AI ActEuropean Accessibility ActEvent ListenerEvent PageExperiment TrackingExpiring LinkExplainabilityExport to HTML
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Faceted SearchFairness MetricsFaithfulnessFallback ResponseFAQ PageFaviconFeature StoreFeatured SnippetFederated LearningFetch APIFew-Shot LearningFew-Shot PromptingFile ConversionFile ExtensionFile HostingFile SharingFile Size LimitFile Transfer ServiceFile VersioningFine-TuningFine-Tuning DatasetFine-Tuning InfrastructureFirst Contact ResolutionFlexboxFocus IndicatorFolder UploadForm ElementForm LabelForm ValidationFoundation ModelFree File HostingFull-Text SearchFunction Calling
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HallucinationHallucinationHallucination MitigationHead SectionHeading StructureHEIC FileHelp CenterHelp DeskHelp Desk SoftwareHotlink ProtectionHotlinkingHow-To ArticlehreflangHTML AttributeHTML ElementHTML FileHTTP Status CodeHTTP/2HTTPSHTTPS RedirectHuman-in-the-LoopHybrid BotHybrid RetrievalHyperparameter TuningHypothetical Document Embedding
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ICO Fileiframe Embediframe SandboxImage HostingImage OptimizationImage SEOImport MapIn-App HelpIn-Context LearningIn-Context LearningIncident Responseindex.htmlIndexabilityIndexing PipelineInference LatencyInference ServerInference ThroughputInformation ExtractionInline CSSInline JavaScriptInline StyleInstant RollbackInstruction FollowingInstruction TuningIntent DetectionIntent RecognitionInteractive DemoInternal Knowledge BaseInternal LinkingInterpretabilityInverted IndexInvestor UpdateIP Address
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Keyboard NavigationKeyword ResearchKnowledge BaseKnowledge Base AnalyticsKnowledge Base ArticleKnowledge Base CategoryKnowledge Base FeedbackKnowledge Base GovernanceKnowledge Base IntegrationsKnowledge Base LocalizationKnowledge Base ManagementKnowledge Base MigrationKnowledge Base OptimizationKnowledge Base RolesKnowledge Base SearchKnowledge Base SEOKnowledge Base TemplatesKnowledge Base WidgetKnowledge DistillationKnowledge GapKnowledge GraphKnowledge Graph RAGKnowledge RetrievalKnowledge-Centered ServiceKubernetesKV Cache
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Landing PageLandmark RegionLanguage AttributeLanguage DetectionLarge File TransferLarge Language Model (LLM)Largest Contentful PaintLate ChunkingLatencyLazy LoadingLead Capture FormLemmatizationLinguistic AnnotationLink in BioLink PreviewLink RotLink SharingLive ChatLive Chat IntegrationLive RegionLLM AgentLLM APILLM BenchmarkLLM EvaluationLLM InferenceLLM LeaderboardLLM ObservabilityLLM RouterLLM SecurityLLM-as-JudgeLoad BalancinglocalStorageLog Probabilities (Logprobs)Log RetentionLogit BiasLong-Context RAGLong-Tail KeywordLoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)Lossless CompressionLossy CompressionLow-Code Chatbot
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Machine TranslationMacroMaintenance PageMalware ScanningMarkdown FileMax TokensMCP ServerMean Reciprocal Rank (MRR)Media KitMedia QueryMessage HandlingMeta DescriptionMeta-PromptingMetadata FilteringMetadata TaggingMicrositeMIME TypeMinificationMixed ContentMixture of Experts (MoE)MLOpsMobile-First IndexingModel Access ControlModel AlignmentModel CardModel CardModel CompressionModel CompressionModel Context ProtocolModel DeploymentModel DistillationModel EvaluationModel HubModel MonitoringModel ParametersModel ProviderModel PruningModel QuantizationModel RegistryModel RobustnessModel ServingModel VersioningMP3 FileMP4 FileMulti-Agent ChatbotMulti-Head AttentionMulti-Query RetrievalMulti-Turn ConversationMulti-Turn ConversationMultichannel SupportMultilingual Knowledge BaseMultilingual NLPMultimodal LLMMultimodal RAGMultipart Upload
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N-gramNamed Entity Recognition (NER)NameserverNatural Language Generation (NLG)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Natural Language Understanding (NLU)Natural Language Understanding (NLU)Negative PromptingNet Promoter ScoreNewsletter ArchiveNo-Backend AppNo-Code AppNo-Code ChatbotnofollownoindexNormalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG)
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Page SpeedParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)Paraphrase DetectionParent Document RetrievalParent-Child ChunkingPart-of-Speech TaggingPassword-Protected LinkPDF FilePDF HostingPDF IngestionPermalinkPerplexityPersonaPersonal DatapgvectorPhishing PagePhone SupportPhoto GalleryPII DetectionPineconePitch DeckPlain LanguagePlain Text FilePNG FilePoint of PresencePolyfillPositional EncodingPPTX FilePre-TrainingPreprintPrerenderingPresigned URLPress KitPrice ListPriority SupportProactive Chat TriggerProactive MessagingProactive SupportProduct CatalogueProduction EnvironmentProgressive EnhancementPrompt CachingPrompt CachingPrompt ChainingPrompt CompressionPrompt EngineeringPrompt EvaluationPrompt InjectionPrompt InjectionPrompt LeakingPrompt OptimizationPrompt TemplatePrompt VersioningPrompt-to-AppProof-of-Concept DemoPrototype HostingPublic Knowledge BasePublic URL
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RAG EvaluationRAG FusionRAG PipelineRAG TriadRaster GraphicsRate LimitingRe-engagementReAct PromptingReact via CDNReactive SupportRead-Only LinkReading ComprehensionReading OrderReal User MonitoringReasoning ModelRecipe PageRecursive ChunkingRed-TeamingRedirect MapReduced MotionReferral TrafficReferrer-PolicyReinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)Related ArticlesRelation ExtractionRelative PathRelease NotesRender-Blocking ResourceRerankingResearch PosterResolution RateResolution TimeResponse TimeResponsible AIResponsive DesignResponsive ImagesREST APIResume WebsiteRetrieval PipelineRetrieval PrecisionRetrieval RecallRetrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning (RAFT)Retrieval-Augmented GenerationRetrieval-Augmented PromptingRetrieval-Based ChatbotRich Media MessagesRich ResultRobots Meta Tagrobots.txtRole PromptingRule-Based Chatbot
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Safety TrainingSame-Origin PolicySatisfaction ScoreScaling LawsSchema MarkupScreen ReaderSearch Engine IndexingSearch IntentSearch Query AnalysisSecurity HeaderSelf-AttentionSelf-ConsistencySelf-RAGSelf-Service PortalSelf-Service RateSemantic CachingSemantic ChunkingSemantic HTMLSemantic ParsingSemantic Role LabelingSemantic SearchSemantic SimilaritySemi-Structured DataSentence SimilaritySentence TransformersSentence Window RetrievalSentiment AnalysisSentiment AnalysisSequence LabelingSERPServerlessService Level AgreementSession DurationSession ManagementShadow DeploymentSHAP ValuesShareable LinkShort LinkSingle-File Web AppSingle-Page ApplicationSingle-Turn ConversationSite MigrationSite PreviewSitemap Indexingsitemap.xmlSkip LinkSliding Window ChunkingSlot FillingSlot FillingSmoke TestSocial Media SupportSocial PreviewSoft 404SPA FallbackSparse RetrievalSpeculative DecodingSpell CheckingSSL CertificateStaging EnvironmentStateful ChatbotStateless ChatbotStatic ExportStatic File HostingStatic HostingStatic SiteStatic Site GeneratorStatus PageStemmingStep-Back PromptingStop SequenceStop WordsStorage BucketStorage QuotaStructured DataStructured OutputStructured OutputStyle GuideStylesheetSubdomainSubresource IntegritySubword SegmentationSupport AnalyticsSupport CostsSupport Knowledge BaseSupport PersonaSupport QueueSupport StaffingSupport TicketSupport TiersSupport WorkflowSurvey ResultsSVG FileSycophancySynthetic DataSynthetic MonitoringSystem PromptSystem Prompt
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Tab OrderTagged PDFTailwind via CDNTakedown WorkflowTarget SizeTemperatureTemperatureText AlternativeText BotText ChunkingText ClassificationText EmbeddingText NormalizationText PreprocessingText ResizeText SegmentationText SummarizationTextual EntailmentTF-IDFThe DOMThumbnailTicket EscalationTicket RoutingTicketing SystemTime to First ByteTitle TagTLSTokenTokenToken BudgetToken BudgetToken StreamingTokenizationTone of VoiceTool UseTop-K SamplingTop-P SamplingTop-P Sampling (Nucleus Sampling)Topic ClusteringTopic ModelingTraffic SpikeTraining Data PoisoningTranscriptTransfer LearningTransformerTransformer EncoderTree-of-Thought PromptingTriageTroubleshooting GuideTwo-Factor AuthenticationTXT Record