Glossary

Each term has a short definition and a link to the page that covers it. The terms are grouped by the part of Coritan they belong to, in alphabetical order within each group.

Access token

What a script sends in the Authorization: Bearer header of each Client API request. You get one by signing in through the API, and it lasts 30 minutes by default (Authentication).

API key

A key you create on the API keys tab of Settings, with a label, permissions and allowed addresses. The Coritan API does not accept these keys yet (Manage API keys).

Recovery code

One of the ten codes you save when you turn on two-factor authentication. Each one signs you in once without your phone (Turn on two-factor authentication).

Refresh token

The token that gets a new access token without your password. It lasts 30 days by default (Authentication).

Session

A browser or a script that is signed in to your account. Changing your password ends every session (Sign out and end sessions).

Two-factor authentication

Signing in with your password and a six-digit code from an authenticator app on your phone (Turn on two-factor authentication).

Add-on

Another product you order with a service under Add-ons on its order page, such as a floating IP with an instance or Snapshot Storage with a server. Each add-on becomes a service of its own, and its first period is on the service's first invoice (Order a service). A dedicated sending address for SMTP Relay is ordered on a page of its own and billed as a service of its own (How Mail Hosting and SMTP Relay are billed).

Auto-pay

The setting that lets Coritan charge your saved payment methods for renewals. It is on for new accounts, and turning it off does not stop those charges yet (Manage payment methods).

Automatic top-up

Coritan charges your default payment method a fixed amount when your credit balance falls below a threshold you choose. It is off for new accounts (Turn on automatic top-up).

Billing cycle

How often a service is billed. The API names the cycles hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi_annually, annually and biennially, and one_time marks something you pay for once. You choose a cycle when you order (Change a service's plan).

Billing mode

Whether your account pays for a service before Coritan sets it up (prepaid, the mode every account starts in) or at the end of each billing cycle (postpaid) (Billing). An organization has a billing mode of its own, which decides who takes its customers' payments (How organizations work).

Cancellation

Ending a service, at the end of its term or at once. When the service ends, Coritan deletes it and its data (Cancel a service).

Credit balance

Money on your account, held in US dollars, that pays invoices and hourly charges before Coritan charges a payment method. It never expires (Add credit to your balance).

Dispute

A payment you asked your bank to reverse (Transactions and payment attempts).

Hourly billing

Paying for a service by the hour from your credit balance, up to a monthly cap. A prepaid account can order hourly plans once it has added $10.00 of credit in total, by default (How hourly billing works).

Invoice

A bill in US dollars that Coritan raises for an order, a renewal or a plan upgrade (Pay an invoice).

Monthly cap

The most an hourly service costs in a calendar month: 672 hours of its hourly price, by default. Once a service reaches it, Coritan stops charging it until the 1st of the next month (How hourly billing works).

Payment attempt

One try at charging a card or a PayPal account (Transactions and payment attempts).

Payment method

A card or PayPal account saved on your account. Coritan charges your default method for renewals and automatic top-ups (Manage payment methods).

Plan

A service's price and how often you pay it. A product has one plan for each billing cycle it sells, such as RX-2 (Monthly) and RX-2 (Annually) (Change a service's plan).

Renewal

The start of a service's next billing cycle. Coritan raises the renewal invoice up to 3 days before the renewal date, by default, and takes it from your credit first (Billing).

Suspension

Coritan pausing a service, usually because an invoice is unpaid. With the default settings, a service is suspended a day after its invoice's due date and deleted later if the invoice stays unpaid (Failed payments and suspended services).

Transaction

A record of money moving on your account: a payment, a refund, or credit added or used (Transactions and payment attempts).

Location

The data centre a service runs in. When you order an instance or a server, you choose it in the Location section of the order page, where each location shows its airport code, such as FRA (Data centres and locations).

Service

One thing you pay for, such as an instance, a server, a floating IP or a mail service. The Services page lists every one (Manage your services).

Tag

A label of your own, such as production, that you put on a service, an instance or a server to find it again. Tags change no setting and cost nothing (Tag your services).

Backup

A full copy of an instance's disk, saved as a compressed archive. An instance can hold 16 backups (Back up and restore an instance).

Image

The operating system an instance starts from. The API calls an image a template (Operating system images).

Instance

A Cloud Compute virtual machine, with its own disk, operating system, public IP address and console (Cloud Compute).

Primary address

The IPv4 address that comes with an instance. More addresses are floating IPs that you attach (Manage an instance's addresses and names).

Rescue mode

Starting an instance from a rescue image instead of from its own disk, so you can mount the disk and repair it (Repair an instance in rescue mode).

Snapshot

The state of an instance's disk at one moment, which you can roll the disk back to. An instance can hold 8 snapshots at a time (Take and roll back instance snapshots).

Traffic allowance

The amount of data an instance can transfer in a calendar month, set by its plan (How instance traffic is counted).

Free server

A server on the free plan. It sleeps when nobody is using it and starts again when a player joins or when you wake it (How free servers work).

Primary port

The address and port that players join a server at. A server can have more ports for plugins and tools (Manage server ports).

Server

A Container Apps container that runs a game server, a database or an application for you (Container Apps).

Shared address

The address of the machine a server runs on. Every server on that machine uses it, each on ports of its own (Manage server ports).

Snapshot

A full archive of a server's files, kept in your account's snapshot storage. It stays after the server is deleted, and you can restore it onto any of your servers (Snapshots).

Snapshot allowance

The most that all your server snapshots together may take up, including the snapshots of servers you have deleted (How snapshot storage works).

Subuser

Another Coritan account that you give access to one of your servers, with the permissions you choose. Billing stays with you (Share a server with other users).

Anycast

Announcing the same address range from more than one point of presence, so that traffic enters the network close to where it was sent from (How the Coritan network works).

DDoS Shield

The filtering Coritan applies to the traffic to every floating IP on your account, at the point of presence where the traffic arrives (DDoS Shield).

Floating IP

A public IPv4 address, or a block of them, that belongs to your account instead of to one machine. You attach it to an instance or a server, and you can move it to another one later (Floating IPs).

Host

An address in a subnet that you can attach (How subnets work).

Join address

A hostname, such as survival-smp.coritan.gg, that players type in their game to reach your server. The dashboard also calls it a game proxy (How join addresses work).

Point of presence (PoP)

A Coritan site where our routers connect to the internet. Traffic to a floating IP enters the network there, and DDoS Shield filters it (How the Coritan network works).

Pool

A set of floating IP addresses in one region. Every floating IP comes from a pool, and the Pools tab lists the pools that have addresses in stock (IP pools and regions).

Protection profile

The DDoS Shield settings for a floating IP: how strictly it is filtered, its rate limits and its rules. Every address starts on the platform default profile, and you can give it a profile of its own (Change a floating IP's DDoS protection).

Reverse DNS

The hostname that a lookup of an address returns. Mail servers check it before they accept mail (Set reverse DNS for a floating IP).

Subnet

A block of consecutive IPv4 addresses that you hold as one floating IP and attach one host at a time (How subnets work).

Web proxy

A hostname, such as www.example.com, that Coritan's edge answers for. The edge serves the name over HTTP and HTTPS, checks requests with the web application firewall (WAF) and forwards them to your origin, the server that runs the site. The dashboard also calls a web proxy a route (How web proxies work).

DNS zone

The records for a domain and every name under it (How DNS hosting works).

Load balancer

Answers A and AAAA queries for one hostname with the address of one of your servers. It picks the server from its origin pools and skips servers that fail their health checks (How DNS load balancing works).

Nameservers

The servers that answer DNS queries for a domain. Coritan's are ns1.coritan.com to ns8.coritan.com (How DNS hosting works).

Proxied record

An A or AAAA record that Coritan answers with the addresses of its edge, so that visitors' requests pass through the edge and its WAF (How DNS hosting works).

Registration

Your right to a domain for the period you pay for, held through Coritan (How domain registration works).

TTL

How long, in seconds, resolvers may keep a DNS answer: from 60 seconds to 86,400 seconds (How DNS hosting works).

Alias

An address with no storage of its own that delivers its mail to mailboxes on the same service. A catch-all takes the mail for every address on a domain that has no mailbox or alias (Forward addresses with aliases).

Mail Hosting

Mailboxes on your own domain, which people read in a mail app or in webmail (How Mail Hosting works).

Mailbox

An address with its own storage, such as alex@example.com, that people sign in to with webmail or a mail app (Create and manage mailboxes).

Send API key

A key that lets an application send mail through one SMTP Relay service over HTTPS. It can only send (Create and revoke send API keys).

Sending domain

A domain verified on an SMTP Relay service. The From address of every message must be on one (How SMTP Relay works).

SMTP credential

A username and password that an application uses to sign in to SMTP Relay (Send over SMTP with credentials).

SMTP Relay

Sends the mail your software writes, over SMTP or an HTTPS API, and reports what happened to each message (How SMTP Relay works).

Suppression list

The addresses an SMTP Relay service no longer sends to: those that bounced, complained or unsubscribed, and any you add yourself (Manage the suppression list).

Customer

Someone who buys from an organization. A customer account belongs to that organization only and is not a Coritan account (How organizations work).

Linked product

An organization's product that a Coritan product backs, such as a Container Apps plan, so that an order creates the real resource. A standalone product is one the organization delivers itself (How organizations work).

Mail tenant

A Mail Hosting or SMTP Relay service that a customer ordered from an organization, with its own domains, mailboxes, credentials and sending reputation (Run Mail Hosting for your customers).

Member

A Coritan account added to an organization with a role. The owner is the account that created the organization, and has every permission (How organizations work).

Organization

A reseller brand you run on Coritan, with its own customers, products, prices, storefront, staff and payouts (Organizations).

Payout

What Coritan's payment gateways collected for an organization, less refunds, chargebacks and the platform fee, a percentage Coritan sets for each organization (Track your payouts).

Staff console

Where an organization's team looks after its customers from day to day: their accounts, services, invoices and support conversations (The staff console).

Step-up

A code from your authenticator, or your password, that the staff console asks for again before some actions. It lasts 10 minutes (Sign in to the staff console).

Storefront

The site where an organization's customers browse, order, pay and manage what they bought (Build a storefront on the Organization API).

Storefront account

The customer account on an organization's storefront that the staff console signs a member in to, so that they can use the product as customers do (Manage the staff team and console settings).

Conversation

A support thread between you and the Coritan team, with a number such as #1042. You start one on the dashboard's Support page, and the dashboard also calls it a ticket, as in Open a ticket (Contact support from the dashboard).