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Archive for February, 2010
Minoli-Cordovana’s Authoritative Computer & Network Security Dictionary
Feb 25th
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A dictionary and handbook that defines the field and provides unique insight
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Minoli-Cordovana’s Authoritative Computer & Network Security Dictionary
Protect Your Businesses With Hosting From Dps Software
Feb 24th
In January 2005 Carlisle was hit by wild weather which plunged half the county into darkness and brought boats on to the city streets. Floods of up to 13 feet deep put Cumbria into headlines worldwide. It is no wonder that in the aftermath of such a disaster, the residents of Carlisle feared any warnings of flooding.
Determined not to be defeated by flooding again, Carlisle residents took measures to protect their homes and businesses, so that when heavy rain had caused flood warnings to be issued in October 2008, they could be ready.
One such Carlisle-based business, Malcolm Dodds Solicitors, took out a hosting policy with DPS Software in order to protect their IT infrastructure in the face of such disasters.
Hosting is the process by which software that is traditionally run from a desktop PC is run over the internet in virtually the same fashion. All that is required is broadband internet access to the DPS data centre, other than that, users go about their work in exactly the same way. As IT infrastructure and maintenance is carried out off site, flooding and other such disasters do not effect IT systems and provided the building is accessible, hosting allows clients to carry on working as normal.
Hosting ensures that software is kept up to date while the host carries the burden of keeping hardware performance checked and maintained. In addition, the need for IT staff and expertise is removed to the hosting provider. This allows firms to capitalise on not only a wider variety of software, but also more advanced versions of hardware. This is beneficial for firms as they can use the same software as much larger competitors offering high levels of client service without the major upfront costs.
The Ways by Which One Can Choose a Web Hosting Company
Feb 20th
These days, anybody can afford to order a feature-packed web hosting plan for next to nothing; however, cheap price cannot said to be the decisive factor which one should have to considered while purchasing web hosting services. This article provides a lesson of not considering the best price and features as the only passport of getting a good web hosting company but also emphasizing on reliability and honesty. If one is investing his/her money and effort into finding paying customers and he/she wouldn’t like to lose them in the condition just in order to save a few dollars per month on a web hosting service.
If a user is searching for a web hosting company, it is not a matter of concern that it is just for the inception of a web or the move of an established site; the user has to widen his/her thinking area before coming to a judgment that along which company he or she has to go with:
Customer support
Website hosting service is not restricted just to storage or bandwidth. Lacking customer support, a top-notch service is also nothing. If one is owning a business website, it is both duty and requirement of his/her hosting provider to be available for the service- 24/7, as any time any sort of technical fault may arise; neglecting it the hosting provider may suffer from serious shortage of customers and money.
Downtime assurance and service monitoring
It is a minor inconvenience to go down when it is a case of personal website; but it is serious when it comes to business website. Can anyone guess how much amount of profit would he/she lose if his/her site had been down for a week? As it is a trend of spending a large amount on advertising the website a long downtime can be lethal for today’s companies.
What is a computer?
Feb 20th
Computer is an electronic machine work on the instructions of human being. In other words you have to input data to get your required output. Sure it has its own intelligence which is hidden from a user, that help in accurate and speedy calculations.
It has memory to store your things which is called as data. Computer helps user to huge amount of data securely, and helps to retrieve the stored data in fraction of time. It is very efficient way of data maintaining. Also it is useful fast way of searching piece of information from mass information.
Data is nothing but arranged information, it may be text, numbers and graphics.
There are two basic categories of computer fields
1. Computer Software 2. Computer Hardware
COMPUTER SOFTWARE
=>Software Programming
=>Graphic Designers
=>Multimedia
COMPUTER HARDWARE
=>Basic Computer Hardware
=>LAN
=>WAN
This is how the computer fields are categorized. Now start doing some exercise regarding “Research” remember we talk about this previously.
Carried out this research as you wish according to your convenience. But I recommend you to do one research per day.
For example take Research – 1 on day 1 that is today. Then next day vice versa.
With this you will observe information which you can digest and understand well. So takes the things in little pieces. Best of luck
Research – 1
What is computer
computer overview
how to use computer
computer
Research – 2
What is data
data
how data works
what are the types of data
Research – 3
What is computer hardware
What is computer memory
Types of computer memory
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Shared Hosting: Merits and Demerits
Feb 18th
With the advent of time, several type of web hosting emerged in the market which can broadly be divided into various categories as under.
One can get hosting service both Paid and Free; Linux/Unix-based and Windows-based (other which are inferior in terms of popularity); shared, dedicated and VPS. However each of this type of hosting has its own merits and demerits.
But the main objective of this article is to explain user about the prevailing merits and demerits of shared hosting.
However, before that user should understand what is the term “shared hosting”.
Shared hosting is type of hosting in which a host provides space to a user on his/her server which he/she has to share with other customer’s web sites. Same software and operating system is applied by all web sites. With this type hosting however a user can have more advantages as compare to free web hosting.
One can again divide Shared web hosting into two categories:
Free Shared Hosting:
It is considered an ideal choice for a person trying some new concepts and who is not interested in paying money for paid hosting. This type of web site hosting provides the user with everything which is required for boosting his/her site. However, one cannot avail excellent facilities for his/her site. Site will receive restricted amount of Bandwidth and Disk Space. Such type of hosting will not guarantee user with MySQL, PHP support. Web statistics will also be of worst condition.
Paid Shared Hosting:
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