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Dedicated Web Hosting – Managed vs Unmanaged

May 14, 2012

If you have a large site which receives a huge volume of traffic, shared hosting might not have the capacity of handling your growth. You’ll need to switch to dedicated hosting so as to serve your customers better. In shared hosting, several websites share the bandwidth and disk space of a single server. On the [...]

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What You Need to Know about Cloud Storage

May 7, 2012

For many of those who regularly use a computer nowadays, one of the most common dilemmas they face is how to find enough storage space to hold all the data they have acquired so far. Some individuals invest in bigger hard drives, while others would rather use external storage devices such as compact discs (CDs), [...]

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Why Do Some Virtualization Projects Fail? Top Three Reasons

March 19, 2012

While, in theory, virtualization sounds like a great solution which all businesses, big, average or small should implement, it just so happens that the process doesnít always go down as smoothly as upper management would expect it to. On the one hand, cloud computing systems are on a continuing rise, with their popularity increasing by [...]

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Review: Synology DS411j, 4-bay Network Attached Storage

October 28, 2011

Having just recently purchased on these little fancy NAS boxes I’ve decided to write a brief review of it. I’ve only had it for a few days, nevertheless, being a techie I’ve already clicked just about every button I could find. Here are my observations so far: The NAS itself, which is named Synology DS411j, is [...]

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Can the Federal Government Save Some Money by Switching to the Cloud?

September 6, 2011

The Federal government of the United States currently spends about $80 billion annually on the information technology that backs up its innumerable agencies and projects. When President Obama entered office more than two years ago, he created a new federal overseer position for the sole purpose of trying to streamline government communications technology. This new [...]

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The Perks of the GPU Cloud

June 29, 2011

With the growing need for faster operating systems, many online business owners and organizations are turning to clouds to help them achieve the level of operations they want at a price they can afford. Using a cloud allows a business to enjoy the stability, reliability, and speed that a data center would normally offer, without [...]

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Quick introduction to the different kinds of web hosting

January 5, 2011

If you’re new to being a webmaster or a blogger, it might be confusing to figure out what kind of web hosting you should purchase for your website. Here’s a quick introduction to the most used types of web hosting you are likely to encounter in your search for the perfect web host. Linux Hosting [...]

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Review: Monitis – All-in-one server monitoring from the cloud

October 30, 2010

Monitoring your website is not only for big corporate sites – with the prices of today, everybody can do it and it’s especially important if you’re somewhat dependent on your website, or blog, to be online as much as possible. There’s no way you yourself will be able to monitor your site 24/7, that’s why [...]

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Ever Felt Like Smashing Your Company Servers? This Is The Next Best Thing!

September 21, 2010

For all of us that work for large companies, I think it’s a forbidden fantasy that we’ve all had: Walking into the server room, and knocking over all the servers just to see what would happen. That was certainly the case last month, when a man walked into the server room of a home loans [...]

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Avatar 3D – The Hardware Behind The Movie

January 21, 2010

Most of you are probably aware of James Cameron’s latest creation, Avatar, and some of you might also have watched it in 3D. If you haven’t, go do it before it’s too late, it’s really a great movie, despite the story not being the most original. The company behind the graphics in Avatar is Weta [...]

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