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By now, millions of smartphone subscribers have heard countless advertisements touting 10, 15, 30 (or unlimited) gigs of data shared between users on their personal cell phone plans. Consumers …

Resource Limitations – Quite often, we’ll see threads opened on web hosting forums that pertain to unlimited offers from web hosting providers that offer shared hosting services, complaining about …

Unmetered bandwidth on dedicated servers has its pros and cons. With unmetered bandwidth you get a flat rate, whether you use one Megabyte of traffic or 100 Terabytes of …

Terms of Service (TOS) policies vary by web hosting providers, and while sometimes they’re widely disparaging, generally the clauses in each cover the same basic provisions. They all talk …

Cloud computing is all the rage today, providing redundancy, scalability and on-demand services, yet questions abound exactly what the cloud actually is as advertised by many web hosting providers. …

There are real world pros and cons to both renting a dedicated server and to colocating your own server, and the answer as to which you should select depends …

Let’s start by saying that a dedicated server comes in many flavors, in terms of hardware like CPUs, RAM, RAID arrays, hard disk drives, hot swappable units and so …

Leasing dedicated servers housed in a data center can minimize downtime of mission-critical servers and applications. Can you afford to lose even one hour of revenue stream? What would it …

DDoS attacks are simply distributed denial of service attacks whereby unscrupulous cybercriminals try to overwhelm a website with bogus traffic from multiple sources. At first, they primarily attacked important …

A couple of years ago I wrote an article explaining why it was counterproductive to not know what you didn’t know. Confused? Having been in the hosting industry for …