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Ways to Reduce Website Response Times

24/03/2018

First steps Before you try improving, get a baseline measurement of your current site and an idea of what needs improvement. A great tool to use for this is Google PageSpeed Insights. This site will measure your website response and give you an idea of where the problem areas are. Once you have data on your […]

New Technologies Technology

New Technology in 2018

22/03/2018

Various new technologies have either appeared or are set to appear this here. Here are a few for 2018 that have been highlighted by various people in the know. According to Forbes, MIT has revealed the following tech that is going to make a big impact this year. New Technology – 3D Metal Printing […]

DNS Domain Name Hosting

Domain transfers, DNS Propagation and other delaying factors

17/03/2018

So you have finally decided to move on to a new hosting company. The reasons do not matter – the planning does. Not taking the inherent delays into account can leave you frustrated and wishing you had never even started the process. For business, interrupted mail and a website that may or may not […]

Networks Technology

Network Latency and Throughput

12/03/2018

Network latency and network throughput are terms that are often confused or even used as alternatives to each other. Latency and Throughput are totally different and you can have High Latency (Bad) and High Throughput (Good) or Low Latency (Good) and Low Throughput (Bad). As you can see from the examples mentioned, even the “High” […]

Cloud Technology

Virtualization Storage Models and Architecture

28/02/2018

Virtualization started off as a way to get more out of modern hardware. It was initially used to split disparate workloads and to isolate different users with different needs on the same physical hardware. In the “old days”, we had to but a new server if the finance department needed a dedicated server to run […]

cPanel DNS Software

WHM/cPanel DNSONLY overview and setup

28/02/2018

cPanel is a webhosting control panel based on Linux, which comes with automation tools, and a graphical interface. cPanel was designed to make it easier to host a website online, by providing direct access to server administrators, resellers and website owners to a variety of applications such as BIND (DNS), Pel, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP and […]

Ways to Reduce Website Response Times

New Technology in 2018

Domain transfers, DNS Propagation and other delaying factors

Network Latency and Throughput

Virtualization Storage Models and Architecture

WHM/cPanel DNSONLY overview and setup

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