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Description of Windows 2003 Server DNS Stub Zones

admin — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:59:21 -0500

DNS stub zones are a new feature in Windows 2003 server. What are they, what do they do and are they of any benefit? In this article I try and answer these questions and make the complicated subject of DNS that little bit easier.

Reasons to upgrade to Windows 2003 Server

admin — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:52:38 -0500

System administrators like myself always want the latest technologies. With Longhorn still in beta and not yet a viable option many companies using the “One operating system behind” policy are now looking at upgrading to 2003 server. This is not a system I agree with as Windows 2003 server has been stable and better than W2k since service pack 1 in my opinion.

How To Optimize Your AdWords Copy

admin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:07:12 -0500

Although Google's AdWords may be the best way of getting targetted, business-generating traffic to your website, it is often not as easy as it sounds. Since many people could be trying to use AdWords, you have to use this program carefully in order to leverage its functions. Just for your information, I know a person who is earning $90 per hour for just writing optimized AdWords ads for his clients.

LAMP vs. LAMP Rematch

admin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:52:22 -0500

Two very popular and widely used languages for building dynamic web sites are Perl and PHP. They make up two thirds of the "P" in the Linux Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) stack. How does their performance, using mod_perl and mod_php, compare for everyday web programming? I attempted to find out.

Web Hosting Uptime

admin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:31:07 -0400

When you come out and search for hosting company for your site, you will see that what offers you are getting from the host for launching your site on his server. Surely they will offer you space, bandwidth and hosting uptime. Most of the web hosting companies encourages their services by offering uptime assurance.

Allowing Exactly the Right People to Send Email

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:08:15 -0400

If you need a solution to control email relaying, a program called Exact may be just what you need. Exact stands for EXperimental Access Control Thing. It is a POP-before-SMTP daemon that integrates with most email systems. Before getting into the details of setup and configuration, it is worth spending a little time discussing the somewhat esoteric problem it solves.

A look at the FreeNAS server

admin — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:51:01 -0400

FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various software RAID models and a Web user interface. The server supports access from Windows machines, Apple Macs, FTP, SSH, and Network File System (NFS), and it takes up less than 16MB of disk space on a hard drive or removable media.

Security: General Advices

admin — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:33:30 -0400

Manny people think: "My machine cannot be hacked. There are so manny computers over internet, why would happen this to me? Also I've taken some security measures. It will not happend to me."

Server Load - The Basics

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:15:00 -0500

Load, in computing, is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is currently performing, usually in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage. - Wikipedia definition.

Building Servers The Virtual Way. Part II - Setting Up Virtual Machines

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:06:00 -0500

In Part One, I covered virtualization and introduced Virtual Server 2005. Click here for Part One. In this part we will discuss setting up Virtual Machines.