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Importance of Dedicated Servers

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:54:16 GMT

Dedicated Servers: - Whenever we talk about web hosting, there always comes a name “dedicated servers” that are the Rolls Royce of web hosting business. A powerful computer used solely as a network server is actually known as dedicated server. In other way we can say that where network needs, dedicated server is a single computer in a network reserved for. It lets you know the exclusive use of computer and its services are only valid for one domain name and account.

In a web hosting company’s premises a dedicated server is includes a web server, related software, internet connection and operating system. The purpose of all these is to develop a substantial amount of traffic for a particular website or a group of a company sites. The best thing is that we can customize the server according to our needs and it mostly operated and configured remotely from Clients Company. Server is owned by web host and no one can have the access of server physically. It can’t be used as a client.

Dedicated servers are adopted by a company when company wants more control on their servers. And if we talk about security then dedicated server providers utilize the extreme security measure to ensure the safety of data stored on their network of servers. A server provider provides you the software that you want to install on server. Generally dedicated servers are kept inside of data center so that they may be controlled by service provider.

The owners on internet business mostly prefer outsource dedicated servers because of the high technical nature of the requirement and the huge availability of networks from multiple providers. The providers of dedicated servers utilize huge amount of band width and obtain lower volume costs. Economically it’s not feasible for most of the hosting companies to develop a single network alone. Using dedicated servers over a typical shared hosting account gives advantage of increasing amount of resources and control available.

Yet no one has cleared the management role of dedicated server providers. Some providers define fully managed as having a web panel control, while other define it as a control over network related functions. So first management role of dedicated server should be cleared that help every internet business owners to utilize the whole services given by dedicated server providers.

There are lots of companies that are experts at managed dedicated server hosting. The services provides by these providers are dedicated boxes, RAID arrays, scalable bandwidth with back up and disaster recovery solutions. Most important thing is that control panels should not be confused with a full server management solution.

There are lots more about dedicated server and the management level of server. We’ll let you know soon…..

PunBB

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:49:04 GMT

PunBB is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive as compared to other discussion boards. PunBB has fewer features than many other discussion boards, but is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML-compliant pages

Documentation: There is large wiki with documentation.

Community: Laarge community includes several forums, wiki and international support.

License: GPL.

Last releases: 1.3.4

Size:302kB

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Simple Machines Forum

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:34:28 GMT

Simple Machines Forum - SMF in short - is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.

Documentation: Good.

Community: Community includes several active forums and chat.

License: Simple Machines License

Last releases: 1.1.9

Size:1.4mB

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PhpBB 3

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:20:48 GMT

The most famous forum software is back for its third version.
What are the parts of PhpBB that have been improved ?

Private Messages
Registration
Search
Admin Control Panel
Moderator Control Panel
Polls
Usergroups
Profile View
Permissions
User Management

What are the new features ?

Attachments
Unlimited Subforums
Custom BBCodes
Custom Profile Fields
User Control Panel
New Moderating Tools
Caching and performance
Friends and Foes
Warnings and Reports

Download here