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What is Unix?
Unix is a computer operating system created by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson in 1969, in an effort to provide a multitasking system. The idea behind the design of Unix was to provide simple, powerful and effective utilities that could be put together to perform a wide variety of tasks.
What is Windows?
It is an operating system for computers produced by Microsoft. Together with it comes applications like Excel and Word . Not only is it the preferred choice in a majority of companies, it is also the most widespread system available in homes.
What is Shared Hosting?
Shared hosting is the type of hosting in which the hosting providers serves multiple web sites on a single web server, each with its own domain name. Shared hosting is provided by most web hosting companies. Although it is a cheap solution for a web presence, shared hosting is not sufficient for web sites with high traffic. It is much better to look for a dedicated server if your web site have such a high traffic.
What is Managed Hosting?
Managed Hosting is the type of web hosting in which web hosting provider maintains and monitors customer's dedicated server and operating system. If you want to improve your dedicated hosting service but do not have the required staff, then Managed Hosting is ideal for you.
What is Reseller Hosting?
When a hosting provider offers its services to individuals or other companies who wish to resell their own web hosting services, this is known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting has many advantages, since there is no need to have your own hardware, bandwidth, or IT staff to actually run a hosting company.
What is E-commerce Hosting?
E-commerce stands for electronic commerce; it refers to Internet sales of services and products. The main idea of e-commerce is that the whole process takes place online: from the selection of the product(s) to the acceptance of payment.
What is Co-location?
In a general sense, co-location means to move or place things together, not necessarily implying in a proper order. However, on the Internet, it is used to refer to the space provided on the premises of the service provider for customers' telecommunication equipments. e.g. a site owner could place his or her own server on the ISP's premises that provides co-location hosting services.
What is Dedicated Server?
Dedicated server is a server devoted solely to your web site or business. Dedicated server is not shared with other customers, as with shared hosting.
What is Virtual Private Server?
A Virtual Private Server is a sort of a combination of a shared hosting and dedicated server. With a VPS certain system resources such as the memory and CPU are still shared with other users of the server but the file system is set up in such a way that it acts like a dedicated server. The memory, resoucres and CPU power are usually set up in such a way that each user of the server can use only a certain percentage of them, which means you have your own resources available to you. Since the system is set up so that a person can only use a percentage, your sites will work more reliable because they will always have a fixed amount of resources.
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