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SQL Server Hosting

If you are just starting an online business, you must be aware of the different online strategies, so as to make your website competitive in the worldwide web. There are several server-hosting companies and each seems to claim to offer the best SQL server hosting solutions online. But before you choose a reliable company to host your website, you must first have a thorough understanding of what SQL server hosting is about. SQL server hosting is a powerful tool that provides you with a feature rich and easy-to-access database hosting platform to arrange and manage data-driven applications for the Internet. SQL is considered the leading open-source database that is ideal for web hosting. This allows you to develop any web-based application is secure and stable even while running on an Unix-like operating system. SQL server hosting also provides optimized binaries for a wide range of platforms, such as Linux, Microsoft, Windows, FreeBSD, IBM’s and Mac OS X. As for storage, SQL hostin...

Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Server Hosting: Right Choice?

Dedicated server hosting is usually required to maintain large business websites. A whole server is dedicated to one website. It provides you with unlimited bandwidth and storage space, which ensures maximum website uptime, minimum response time and much controlled environment. Also the core benefit of dedicated server hosting is the security and privacy, you don’t have to share any space or bandwidth which mean no one can access your server but you. There are two sub categories of dedicated server hosting: managed and unmanaged dedicated server hosting, most of the people are unable to decide whether to select managed or unmanaged server. With unmanaged hosting you will get basic services like hardware maintenance and basic operating system installation rest you have to manage by yourself including all application software installations and security tools . Whereas in managed hosting your hosting company will take care of everything. It manages your hardware, operating system, in...

Dedicated Server Hosting - The Great Hosting Choice

Accepting dedicated server hosting account gives more flexibility for those organizations that require to develop hosting for their Website. It as well permit the customer to have much more control over the server or servers, that are existence used. The available control in dedicated hosting account is awesome you will never find such kind of controls in other form of hosting. Here you have a choice of selection you can choose operating system, which you like, even it allows you to install customized scripts as well as you can choose hardware. Dedicated hosting service, which is frequently referred to the dedicated servers and managed dedicated hosting, is one particular type of Internet Website hosting that an organization can choose, as in sequence to get the Website files uploaded and get their Website online. When a customer selects any type of dedicated hosting, they lease the whole server and it is not distributed with other customers of the web hosting company. There are abound...

Is Your Server Still Running on a Snail's Pace?

You may find it difficult to locate an experienced service provider since not many vendors work on this platform. However, the terns are changing and new cPanel dedicated servers are on offer. cPanel dedicated servers are a fully-functional platform and if you need to host your website or update data on Linux, then you will need to speak with a good cPanel dedicated servers service provider. It is almost certain that you will not have enough knowledge about the Linux platform, so taking help of a professional is essential and since you will need hosting services round the year; do choose one who is well established. Look out for the following features when you go on to selecting a cPanel dedicated web hosting server: – Unlimited Domains: There should not be any restrictions put on the domain space. Make this point clear before finalizing your deal. – WHM (Reseller) Access – Complete Customization: Each has a different need, therefore go for customized services and flex...

Information About Cheap Dedicated Hosting Server

A dedicated server is also called dedicated hosting, and it is a very powerful computer that is used as a network server. It is a single computer that is used to fulfill all the needs and requirements of the network. A dedicated hosting server has an operating system, web server and software. All these features are housed in the data centers of the company. Such hosting server is usually required for the website of a company or different websites of a company. Such server can be operated from a distant place of the company and it cannot be used or operated by the clients. It can only be used as a resource server, and only the web host has physical access to the servers. In the businesses where more space and security is required, cheap dedicated hosting server is the best option to have. The servers are purchased by different companies that support and manage it later on. The servers are also provided with the internet facility. The cheap dedicated hosting servers are the best option f...

Offshore Dedicated Server Hosting - Why Consider Hosting on Anonymous Dedicated Servers?

Offshore hosting industry has rapidly evolved from a pesky little brother to most mainland hosting giants into the leading hosting service provider catering to many small and average business projects that, by their nature, demand a higher degree of privacy and information security than most mainstream providers can offer. Projects like electronic money (e-currency) services, high-yield investment funds and various merchants in developing and developed countries alike have long been opting for offshore server hosting rather than a standard hosting solution. Others include purely informative websites which need more freedom (e.g. political) for the kind of web contents they need to publish online. Which offshore hosting plan to choose? The short answer to this question would be “the one you can afford”… at the same time there are some important considerations that you need to keep in mind. From my experience, offshore shared and VPS (virtual ser...

Why Dedicated Web Server Hosting?

When a company opts for a dedicated server hosting service for their website they get more control and flexibility over the web server their are many features which are available only on dedicated servers not on shared web hosting. They have option of selecting desired hardware customised script and choice of operating system. Dedicated web hosting is also called as managed dedicated service and when a customer selects a dedicated web hosting, he leases outs entire servers and none of the system resources are shared with other clients. And in a managed dedicated server hosting package the service provider takes care of maintenance and support round the clock. When a client opts for dedicated server it is exclusively given to client for his web hosting needs by selecting this type of hosting package client can make sure there no downtime experienced due to problems in some other website which shares same server on which your websites are being hosted this eliminates potential risk of do...

Managed Dedicated Servers - A Revolution in the World of Server Hosting

Server refers to a computer system which hosts several files or information, and is simultaneously accessible to everyone connected through the network. In other words servers are an integral part of any office, where several individuals are required to access the same information. Here the server acts as a storehouse where different files are stored for common access. Web hosting services or internet hosting companies provide servers to other companies enabling the business organization to reach out globally via internet, and thereby increase their profitability. There are several web or internet hosting services provided by many organizations. These organizations offer a wide range of hosting alternatives, appropriate for use for individuals, business or recreational purposes. Among the many options are virtual private server hosting, dedicated server hosting, Windows® hosting or Linux hosting. These organizations provide guidance to the customers in choosing the right hosting ser...

What's Behind Game Server Hosting - History and Growth of Game Servers

If like me, you have ever wondered whats behind the game servers you play on and how they truly work you may find this informational article very interesting. In this first part article I will tell you how game server hosting came about and what it took to get the online gaming world running. The history of dedicated game server hosting: Dedicated game server hosting is where it all began for online gaming as back when the first online gamers started out the only way to play over the Internet was by hosting their games on their own machines (a standard home PC). All the gamer had to do was buy his/her game and create a server which would be hosted and played from home, this was often done simultaneously on the users home PC under a dedicated server application similar to to days dedicated server option included with most games such as Counter Strike Source. Due to the low speeds and specs of home computers back in these times the gamers machine would often be put under enormous stress ...

Conversion of Access Database Systems to Visual Basic Dot NET and SQL Server

Microsoft Access is showing its age. Most of the techniques (File Server, VBA, DAO, Jet Database Engine, etc) hark back 20 or more years. Microsoft will continue supporting VBA for many years to come, but the programming emphasis is rapidly changing in favour of Visual Basic.Net and SQL Server. For company administration systems, the combination of a VB.Net FrontEnd with an SQL Server BackEnd database is the ideal. Visual Basic is business rules oriented and SQL Server is efficient and easy to maintain. VB.Net Upgrade Conversion Reasons The reasons for an upgrade from Microsoft Access to Visual Basic.Net and an SQL Server database are: A strategic corporate decision A worry about the future of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) The difficulty and cost in supporting obsolete and error ridden code The difficulty and cost in supporting code written by amateurs without regard to standards The need to replace an inefficient administration system that just “grew like Topsy” The n...

Tips For Choosing Dedicated Server Hosting - Sometimes You Get What You Pay For

One important thing to bear in mind is that if your website is graphic intensive or runs a myriad of complicated scripts, you need to go with the dedicated server option from the beginning. This will give you and your website users a much more enjoyable online experience, without bandwidth problems and other restrictions that may be imposed on shared hosting plans. Dedicated servers provide you with an incomparable robust hosting environment for your critical e-commerce applications. With Windows and Linux servers, they provide you the cutting edge technology platform, state of the art operating systems and hardware equipment with guaranteed uptime for business critical applications. You have the option of choosing your own operating system environment, Linux or windows, you have great flexibility for choosing different dedicated sever plans available to you depending upon your requirements. Dedicated server hosting gives you freedom, absolute control, unlimited bandwidth and security ...

How to Configure SAMBA on a Linux Server

Step By step guide to configuring SAMBA on a LINUX server. This is for network administrators with experience configuring and administrating LINUX servers that want to know how to configure a SAMBA file server the right way step by step. In this step by step tutorial I am going to show you how to make a shared folder on a linux server and share it so users on Microsoft windows workstations can access it on a local – internal network. In this tutorial I am going to make the folder called “shared folder” and allow everybody access to the folder and printer networked to the Linux server. This is a basic how to guide for configuring a samba workgroup file server. I will cover how to build and configure a samba PDC – Primary domain controller in another tutorial for more experienced network administrators. STEP 1 Open the samba configuration file using a unix text editor. I like NANO since it is very easy to use. Below are the commands I used to perform this task. [ro...

The Key Features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL training is important to learn all about the different versions of this program. And, once the class is taken it is important for technicians to continue their education when new versions of SQL are available. For example, SQL 2005 training is necessary for techs to understand all the ins and outs of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It is worthwhile to take SQL 2005 training classes because it keeps you up to date and improves your income. When you take a class of this nature you will learn about some of the key features of Microsoft SQL 2005. T SQL, also known as Transact-SQL is a variant of SQL and is used in the Microsoft SQL Server. This additional syntax helps in stored procedures. TDS, Tabular Data Stream, is what both Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase/ASE use to communicate. This was also incorporated into the FreeTDS project so that more Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases could communicate. The most recent version is SQL Server 2005. This supports the connectiv...

Crystal Reports - Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is the leader for inexpensive and middle size SQL solutions. Plus it is now capable to serve large enterprise on Microsoft Windows platform. Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main reporting tool: Microsoft, Best Software, Oracle to name a few. Sometimes developers try to use Crystal directly to pull data from multiple database platforms – we understand the need to give you additional tips to increase Crystal report flexibility. Also common case when Crystal report should pull data from multiple database platforms. Assuming that you are creating Crystal Reports on Windows platform – we recommend you to use Microsoft SQL Server as a database access tool. 1. Use Crystal when you have your query tuned – regardless how good Crystal Reports is – it is reporting tool – not querying environment. Tune your query first and be sure tha...

Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, and Perl - Light Your Lampp With Your Own Server

With all of the available web hosting plans, now is the time to start building sites whether your goal is fun, education, profit or all of the above. The days of plain static HTML sites is past. Today’s servers feature access to programming languages and database capability to provide dynamic web pages with just a little bit of coding. You may have run across a new word, lampp. Lampp is an acronym for Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, and Perl. Keep reading to see why these words are important to you. L – The Linux operating system, open source, fast and flexible, and constantly being approved A – The Apache web server, the framework for your website M – Mysql – the most popular open source database P – PHP – a flexible scripting language that makes it easy to create dynamic web pages P – Perl – the old standby language of the web, excellent for text manipulation and data analysis An excellent example of the use of lampp is the blogging so...

Linux Operating System Operates Linux Server

An operating system refers to a set of programs and platforms that help run a computer. It is involved in managing the computer’s hardware and in executing different application software. Operating systems are a vital component in any computer operation. Linux is a type of system that is similar to Unix. Since it is an system, it is meant to be installed in computers but can also be used for video game consoles, mainframes, and mobile phones. Linux is an example of open source software. It is available for free and source codes can be altered and redistributed. The design of Linux is based on Unix systems. Majority of the design of Linux operating systems are based on the design principles of Unix OS released during the 1980s. Linux operating systems make use of a monolithic kernel also known as a Linux kernel. It is responsible for accessing the file system, networking, processing control, as well as peripheral access. Drivers for devices can be integrated into the kernel or adde...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Web

Databases and Licensing. Databases are the backbone of even basic Internet applications these days. Generally hidden away as the final layer in all software architecture, the database is the heart of any web application that needs to store and access information. Microsoft’s SQL Server is one of the top of the line databases that can be used for Enterprise or web related applications. It’s fast , powerful, and has excellent integration with all Microsoft products. Unfortunately, it’s adoption as a database for small web applications has been restricted till now due to a tiny stumbling block known as Licensing. For normal SQL databases, Microsoft imposes a fee for each entity connected with the database. This was called a Client Access License (CAL) and could be processor based, user based, or device based. Essentially, it means that, if you purchased a user based CAL, you would have to pay a fee for each user accessing the database and for device based CAL’s, a l...