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Domain Management
Domain management is a little known but frequently discussed topic, associated with arcane terms such as name servers, forwarding, mirroring, locking and all manner of other odd contrivances. The basic operations of domain management services is almost exactly the same today as it was in the early days on the internet, in so far as [...]
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Dedicated Servers – What Are They?
If you are somewhat savvy in internet lingo, you may have come across the term dedicated server, or dedicated hosting at some point in time while perusing the internet and it’s features. Dedicated hosting, or dedicated servers, is a term used to describe a specific type of web hosting service. Dedicated hosting, or the term [...]
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Virtual Private Servers- What are they?
Any one who has ever surfed the web or sent email will likely tell you that they have heard of virtual private servers, or VPS for short. The term virtual private servers refers to a technique of sectioning a physical private web server into several other, smaller virtual servers, that each act and operate independently [...]
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Review Your Hosting Providers Terms of Service
Web hosting providers abound on the internet, and there are seemingly more every day, every time you turn around. The flood of advertising that accompanies the web hosting providers presence on the web can be daunting, as each and every web hosting provider claims to be the best web hosting provider that ever existed since [...]
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Content Management Systems (CMS) – Is a CMS the correct choice for you?
If you are new to website design, a term that you may have heard lately is “CMS”. In this article I will outline what a CMS is and list the advantages of using one. The term “CMS” is short for Content Management System, basically a Content Management System is a piece of software used to [...]
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – Why Should You Use Them.
CSS layouts have been around for many years, but it is still common to see table-based layouts. Since the advent of the CSS 2.0 specification which introduced positioning, all sorts of possibilities have become available to budding website designers, and in this day and age, the only real reason to utilize tables is for displaying [...]
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What Should You Expect From a Web Design Company
If you are in the market to hire a professional web design company that offers you comprehensive web design services, as well as offering Internet marketing solutions, you should consider design company web sites that are based on the Internet. When looking at these web design suppliers, you should compare and review their services, pricing, [...]
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How To Move A WordPress Blog To A New Web Hosting Provider
Moving your WordPress blog from one web hosting provider to another can be a difficult process for the uninitiated. The minute details involved in moving your WordPress blog to new hosting can easily stack up and become an overwhelming obstacle. If, for whatever reason, you have chosen to move your WordPress blog to a new [...]
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What is PHP and How it is Used.
PHP is a web based programming language that runs on web servers and is utilized for creating and programming dynamic Web pages. Web masters write their sites in PHP and HTML, and as surfers visit the site, the server detects the PHP programming language and reacts accordingly, retrieving the requested data from the PHP programming [...]
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What is MySQL and how it is used
MySQL is a popular SQL based multi-user database management system, generally referred to as DBMS, it’s popular acronym. It is a multi threaded system which has reportedly over 10 million installed users around the world. A Swedish company named MySQL AB holds the copyright to the MySQL codebase. MySQL AB is a for profit firm [...]
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