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What is Web Hosting?

You have always wondered what is Web Hosting ? As the name says it is the service of internet hosted for putting up websites on the global platform i.e on world wide web. the web hosts provide server space to the clients. Servers are the specially configured computers where the sites are placed or alloted a space. These servers are either leased or owned by the hosts. These hosts are company or firm that provides the tools and technologies required for the websites, applications to be viewed in the web. All the site have a unique id or the address. This sites also have unique domain names. Anyone who wants to search any particular page needs to enter the address or domain name into the web browser. Once this site is called on the internet the server associated with it fetches the pages to the needy user. Most hosting companies require that you own your domain in order to host with them. If you do not have a domain, the hosting companies will help you purchase one. Mostly ma...

What is Virtual Memory and Need of Swap Patitions

Virtual memory is a  concept whereby operating system can provide more RAM to a process than a physical RAM which is actually available. In a way it does is actually a disk space to allow a computers main memory i.e. Random Access Memory or RAM to appear to be bigger than it is. What actually happens is that the operating system of the computer moves data around between disk and between physical RAM in order to implement this virtual memory area. The act of moving pages of data between RAM and Disk is called Swapping in Linux and historically we always use the outermost edge of the disk for this purpose. Let's see How to maximize the performance? If you look at a chemical hard disk you have a rotating stack of platters and it is rotating at a constant angular velocity otherwise it has a constant speed of rotation. Actually, if you are standing in a middle of spinning wheel then you wouldn't be moving as fast and at absolute speed as somebody standing on the outer ...

What Relational Database Management System is all About ? What is RDBMS?

In this tutorial, we will discuss Relational Database Management Systems .  Let's first discuss What do databases do ? Databases have an ability to store a large amount of data. So when we search for any information on the internet then it finds all the URL's that meet the criteria. So far if you have been looking for a particular data or subject and type that in a web browser and click search then that's actually talking to a database. When you use Twitter, all messages are stored and indexed by #tags and every time any tweet is sent it is stored in a database allows them to search them for information, with a particular information, with particular #tags. We use PhotoBucket for uploading images on the internet and they have been linked to the user accounts. Other people can access those images as well and also other programs like Facebook, Messenger etc. Also, a lot of Google products are products of the database. Databases are required to store a ...

Know What is Drupal Gardens ?

" Overview of Drupal Gardens" In our previous discussion, we learned about what is Drupal ?  It was an explanation about  Core Drupal which is a standard version that you can download for free from Drupal.org website. In this discussion, we are going to learn about Drupal and Drupal Gardens . It is just an overview of Drupal Gardens if you know Drupal already. Basically, Drupal Gardens is core Drupal but with a few changes that make it easy to use and more flexible. Most importantly it's completely hosted and maintained by the company that created it, which is named Acquia. As a result of this, you don't have to install or maintain any part of it. Hosting is a big part that stops a lot of people from having their own Drupal site. To sign up for Drupal Gardens go to www.drupalgardens.com. If you are already on Drupal Gardens and if signed in, you can have a look around and see exactly what comes with Drupal Gardens. Read some of the marketing material a...

Wordpress Vs Drupal Know which one is Better and Why?

When it comes to CMS, there are 2 names that stand out: WordPress and Drupal Each has its own loyal community, a long list of popular websites that it powers as well as a wide range of features and functionalities. It is a common knowledge that WordPress is easier to use and more popular as compared to Drupal that has a smaller community and a steeper learning curve. But apart from this what really separated the two? There are following differences between them: 1. Search Engine Optimization: SEO is of utmost importance for the health of your website. If your site does not do well in terms of Page Rankings and Search results then your online presence will suffer badly, as a matter of fact, both WordPress and Drupal are good with SEO. As a fact, Google or any other search engine does not truly care which platform you are using as long as your content is in order and you follow the SEO Norms. However, WordPress is a good choice in terms of SEO. Of course, the WordPress u...