DNS and Cloud Technologies
Author: Martin Pramatarov
//DNS provides, have excellent security measures to protect your DNS and deliver outstanding performance. The paid plans include DNS Failover & Monitoring, DNSSEC, many nameservers, and even more Anycast DNS locations. With so many safety measures should you be monitoring your DNS or should you just leave it without supervision?
//Have you bought a domain and don’t know how to start your site? What platform should you choose? There are plenty of CMSs (content management system) out there, but just a few really popular. WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Why should you consider Drupal over the rest? Let’s find out!
//We have already covered the bases of DNS, so you know what it is and how does it work. This article will help you understand one of the concept inside the DNS – zone transfer. In order to explain it, let’s first see what a zone file is.
//Today we will see what exactly is FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and how does it compare to the newer protocol called HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). They both can perform similar tasks, and you can see them both still in use. But is it one of them better? Let’s compare FTP vs HTTP
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//Putting your domain on hold, that is what domain parking is. You don’t direct it to a hosting service. Instead, you use the domain parking service of your domain register. You don’t use your domain name currently, for whatever reason, but you want it to show a simple message from a basic HTML page. The message could be that the site is under construction, your contact detail for people who might want to buy the domain or ads that will make you profit.
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//It is not exactly a battle DNS vs DHCP, we need both types of servers for our daily internet use. They are not direct competitors; they both work with IP addresses but in a different way.
//Before we start talking about Microsoft Azure, let’s see why such a service exists. It the modern world, almost every company needs their server. They have plenty of tasks to do, computing, data management, storage and more. However, having a massive server in a single location might not be the best option for the company. It means expenses for hardware, for IT specialists and future upgrades. The computing power gets concentrated in a single place, so it is more vulnerable. A solution is a cloud computing service like Microsoft Azure.
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//It is Monday, you just entered the office, and it is a total mess. Apparently, during the weekend your website was down. There are plenty of angry e-mails from customers, and your IT specialists are running crazy to fix the problem. You lost sales and potential new clients, and all of this just because you didn’t have a DNS Failover. DNS Failover can keep your website online even if some of the PoPs are down and it is not hard to set up. Would you like to know more about it?
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//Any now and then, when we are browsing the internet, we get one of those – error 500 or error 404. What does this number mean? How many other numbers are there? In this article you will see the different categories of HTTP status codes, what do they say and some examples.
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//Australia is the 13th largest economy in the world, according to the International Monetary Fund. So you can expect a highly developed country in every sense, right? Not really! If you have business there, for sure, you have the pain to use the slow internet there. Its speed is 55th in the world (State of the Internet report)! And to make the matter worse, the Australian government is not pushing the local ISPs strongly. So what could the local businesses do to provide a good service – Australia DNS!
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