The Linux and Windows servers are the main forms of hosting web content at the moment. Therefore, when organizations want to set up their own servers, they must choose from either one of these major s…

There are ongoing debates between the Windows fans on the one side and the Linux fans on the other side. Apart from arguments over the best operating system that they offer, Windows and Linux have bee…

What is an exchange hosting service, anyway and how do I know whether I need one?

If you're like many small businesses today, you are probably expanding and working extensively on the Web to hel…

A new study commissioned by CA (and executed by TheInfoPro) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs.
"Linux on the ma…

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In a recent ArsTechnica report, Wikimedia Foundation revealed that it is currently in the process of migrating their servers to Ubuntu. This news stresses …

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ZFS is the advanced file system created by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and included in OpenSolaris. This same file system is now being integrated into Mac OS …

I was in a meeting this morning and forget to copy a file from my Macbook Pro, which I left at home, to the Asus Eee PC that I was using. One of my professors-colleague joked about calling home and as…

If you are managing several computers in a school setting, you know how complicated it gets after a quarter or semester. More often than not, it is better to do a complete re-install of the OS in each…

There are several ways of hosting multiple websites in a single server. However, using virtual hosts is the simplest with the least overhead. As Apache stands to be the industry standard web server so…

Most of the heavyweight Linux distributions come with Apache as its web-server. Unless you are using this as your production server, it is often overkill. Apache web-server is one very powerful server…