John Locke said that “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions”, Yet as I sit here at my computer this morning, I get the feeling that the attempts being made to keep the Internet’s safe will not come to fruition soon.Yes, I can hear you saying, “don’t be such [...]
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Web Hosting FAQ – Part 5 How Much Bandwidth do I Need ? In order not to exceed your bandwidth requirement on your paid hosting plans and to maximise the provided bandwidth, so as not to waste all those paid but “un-used” one’s, the formula below can generally be used as a rule of thumb.Approximate [...]
Have you heard the words proxy server or proxy site? If you have, but you do not know what it means you will want to read on. I confess to being a little ignorant in the world of online websites and proxy sites. You see I may be handy at finding things, but that doesn’t [...]
Denial of Service (along with their lesser known cousins, Distributed Denial of Service) attacks can be a network administrators worse nightmare. Once they are underway they’re extremely difficult to resolve quickly, and could cost a business hours of productivity and frustration as people are unable to access your web services or remote access their work. [...]
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Managed appliances:security solutions that do moreThe complexity of dealing with enterprise security continues to grow, placing increasingly heavydemands on the IT department. Vendors have attempted to meet the challenge with solutionsthat strive to let the IT administrator do more with constrained resources and less time. But thesehave turned out to be at best only partial [...]
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