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If you’ve recently built a new website, or you’re still tossing around the idea, there’s one topic you should definitely brush up on: SEO. In a nutshell, search engine optimisation is the process of making certain changes and optimisations to your website to help it rank higher in search results. It’s... read more

The world of Linux is different from Windows, and can be daunting for new users. Where Windows uses a graphical user interface (GUI) for the majority of the OS, Linux relies much more heavily on Terminal, a type of command-line interface (CLI) for UNIX-based OSs. While daunting at first, this CLI holds immense potential for... read more

When we browse the internet, a lot is happening in the background to deliver web pages and services. As a foundation, we have a domain name system (DNS) that helps us convert uniform resource locator (URL) links like www.fasthosts.co.uk into IP addresses. In our case, Fasthosts has an IP address of 213.... read more

When we go to use a computer, the vast majority of the world uses their devices locally. This means that you are physically interacting with the device, either via mouse and keyboard or through the touchscreen on your phone. There are many benefits to native device usage, including minimal input latency, alongside adding external USB... read more

Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) is an open-source coding language that is typically used during web development. It is easily embedded into HTML code, and is executed on the server side rather than the client side. Before using PHP, you should have a basic working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as these are common web languages... read more

A huge number of people use the internet, but very few understand how the internet works under the hood. Considering that there are around 1.74 billion websites registered online, we need an efficient system for sorting and storing connection details for each. While we technically connect to websites and servers via an IP address,... read more

The internet relies heavily on server infrastructure to deliver the websites, videos, and audio files we consume daily. These servers can be used for personal file hosting or service delivery in the enterprise. In some cases, you may wish to add a middle-man server into the equation to protect your web hosting infrastructure, or anonymise... read more

Whenever you connect to a website over the internet, what you are doing is connecting to a server using an IP address. While you can type www.fasthosts.co.uk and reach the website right away, many things are happening in the background. Since each server on the internet has an IP address made of... read more

The internet is a complex interconnected web of servers and client devices. Each device needs a way to communicate with one another, much like a person gets given a name at birth to communicate with others. In technology terms, there are a few different naming conventions for systems, including MAC addresses and IP addresses. With... read more

Computer and server management is a tricky task, especially when you don't have direct access to the system itself. For this reason, IT administration and support tools that facilitate remote connections are incredibly popular. These tools allow you to connect to and manage a PC or server, in precisely the same way as... read more

The internet is a massive interlinked network of personal computers and servers. This is where the name World Wide Web (www) comes from, with many individual systems interconnected in a web-like structure. In some cases, however, these connections can fail and cause network outages. To combat this, network troubleshooting is commonly used by both consumers... read more