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Email is both an important and cost-effective way to reach consumers and market
your business. In today’s environment, there’s so much unsolicited mail sent out
daily that it’s crucial to adhere to best practices in order to give your
legitimate mail the best chance of being
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The internet connects billions of users to over 1.7 billion websites – but how those connections actually happen is a mystery to most. Behind every website visit is a hidden process of translating human-friendly domain names into machine-friendly IP addresses, made possible by the Domain Name System (DNS)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Is the SSD tide turning? More importantly, are SSDs worth it? Just a few years
ago, solid-state drives, or SSDs, were seen as cutting-edge solutions with price
tags to match, strictly reserved for hard-core techies and high-end users. Most
people were still perfectly content with tried
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Whether you’re a small business or a large company, being able to email your customers when you need to is essential. However, this vital capability can be compromised due to many reasons. This includes malicious hackers gaining unauthorised access to mailboxes or vulnerable websites to send spam.
The more
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In the last web performance explained article, we learned about the metrics we can capture to measure a website’s performance.
This involved looking at the difference between quantity and milestone metrics, before moving on to explore some widely used examples of the latter, such as Time to First Byte,
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Attackers are developing bigger, scarier, and more complex viruses every day.
Increasingly however, the biggest part of cyber security that businesses should
be wary of is the human aspect. Companies may be able to build secure
infrastructure protected from external threats with firewalls and private
networks, but that doesn’t
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