Virtual Private Servers: Facts and Insights!

The Virtual Private Servers are known to be dedicated storage service that provides processing and web spaces to rent as well as subcontracts in the online space. This service provides users with the facility to use resources based on their demand. These server hosting services are customized based on each of the clients demands. Many factors are considered in terms of cloud hosting services enable users to get utilization and efficiency for virtual desktops, private servers, private virtual desktops and hosted desktops.



The virtual private hosting service provides users with two options namely, Linux server hosting and Window server hosting. The Linux server hosting is the service that works on Linux running system while Window server hosting services work on Windows operating systems. It is essential to analyze the business needs along with the traffic and processing cost when selecting any cloud hosting service. The second criterion that comes into picture is the storage space and disk space. The users need to ensure that the dedicated storage is used optimally when using cloud services. The hosting services that are provided by the Linux servers and Windows servers give users the freedom to choose between different storage space plans for virtual private services. The storage space offered by these virtual private services range from 40 GB to 240 GB. The users can customize the storage numbers based on the storage capacity they need for their private server hosting.

There has always been a concern for RAM specifications when it comes to virtual desktops, private hosting and hosting virtual private servers. The users need to ensure that the RAM storage is chosen based on their business needs. The businesses that need to do tasks for data storage, data migration and analysis business application require high end RAM. Similarly, the traffic intensive and response based business applications require the RAM specifications that are the best.

Another advantage of virtual private hosting is that it enables its customers to select the operating system for their virtual private web space for Cloud hosting. Apart from RAM, the users also need to use good bandwidth that can range from 1,000 GB/month to 2,000 GB/month. This doesn't end here as the private hosting service lets users to decide the bandwidth range based on what they require.

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Smart Data and Big Threats: How Cloud Will Look Like in Future

Smart Data and Big Threats: How Cloud Will Look Like in Future



So far, even an average internet user has probably heard about cloud computing and is aware of the buzz surrounding it. The truth is that this technology has existed for years, but it is its massive adoption that has turned it into a true craze. With all the companies seeking to improve their business processes with smart and affordable cloud software tools, vendors have recognized the potential of this market and started enhancing their cloud-based services.

Though there are many ways in which cloud has affected our everyday and professional lives, the direction of its development is more or less clear to most cloud experts. Certainly, there are plenty of different apps yet to be developed, but in general, there are two important trends that we’ll see in the close future.


Smart Data



The term ‘big data’ has been frequently mentioned in relation to the growth of cloud technologies. What it refers to is the fact that cloud technology makes it possible to deal with huge chunks of digital data that our hyper-connected public clouds produce on a daily basis. Big data have become a reality for a growing number of businesses that increasingly turn to cloud in order to discover software tools that are powerful enough to analyze them.

Many surveys have reported that big data will remain the focus of cloud development in future. However, Erik Grueter from Cloud Times believes that smart data is to become the next big thing in cloud. According to him This smart data is created by algorithms that can cut down data to its most important points, grading information’s usefulness by its age for example. Practically, instead of compiling large amounts of data, companies need to use appropriate tools to analyze them and get to the information that is relevant to their business processes. 3rd Annual Cloud and Smart Data Summit 2013 is one of the big events where ‘smart data’ will be discussed in relation to cloud data processing practices.



Big Threats



Many cloud experts have predicted that the cloud will generate more possibilities for malicious attacks. Of course, security has always been the major problem when it comes to cloud computing, but most users simply choose to trust the vendors with their data. As vulnerable as it is, online space has always been full of different threats and risks. With the advancement of cloud, security standards have become better, but the fact that so much data is regularly sent to the Internet means more opportunities for hackers to obtain them.

Identity theft is still a major risk for everyone having an online account, but it is not the only one. Shared hosting makes it possible for hackers to break into a single account and get the access to all the other users on the same server. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacksare just another form of malicious activity intended to prevent websites, especially the commercial ones, from functioning smoothly. Tech enthusiasts have agreed upon the fact that DDoS attacks are growing and that they’ll be one of the common problems in future.
Obviously, these directions of development are a result of our online behavior. While our online identities grow, we become too dependent on the cloud. Therefore, the two future trends described above are an important issue for both individual and business users, as they can shape our future in the cloud.


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Mayer Mel
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How To Add HTML Sitemap To Blogger Easily ?

Uses of a site-map


To make your site more authentic, an HTML sitemap is essential. A site-map provides a user/advertiser the overall layout of a website. Though some websites have inbuilt support for generating site-maps, (automatic site-map generation), Blogger dont have that feature. This makes Blogs look like primitive workshop eventhough backed up by a nice template. The site-map feature can now be used in blogger via script developed by Top-Bloggers 

Example of a sitemap  -- Click Here



How to add a sitemap ?


  • Create a new page (blogger----pages---new page) (not new post)
  • Download the script from here  Here
    (cant post the script on the page. No surveys or offers required)
  • Copy paste the script on your page
    (Make sure to edit the website in script www.digitallyblind.com to your web page address to make it work. Else it will show my site-map on your webpage)

Testing


Open the page in a browser to view the site-map. If succesful, sit-back and relax. If found any problem, please revert to me

How To Create Blogger Custom Robot Header Tags ?

What does custom robot header tags do? 


The custom robot header tags provide additional directions to the crwaling bot, how to index the page. The best practise is to allow all indexing except archives and search pages. This can be done easily on blogger


Where to find the setting ?


Navigate to blogger button on left--expand the drop down and select settings.



Select settings--and in search preferences, you can find the custom robots header tags with edit on side


When clicked on edit, a window opens and make changes as below


This can improve your SEO score pretty much and results in more income if you have ads enabled in your site by ad providers. This technique was un-revealed to blogger users-Those who used blogger to hoist their site and link to an external domain. This resulted in losing ranks to a lot of users. Any template changes may sometime result in changing the values. So if you made a template change recently, check that it still exists as above diagram

Explanation

The 'all' enabled allows to index all pages in homepage. The 'noindex' tells the crawlers to never index a search or archive page. 

How To Add A Robots.txt File To Blogger?

Robots.txt ?


What does really robots.txt file do to your site/blog? They give guidelines for search engine bots (tells robotic crawlers how to crawl on your site and what to index).  We normally have a blogger page without a robots tag assigned. If you bought a new domain and want to move your blog to that domain. Here is where you need the custom robot file assigned. Else you will be visited by lots and lots of crawlers, resulting in un-natural views. Also some search engines cant crawl unless  they found a valid robots.txt file. All these can result in poor SEO (Search engine optimization)


Where To Add Robots.txt ?


The robots.txt must be added to the root of your blogger. For this, navigate to

Blogger button (left side)---From the drop down, select settings



 Select search preferences--There you can find custom robots.txt with an edit on the side



What to enter in space provided ?


There are many robots.txt file generators available, but the best practice is to try them out yourself manually. Only problem is that a misconfigured robot directory causes search engines to avoid your site.

There are 3 types of robot files added

1. Allow all bots and allow any action (not preffered by me)

Copy and Enter the following below. (in red colour)
(copy to a notepad before pasting. Else it may return an error)

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

(please be sure to edit YOUR-SITE to your site address.)

Explanation

The command allows all robots to crawl through your site without limitations and acess all labels via search.


2. Allow all bots with restricted acess

Copy and Enter the following below. (in red colour)
(copy to a notepad before pasting. Else it may return an error)

User-agent: *
Disallow:/search
Allow:/
Sitemap: http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

(please be sure to edit YOUR-SITE to your site address.)

Explanation

The command allows all bots to crawl through with limitations to search indicated by disallow:/search and allow homepage indexing indicated by allow:/

3. Allow only specific bots


Copy and Enter the following below. (in red colour)
(copy to a notepad before pasting. Else it may return an error)

User-agent:BOT-NAME
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.YOUR-SITE.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

(please be sure to edit YOUR-SITE to your site address,and BOT-NAME to bot you wish to allow)

Explanation

The command only allow specific bots and may result in low traffic. But it is necessary for specific customers having trouble with crawling bots.The disallow being left blank indicates,no restriction is present there.

Nokia Lumia 925 Full Phone Specifications

Nokia lumia 925 is the boasted premium phone from nokia stable. The reason i say boasted is that this phone has no more features than a mere LTE 4G and +2MP camera from lumia 720 and really gave the critics a phone to talk upon. This device also has some improvements in screen size, but resolution remains 720p. This also pulled many customers back from buying it


This phone, announced on may 2013 was released on june 2013. It got a mixed reception from 
audience as expected. Let us see what all are the features binding in this device.


NETWORK


This device supports all networks including 2G,3G,4G where it supports GSM 850,900,1800,1900 in 2G mode, HSDPA 850,900,1900,2100 in RM 892 and HSDPA 850,900,1700,1900,2100 in RM 893in 3G mode. It supports LTE 800,900,1800,2100,2600 in 4G mode.The device has a micro-SIM support and one needs to have a SIM cutter to adapt his existing SIM into a lumia 925


BODY


The device is 5.08*2.78*0.33 (inches) in dimension. The device weighs around 139 grams.


DISPLAY


The device has an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colours. The device has a display around 4.5 inches in size. It supports a display resolution around 768*1280 pixels and has a pixel density of 332ppi pisel density. The device has a multitouch feature and is protected by corning gorilla glass 2 and has pure motion HD and clear black display technology.


SOUND


The device has vibration alerts, MP3 and WAV ringtone support. The device has a built in loudspeaker and has a 3.5mm jack supporting dolby headphone sound enhancement.


MEMMORY


The device with such a premium pricetag dont have an external card slot and it has an internal storage of around 16gb (13.5GB usable). The device has 1GB ram.


DATA


The device supports a class B GPRS and EDGE upto 236.6Kbps speed. It also supports HSDPA upto 42.2Mbps and HSUPA upto 5.76Mbps. The device also supports a dual band Wi-Fi and it also supports tethering as it supports Wi-Fi hotspot. It has a version v3.0 bluetooth and it also supports NFC. It also supports micro-USB v2.0 for fast data transfer between PC.


CAMERA


The device has a 8MP camera which supports 3264*2448 pixel resolution. It has carl zeiss optics, optical image stabilization, autofocus, dual LED flash. Other features are 1/3" sensor size, pureview technology, geo-tagging and touch focus. The primary camera is 1080p HD supported upto 30 frames per second. The secondary camera is of 1.3MP and supports video recording upto 720p at 30 frames per second



FEATURES

The device has a windows phone 8 operating system and can be upgraded to windows phone 8 amber. The dual core cpu is supported by qualcomm MSM8960 snapdragon chipset and supported by adreno 225 GPU for excellent graphics rendering. The sensors incorporated are accelerometer,gyrometer proximity and compass. The device also features HTML5 and supports GPS with GLONASS. 



BATTERY


The device has a non removable li-ion battery with 2000mah and the series is BL-4YW.It can provide a talktime of upto 12 hour in 3G mode.


FOR


  • 8MP camera
  • AMOLED screen


AGAINST


  • 2000mah battery
  • Dual core CPU
  • 1GB ram
  • 1.3MP secondary camera
  • 768*1280 display resolution


RATING


4.5/5






Nokia Lumia 520 Full Phone Specifications

Nokia lumia 520 is the lowest priced phone in lumia segment. Nokia introduced the lumia series with windows 8 mobile OS and now upgraded to windows 8 mobile 'Amber'. The lumia series are known for reliability, speed and crystal clear audio and video at affordable prices. The lumia 520 is a small squary smartphone which has almost all features available at a very reasonable price. The device is available in many attractive colours like yellow,red,cyan,black,white. The people using it may need some time to spend with it before being familiar with the OS. Its not that much user friendly like apple ios or android versions of OS. 


This device was announced in february 2013 and hit the markets on april 2013. The device has many underlying features in such a smart budget. Let us see the features.


NETWORK


The device supports 2G and 3G networks. It supports GSM 850,900,1800,1900 in 2G mode, and HSDPA 850,1900,2100 under RM-915 and HSDPA 850,1700,1900,2100 in RM-917. These RM versions show, there are 2 regions available and ones specific to network band demand would be sold there.The device has a micro-SIM support and one needs to cut his existing SIM in a SIM-cutter to adapt it to micro-SIM format.


BODY


The device is 4.72*2.52*0.39 (inches) in dimension and it weighs hardly 120 grams.That is so light like a feather


DISPLAY


The device has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display supporting 16 million colours. The display size is 4 inches approximately and display resolution is 480*800 pixels. The screen has a pixel density of 223 and pretty decent for such a low pricetag,


SOUND


The device has vibration alerts and WAV ringtones. It is also provided with a loudspeaker loud enough for a person and also a 3.5mm jack is provided to listen to audio through external speakers or headphones.


MEMMORY


The device has an internal memmory of 8GB. Hardly 6GB usable. It also supports micro-sd cards upto 64GB and is really a boon. The device has 512MB ram for memmory operations.


DATA


The device has a class B GPRS and an EDGE where it supports upto 236Kbps. HSDPA at 3G network maxes out at 21.1Mbps and HSUPA at 5.76Mbps


CAMERA


The device has a 5MP primary camera and can shoot pictures upto 2592*1936 pixel resolution. It also features autofocus,geo-tagging and features a sensor 1/4 inches in size. The video recording at 720P is supported at 30 frames per second. There is no secondary camera for this smartphone.


FEATURES


The device is pre-installed with windows phone 8 OS which is upgradable to WP8 Amber via OTA or wire update (offline). It is powered by a dual core 1GHZ processor and supported in a walcomm MSM8227 chipset. An Entry level graphics processor, adreno 305 is provided for video and graphic support. The device also features sensors like accelerometer and proximity.It also have HTML5 support. The GPS with GLONASS is supported.


BATTERY


The device is powered with a BL-5J series 1430mah li-ion battery and can provide talktime upto 10 hours max.


FOR


  • Dual core CPU at reasonable price
  • Windows 8 Amber


AGAINST


  • 1430mah battery
  • no secondary camera
  • Primary camera 5MP with 720P video support
  • 512MB ram



RATING


4.4/5


Nokia Lumia 720 Full Phone Specifications

The nokia lumia 720 is the third phone in nokia lumia series previous phones are nokia lumia 520,620 respectively. This device can be said as a tweaked version of nokia lumia 520 where it lacked camera features and battery backup. Lumia 720 is a complete package at the offered price for a windows user. This device unlike the younger brother has scratch support with gorilla glass and many other features.


This device was announced on 2013 february and made available at stores on april 2013. Let us see the technical specifications in detail.


NETWORK


The device has 2G and 3G network support and it supports GSM 850,900,1800,1900 modes in 2G and HSDPA 850,900,1900,2100 in 3G mode. The device has a micro-SIM slot only and one with an existing mini-SIM needs to cut the sim in Micro-SIM shape to continue using it in his new lumia 720.


BODY


The device is 5.04*2.66*0.35 inches in dimension and mere 128 grams in weight.That is amazing weight savings.


DISPLAY


The device has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen featuring 16 million colour support. The display size is approximately 4.3 inches and it has a pixel density of 217ppi. The device has multitouch support and is protected from scratches by the legendary gorilla glass series-2. It has a clear black display technology as in AMOLED and superb to watch.


SOUND


The device has vibration,custom MP3 and WAV ringtone support. The loudspeaker is enough for a person and it provides a 3.5mm jack support with dolby headphone sound enhancement technology. Thats awesome.


MEMMORY


The device has an internal storage of around 8GB  (hardly 6GB usable). It also has 64GB memmory card support (micro-SD). It also has a 512MB ram for running applications smoothly. (Expected a 1GB ram)


DATA


The device has class B GPRS and supports EDGE upto 236Kbps. In 3G network, HSDPA maximum support is for 21.1Mbps. It also supports 5.76Mbps HSUPA too. The device has a wifi (dual band) with no tethering support and includes a v3.0 bluetooth. NFC is also supported and it also features a micro-USB port to copy data between PC and smartphone.


CAMERA


The device has a primary camera of 6.1MP and supports a resolution of 2848*2144 pixels. It includes carl zeiss optics,autofocus,and LED flash. The device also has geo tagging and can record videos at 30 frames in 720P quality. The secondary camera is of 1.3MP and can create video recordings (video calls) at 720p quality at 30 frames per second.


FEATURES


The device is pre-installed with windows phone 8 OS and it can be updated to windows phone 8 'Amber'. The device features a dual core 1GHZ CPU and is supported by a Qualcomm MSM8227 chipset like the lumia 520. The graphics processor is adreno 305. The device has inbuilt sensors like accelerometer,proximity,compass and it also do support HTML5. The GPS with GLONASS is supported.


BATTERY


The battery provided with nokia lumia 720 is a BP-4GW series 2000mah li-ion battery and can provide backup upto 14 hours maximum in 3G mode.


FOR


  • Dual core CPU
  • 6.1MP camera with LED flash and a secondary camera


AGAINST


  • 512MB ram
  • 720P video recording


RATING


4.6/5



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