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Rent Server or Buy your own Web Server and collocate it?

As a business, it is essential to continuously monitor, not just the cost of your hosting compared with services offered by other companies, but also the quality. Many businesses tend to rent dedicated servers, but buying your own web server and collocating it, could be a viable option as well. Whilst renting a dedicated a [...]

Indian servers webhosting Datacenter Costs you an arm and a leg.

Hostcats.com, Being a hosting company targeting Indian clients and having an Indian client base of 95%, I’ve always wanted to host a few servers in an Indian powered data center. Currently all our servers are hosted in US Data center(DC) and works out well. We frequently have clients specifically asking for Indian servers with Indian [...]

Dealing with Fear

You must have seen a lot of people in the world around you who may be having some sort of fear. In fact, you may also be having a fear of something. Apparently, its feel like its normal, but, you must understand that fearing is not a normal situation and you must try to overcome [...]

Valentino Rossi Vs. Michael Schumacher

Two living legends in the world of motor sports are Valentino Rossi and Michael Schumacher. Rossi is an Italian-born motorcycle racer who has won eight Grand Prix World Championships. Schumacher is a seven-time world champion Formula 1 driver. These champions have continuously exhibited perseverance and dedication in their respective sports which has made them the [...]

Explaination of DoS and DDoS (Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service)

Denial of service (DoS) attack: An incident in which a user or organization is deprived of the services of a resource they would normally expect to have. DoS attacks can occur in many different ways. The five most common are: 1. Consumption of computational resources: This can include consumption of disk space, increase of processor [...]

Formula 1 2009! Ferrari or MClaren?

On January 16, 2009, McLaren Formula 1 chief Ron Dennis announced he is stepping down and handing the reins to Martin Whitmarsh. The reason given was for Dennis to have more time to focus on product development. In the meantime McLaren unveils the new MP4-24 car on which they pin their hopes for the 2009 [...]