Tech Updates

How Dedicated Servers Dominate Other Web Hosting Options

September 17, 2015 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

If you are a blogger or an enterprise or planning to have so, the first strategy for winning is about the performance of your website. Before planning to host your website or web application, you have know about the web hosting plans and categories. This article describes different types of hosting, its merits and demerits such as:

Shared Hosting
VPS Hosting
Dedicated Server Hosting

Let’s start with the most common hosting type of small websites.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is when a number of websites of different merchants or enterprises are hosted on a single server and all of the website shares all assets of the servers such as RAM, storage capacity, CPU velocity, bandwidth and so on. It has minimal subscription rates compared to other hosting types. The drawback of this type of hosting is, sometimes your website may not get the sufficient computing energy and your downtime may be high.

VPS Hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server is a virtual server machine sold as a service by an Internet Hosting Service. It has extra options and performance compared to shared hosting however lesser that dedicated server hosting. Here one devoted server is parted into a number of virtual servers. However, CPU velocity is shared with all virtual server accounts.

Dedicated Server Hosting

The third and probably the most powerful hosting is dedicated server hosting. Here you get the full root access to your server. You can carry out desired actions, install software add-ons, which is not offered by shared hosting services.

The advantage of this hosting is, high security on your websites, files and databases, but expensive than shared hosting and VPS hosting.

Choosing the best and affordable dedicated server hosting providers like to host. ag will be a good deal.

Meet Alphabet, Google’s New Corporate Boss

August 12, 2015 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

The Search Engine giant, Google has just restructured the company and branded with the new corporate name “Alphabet Inc”. That includes Google’s all non-core, innovative products and business.

Searching for its site? https://abc.xyz. Google or Alphabet doesn’t own the domain “Alphabet.com” (yet).

What Alphabet Inc. Includes

The alphabet is mostly a collection of companies which includes non core products of Google.

The present Google CEO, Larry Page, founder of Google will be the CEO of Alphabet Inc and President will be Sergy Bin (Cofounder and present Google president).

Why Alphabet Inc

Google founded in 1988 as a Search Engine service company and now Google has become more than an Internet service company and own different fast emerging companies under their umbrella. And different companies need a different type of culture and leadership. Many be this is the reason why Page and Bin thought about restructuring the company with a new brand name.

What Google Today

Google is slim down to its core products such as Search, Ads, Maps, Apps, YouTube and Android and its CEO will be Sunder Pichai.

Dear Google users,

Google products might not change its product/brand names and the Google.com website is not shifting to Alphabet.com (surprisingly still now, Google doesn’t own the domain Alphabet.com)

Google’s core business include Google Search, Ads, Maps, apps, YouTube and Android and related infrastructures. And all other products will report under Alphabet.

All Google shares will be automatically converted as the same number of shares of Alphabet Inc, with the same company codes GOOG and GOOGL.

Asus Zenfone2 Review

June 30, 2015 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

“What features will come to your mind while someone asking you about your favorite smartphone?” – My friend asked to me.

He was introducing his brand new Asus Zenphone2 smartphone.

“Ofcourse, I need better performance (RAM, Processor, etc.) and better Camera…. Then… Storage capacity and it’s good if it supports the latest version of Operating system.

The next question was,

“You choose performance as a first priority… How much RAM capacity you are expecting for a smartphone below 22K?” – He asked again.

“Uh.. 2GB?” – Answered.

“2GB? Sajith, My Smartphone which costs below 22K have 4GB of RAM capacity”.

“4GB? .. ” My mouth opened and eyes rolled out. (:-o)

“Hmm.. And the second choice is Camera quality.. Is 13 MP primary and 5 MP secondary cameras bad 😉 ” – Again he questioned.

“NEVER..” – My answer…

Even my 25K smartphone doesn’t have these configurations. 🙁

“And Sajith, My smartphone have 1280 x 720 HD IPS display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection” – Doesn’t sounds bad.

His zenfone2 comes with exceptional storage capacity and you could choose how much storage you needed and the storage capacities available are 16 GB, 32 GB, 64GB, 128 and priced INR 15K, 19K, 23K and 30K respectively.

Quick zenfone2 specifications.

Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel processor

RAM: 4 GB

Camera: 13 MP primary / 5 MP secondary

OS: Andriod Lollipop (V5)

Storage Capacity: 16/32/64/128 GB variants available

A quick Google of ASUS zenfone2 leads me to promotion program of Zenfone2 by Asus named “India Unseen Project” which calls all Indians to take unseen pictures of Indian culture, Indian places or anything related to incredible India and best photo entries will a brand new zenfone2 and some vouchers are there for other contestants. Participate for “India Unseen Project” here.

This all shows, Asus might make some revolutionary changes in the Android smartphone world.

Hats off to the new Asus Zenfone2. And planning to purchase Asus zenfone2 now.

Some Common Cyber Myths and Realities

June 22, 2015 by Sajith V 7 Comments

Cyber Myths and Realities

We are living in a cyber world and almost everything is computerized. And hence there are some myths also in the cyber world. Here reveals some of them.

Is Auto Run a Virus program?

A majority of techies believes that, the file “autorun. inf” is a virus program. We might have experiences like when we insert a CD or pen drive, someone might say, delete that “autorun.inf” and it’s a harmful virus for your PC.

Guys, “autorun.inf is not a Virus program“.

What is autorun.inf?

Autorun.inf is NOT a Virus

Did you notice when inserting a Disk or pendrive, some files (executable or non executable) open automatically? “autorun.inf” is the file/program which plays behind this. The file name which needs to be executed or open automatically is written in the autorun.inf file.

However, Some virus programs may write their names in this file and which causes automatic execution of Virus programs whenever you connect the media device. This may happen if you connect your media into a virus infected PC.

So there is no problem for opening this file and checking which files have the permission to execute automatically. The majority of software installation CDs and pen drives used “autorun. inf” file for running their .exe file automatically.

Is multi OS makes PC Slower?

Another most common myth is, Having two or more Operating Systems in a computer will makes the system slower and this is not true. You could have as much as the OS on your PC and it will not cause your PC performance.

Windows and Ubuntu

People may think, if there is two or more OS, RAM (Random Access Memory) may be shared shared for both OS.

One Operating System is allowed at a time and hence PC performance, or RAM allocation will not be shared with other OS. You could install as much OS you need (with a consideration of Hard Disk space).

Did you know about any other cyber myths? Do comment it below.

How to Enable HTML5 Player for YouTube – [Goodbye Flash Player]

June 16, 2015 by Sajith V Leave a Comment

After the release of HTML5 and CSS3 standard for the web, the face of many websites is changing as it supports embedding videos with <video> tag just as how we are using the <img> tag.

YouTube and HTML5

The majority of websites masters is stopped using Adobe flash player and using HTML5 player instead.

YouTube, the biggest place where Adobe flash player is residing, is thinking about changing to HTML5 video player instead of Adobe.

But why still YouTube is not using HTML5 video player as primary player is, lack of support for earlier versions of Web browsers (your browser should be updated for using HTML5 player).

Even though YouTube has released HTML5 video player version and users have to check compatibility and enable it manually.

If you are not satisfied with HTML5 player, you could move back to the old YouTube player at any moment.

How to Enable HTML5 video player on YouTube

You could check the compatibility of your browser for YouTube’s HTML5 version here. The only conditions to be qualified for using latest HTML5 version is, your web browser should be updated. If HTML5 is supported by your browser, consider updating it.

HTML5 compatibility check for YouTube

If your browser supports HTML5 player, go to https://www.youtube.com/testtube and enable HTML5 player by clicking the button “Get Player“.

Enable HTML5 video player for YouTube

If you are not satisfied with HTML5 player, you could move to the old player by visiting this (https://www.youtube.com/testtube) page again.

YouTube with HTML5

Don’t Give your Computer for Repair before Considering these

May 25, 2015 by Sajith V 9 Comments

Your personal computer may contain important data or information and many of them might be private or confidential. The computer repairing guys may need to remove or alter your windows as part of the servicing. And data misusing is also an important issue facing nowadays. Even if you are consulting a trusted computer repairing guys, There might chance to wipe your data.

But with the right precautions, could ensure the protection of your data.

The Trust

Trust is very important. There are many certified computer servicing centers, but trustworthy centers are less.

Keep your Hard Disk

Keep your hard disk with you if it is not necessary to hand over. All your data, including photos, videos, web browsing histories are stored in your hard disk. There may be issues with mother board or other peripherals. Ask them where the issue and if hard disk is fine, keep it in your hands.

You could install your hard disk on another PC and work with it.

If it is necessary to hand over the PC with hard disk,

Do Bit Level formatting

Bit Format your hard disk two or more times because if formatted just once, people could recover your data easily.

If you are not able to format your Hard disk,

Put Important files into the Cloud

Copy and paste all your important files into cloud storage space such as One Drive, Dropbox or Google Drive to ensure the availability of your data and wipe them from your hard disk or format it.

This is one of the best strategy to ensure the protection of your data even if your hard disk fails at any time.

Clear history and browsing data of browsers.

You may be saved your frequently visiting websites login credentials on your computer. Clear these saved passwords and clear internet browsing history before giving your PC for repair.

All major browsers support quick Alt + Ctrl + Del command of wiping such history. If you are using Google Chrome, simple you could sign out your chrome account and it will wipe all data till you sign in again.

Back up sensitive files

Probably your PC may contain files you may don’t want people to see such as bank details, credit card details, personal photos etc. Keep them insecure. Use personal USB storage device.

Give your PC for servicing with smiling face 🙂