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DNS Tools

Posted on February 28th, 2012 by Victoria Pal in Tools

Web ToolsSometimes the little things can get your online business in trouble. Each time someone comes to your website they go through a Domain Name Server, part of the Domain Name System. The Domain Name System makes it possible to assign domain names to groups of Internet resources and users in a meaningful way, independent of each entity's physical location. Internet domain names are easier to remember than raw IPv4 and especially IPv6 addresses.

We provide several free DNS Tools to help out with some important questions:

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From AC to DC

Posted on February 23rd, 2012 by Victoria Pal in Tech

“Sometimes you need to look back to see ahead”. I never thought this saying will go well with data centers. It seems the new big thing with data centers is the transition from AC to DC architecture. DC took the back seat over a century ago and gave way to AC. So why should we revert to DC? We live in an AC world and things seem okay. Why the change?

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How the Great Firewall of China Works

Posted on January 30th, 2012 by Victoria Pal in

The Great Firewall of China

China with its largest population of web users in the world, has one of the most restricted internets, making sure that netizens cannot post nor read about information the government deems threatening.

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What Does Robots.txt Do?

Posted on December 28th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

Robots.txtThe robots.txt file simply contains instructions for search engine robots on what to do with a particular website. While the search engine robots follow the instructions from that file, spam bots simply ignore it in most cases.

A web robot is a program that checks the content of a web page. If a robot is about to crawl a website, it will first check the robots.txt file for instructions. A command “Disallow”, for example, tells the robot not to visit a given set of pages on this site. Web administrators use this file to restrict the bots to index the content of a particular website for different reasons - they do not want the content to be accessible by other users; the website is under construction, or a certain part of the content must be hidden from the public.

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The Importance of the WordPress Expires Header

Posted on December 15th, 2011 by Victoria Pal in Tech

WordPress Expire HeaderThe importance of “expires header” is growing along with the web page designs which are becoming richer in scripts, images, Flash, etc.

As a result of the growing complexity of web designs, a web page takes longer to load, which is why the site needs an expires header. It simply makes all components such as stylesheets, images and others cacheable or, in other words, prevents unnecessary HTTP requests after the first page view and hence load time is reduced.

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