Save Time and Automate Your WordPress

Managing a WordPress site can be time consuming. Comments, social media, and blog content can take a lot of your time. Today we are going to go over the various ways to automate what we can and take a little of our time back each day.

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A Simple Explanation of “The Internet Of Things”

The conversation around the Internet of Things (also referred to as “IOT”) is getting louder and more prevalent each day but why all the hype? There are arguments for and against it everywhere right now. Is there really any reason for concern? Whats the big deal?

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Have you considered Teamspeak?

Are you a business looking for an excellent way to communicate? Do you and your friends want a better way to chat while gaming online? TeamSpeak might be a solution to consider. 

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What exactly is SMTP?

SMTP is an abbreviation for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”. SMTP is a type of accepted protocol which allows different computers to exchange information in a previously agreed upon and understandable way. Through the process of standardization over time we all hope to increase efficiency overall. This protocol improves our lives everyday but you may not have noticed until now.

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How is a server any different from an ordinary computer?

A normal desktop computer such as the one that you have at home or in your office runs a user friendly OS and applications focused on day to day desktop uses. A server on the other hand is an entirely different beast. Meant to manage network resources, a server is dedicated to only those types of tasks.

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Cloud Hosting realities

What is a cloud hosting and do your sites need to be in the “cloud”?

To answer this question lets dig a little into history. Virtualization technology is actually not new. You can even say it’s as ancient as computers and servers themselves. Couple decades ago IBM has already been working with virtual servers and called them “Containers”. In the mid-2000s the mainstream CPUs became powerful enough so that every home computer could run virtual machines.

Virtualization software started to improve rapidly and virtual server hosting became available to everyone. Customers loved Virtual Servers because it was a more economical alternative to Dedicated Servers. Performance of Virtual Servers grew and technology has been improving with new hypervisors and hardware acceleration instructions.

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