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Hosting that I
personally recommend
"Below are few hosting companies that I personally recommend. I insist
that you research their web hosting services first and compare with
other host before you decide to sign up. Ask yourself. What the few
main requirements that you are looking for in a host and decide carefully by
comparing the features, price and most importantly, hosting support" -
HostPulse.com Founder, Terence L
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ServerDispatch.com - Price starts at US$159 per month. Generous amount
of hard disk space, control panel features, bandwidth, memory size. The
company offers good server management system. Please research before
purchasing.
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WebsiteSource.com - One of the good
VPS plans I
have tried and tested.
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ExaBytes.com - One of the many hosting
companies in Asia that is worth
researching. One of my hosting plans had its server changed frequently which
I thought there has been interruptions, but service is still available while
under maintenance.
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IpowerWeb.com - Recently, one of the
host that we have
pleasant dealing with. Hosting is affordable, but features may be
limited.
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SingleHop Dedicated
Servers - In the year of 2008, I highly rate this company as one of the
very best dedicated hosting companies around. Technical support staff has
been friendly and it is easy to reach the management if there are any
unsolved problems.
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B2B / Business To Business
Describes the exchange of money or information between businesses. Although most of the attention in the e-commerce world is currently focused on consumer shopping ventures, most analysts predict that the biggest money will be spent (and earned) in the business sector.
Backbone
A large transmission line carrying enormous amounts of Internet traffic over long distances.
Backup
A copy of disk files stored on tape or on another physical disk to prevent permanent data loss.
Bandwidth
A measure of the range of frequencies that an electronic signal occupies on a given communications channel. The greater the range of frequencies, the more data and thus information can be transmitted in a given time.
Banner
Banner is an advertising graphic, usually in the form of a gif image.
BBS / Bulletin Board System
A BBS is a computer that can be reached by computer modem dialing (and, in some cases, by Telnet) for the purpose of sharing or exchanging messages or other files. Some BBS's are devoted to specific interests; others offer a more general service.
BCC / Blind Carbon Copy
A copy of an e-mail sent to a third party without notifying the cc recipient.
Binary File
Technically, a file in which all eight bits of its component bytes are used for data. The binary file content must be interpreted by a program that understands in advance exactly how it is formatted.
BinHex
BinHex is a utility for converting (encoding) Macintosh files into text that will travel well on networks either as files or e-mail attachments
Bit
A bit is the smallest unit of data in a computer. Bits are the building blocks of Internet data.
Bitmap
A computerized image made up of dots or pixels. Line art and photos are often saved as bitmaps. To keep art work from looking jagged, bitmaps should be saved a minimum of 1200 dots per inch (dpi). Common types of bitmap graphics are GIF, JPEG, Photoshop, PCX, TIFF, Macintosh Paint, bmp, PNG, and TGA.
Bluetooth
A computing and telecommunications industry specification that describes how electronic devices such as mobile and computer can be connected across radio waves.
Bookmark
A saved link to a website address, kept by a browser as part of a list of favourite sites.
Boolean
This term refers to the logic computers use to determine if a statement is true or false. There are 4 main boolean operators: AND, NOT, OR, and XOR.
Whenever you see a Web search tool or database query system that allows you to use AND, OR, and NOT to hone your search, the chances are it uses Boolean techniques. The most common Boolean operators are AND (you're looking for all terms), OR (you're looking for at least one of the terms), and NOT (you're excluding a term). You'll always see the operators referred to in uppercase letters, although you usually don't need to enter them that way to make a Boolean search work properly.
Bourne Shell
A common UNIX shell.
BPS / Bits Per Second
Used to denote the speed of data transfer. Used interchangable with "baud" in most cases.
Bridge
A device that connects a Local Area Network to another Local Area Network using the same protocol, such as TCP/IP or Ethernet.
Broadband
Broadband is a high speed data transmission network in which several parallel channels pass over a single communications medium.
Broadcast
This is a service in which information is sent from a central source to multiple destinations.
BSD / Berkeley Source Distribution
The versions of UNIX developed and distributed by the University of California at Berkeley. Many commercial UNIX implementations such as SunOS and Dynix are derived from it.
Budget Hosting
Budget Hosting often describes the affordable services of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites on web server at high speed Internet connection.
Burn Rate
The rate at which a new company or venture spends its capital while waiting for profitability. Most Internet start-up companies are will acquainted with this term, which is widely used in an industry where money is routinely spent much faster than it is earned.
Byte
Eight bits (see BIT)
Bytecode
The constituent code in a java program file.
