Web Hosting Reviews We are glad to present a cycle of thematic articles about all aspects of a hosting. Our reviews have research information character. Articles may help you to understand better all subtleties various types of hosting services and probably to make the correct and realized choice in favour of this or that technology. This or that a hosting service provider. Server & Network hardware     Server Hardware     The basic types of the network equipment. The passive equipment.     The active network equipment.     Router types. Main principles of work.     Hardware firewalls.     Switches.     The optical networks equipment.     Structure of a fibre-optical cable.     Level 7 switches.     How to choose a server.     CPU reviews and comparison. HA technologies     Our vision of Cluster-based and HA Solutions.     Cluster servers architecture in hosting solutions.     Why cluster technologies?     Cluster. Begin construction.     The Cluster network organzation.     Choice of cluster operating system.     Server systems of high reliability.     From fault tolerance systems to fully redundant networks.     Advantages of use High Availability Solutions in your business.     Bases of Data Centers fault tolerance.     Kinds of fault tolerance server systems architecture.     Clustered Dedicated Hosting is Future of Failure-Safe Solutions. System Architecture     The basic types of architecture of a virtual hosting.     World Wide Web architecture.     Parallel data processing classification of system architecture.     Multiprocessing server architecture.     Architecture of server application for the virtual and dedicated hosting.     CISC and RISC processor architecture.     The client-server architecture.     Distributed systems architecture.     The dynamic architecture of computing systems.     Intranet architecture.     History of CISC-architecture microprocessors. Hosting types     Virtual hosting or virtual personal-dedicated server?     Colocation vs. Dedicated.     Virtual Hosting - the cheap solution for simple web site.     Dedicated Servers: unmanaged and managed solutions.     The basic aspects of a hosting reliability.     Structure of expenses for rendering of a hosting services.     VPS hosting review.     How to buy a hosting.     How to buy a dedicated managed hosting.     High Availability hosting solutions.     Two types of a virtual hosting. Server operating systems     Linux operating system.     Choice of a hosting platform. UNIX or Windows?     FreeBSD operating system.     Start Linux hosting utilites under FreeBSD.     KDE Installation.     Parts of Linux.     Classification of network operating systems.     Structure of network operating system.     History of UNIX operating systems family.     Fault tolerance operating systems.     CentOS operating system. Server Applications     Apache. The beginning of work.     MySQL. The beginning of work.     Mail-server on the Sendmail base.     Virtual Hosting: Sendmail against spam.     Work with MySQL: Create Tables.     CGI-scripts technology.     Apache architecture.     Introduction in PHP.     Work with MySQL from PHP.     MS SQL Server basics.     CommuniGate Pro review. Hosting Software (Control Panels & Billing)     Billing Systems in Hosting Service.     Hosting control panels . The review of popular decisions.     Content management systems.     Review of cPanel ®.     DirectAdmin review.     ISPmanager review.     H-Sphere review.     X-UnitConf virtual hosting management system review.     Internet payment systems: PayPal.     Internet payment systems: WebMoney.     Internet payment systems: E-gold. Domain names     How Domain Names Service Working?     Domain names and zones.     How to choose a domain name?     Cybersquatting or domain names capture.     Domain zone for mobile devices - MOBI.     Before the domain registration.     WINS and DNS - similarities and distinctions.     DNS server configuration.     Growth of the domain names market.     All that needs to know about iDNS.     All that needs to know about Domains. Network design & analytics     WHOIS-service - how it works?     Internetworking basics. Peering. Backbone.     Network design services.     Architecture and technologies of WAN.     Network Design. Ethernet 100Mbit/sec.     Computer network topologies. Star, bus, tree, ring.     MPLS VPN architecture.     Network monitoring and analysis tools.     The built-in computer network analysis tools.     Nominal and effective throughput of internet protocols.     Methods of computer networks modelling.     Experimental methods of a LAN modelling. Security aspects     The basic types of network security attacks.     DoS Attacks.     Network security: myths and reality.     The analysis of Internet network traffic.     Administrative methods of protection against the removed attacks in Internet.     Hardware and software methods of protection against network attacks.     The reasons of UNIX-systems cracking.     Aspects of data-center information security. Part 1.     Aspects of data-center information security. Part 2.     The reasons of the network security attacks success.     The complex approach to computer networks security.     Information security. Sources of threats and methods of their realization.