Purplenova is a leader in providing innovative solutions for secure desktop content hosting. Traditional Web Servers are difficult (and sometimes impossible) to set up on home and office PCs. Secondly, commonly used techniques for making desktop content web-accessible, such as VPNs or Web-conferencing solutions do not lend themselves to Web 2.0 environments, where a simple mechanism to publish desktop content is required. Our patent pending technology provides a solution to both these problems by making it possible to securely and easily web-publish content directly from your PC.
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Squid is a proxy server and web cache daemon. It has a wide variety of uses, from speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, to caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, to aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS. The development version of Squid (3.1) includes IPv6 and ICAP support.
Squid has been developed for many years. Early work …

Load balancing is the even distribution of computer processing and communication activities so that a server is not overwhelmed. Load balancing is especially important for networks where it is difficult to predict the number of requests that will be issued to a server.
Busy Web sites typically employ two or more Web servers in a load-balancing scheme. If one server starts to get swamped, requests are forwarded to another server with more capacity. Load balancing is therefore a service that is employed on more sophisticated site deployments.
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Just like the conductor in a musical orchestra, a Server (in information technology parlance) refers to a mother computer or master software that intelligently and seamlessly provides a host of services by controlling the access to data or physical resources residing in it to other programs / computers / network of computers, which connect to the server.
A server is usually used in situations involving massive volumes of processes / requests that have to be serviced. It is also used in situations requiring huge, centralized storage of relevant software / proprietary …

Confusion often arises while choosing a web-hosting platform, as which one is the best one and which one is the better one between Linux & Window hosting. The million-dollar question is what application are you looking to use for your hosting? Consider the tools and scripting languages you plan to use, if you use PHP, Perl or MySQL, Linux is the way forward. If apps are Microsoft-specific, then Windows is what you need.
Well in most of the cases, the general inclination generally moves towards the Linux web hosting platform and …