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What Is Disaster Recovery? Key Components of an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan

Key Components of an Effective Disaster Recovery Plan

What’s that one topic you could talk about for hours? Mine’s disaster recovery. A hacker recently took down a...

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What Is RAM? Random Access Memory Explained

Mastering Random Access Memory

My childhood best friend, Joshua, was a nerd and computer fanatic. He had a child-sized toolkit and...

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What Is Root Access? A Beginner's Guide

A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Root Access

In my pre-teen years, my best friend Joshua and I were always up to no good. In fifth grade, the last...

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What Is Redundancy? Best Practices and Considerations

From Fail-Safe to Future-Proof: Mastering Redundancy for Robust Operations

When you hear the word “redundancy,” what’s the first thought that comes to mind? Maybe it’s someone...

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What Is a VPN? Your Guide to Virtual Private Networks 

A Guide to Choosing and Using Virtual Private Networks

If you regularly surf the web like I do, then you’ve probably worried about your privacy at one point or...

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What Is SFTP? Secure File Transfer Protocol Explained

What Is SFTP? Secure File Transfer Protocol Explained

As a web developer, I use SFTP all the time to upload my website files to the server, but because it’s so...

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What Is a vCPU? The Advantages of vCPUs in Modern Computing

The Advantages of vCPUs in Modern Computing

I admit — I was somewhat baffled the first time I encountered the term ‘vCPU’. The ‘v’ was a new and...

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What Is Shared Hosting? A Comprehensive Guide

What Is Shared Hosting?

If you have siblings, you’ll understand the ins and outs of shared hosting without breaking a sweat. I...

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What Is Staging? Why Staging Environments Are Crucial for Success

From Dev to Production: Why Staging Environments Are Crucial

If you’ve ever been in a school play, you know how important the dress rehearsal is. That’s where you...

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What Is SMTP? Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Explained

Mastering SMTP: How Email Works and Why It Matters

Have you ever really thought about email? It’s so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget just how incredible it...

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What Is HTTPS? Ensuring Secure Online Communication

How HTTPS Works: Ensuring Secure Online Communication

Google, Wikipedia, and ChatGPT are my digital best friends. My thirst for knowledge is insatiable and I...

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What Is IMAP? The Internet Message Access Protocol Explained

How IMAP Works: Enhancing Email Management

There are some technologies that are such a backbone of everyday life that I tend to take them for...

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What Is RAID? Understanding the Technology Behind Data Protection

How RAID Works: Understanding the Technology Behind Data Protection

Much to my dissatisfaction, I will not be talking about my favorite insecticide product in this article...

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