Question: How many megabytes in a gigabyte? Answer: There are 1000 megabyte in 1 gigabyte. 1000 megabyte (1 MB) = 1 gigabyte 1000 gigabyte (1 GB) = 1 terabyte 1000 terabyte (1 TB) = 1 petabyte 1000 petabyte (1 PB) = 1 exabyte When it comes to data transfer or disk space. Most web hosts […]
Question: What is null route an IP address? Answer: If your web host told you that they would null route your IP address. This means that your IP address is no longer accessible from the internet. This also means that anyone trying to visit your website would not be able to reach it. If you […]
Question: Do cloud providers offer different pricing based on where the datacenter location is located? Answer: Yes, take for example the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. If a customer were to order up a virtual machine from Microsoft Azure the pricing can vary depending on which region the customer selects. Take for example if the region […]
GitLab has announced that the Git repository management provider and DigitalOcean will be partnering up to provide GitLab hosted users free GitLab Runner service. GitLab Runner service is a hosted application that handles process builds. The new service will be called GitLab Runner Autoscale. GitLab also announced that GitLab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition […]
Google Compute Engine (GCE) experienced an outage on April 11, 2016 that resulted in all instances in different regions losing connectivity. The outage lasted for a total of 18 minutes. The company has issued an explanation or reason for outage (RFO) and what steps GCE will be taking to prevent the outage from occurring again. […]
123-Reg a UK based web hosting company has suffered an outage over the weekend that affected a number of VPS customers. One of 123-Reg’s customers posted an explanation of what had happen to their website and that they were now operating from a backup server. 123-Reg customers have been advised by the web host if […]
There have been a bunch of new dot extensions also known as new gTLDs introduced recently. What is the most expensive new domain extension? Most expensive new gTLD extension is .security and .protection If you go to GoDaddy.com and enter whatever words you want and add .security or .protection as the ending of the domain […]
WordPress.com has announced that the service will start rolling out automatically free SSL certificates for all custom domains hosted on WordPress.com. Visitors to any custom domain that is hosted at WordPress.com will automatically be encrypted. WordPress.com cite’s benefits of the encryption includes protection against surveillance, cookie theft, account hijacking, and helping to prevent other security […]
Andy Jassy the SVP in charge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been given the title of CEO of Amazon Web Services. In a blog post by Jeff Bezos the CEO, Chairman, and founder of Amazon, Jeff says that the new title is a recognition of the existing role and not a reorganization. Jeff Wilke another […]
WordPress focused web hosting provider Flywheel has recently raised $4 million dollars in series A funding. Flywheel states the company did not need to raise money but chose to raise the money to focus on building a WordPress platform that caters to web designers. The $4 million dollar funding was led by Kansas City’s Five […]