Archive for November, 2007

Asterisk - Realtime Installation Guide

By default, you rely heavily on Asterisk .conf file for creating your dialplans, iax and sip users and peers, as well as voicemail users. And after making changes to the configuration files, you have to reload Asterisk to apply them. However, the guys at Asterisk have made it easier. With Asterisk Realtime, you can add new users and modify your dialplans on the fly. Everything is neatly stored in a database, and loaded on the fly. So in this article, we will discuss how to get started so that you can make use of Asterisk Realtime.
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Web Hosting Overselling - A Necessary Evil?

What is Overselling?
This is a great question. And it’s important that a consumer know what overselling is. Overselling is basically the practice of selling more hard drive space, bandwidth, and other resources that the web host has. Why would a webhost do this? Simple - to maximize profits. Read more »

Types of Web Hosting

What is Web Hosting?
So if you don’t already know what web hosting is, you are probably wondering - What is it?
To explain it in simple terms - it’s a service that allows you to put your website on the internet.
Now to explain it in more detail - The web hosting company maintains a network of servers (or computers) which have a nice fast internet connection. These servers have software running on them, which allow them to divide up the servers hard drive space (along with other resources) and offer them to its customers. As a customer, you are buying an allotted amount of resources. And there are different levels of hosting, which will be discussed below. Read more »