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Knowing DNS

2009-04-06 DNS, Host Header, ICANN, Intranets, IP Address, ISP, Portals, Server, TLD, Zone Records Harry Caskey 0

I started thinking about this last night. I know the significance of DNS within my field and I thought I would blog about it today. DNS is such a power tool, the average user uses it all the time and probably doesn’t know it. DNS plays a huge role in connection everyone to everyone. It […]

OpenDNS

2009-04-03 DNS, Fast Internet, OpenDNS, Safe Internet Harry Caskey 0

Ever since my friend Jason Clark has told me about OpenDNS it has been nothing more than a godsend. Immediately when we changed our XO Communications DNS servers to OpenDNS we saw a huge speed increase. Our speeds literally tripled what they were. I couldn’t believe the numbers but was ecstatic of the results. Our […]

Microsoft Goes 64-bit!!!

2009-04-02 64-bit (x64), Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 7 Beta, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Harry Caskey 0

I am very excited about the next Microsoft server operating system (Server 2008 R2). Microsoft has pushed that the next server platform will only be in 64-bit. What does this means? Faster software will not interface faster hardware, to overall make a system faster than anything we’ve seen. Accessing a server will output faster processing […]