Today we have a myriad number of web service with different services to offer . There is eBay and Amazon for e-Commerce , PhotoBucket and Flikr for image sharing , FB and Twitter for social networking etc . Every web service have its own scaling points . Scaling points are those factors which need to be mended to address the scaling concerns . Some of the most common scaling points are :
1. Storage on server/cloud
2. Network bandwidth
3. Server RAM
4. Server I/O
5. Database transactions/sec
6. Application Architecture
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Cloud Hosting vs Dedicated Hosting
Scalability is going to be the major concern for businesses tomorrow when the world is better developed and has increased internet penetration. Considering India , worlds' IInd most populated country , where internet penetration is about 10% today , it calls for scalability concerns when economies like India are on rise . This is where the 'cloud' comes into picture and makes more sense. One of the newest trends on the market evaluates the use of a Dedicated Server vs Cloud Computing.
The major difference between the two is that a dedicated server is a physical piece of equipment housed in a room somewhere. Cloud computing, on the other hand is a virtual server which allows customization, load balancing, and storage. Due to the confusion between the two, many businesses are now opting to utilize a hybrid hosting system which combines the two.
There are many differences between the two systems. A dedicated system is a structure that works on a specified website that has been rented from a host. It has the advantage of providing services without the competition generally associated when multiple servers sharing a single site. Additionally, the monthly fee is always the same regardless of how much navigation or space is used.
Cloud computing, on the other hand, is becoming more popular in that it is capable of allowing for spikes in traffic, offers a broader range of exposure, and provides many amenities not available in the other option. Although it is a shared server, it can balance a higher load, easily expand websites based on individual needs, and provides hardware upgrades on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the cost is directly dependent on the amount of computer power required which often fluctuates widely in a new business.
One concern many have when working on the Internet is the level of security provided to those visiting various sites. It has been revealed recently that cloud servers are less capable of providing the level of protection many expect from websites today. Google is just one example of a cloud server that has experienced safety issues in recent years.
The differences between a Dedicated Server vs Cloud Computing are significant and the selection between the two should be based upon individual need. For those who are expanding into a web-based market, one should research the options carefully before making a commitment.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Computer Science : A Solution for Radical Bottlenecks in the Welfare of Humanity :
In the current scenario the service sector of any developed economy makes over 50% of the Gross Domestic Product. Why this sector turns out to be such is quite simple to answer . The population rise is an issue almost everywhere . Citizen of a country are its most important resource and their welfare is the prime motive of every development , innovation and technology.
Services view the rising population concerns from a vantage point of potential . They are anything which a person with any valuable skill can help others develop the same . This may be imparted either directly or indirectly , directly where the provider and receivers are face to face and indirectly in which the service can developed to some form which can be reused again and again .
Services view the rising population concerns from a vantage point of potential . They are anything which a person with any valuable skill can help others develop the same . This may be imparted either directly or indirectly , directly where the provider and receivers are face to face and indirectly in which the service can developed to some form which can be reused again and again .
A Reinforced Thought : 9th May 2011 : Researches and Realism
If your so called researches and innovative ideas take an age to serve humanity then what you really need is to think again and think feasible , life is not only about dreaming and dying in attempts all your life , try to be more realistic in your line of thinking .
Friday, April 1, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Engineering in India : Adorned with satire : Just think about it
Accept apologies for not quoting even the approximate figures but you are aboard the engineering platform with a high probability if you fall in the 17-22 age group. First things first. You must have received and sent text, mails with sarcastic highs of your experiences at university. I am kinda highly social engineering fella , I dunno about the tales of others streams like medical, economics, arts etc but they won't dissent much. Read on , this is one of the famous messages students receive...
A guy was deeply in love with his classmate.
One day he proposed her by saying that he loved her a lot….
But she was angry and refused and threatened him that she'd complain to the Principal if he ever bothers her again.
One day the girl borrowed a text book from that boy and wrote a message "I love you too, I'm sorry to hurt you the other day.
if u've forgiven me, please come and talk to me and never leave me." in that book.
But the guy never talked to her.
4 yrs went away and nothing happened..
.
..
Moral of the story
. .
Engineering students seldom open their books!!!
Hilarious ,isn't it ? But I guess you have already come across it. Though its a popular joke but its also a hard to believe fact about many of us. Most of you must have checked out '3 Idiots' starring Aamir Khan which tries to agitate the idea of taking up our preferred working streams and getting taken away by choices of others . We all have a diamond which resides in us and we need to glisten it (might remind you of Mr. Arindam Chaudhuri if you have listened to his rantings). But sometimes its that the decisions aren't wrong but the follow-ups are. And this appeals the best causes of frustration among engineering students and it afflictive consequences . Critics may flare up pressing on personal factors or indulging in depraved lifestyle and then waking up to see that the arrow has already left the bow. But they need to understand that they are talking of mere exception and exceptions are always in shy figures. When concern is about a large percentage of such students it bespeaks for some critical amendment.
This was the status of my fellow friend on one of the social networking sites...
8 Semesters
80 GB sylabus
80 MB v study
80 KB v remember
80 Bytes v ans.
...BINARY Marks v get,
known as BTech (Brain Technically Empty)
A guy was deeply in love with his classmate.
One day he proposed her by saying that he loved her a lot….
But she was angry and refused and threatened him that she'd complain to the Principal if he ever bothers her again.
One day the girl borrowed a text book from that boy and wrote a message "I love you too, I'm sorry to hurt you the other day.
if u've forgiven me, please come and talk to me and never leave me." in that book.
But the guy never talked to her.
4 yrs went away and nothing happened..
.
..
Moral of the story
. .
Engineering students seldom open their books!!!
Hilarious ,isn't it ? But I guess you have already come across it. Though its a popular joke but its also a hard to believe fact about many of us. Most of you must have checked out '3 Idiots' starring Aamir Khan which tries to agitate the idea of taking up our preferred working streams and getting taken away by choices of others . We all have a diamond which resides in us and we need to glisten it (might remind you of Mr. Arindam Chaudhuri if you have listened to his rantings). But sometimes its that the decisions aren't wrong but the follow-ups are. And this appeals the best causes of frustration among engineering students and it afflictive consequences . Critics may flare up pressing on personal factors or indulging in depraved lifestyle and then waking up to see that the arrow has already left the bow. But they need to understand that they are talking of mere exception and exceptions are always in shy figures. When concern is about a large percentage of such students it bespeaks for some critical amendment.
This was the status of my fellow friend on one of the social networking sites...
8 Semesters
80 GB sylabus
80 MB v study
80 KB v remember
80 Bytes v ans.
...BINARY Marks v get,
known as BTech (Brain Technically Empty)
Monday, December 27, 2010
Dark Side of Facebook Fever :
Mark Zuckerberg may not be as popular as his creation but he is a billionaire and is prospering day by day. Facebook . Yeah, thats the near perfect name of his social networking service , with about 0.5bn users at the time of writing. It has really become the face of the youngsters of the middle-upper class society having instant access to the internet. Its a boom for the social networking sites that they have made these sites their primary way of conversing , discussing , promoting , entertainment and passtime. It seems as if a new language "Facebooking" is in the air. People are able to connect to their old acquaintances and friends , able to make new friends even before visiting some new place may be their university or workplace, promote some idea or some event or their community .But it doesn't seems to stop there, even the elderly are aboard. They feel delighted being connected to their children , able to chat with them and upload family photos to keep up with the kinship . Consequently , even the best of the organizations, businesses , celebrities, communities have made sure they leverage of this cost free advertising opportunity - pages on Facebook promoting them. It seems as if these networking sites are of unprecedented advantage to the mankind except for the very obvious issues of hacking of profiles, aspersions ,illicit use of photos of unknown people. But seldom people care about these grave security issues and seem to follow "parking at your own risk" trend.
But thats not how I ( and certainly some others if not many ) feel about this social networking aura and talk about the dark side of using Facebook and other social networking sites. There is an overlooked and a mass damaging aspect to it. No, its no internet virus, as you may have guessed but something much more demolishing. Its the young human capital , the most powerful pillar of the society, of a nation. Today youngsters are considered to be driving the economy . I take this step to juxtapose the two and they seem to show considerable friction. Read on.
The most lucid and observable consequence is the hindrance in the academic ,especially technical, performance of these Facebook freaks. They talk Facebook every now and them . They waste their precious hours on commenting over others statuses , thinking about theirs, rummaging profiles, looking at the accessible photos, making unknown people as friends ,especially people who feel having a crush on them . And they never realize when they started chatting with someone and its more than an hour. People have become so much enamored by this trend that they never forget checking updates even on some important exam night, and otherwise spend the whole night crawling unknown peoples' profiles and frequently missing the morning classes. Thats the case even in the best of universities and workplaces.
Now Mark can't be put to blame for the unforeseen effects of his creation. We already know about its pleasurable advantages. But then every coin has two different faces. The dark face of Facebook is the emerging concern. People who might have devoted their time in actually being social , communicating to large no. of people or researching upon their subjects would have produced a much better workforce and students' soft skill are dumping their talents.
Facebook may help them today in making new friends and doing promotions but it won't back them for their future prospects when we will really have to do real face to face communication. It will be much better if youngsters today append Facebooking to their list of tasks and will make us a better resource else Mark will continue to be a billionaire, today and tomorrow, but our dreams today will become our frustration tomorrow.
But thats not how I ( and certainly some others if not many ) feel about this social networking aura and talk about the dark side of using Facebook and other social networking sites. There is an overlooked and a mass damaging aspect to it. No, its no internet virus, as you may have guessed but something much more demolishing. Its the young human capital , the most powerful pillar of the society, of a nation. Today youngsters are considered to be driving the economy . I take this step to juxtapose the two and they seem to show considerable friction. Read on.
The most lucid and observable consequence is the hindrance in the academic ,especially technical, performance of these Facebook freaks. They talk Facebook every now and them . They waste their precious hours on commenting over others statuses , thinking about theirs, rummaging profiles, looking at the accessible photos, making unknown people as friends ,especially people who feel having a crush on them . And they never realize when they started chatting with someone and its more than an hour. People have become so much enamored by this trend that they never forget checking updates even on some important exam night, and otherwise spend the whole night crawling unknown peoples' profiles and frequently missing the morning classes. Thats the case even in the best of universities and workplaces.
Now Mark can't be put to blame for the unforeseen effects of his creation. We already know about its pleasurable advantages. But then every coin has two different faces. The dark face of Facebook is the emerging concern. People who might have devoted their time in actually being social , communicating to large no. of people or researching upon their subjects would have produced a much better workforce and students' soft skill are dumping their talents.
Facebook may help them today in making new friends and doing promotions but it won't back them for their future prospects when we will really have to do real face to face communication. It will be much better if youngsters today append Facebooking to their list of tasks and will make us a better resource else Mark will continue to be a billionaire, today and tomorrow, but our dreams today will become our frustration tomorrow.
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