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123 Reg is a British domain registrar and web hosting company founded in 2000 and now under the ultimate ownership of GoDaddy.The company claims to be the UK's largest [2] accredited [3] domain registrar and provides Internet services to small- and medium-sized business.
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. [1] The term "virtual dedicated server" (VDS) has a similar meaning.A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and customers may have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS.
GoDaddy called off the auction several weeks later, despite reports that bids exceeded the asking price of $1.5 billion to $2 billion. [77] On June 24, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that private-equity firms KKR and Silver Lake Partners, along with a third investor, were nearing a deal to buy the company for between $2–2.5 billion. [78]
A laptop with an HP USB Multiseat adapter, running Linux. A multiseat, multi-station or multiterminal system is a single computer which supports multiple independent local users at the same time. A multi-seat assembly encompassing four "seats", running Linux. A two-seat system using Windows Multipoint Server.
colocation for the server(s), providing physical space, electricity, and Internet connectivity; Domain Name System configuration to define name(s) for the sites and point them to the hosting server(s); a web server running on the host; for each site hosted on the server: space on the server(s) to hold the files making up the site;
In shared hosting, the provider is generally responsible for managing servers, installing server software, security updates, technical support, and other aspects of the service. Most servers are based on the Linux operating system (OS) and LAMP. Some providers offer Microsoft Windows-based or FreeBSD-based solutions.
Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).
The Direct Rendering Manager and KMS are part of the Linux kernel. The KMS does only the mode setting. Mode setting is a software operation that activates a display mode (screen resolution, color depth, and refresh rate) for a computer's display controller by using VESA BIOS Extensions or UEFI Graphics extensions (on more modern computers).