NTC Encyclopedia’s Hosting chapter updated – get to know more about the Linux and Fedora operating systems, the Apache web server and more
If you have already taken your time to explore the basics of the web, browsing through the pages of our NTC Hosting Encyclopedia – here is another reason to keep reading. We have added for you a set of new articles to the encyclopedia’s Hosting Terminology section. With those new additions, we aim to take you a step further in discovering the niceties of web practices.
What would have the web been today without the invention of the Linux operating system? The answer is simple – unthinkable! Widely recognized as a web phenomenon, this UNIX-based operating system changed the face of the World Wide Web, setting new high standards in the release of open-source technologies that now master the Internet. Our Linux OS dedicated article will reveal to you the reasons why this desktop and server platform has turned into the most preferred alternative to commercial Unix and Microsoft operating systems.
Talking about Linux, we cannot help but mention its faithful fellow – the Apache web server. They are both integrate components of the LAMP platform (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) that lie in the basis of most of the websites we see today on the web.
The power of the Linux platform has given us cause for telling you about the Fedora Operating System as well. The Fedora-focused article sheds light on the role of the ever-increasing community of Fedora supporters for the ongoing development of this powerful Linux-based operating system. You will also learn about another factor for the growing popularity of Fedora – the compatibility of its features and updates with all Linux distributions available to users worldwide.
Before going deep into the hosting theme, we have also prepared an article dedicated to the host – one of the most multi-sided terms on the Internet. You will be able to look at the term ‘host’ from three different angles – as a computer that is interlinked with another machine through an Internet connection (computer networks context), as a web server that stores website files and various programs (web hosting context),and a mainframe computer that provides host services to certain workstations (mainframe computer environments context).
We hope the today’s new portion of hosting articles will be a good supplement to your knowledge of the web secrets. We’ll keep adding new articles to the Hosting Terminology section and all other sections of the NTC Hosting encyclopedia regularly to further help you get your feet wet in the world of web hosting and the web in general. Stay tuned!
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