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In most cases, your email server is hosted by the same company that your website is hosted with. However, some companies prefer internal email servers. This ensures the ability to have permanent mail storage as well as having the ability to customise the size limits without incurring extra costs. Linux email servers are stable, feature rich and completely scalable.

Web-based Email

Linux email servers support POP3, IMAP, and Webmail access. These are universal standards that need to be available for flexible email access. With web-based email access you can access your emails in the office, or on the go.

Spam filtering

Spam has become a major issue on the net today and consumes costs and time. Linux email servers are robust enough to supply customizable features such as spam filtering.

Virus scanning

No business should go without fully-integrated virus scanning software and this is easily done within a Linux email server. With options such AmaViS and Clam AV your networked computers will stay safe from those nasty viruses.

Security

Linux email servers offer SMTP SSL Authentication and domain keys which help keep your server and emails secure. It is very difficult to exploit the Linux operating system, therefore your emails are safe and secure at all times.

Speed and Stability

Linux is a one of the most stable operating systems known today. Linux email servers are well known for their amazing up-time statistics and when it comes to efficiency you cannot go wrong as Linux boasts amazing speeds.

Scalability

With the Linux email servers using MySQL or Postgres as their back end storage, you can ensure that you will have enough room to keep expanding. Storage space is definitely not a problem when choosing Linux. With current common technology, your Linux email server can reach sizes of up to 16TB (terabytes).

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There is no doubt you have already realized that your PS3 is one of the best gaming consoles on the market today. However, it has the potential to be more than a gaming console. It can be turned into a very capable, fully functioning home computer. All you have to do is install a Linux distribution. Doing so is not has difficult as it sounds and it is perfectly legal and it will not void your warranty.

Installing Linux on your PS3 will create two partitions on your PS3's hard drive. Do not worry about this as it is perfectly normal and it is the only way to do it. You also should not worry about installing Linux on your PS3 negatively effecting your PS3's native gaming capabilities because it will not. You should realize that when Sony developed your PS3, Sony intended for you to be able to turn the gaming console into a desktop computer by installing Linux. You read that right. Sony even released a PS2 Linux kit back in 2002.

Once you install Linux on your PS3, there will be two operating systems on your gaming console: the native GameOS and the Linux OS. The native operating system allows you to play all the games by creating a channel of communication between you and the system's hardware. So when you are playing a game, scrolling through the cross menu bar (XMB), listening to music or watching movies, the GameOS allows for this to happen. Linux will run on top of the GameOS which will then provide the link between Linux and the PS3 hardware.

You do not have to know the technical details of how installing Linux on your PS3 will effect or will not effect your gaming console, but it is a good idea to know that the GameOS is the gateway as it provides you access to Linux and creates a sense of continuity. This means that you can enjoy a high quality desktop environment with your Linux OS.

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The hard drives can be divided in one or more parts, known as partitions. The division of hard drive is described in partition table, stored in sector 0 of hard drive. Linux operating system requires at least one hard drive partition, namely for the root file system. It may use the swap files and swap partitions, however the latter are quite efficient. Thus, generally you may want second Linux hard drive partition devoted as the swap partitions. In some cases, improper use of hard drive management tools can cause data loss and need Linux Data Recovery to be sorted out.

On the Intel hardware, the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) that boots up your system and can generally only access first 1024 cylinders of hard drive. Due to the same, you may need to create third hard drive partitions if your hard drive is large in size. This partitions is generally mounted on the /boot, for storing kernel image and some auxiliary files required at boot time, so that BIOS can access them.

You can create the manipulate the partition table in Linux using a menu drive program, known as fdisk. However, this tool can not understand the GPT (GUID Partition Table) and is not work with large partitions. Fdisk understands DOS partition table and BSD/SUN disklabels.

The Fdisk automatically obtains the hard drive geometry, if possible. It is not inevitably physical disk geometry (as modern hard drive don't actually have physical geometry), but is disk geometry that is used for DOS type partition tables.

Generally everything works fine if only the Linux operating system is installed on your drive. But, in dual-boot configuration, you should let the Fdisk from other operating system create at least one partitions. While booting the Linux operating system, it considers partition table and attempts to derive what geometry is needed for effective cooperation with another operating system.

Before you proceed for any operation on your hard drive, it is recommended to create complete backup of your significant data. When you backup data using dd command, you need to be careful. A minor mistake may cause severe data loss and need Data Recovery Linux to be handled.

Linux Data Recovery is possible with the help of powerful third-party tools, known as Linux Recovery Software. The applications are particularly designed to carry out thorough scan of the drive and extract lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most advanced tool for absolute recovery. The software recovers data from Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 file system volumes. It is compatible with all major distributions of Linux operating system including Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, and Fedora.

In Linux operating system, the hard drive volumes are mounted by the disk labels, in place of the device paths. It is a quite effective approach because the disk path and name can get changed when you boot your system and so can create a number of complications for your system. Therefore, the labels are assigned to Linux volumes so that they can mount at correct place. But in some situations, the disks can not be mounted and accessed due to disk label corruption and you come across critical data loss situations. In order to extract lost data in such situations, Linux Data Recovery is required.

The disk label is a quite significant data structure for accessing a Linux hard drive volume. All the entires for volumes to be mounted during boot time are stored in /etc/fstab file. When disk labels get damaged, Linux volumes can not be mounted and thus all your critical data becomes inaccessible.

This issue may occur during boot time. In case of unexpected system shutdown, when you reboot the system, fsck runs automatically at startup. This command-line utility checks integrity of hard drive and file system to detect and repair errors. However, incomplete or improper processing of this tool may increase the chances of file system corruption and data loss. This behavior of Linux operating system needs Data Recovery Linux to be handled.

When you run the fdisk command to manipulate hard drive partition table, following error message may occur and the process gets terminated:

"Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)"

The above error indicates that the label of particular volume is corrupted and due to the same, volume can not be either seen or accessed. In such cases, backup proves as real help to restore your data from affected storage media. But in case if the backup is not available, Linux Recovery Software are needed for extracting lost data.

These applications are particularly designed to thoroughly scan the whole hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. The Linux Data Recovery applications are completely easy to use as they have simple and rich graphical user interface. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, such tools perform safe recovery without altering original data on the drive.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most efficient and powerful application for assured recovery. It recovers lost data from Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 file system volumes. The software is compatible with all major distributions of Linux such as SUSE, Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat.

Sometimes we may be feel hesitate when try to decide which website hosting providers as lots of these companies are around the market. Commonly, there are two different hosting plans - window website hosting and linux website hosting. Well, I believe window web hosting is not a strange name anymore. In term of charge rate, window website hosting usually more expensive due to licensee issue from Microsoft. But in term of services and features, both of them are quite similar. Following I will bring you guys to understand more about window website hosting and linux website hosting.

Since a decade ago, Microsoft has been active in the operating systems market. Nowadays, almost 90% of the computer terminals using Microsoft products and due to this significant monopoly by Microsoft, most people already implant a mindset of using Microsoft Windows. Window Based server is about 20% less than the total websites on the internet. This is mainly due to linux website hosting equally able to provide the similar result with lower price.

A few reasons attract people to use window website hosting:

1.net technologies including ASP. Window website hosting has.net technologies including ASP.net whereas linux web hosting do not have it. This feature is necessary if you want to set up website which requires.net technologies and ASP.net.

2. Access Database. Window web hosting has this option. This option only compatible and only available on window web hosts but not on Linux Hosts.

3. MSSQL. MSSQL is an enterprise class database which set up by Microsoft. linux web hosts also have this feature which only is common enterprise class database. If you really require Microsoft's MSSQL enterprise class database, then you have to go for Window Hosts.

4. Share points Service. For Window Hosts, it has its own share points feature which is known as 2003 Frontpage. This feature only available on Window Hosts.

After reading the above, I would like to bring your attention to Linux Hosts now:

1. Free of Charge Enterprise Class Website. Basically linux web hosts are open source platform where everybody can install and use it. It offers lots of major services for free. It can link together with other services like Apache, MySQL and PHP in order to provide infrastructure for many high traffic websites.

2. Better PHP. As in compare between Linux Host and Window Host, Linux Host can run better PHP. But if the PHP scripts are in heavy load, then there will be no much different between them.

3. Cheaper Rate. As in overall, Linux Host is cheaper by 20% than Window Host.

So a conclusion, if your website utilizes lots of Microsoft based technologies. Then Window Host is more suitable for you. And if your website utilizes other technologies, then Linux Host will be more suitable for you. Furthermore, you can save more by using Linux Host.