What is 32 bit web hosting and 64 bit web hosting?
Feb 17th
Have you ever heard about 32 bit and 64 bit web hosting? You might not, most of the hosting companies promise to their customers that their servers are equipped with high memory like 8 GB, 16 GB etc. and some companies in India claim that they provide unlimited hosting by having more RAM/Memory but they don’t mention more details about how this RAM or memory being utilized for the applications or websites hosted within the server. Here we discuss what are the advantages of 64 bit hosting over 32 bit web hosting.
32 bit systems or software supports up to 4 GB memory at any one given point of time. some of the recent Rich Internet Applications requires much more memory than this to complete the tasks. This may be one of the reason for chip making companies to introduce 64 bit processors.
The problem with most of the hosting companies to provide 64 bit hosting is, still most of the available software like control panels, plugins, tools today is 32 bit, but the processors are 64 bit. Microsoft is catching up pretty fast on this by releasing 64 bit Windows 7, windows server 2008, databases and other Operation systems so as other operating systems also catching up well.
Here is the diagrammatically explanation about the layers effect:
If you want to run a 64 bit application, you need to have support from all the lower levels.
So, building a server only with 8 or 16 GB memory/RAM will not suffice to support the Rich Internet Applications which consumes lot of server resources. You need to have OS and other depended software like databases, Control panels etc. also have 64 bit. A 64 bit OS and other software will use the maximum memory provided and support RIA to perform complex tasks.
Contact IBEE at 09949922500 or email at info@ibeehosting.com to know more details on how to build Rich Internet Applications supported Hosting Infrastructure.
What is Content Delivery Network (CDN) and How it works?
Feb 9th
CDN is one of the most common words we are hearing these days in web hosting industry. When you try any performance evaluation tool for your website speed test, one error it will show is Content Delivery Network not used. This is mostly used by the large websites to cater their website visitors who are geographically diversified.
A Content Delivery Network means a collection of multiple web servers geographically distributed across various locations and delivering the content to the users more efficiently. Using this user will be automatically identified and served the content from the network server whose proximity is nearer or the server with the quickest response time will be chosen.
Advantages:
Most of the loading time is spent on download the contents of the page like images, scripts, CSS and Flash etc. Instead of changing your application architecture to Grid or cluster as discussed in the recent articles you can also opt for this content delivery network option to improve the performance of your application. Majority of the components in any web application or website are images, JS files, stylesheets, flash etc. This way you can reduce the response time easily and loading them using CDN will increase the performance and speed up the website or application.
Disadvantages:
When you try to redesign your web application to work on content distributed network, depends on the application you might need to change your application architecture. Changing the architecture could create issues with synchronizing the sessions state, database transactions replications and cached content. So before you choose to set up your application on CDN, you need to analyse how it works and take a decision.
Here are the companies who are providing cost-effective CDN solutions Softlayer, Akamai technologies, limilight networks and mirror image. For small and medium size portals this option is not feasible while the large companies who has huge audience can use this and reduce response times and improve the performance of the website or application.
For more information on how to setup and configure your web application over CDN; call us at 09949922500 or mail to info@ibeehosting.com
