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Virtualization is a group of software technologies that allow abstraction between layers of a system. This allows separation between the logical layers of the system, providing isolation, flexibility,…
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Questions about any version of Microsoft Exchange Server or Exchange Online, Microsoft's email and unified communications server product. Because of tight integration with other systems, related quest…
Bash is the Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix sh (shell).
Device or program that stands between two or more interconnected programs/devices
Refers to the software or hardware that make up a webserver, delivering content on a private or public website.
Windows 7 is the Microsoft PC operating system released in October 2009, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. It is the successor to Windows Vista and has been succeeded by Windows 8. It sha…
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Linux Networking refers to any networking function performed by a server running Linux. A Linux server operating as a router or firewall are the most common applications.
OpenVPN is a free and open source software VPN solution. It allows secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections with routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities.
Red Hat is an open source technology solutions provider with offerings including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, open source applications, security and systems management, virtualization, Services Oriented …
SSL certificates are used to encrypt and authenticate connections to network servers, most popularly for web servers but also email, file transfers, and other network connections.
VMWare ESXi is an installable/embeddable virtualization platform based around the ESXi Hypervisor.
Group Policy is a built-in feature of the Microsoft Windows operating systems. Group Policy allows administrators to automatically configure myriad options within the OS. These policies can be confi…
A reverse proxy is a type of proxy server that fetches resources from a specific defined set of servers for a client. It is used in cases when there is an advantage to not exposing the web server with…
Questions about server hardware and software performance, or network performance.
SMTP is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, the most recent standard of which is defined in RFC 5321. It's the Internet standard for sending and receiving email.
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Refers to the hardware or software that make up a server dedicated to sending and receiving emails. Many popular modern email servers bundle other functionality for contacts and calendaring along emai…
Google Cloud Platform provides cloud computing services that let you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google's infrastructure.
CentOS is a Linux distribution standing for "Community ENTerprise Operating System" and is a rebuild of "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" (RHEL), belonging to the same company that distributes RHEL (Red Hat,…
Recording activity on the system (or of a particular program) for later reporting and analysis. Logins, logouts, web server page requests, etc might all be logged.
IP - Internet Protocol, the most commonly-used set of rules for dispatching data across a large computer network.
A virtual machine (VM) is a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system. It is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes …
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Windows Server 2012 was a server operating system from Microsoft. It was released on September 4, 2012, and reached End Of Life on October 10, 2023. Like its predecessor, Server 2008 R2, it is only …
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Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers
Load balancing deal with the techniques involved on using multiple systems to deal with high demands, balancing the load between those multiple systems. Questions deal with networking and server load …
Questions relating to virtual hosting; that is, serving content for multiple logically-separate entities from the same machine. Usually relates to name-based virtual hosting in the web server, but ca…
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for reading and editing directories over an IP network
A collection of computers or other networked resources.
Configuration is a general term that can refer to the arrangement of functional units according to their nature and characteristics. Also, it can refer to software configuration which more suitable fo…
Cisco is a provider of switches and routers to commercial consumers. Cisco devices run IOS or NX-OS operating systems. This is a generic tag to be used when no more specific tags are available. See …
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HTTPS stands for HTTP Secure and is a combination of HTTP and SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) and is used to provide an encrypted connection to a website.
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the use…
File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer data across TCP-based networks between hosts.
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Questions about hard disks' performance, issues, tips, and software.
Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. Hyper-V exists in two variants: as a stand-alone product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server, and as an installable role i…
Applications or appliances that observe machines, systems and networks to find problems and notify administrators.
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Mac OS X is an operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10. Mac OS X is based upon the NeXTSTEP and OpenStep OSes developed in the 1980s and 1990s by Ne…
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