VirPus Networks VPS Review

23 01 2008

virpus vps review* Find latest updates on VirPus at the end of this post.

In the first week of December 2007, I decided to upgrade my current 256MB guaranteed RAM OpenVZ VPS to something stronger and consolidate a few other shared hosting accounts to a single Virtuozzo based VPS. As usual, I turned to WHT forums for handpicking some reputable providers who have good feedback, reputation and of course, some special offers running. Yes, I’m a bit overzealous about comparison shopping and VirPus Networks caught my attention.

Initial Impressions : Researching about VirPus I concluded that they are a financially stable organization and have been in business for 2 years now. …




Hard Disk Encryption for Data Security

29 10 2007

Hard disk data encryptionComputer data or digital information is one of the most sensitive and important assets of people, businesses and organizations today. Personal information, transactions, business secrets, plans and such other critical data are being increasingly stored on computer systems these days; with a lot of people and businesses going digital to minimize paperwork, increase efficiency, introduce automation and increase overall productivity. As the dependency on computers have increased, so has the number of portable devices like laptops and PDAs. With these, the chances of data theft, system compromise and intrusion activities have increased greatly.

System admins and security analysts claim that most of the data theft, intrusion, hacking, sabotage, etc. arise due to …




Anonymous Browsing with VPN

23 10 2007

Personal VPNProbably you have heard about VPN or Virtual Private Network but might have never used it in practice. A VPN is a secure network across the Internet (Virtual) where the data is sent encrypted (private), makes use of the public internet infrastructure. Privacy is maintained by the use of a tunneling protocol, encryption, and other security features. Though VPN is particularly popular with organizations and corporate sector for their personnel to directly interface with the local network from anywhere in the world securely and seamlessly, it has already found other uses as well.

VPN has been well received by the common public behind restrictive content filters, firewalls, etc. allowing anonymous surfing without any blocking. …




Search Engine Optimization Software : SEO Elite

16 10 2007

SEO EliteThe term SEO or Search engine optimization is very popular with webmasters, internet marketers, online marketing personnel and companies these days. Building and maintaining a site is important but attracting visitors and leads is equally important for a webmaster or organization having websites online. SEO seeks to increase a site’s visibility in search engines and enhance its value to visitors through topical page design, consistent HTML tagging, and focusing content on core keywords. This is the process by which a website is shaped in structure, technology and content in order to encourage search engines to rank it highly for selected key phrases. Based on ethical standards, SEO can be white hat (ethical), Black Hat (non-ethical) …




Portable Duplex Scanner : ScanShell 3000DN

16 10 2007

Scanshell 3000DN duplex portable scanner reviewIf you’re a person always on the move and often need to scan documents while you travel, then carrying around a normal scanner device isn’t feasible at all. To satisfy mobile scanning needs, there are many portable scanners available these days which are small in size, require no extra power source, light enough to carry, have fast scanning speeds and affordable too. Portable scanning devices can often be seen with busy executives and sales personnel on the move and do the job as expected; performing quite nearly to their bigger counterparts.

A good portable scanner is the ScanShell 3000DN which also boasts of full duplex scanning …