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To speak about “windows hosts file” you must have to know about the term “hosts” in information technology context and how do we connect to a host. What is a host ? A host in technology terms can be considered as a node in internet. A node in internet is nothing but a device that is connected to internet. It can be your computer, PDA or it can be a web server that is serving you the pages. Now if you come across terms like network host or web host then probably you can guess by separating the two words and getting meaning out of it. Host Name to IP address Mapping : How do we connect to a host ? Every node in internet has unique IP Address, this IP address will be used as an identifier to connect to that particular host. However a  Static IP is different from Public IP and one can connect to only a Read more


At the rate of data growing in today’s world it makes no surprise that  Cloud Storage is also growing its importance. If you are a person who know about internet then you might know what a cloud in technical terms means. In general internet can be considered as a cloud. Even in term Cloud storage the cloud has the same meaning. So, If you now  read by applying the meaning of cloud to it then you will interpret it as internet storage and that is what it means to convey. But to be exact, It is not the all. There are many differences between the way you think for the data that is stored in internet as traditional storage system and cloud storage system. Cloud storage is a concept of networked online storage system. The one striking features that distinguishes  a cloud storage system from other traditional data storage systems is that a cloud storage is made up of distributed Read more


How do you keep yourself safe in Internet ? I have already mentioned about privacy in internet  and internet is not that safe place you can think of and there is always a possibility to grab your data from internet . So , how public network is not safe ? You might have heard about hacking , There is much more probability to steal your data when you are on a public network by hackers. There are number of techniques to grab your data in internet or in your public network , This post illustrates how to steal your data so that you can understand what information can be stolen when you are using internet in a public network so that you can keep your important data safe. Hackers might be not that intelligent , It is enough to have little more knowledge than you to hack your information . There are four basic principles on which internet works Confidentiality Read more


Do you got a problem in accessing a website from your school/college/company. One of the solution for this problem is Using Proxy. Proxy server acts as a surrogate of your system. You can set a proxy from your browser advanced network properties. Firewall filters and blocks a website by its content this is bypassed by proxy where data from website is fetched by proxy and transfered to you. There are many proxies available the best proxy would be the one that is continously available for us. are websites providing proxy list to users of world. If you cant understand about configuring proxies and getting proxy addresses then I suggest you to use software for this purpose , the best proxy software as of now is Ultra Surf but as it is known to everyone even this software may be blocked. Download Ultra Surf or You can get a list of proxies from http://www.samair.ru/proxy/time-01.htm Hope this article addressed your purpose , Read more


IP Address refers to Internet Protocol Address which uniquely points to your system in a network. But as number of computers in world are more in number here comes the concept of private network, A Private network will have only one PUBLIC IP and What internet service provider will do is that he creates his own PRIVATE IP’s in his network.In General Private IP network ranges are 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.255.255 or 172.16.1.1 to 172.16.255.255 By using this private IP’s more number of computers or devices in the network can connect to the internet from gateway of your network which converts requests from local network to and from the internet which consists of only a single PUBLIC IP. You can find Public IP address of your computer by going to Whats My IP website and if you are in a local private network you can find your IP by typing IPCONFIG in command prompt and you can differentiate whether if you Read more