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Dedicated server

Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:56 AM, Jen

I took computer science my sophomore year to fill an elective. To be honest, besides checking my email, my bank statements, face book and doing homework I really am technologically retarded. There is not much that I can do with a computer and to be honest, unless it is something that I really do need to do, I don't really plan on learning how. Although I got an A in computer science (it was a 100 level class that I am pretty sure every student at my university has taken that class as a blow off class) I really did struggle with it. While most of my classmates slept in and blew off lecture (it was my only ever 8 a.m. class) I trucked in rain or snow and diligently took notes. Lab was the hardest part for me and I think that if my teacher wasn't so nice I might have failed. She overlooked a lot of the mistakes I made and I usually got an A on lab or she would let us use notes (yay for going to class). Something I did learn about though (most of it didn't stick in my mind at all) was dedicated server hosting. This is a type of server where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone else and is much more flexible then shared hosting. You can find out more about it on http://www.alentus.com/dedicated-hosting/server.asp. This website explains a lot of things that I would never be able to (most of it seems like a foreign language to me).

On the website they give you all of the details and benefits of an alentus dedicated server. A few of them include its flexible hardware options, powerful software options for your server, 99.9% network uptime guarantee, Microsoft gold certified partner and 10-year track record in hosting.

Yikes. That is a lot of information that even I (with my full semester of computer science 100 ha can't understand). Thankfully they go into further detail on the website and break it down and explain it for those who may not understand it as well as the computer geeks out there (sometimes I wish I was one of those computer geeks).

For now though, I am going to stick to my bio-chemistry, pre-pharmacy major and only do what I need to on the computer, but in the future this website may be something of interest to me and maybe someday I will understand it all.