Space Engineers: Create Dedicated Server
How to host your own Space Engineers Server
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The space simulation Space Engineers is one of the most popular representatives of the genre. If you want to let off steam in the versatile worlds together with friends and acquaintances, the best way to do this is on your own Space Engineers Server. We have summarized the most important information about Space Engineers server hosting, configuration, and deployment (including step-by-step...

How to host your own Space Engineers Server
Software Defined Networking
SDN (Software Defined Networking)
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Renting cloud resources is common practice in many companies. This is because the use of external, visualized hardware is attractive both for cost reasons and because of the associated flexibility: Many providers now use Software Defined Networking (SDN), a modern network approach that makes it possible to manage and scale hardware around the clock using software.

SDN (Software Defined Networking)
Software Defined Data Center
Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
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Software-defined Infrastructure-as-a-Service options have taken the market by storm. More and more providers are offering these flexible IT resources, ranging from storage and servers to complete networks. With the software defined data center (SDDC), there is now a solution that combines all IaaS models and grants access to an entirely virtual data center.

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
SNTP: simple network time protocol
Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
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An exact system time on a computer is especially important when devices need to exchange data. Cross-system processes quickly come to a standstill if the generated time stamps are very different from the time that applies to the system. Synchronization methods that keep the clocks of the individual network participants in sync are utterly indispensable. One of the simplest methods to achieve time...

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
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The communication protocol SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is an elementary component of many network management applications. It defines a number of message types that greatly simplify the monitoring and administration of individual network participants such as PCs, routers, servers, switches, firewalls, or printers. How exactly the SNMP protocol works and what fundamental adjustments...

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)
SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording)
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When you save data to a hard drive, it is written to tracks on magnetic platters. On conventional hard drives these tracks are completely separate, but with Shingled Magnetic Recording, they partly overlap one another. This means that SMR allows you to store more data per inch. Read on to find out more about this new hard drive technology and its implications.

SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording)
SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
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Using SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), you can transfer data bidirectionally within an authorized group of people in a particularly secure way. The transfer between the client and server takes place via an encrypted IP-based data tunnel. The basic File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has major security vulnerabilities, which were eliminated in the refined SSH File Transfer Protocol.

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
Servers with storage: storage solutions for the future
Servers with SSD storage
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SSDs have been gaining ground for years now. Until recently, these flash-based storage devices have been mostly used by mobile devices, like smartphones or MP3 players. But more recently desktops and servers have been making use of this technology. What advantages do SSDs have over traditional storage devices? Find out here.

Servers with SSD storage
Server operating systems: a history and overview
The History of Server Operating Systems
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Operating systems have gone through some major changes over the years. While their beginnings are rooted in more humble, purely text-based user interfaces, today’s options have evolved into complex software packages with graphical interfaces, comprising an elegant go-between for hardware and software applications. Users, who have long since been equipped with a keyboard and mouse, are able to...

The History of Server Operating Systems
Server Name Indication
What is the Server Name Indication (SNI)?
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What is server name identification, really? Encryption technologies play a big role when it comes to surfing on the net. Credit card data and other personal information must not fall into the hands of criminals. For now, TLS is one of the protocols used for this purpose. But it has a disadvantage: it only functions when each IP address only hosts one domain. If multiple virtual services are...

What is the Server Name Indication (SNI)?