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Web Jargon Explained
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in General on November 24, 2009
During my meetings with several clients I noticed the confusion some of the web jargon is creating when they try to read results for their websites. This article will explain in plain English what all these terms mean and hopefully clear the confusion.
Hits
“I get 100,000 hits a day” – you hear someone bragging about their website.
Translation: That means exactly nothing.
“Hit” means a file is being sent by the server hosting your website to the web browser whenever a web page is loaded. Here’s an example: If you have a web page with 10 images that was loaded in a browser by 1 visitor, your hit counter will show the number 11.
Why?
Can You Recover if Disaster Strikes?
Posted by Claudiu Geanta in General on October 29, 2009
Disaster Recovery
Last spring I moved from Detroit to LA and after unpacking my computer I realized that my backup was totally damaged. Although I had one of these fancy Western Digital external hard drives with over 500 GB, it seems that they are not very sturdy.
During the drive from Michigan to California, the backup rattled loosely inside the trunk of my car and the disk was rendered useless. I cannot even describe the helpless feeling I had once I realized that all my work for the past 4 years was lost. Or so I thought…
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