This article explains the differences between physical servers, VPS, cloud ECS, and Docker containers, discusses their advantages, cost considerations, and provides practical guidance on selecting the appropriate server solution for individuals, startups, or small businesses.
This guide explains what a server is, lists the most common server brands, and walks through the crucial hardware parameters—bandwidth, CPU, chipset, memory, storage, network cards, redundancy, hot‑swap and scalability—helping you make an informed server purchase decision.
This article explains the fundamentals of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), their architecture, key functions, and principles, and then details Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques—including DNS‑based, HTTP‑redirect, and IP‑spoofing methods—along with server‑selection strategies and their advantages and drawbacks.
This article compares CPU, GPU, FPGA, TPU, and ASIC based AI servers on performance and programmability, explains selection factors such as power, cost, precision, and memory, and provides practical guidelines for choosing appropriate GPU server architectures and models.
This article reviews common instant‑messaging protocols, compares popular IM servers such as Openfire, Tigase and Ejabberd, and proposes practical improvements to XMPP handling, server performance, and mobile IM challenges, while also evaluating third‑party services and offering deployment time estimates.
