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Choosing a Dedicated File Server

Choosing a Dedicated File Server

Dedicated File Server, What Is It?

It is a single unit connected to the internet. The computer unit and its processing components are solely dedicated to a single organization or person. This means that there is no file sharing or the unit’s resources are not shared, including files stored in its backup server. It is only you who can fully control the machine and can freely run any application you wish to have on the computer.

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Do I only need one server, or should I have more?

Dedicated file server have two uses, for website hosting and specific service hosting.

In website hosting, all services and programs are running on one dedicated file server. This set-up is the most common for small to medium operated websites in Singapore since all the software needed in operating it is installed in one single machine. The advantage of this is that you won’t have to spend much on multiple units, thus saving you a lot of money and no need for file sharing. The downside is that all the applications and software share a single machine resource, which may cause the slowing down of the unit.

On the other hand, specific service hosting is hosting single software on a single dedicated machine from dynatech. Every part of the machine is dedicated only for a single type of functionality. For instance, one unit can only host Database Software, so the machine is only for handling of Database queries. By this set-up, you can deliver more pages and cater more queries.

Typically, medium to high operated websites in Singapore run this type of file sharing singapore system along with a backup server. Most common setup consists of two or more server that only caters web requests, then another for database requests, and a couple of more for processing of emails. In fact, there is no limitation as to how many should be your servers for a certain service. With this setup, you can conduct file sharing from different units for easier multiple unit accessibility.

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Amount of Random Access Memory

One of the most important things you have to ensure is the amount of your unit’s RAM. The more RAM your file server has, the more files you can back-up. You have to make sure that the RAM of your unit can accommodate every file you want to back-up.

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Know the number of unit processors/cores

Another factor in choosing a server is to know if the processor of the unit can handle bigger tasks and whether if its compatible with an existing backup server (if one is already available).  Since the task of a dynatech file server is to back-up, you have to ensure that it won’t crash in the middle of a back-up procedure or while collecting data from file sharing activities.

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Memory Card Types

The memory or flash card is an electronic storage device. It stores digital information that is used in various equipment, such as laptop computers, digital cameras, game consoles, MP3 players, and mobile phones. The following are types of memory cards:

CompactFlash

CompactFlash is widely popular and is largely supported by consumer devices and professional applications. Its success can be attributed to its mass storage capacity surpassing Miniature Card, SmartMedia and PC Card Type I. The format was first launched by Scandisk. Later on, Canon, Fujifilm, Kingston Technology, Kodak, Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and many others followed the manufacturing of CompactFlash. Other devices with CompactFlash format include Bluetooth, Ethernet, Digital Camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, Barcode Scanner, etc.

Secure Digital

Secure Digital or commonly called SD cards have four card families in three different sizes. The families are SDSC (Secure Digital Standard Capacity), SDHC (High Capacity), SDXC (eXtended Capacity) and SDIO (Input Output). The sizes are Standard (1.26 x 0.94 x 0.083 inches), Mini (0.85 x 0.79 x 0.055 inches) and Micro (0.59 x 0.43 x 0.039 inches).

Subscriber Identity Module

Subscriber Identity Module or SIM card securely stores international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) and the related key to name and verify mobile telephony subscribers. SIM cards contain series of numbers for security purposes. It contains unique serial number, IMSI, security authentication and ciphering information, information related to the local network, list of active services and passwords.

Smart Card

Smart Card is also called Integrated Circuit Card (ICC). This is a pocket sized card with built-in integrated circuits. It can provide information such as identification and authentication; it can also serve as a data storage device. Dimensions are similar to credit cards (3.370 x 2.125 inches) and SIM cards (0.984 x 0.591 inches).

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Lose Your Love Handles

Sweet as it may sound but this is something that many people try to avoid as much as possible. “Love handles” is a colloquial term for deposits of excess fat at the side of one’s waistline, abdominal area and back. Working through love handles won’t actually get rid of the fat but what it can do is strengthen the muscles under the fat.

Before working our way to a healthier and stronger life, it is always best to be conscious of our food intake. We should avoid sugars, salts and unhealthy fats. We should look for fresh fruits, vegetables, good fats and proteins instead. After considering the food, it is time to sweat it up.

Bicycle Crunch

Lay on the floor with your hands on the side of your ears then lift up your legs to a 90 degree angle. Bring your right knee to your chest and twist your left elbow to meet it. Bring your left knee to your chest and twist your right elbow to meet it. Do this repeatedly.

Plank Knee Drive

Bring your right knee up and try to touch your right elbow. Bring your left know up and try to touch it with the left elbow. Do this 10 to 15 times per leg.

Deadlift

Keep your legs apart and slightly bend your legs in a squat position. Lift your hands slowly then back to the sides while using kettleball or weights.

Cardio Vascular Exercises

Men and women alike should allot at least 20-45 minutes of activities like walking, biking, running and swimming four times a week.

 

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5 Business Sale Mistakes You Need to Know and Avoid

In the current economic environment, most Singapore business sellers find it difficult to sell their business for a good price and in a reasonable timeframe. However, amidst difficulties and frustrations, it is important to stand sturdy in maximizing your sale. Most of the troubles that a seller confronts in selling his business can be avoided by learning the pitfalls of business selling ahead of time. Here are five common mistakes that a seller should avoid.

1. Insufficient Preparation
Lack of preparation is one of the most common mistakes that Singapore businessmen know and commit in selling their business. Before selling your business, you have to check all of its aspects, such as the financial documentations, sustainable profitability and staff problems. These factors to know will affect the saleability of your business once you place it in the market. Preparation cannot be done overnight. So whenever you decide to sell your business, start preparing now.

2. Exaggeration that leads to fraud
Sellers will always have the intention to represent their business to the best light. However, there comes a time when sellers misrepresent their business to buyers by overstating their businesses. During the process of selling, there is a temptation to avoid for sellers to distort projections, cover up problems or manipulate the numbers. This is very risky especially when the buyer scrutinizes your actual financial reports. The best way to avoid this is to look for lawyers or business brokers such as buysellbusiness.com.sg in Singapore to facilitate you in making you actual reports properly represented.

3. Overpricing
Price is the single most important factor in determining how long the Singapore business stays in the market. The problem with inexperienced seller is that they usually set a price that is higher than the value of the business overtime. It is impossible to land a buyer when this happens so before assigning a price, sellers should conduct a thorough valuation of their business and how can it defend its price when positioned in the marketplace.

4. Only accommodating cash
Rushed business sellers often fall for this trap. The problem with entertaining all-cash only is that it is quite impossible in the business world. It is very rare for Singapore buyers to consider buying a business through cash. Some prefers to offer the seller with some concessions such as seller financing, or paying in an instalment basis. This would actually benefit you as the seller since you will be paying smaller tax payments once you are no longer the sole owner of the business.

5. Sudden identification of buyer
Some sellers would skip the all-important process of pre-qualifying buyers fearing that they might scare potential buyers away. This results to selling their business to unqualified buyers and later realizes that they made a wrong deal. Short-listing buyers is very important in order to avoid random, unserious buyers from viewing the details of your business. Most of the promising buyers are those who are interested to both small and large details of your sale.
It requires time to prepare for selling your Singapore business but the most important thing to do is start preparing now. Avoid all misconceptions and cramming so that on the day of the sale, all odds will be beneficial to you.

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Is Financial Planning Necessary?

What is financial planning and why do we need it?

There are many people in Singapore who have not yet started financial planning, and if you are one of these people, it is high time you started as your future as a financial planner as well as those of who are important in your life is entirely dependent upon your financial standing. How? As a financial planner you will know that inflation eats up whatever you keep in cash or in your saving account with the result that you are unable to fulfill your liabilities or responsibilities towards your family. Having a financial planner career is a step by step necessary process that makes better use of money by investing it in more productive schemes.

To fulfill responsibilities, financial planning is necessary

This is done keeping in mind that the income and other resources of an individual with a financial planning career in Singapore is meant to help him as a financial planner to have necessary money at his disposal to fulfill his responsibilities and to lead life in a better way than today. It is all about money really and this is why financial planner as a career in Singapore is necessary. Even a simple housewife can be a financial planner as she too to monitor her finances necessarily because she has to budget the family’s monthly expenses and spending what she gets from husband in such a manner that she is able to save small amount every month. Most of us have goals that we set for ourselves to be attained in future.

Worry about retirement is a major cause for financial planning

A lot of people practice financial planning or hire a professional financial planner for their own life after retirement. The steady stream of income that is there while being in the job is gone and the person is forced to live a life of lower standard after retirement. But unless we start saving and investing today, it is impossible to achieve our goals as anything that has some price today will have a much higher price in future depending upon rate of inflation in Singapore. If we start on our financial planner career much earlier, or if we hire a financial planner we can trust, then we can live life with the same standards as today after retirement.

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Dangers of Lowering Number of Professionals

Dangers of Lowering Number of Professionals
Despite having the highest number of immigrants in its population (in terms of the immigrants/total population ration), Singapore does not seem to have a better alternative because of lack of required number of professionals in the local populace. The government is encouraging it people to produce babies to maintain the levels of indigenous population. In contrast to required 60,000 births per annum to maintain the population at its current levels, the births in Singapore seem to have flattened at nearly 40000, which is a cause of concern for the authorities.
What is giving sleepless nights to authorities is the continuing trend of stagnant or falling productivity. Singapore knows what this meant for Japan in 1990 and thereafter. With skilled labor turning up in lesser numbers, the major thrust of the policy makers in Singapore is on providing high quality education to the local people to enable local people to land up high end jobs as skilled labor or as professionals. This is being sought to be achieved by investing around 3& of the GDP in Japan.
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Ways to Earn Online in Singapore

Ways to Earn Online in Singapore
One certainly cannot ignore the potential of the internet savvy youth of this tiny island nation. In the last few decades, the number of people making use of internet in Singapore has increased exponentially and so has the number of people buying products from the internet. There are even over a dozen Groupon like deal sites doing brisk business in Singapore. Upon subscribing to these sites, members get daily deal alerts which they can take or decline. These deals provide bumper discounts on products and services from shops, beauty salons, gyms, and restaurants etc. that are there in the city.
The owner of the site gets a commission on every deal that gets through when a minimum number of people in the city subscribe to the deal. From a single such site 3 years ago, there are today 17 daily deal sites indicating the hunger for deals of the people of Singapore. Just get a decent website made that has ease of navigation and secured payment method to instill confidence among your customers to make the site popular. As an alternative, one can also earn by being an affiliate of a network marketing company. There are many other types of business such as internet marketing by becoming an affiliate of a network marketing company.
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Powerful Ideas to Fight of Crisis on Economy

Powerful Ideas to Fight of Crisis on Economy
The city state of Singapore has been an amazing success story in the last four decades since its independence in 1965. Situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, this island nation made up of 63 islands and having a small area of just 700 square kilometers has only about 5 million people but ranks as the fourth largest commercial center in the world.
A tiny nation that does not produce anything of note is a net exporter being a natural sea port and has made giant strides in the field of assembling and services. With cheap labor and world class infrastructure, Singapore has attracted entrepreneurs from all parts of the world to establish manufacturing and assembling plants to export products to all parts of the world. However, the worldwide recession has hit even this small city state in Southeast Asia with annual growth rates coming down to raise concerns among the authorities.But Singapore is not immune to the worldwide recession. The country’s economy being export dependent has been worst hit by the recent slowdown being experienced by all countries of the world. Thailand is another example whose economy is expected to shrink for the first time in the last decade or so. These two economies, considered to be star economies pulling Asian growth rate along with India and China have been slowing down that is being reflected in slowing down of exports. The other two economies of the region, Taiwan and Hong Kong are also experiencing downturn and facing the heat.
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