When the Wikimedia Foundation first launched the Wikipedia in 2001, it was just a spin-off of another online encyclopedia project. Today, Wikipedia has over 13 million articles and is the most highly-accessed online encyclopedia in the world. If an alien being from another planet arrived on Earth and wanted to learn more about the people and culture, the Wikipedia will provide it with collective information of the planet.

So popular and useful is the Wikipedia that Time magazine recognized the Wikipedia as one of the most important services to come out of the Web 2.0 technology, along with video-sharing YouTube and social media service Facebook.

Wikipedia has a multi-tiered web hosting architecture, consisting of several dedicated Linux servers and a sprinkling of Open Solaris boxes, which are clustered for high availability. Web hosting Wikipedia is spread across many locations, from Florida, Amsterdam, and at Yahoo's Korean web hosting site. Multiple MySQL nodes, plus 21 Apache web servers and several cache servers complete the web hosting configuration for Wikipedia.

The web hosting requirements is immense because the site receives nearly 60,000 page requests every second and the infrastructure must be able to handle the traffic load.

Source: Wikipedia

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Nothing epitomizes the Internet more than the wiki, which is collaboration on the web in a grand scale. The wiki is an aggregate of content database, powered by wiki software for content creation, editing and browsing, and the Internet as a way to search through all of the massive amount of information stored in the wiki database.

Wiki collaboration is dynamic. Users can edit or create the pages themselves, and allows interconnections between topic-related pages. The linkages and cross-linkages of wiki pages are a microcosm of the Internet itself, which is a huge links of websites.

To support the collaborative nature of the wiki, wiki farms are usually built on an array of servers with dependable web hosting services. The wiki web hosting requirements entail the setup of the wiki software that will provide easy-to-use tools for page creation.

Wiki farms are easier alternatives to managing the wiki server independently. Wiki farms are usually housed in reliable web hosting servers where administration is centralized and even the modules are shared across all individual wikis. The relational database system will require considerable horsepower, because it will handle security and track version changes, among others. That is why web hosting resources need to be able to handle these kind of requirements capably and securely, and at all times.

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Websense Security Labs (www.websense.com) recently raised an alert advisory over the new wave of malicious attacks aimed specifically against Microsoft's Outlook Web Access (OWA). The attack masquerades as an Outlook upgrade. Victimized users receive a security upgrade message in their web-hosted mailboxes, with a link to an upgrade site to allow them to change their mailbox settings, purportedly for the upgrade to take place. Clicking on the link leads to an attack site that downloads and installs the Zbot Trojan on the target computer.

Websense says the messages and the attack pages look "very believable", because they are personalized to the recipient's email address. When users see their email names specifically mentioned in the To: field of the email message, they are lulled into assuming that this is a legitimate message from the technical support of the email domain. Even the bogus link to the attack page dangerously looks like the company's real OWA system.

Websense says there are over 30,000 such deceiving messages circulating hourly everyday, and each one has low detection probability.

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MessageLabs Intelligence (www.messagelabs.com), the messaging and web security arm of Symantec, recently reported on the growing menace in web hosting and business security, in the form of the Bredolab Trojan, which was observed to increase in volume and virulence in the past few months alone.

MessageLabs says spam-related attacks has reached a record-high in October, and account for nearly 5.6 percent of all daily detected malware. To date, about 3.6 billion Bredolab Trojans are circulating in emails everyday.

The Bredolab Trojan is being sent by the Cutwail botnet, arriving in the form of zip file email attachments with innocent-seeming subjects. Opening the attachment will install the Trojan and disable the security of the host system. It will then go on to download malicious content to further infiltrate the host system with malware and spyware. The Trojan is often undetected, and allows the Cutwail botnet sender to control the host machine, according to Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence senior analyst Paul Wood.

MessageLabs is a market leader in web security, servicing 21,000 clients in 100 countries, and providing a range of services for the protection, control, encryption and archival of electronic communications.

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The proliferation of video web hosting sites can make the choice very difficult for video owners who want to share their video content online. But video owners can decide more easily based on some key factors listed below:

1. Video sharing capability
Once the video has been uploaded, does the video hosting site allows for greater flexibility when it comes to video sharing? Video sharing means that the video content can be embedded in blogs or hyperlinked in web pages, or even accessible in popular sites such as social media sites and the like, for the purpose of capturing a wider audience everywhere across the web.

2. Privacy and copyright can be handled
Although video sharing should be managed technically by the web hosting site, video owners should have the freedom to share only the videos that they want to share, or to keep other content private as they choose. Web hosts should be able to prevent unauthorized video piracy and copyright infringement threats, as well.

3. Video content monetization
Some video owners may prefer to make money from their videos. Some web hosts allow advertisements in videos and gives price incentives for each ad viewed.

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