The vast majority of people have their websites hosted on shared servers; that is servers they share with other people who also host their websites on that server. However, some firms choose to use a dedicated server, which is a server which only holds the on line material of one website or one business, which may have several websites.

Why would they choose to do that? Well, hosting your web site on a dedicated server means that you have more control over the security installed on the server and you have more room at your disposal. If you share a server, the controller of the server might get disgruntled if you begin to use more than your fair share of space or bandwidth.

At the RSA Security Europe Conference, individual privacy was brought to the forefront of people’s discussions. It was argued that communication and society has changed forever and that will have a negative impact on personal privacy. In the decades before, conversations were generally done face to face or over the phone. Yet nowadays, lots of communication is carried out via email and/or websites. This creates a saved hard record of all correspondence.