Google Unveils New ultra-High Speed Google Fiber Internet service!!!

After more than two years of anticipation, Google finally announced Thursday that the company's ultra-high speed internet service Google Fiber would become available to the residents of its test community Kansas City starting in September.


Offering an internet connectivity speed of one gigabit per second, Google said the service will be about 100 times faster than the speed most Americans have with current broadband connections, reported Xinhua.

Instead of a broadband connection, Google Fiber is composed of thin optical fiber lines that run directly from a person's home to a data centre, which is then in turn connected to the national internet backbone.


According to Google, it is this "direct connection" from a person's home to the national backbone that will allow users to experience such high internet speeds.

Google said it was inspired to develop Google Fiber in line with the Federal Communication Commission's 2010 National Broadband Plan, which calls for making high speed internet more widely available in the US.

Despite the fact that internet was invented in the US, according to content delivery network Akamai's 2011 State of the Internet report, the US ranks only 12th globally in internet connection speed, with an average connection of 5.8 megabits per second. South Korea ranks first, with an average speed of 17.5 megabits per second.

In an interview on telephone, Google Fiber spokesperson Jenna Wandres told Xinhua that Google had already done advocacy work around the development of the National Broadband Plan and improving US internet connectivity, and that it set the stage for the company to do even more once the Plan was released.

Wandres added Google hoped greater internet accessibility and speed could additionally lead to more technological innovation, and set the stage for the future of internet browsing.

"When we think back about the way we used to use the internet when we were still listening to a dial tone, there were all sorts of innovations that we couldn't even imagine - we were sitting waiting for it to dial in," Wandres said, comparing how much the internet had changed since it was first developed.

"We're hoping that with Google Fiber and its higher speeds, these things will lead to new and unpredictable innovations that as a whole will move the web forward in the US," she added.

After months of laying the infrastructure and groundwork, Google Fiber will finally start home-installation after the pre-registration deadline Sep 9. The internet service is priced at $70 a month, which is competitive with most US broadband internet providers.

Google also announced the new internet service could be paired with a television component, Google Fiber TV, which Google says will include regular broadcast channels and thousands of TV shows on demand.

Although Google already owns video-sharing site YouTube, it will be the company's first venture into serving as a television provider.

The Google Fiber project first started in February 2010, when Google announced that the company planned to build an ultra-high speed internet network in a select US city that was willing to partner with them.

According to Google, the response was overwhelming. The company received invitations from almost 1,100 US communities and close to 200,000 individuals, all expressing their desire for faster internet service. Some cities even tried doing stunts hoping to attract the Google Fiber project, with one city mayor even jumping into a frozen river and posting the request on YouTube.

Ultimately, the Midwest community of Kansas City was chosen as the Google Fiber launch site in spring 2011. According to Wandres, Kansas City was chosen because of its business-friendly infrastructure, community involvement, and supportive officials.

About Web Hosting service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server owned or leased for use by clients, as well as providingInternet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for other servers located in their data center, called colocation, also known as Housing in Latin America or France.

The scope of web hosting services varies greatly. The most basic is web page and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploadedvia File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web "as is" or with minimal processing.[1] ManyInternet service providers (ISPs) offer this service free to subscribers. Individuals and organizations may also obtain Web page hosting from alternative service providers. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or inexpensive. Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.


Single page hosting is generally sufficient for personal web pages. A complex site calls for a more comprehensive package that providesdatabase support and application development platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, or ASP.NET). These facilities allow customers to write or install scripts for applications like forums and content management. Also, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is typically used for e-commerce.
The host may also provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server and installing scripts, as well as other modules and service applications like e-mail. Some hosts specialize in certain software or services (e.g. e-commerce), which are commonly used by larger companies that outsource network infrastructure.

Reliability and uptime

Multiple racks of servers

The availability of a website is measured by the percentage of a year in which the website is publicly accessible and reachable via the internet. This is different than measuring the uptime of a system. Uptime refers to the system itself being online, however it does not take into account being able to reach it as in the event of a network outage.
The formula to determine a system’s availability is relatively easy: Total time = 365 days per year * 24 hours per day * 60 minutes per hour = 525,600 minutes per year. To calculate how many minutes of downtime a system may experience per year, take the uptime guarantee and multiply it by total time in a year.

In the example of 99.99%: (1 - .9999) * 525,600 = allowable minutes down per year.

The following table shows the translation from a given availability percentage to the corresponding amount of time a system would be unavailable per year, month, or week.

A hosting provider’s SLAs may include a certain amount of scheduled downtime per year in order to perform maintenance on the systems. This scheduled downtime is often excluded from the SLA timeframe, and needs to be subtracted from the Total Time when availability is calculated. Depending on the verbiage of an SLA, if the availability of a system drops below that in the signed SLA, a hosting provider often will provide a partial refund for time lost.

Types of hosting
Internet hosting services can run Web servers.

Many large companies, which are not internet service providers, also need a computer permanently connected to the web to send email, files, etc. to other sites. The company may use the computer as a website host to provide details of their goods and services and serve for online orders.

Free web hosting service: offered by different companies with limited services, sometimes supported by advertisements, and often limited when compared to paid hosting.
Shared web hosting service: one's website is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. The features available with this type of service can be quite extensive. A shared web may be hosted with a reseller.
Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a reseller. Resellers' accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a colocated server. Many resellers provide a nearly identical service to their provider's shared hosting plan and provide the technical support themselves.
Virtual Dedicated Server: also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), divides server resources into virtual servers, where resources can be allocated in a way that does not directly reflect the underlying hardware. VPS will often be allocated resources based on a one server to many VPSs relationship, however virtualisation may be done for a number of reasons, including the ability to move a VPS container between servers. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. Customers are sometimes responsible for patching and maintaining the server.
Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (user has root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the server, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated server.
Managed hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (user is denied root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.
Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.
Cloud hosting: is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. A cloud hosted website may be more reliable than alternatives since other computers in the cloud can compensate when a single piece of hardware goes down. Also, local power disruptions or even natural disasters are less problematic for cloud hosted sites, as cloud hosting is decentralized. Cloud hosting also allows providers to charge users only for resources consumed by the user, rather than a flat fee for the amount the user expects they will use, or a fixed cost upfront hardware investment. Alternatively, the lack of centralization may give users less control on where their data is located which could be a problem for users with data security or privacy concerns.
Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution. A cluster may separate web serving from database hosting capability. (Usually Web hosts use Clustered Hosting for their Shared hosting plans, as there are multiple benefits to the mass managing of clients)
Grid hosting: this form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.
Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user's connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. A common way to attain a reliable DNS host name is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.
Some specific types of hosting provided by web host service providers:

§  File hosting service: hosts files, not web pages
§  Image hosting service
§  Video hosting service
§  Blog hosting service
§  Paste bin
§  Shopping cart software
§  E-mail hosting service
Obtaining hosting
Web hosting is often provided as part of a general Internet access plan; there are many free and paid providers offering these types of web hosting.

A customer needs to evaluate the requirements of the application to choose what kind of hosting to use. Such considerations include database server software, scripting software, and operating system. Most hosting providers provide Linux-based web hosting which offers a wide range of different software. A typical configuration for a Linux server is the LAMPplatform: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python. The web hosting client may want to have other services, such as email for their business domain, databases or multi-media services for streaming media. A customer may also choose Windows as the hosting platform. The customer still can choose from PHP, Perl, and Python but may also use ASP .Net or Classic ASP. Web hosting packages often include a Web Content Management System, so the end-user does not have to worry about the more technical aspects

Good Tips to write E-Mails

Today, where almost every one of us interacts virtually, writing Emails is the most extensive and exhaustive activity we do daily. Therefore there is a need to follow some important etiquette which can make our virtual communication effective and impressive. Here are some Email Rules which we should follow in our day-to-day email communications; office or personal. We call them ‘Email Etiquette’.
1. Format your Mail:
Stick to the most common font styles as in Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, etc. If you wish to add color, it should not be anything other than black, blue. Keep your mail in Left Indent format. This is the American style and currently being followed.
2. Avoid long Sentences/Paragraphs:
Limit your sentences to a maximum of 20 words if possible. Split your message into multiple sentences if it exceeds the limit. Avoid extending one paragraph beyond 5 lines. Maintain a blank line between each paragraph and keep your email structured.
3. Handling Multiple Recipients:
If you are sending a message to more than one person, it is advisable to keep the recipients in ‘Bcc’ instead of ‘To’. This will avoid publicizing the recipients’ email address without their explicit permission. Also in such case, address the recipients by ‘Hi’, ‘Hello’, ‘Greetings’, etc.
4. Handle Gender Appropriately:
If the recipient is female, address as ‘Ms. X’ (this is irrespective of the female being married or single). If the recipients’ gender is not known, keep your email context gender neutral.
5. Avoid Emoticons and Abbreviations:
Avoid abbreviations and using ‘Smiley’s, especially in official communications.
6. Avoid using Capitals:
Do not use CAPITALS in the title and body of the email. Capitals are regarded as being too aggressive or even offensive to the readers.
7. Careful with Reply All:
Be very careful while ‘Replying to All’. If not necessary, avoid ‘Reply All’ function and reply only to limited recipients. Example: If your organization sends an email, introducing a new Recruit – no need to ‘Reply All’ on that email. You can just send a note to the new recruit– welcoming the employee onboard.
8. Add Signatures (for official purpose only):
It is advisable to keep a pre-designed signature for your outgoing mails. When composing a mail in the first place, it is advisable to use the full signature details. While replying to mails, you can use a more concise format. Signature should have: Your name (first and last only), Designation, Department Name,
Organization, Name & Address, Contact details (direct or reception or cell).
9. Add Disclaimers to the Mail:
Do add necessary disclaimers to your emails, if sending through your official email ID. This typically comes below the signature.
10. Careful with Attachments:
If you have said ‘Please find attached’, ensure that you attach and re-check the attached document, before sending the mail.
11. Do not Hurry Response:
Do not write a mail when you are in a hurry. If you are not able to reply in detail, just reply as “Will get back to you soon”.
12. Answer all Questions in Mail:
Do not leave any point unanswered or unattended in your email response. This helps in avoiding emailing back and forth for clarifications and saves time.
13. Do not forward Chain Letters:
Have you ever received a mail asking you to forward it on to “x” number of people in order to receive good fortune? Most of these chain letters are hoaxes. Do not forward chain letters to others, just delete them on receipt.
14. Avoid High Priority Option:
Do not overuse the high priority flag. If you keep marking all your emails as ‘High Priority’, then recipients cannot differentiate between a high priority mail vs. normal mail. Remember the story of ‘cry wolf’? It may also come across as being too aggressive.
15. Read the Mail:
Please use the Spell check facility in your mailbox without fail. Every email service provides this useful facility. Finally read your email once before hitting the SEND button to check for grammar, spelling and appropriateness of the mail religiously adhering to the above email etiquette will surely help one to create a good & positive impression in the minds of the readers/receiver. Happy Emailing!!