Whois & Analysis for serverpronto.com

In computing, the superuser is a special user account used for system administration.

Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator, admin or supervisor.

In some cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with a user identifier (UID) of zero is the superuser, regardless of the name of that account; and in systems which implement a role based security model, any user with the role of superuser (or its synonyms) can carry out all actions of the superuser account.

Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16 is an auditing standard for service organizations, superseding SAS 70.

The latter's "service auditor’s examination" is replaced by a "Service Organization Controls" (SOC) report.

SSAE 16 was issued in April 2010, and became effective in June 2011; many organizations which followed SAS 70 have now shifted to SSAE 16.

Some service organizations are becoming savvy to the ability to use the SSAE 16 report status to show they are more capable, also encouraging their prospective endusers to make having a SSAE 16 standard part of new vendor selection criteria.

It is widely known that public companies fall under the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” or SOX, however there are also a number of provisions of the Act that apply to privately held companies, for example the willful destruction of evidence to impede a Federal investigation.

A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone else.

This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc.

There is also another level of dedicated or managed hosting commonly referred to as complex managed hosting.

Complex Managed Hosting applies to both physical dedicated servers, Hybrid server and virtual servers, with many companies choosing a hybrid (combination of physical and virtual) hosting solution.

There are many similarities between standard and complex managed hosting but the key difference is the level of administrative and engineering support that the customer pays for – owing to both the increased size and complexity of the infrastructure deployment.

The provider steps in to take over most of the management, including security, memory, storage and IT support.

The service is primarily proactive in nature.

Server administration can usually be provided by the hosting company as an add-on service.

In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment.

Dedicated servers are most often housed in data centers, similar to colocation facilities, providing redundant power sources and HVAC systems.

Uptime is a measure of the time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available.

Uptime is the opposite of downtime.

A service-level agreement (SLA) is defined as an official commitment that prevails between a service provider and the customer.

Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user.

The most common component of SLA is that the services should be provided to the customer as agreed upon in the contract.

As an example, Internet service providers and telcos will commonly include service level agreements within the terms of their contracts with customers to define the level(s) of service being sold in plain language terms.

In this case the SLA will typically have a technical definition in terms of mean time between failures (MTBF), mean time to repair or mean time to recovery (MTTR); identifying which party is responsible for reporting faults or paying fees; responsibility for various data rates; throughput; jitter; or similar measurable details.