Viewers can now opt to view YouTube video clips in higher quality, or even set YouTube to playback the video in high resolution quality mode automatically by default whenever the video is watched on YouTube website. However, for YouTube video clip which embedded on blog or web page, viewers won’t have such flexibility to switch or upgrade the video playback to higher quality streaming, unless webmaster or blogger specifically embed a high quality and high resolution YouTube embed code on the website.

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Creating a website is perhaps at the fingertips of many people. However, it might be a tedious job for a few people with no experience in web designing or web publishing. If you are a newbie to website making and are looking for a quick start tool, Lycos has just launched a new website builder, Webon, which can probably assist you.

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For webmasters running vBulletin community board or forum, it’s possible to further monetize the forum by receiving sponsorships or simply display banner ads associated to a category or forum in the forum homepage. The category or forum sponsors can be a text link or a image ads, or even a simple “Donate” button, and the sponsors’ ads will appear right next after the description for the category or the forum.

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If you’re looking for a free, distributed reliable and frequent website uptime monitoring service, Pingdom GIGRIB may be a good choice. Pingdom GIGRIB depends and utilizes GIGRIB users’ computer as part of the site monitoring network, becoming one of the “test nodes” that access monitored websites and report uptime for multiple websites to a central location. Thus, GIGRIB also has the advantage of the monitored sites’ uptime will be measured by distributed network of clients instead of from single location, greatly increase its accuracy on availability.

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Whenever a client connects to a server via network, a connection is established and opened on the system. On a busy high load server, the number of connections connected to the server can be run into large amount till hundreds if not thousands. Find out and get a list of connections on the server by each node, client or IP address is useful for system scaling planning, and in most cases, detect and determine whether a web server is under DoS or DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service), where an IP sends large amount of connections to the server. To check connection numbers on the server, administrators and webmasters can make use of netstat command.

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All web servers been connected to the Internet subjected to DoS (Denial of Service) or DDoS (Distrubuted Denial of Service) attacks in some kind or another, where hackers or attackers launch large amount connections consistently and persistently to the server, and in advanced stage, distributed from multiple IP addresses or sources, in the hope to bring down the server or use up all network bandwidth and system resources to deny web pages serving or website not responding to legitimate visitors.

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vBulletin community forum messaging system has a powerful and useful plugins system that extends the capabilities of the forum boards. Webmasters and administrator can upload and install various plugin products developed by vB team or third-party developers to add functionalities to the board to enhance user experiences, supplement board with features such as points system, bounced emails management, games and etc.

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In Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista, a lot of users have been searching for tcpip.sys patched hack or auto patcher that unlocks the TCP/IP half-open simultaneous connection limit to no upper bound. In a web server that exposes to Internet, the other way round may be true, where there may be a need to limit and restrict maximum number of TCP incoming connections to a web server that are allowed at any one time.

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