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hjo3

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When a web hosting service allows you to control the web server software yourself (including rebooting the server, if necessary) this is known as a/an ______.

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hjo3

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Originally posted by: Modeps
dedicated
Damn you!

Correct answer (Value): Virtual server (100%)
Student response: dedicated server
Grade: 0%

Oh well, what'd I expect from ATOT? :p
 

Modeps

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in any event, a 'virtual server' does not necessarily give you access to reboot the f'n server. whoever you're taking this test for is a fgt and should accept dedicated as a good answer.
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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Originally posted by: hjo3
Originally posted by: Modeps
dedicated
Damn you!

Correct answer (Value): Virtual server (100%)
Student response: dedicated server
Grade: 0%

Oh well, what'd I expect from ATOT? :p

Try putting some thought into it yourself next time then.

Dedicated: hiring a machine which be meant only for your company, and not shared with others.

Virtual Server: Like you have a server of your own, you control it the same way, but it may well be shared with others. Basically it is software which acts like a standalone server to the one controlling.

Now, is it that hard to figure out which one of those is the correct answer?
 

Modeps

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Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Originally posted by: hjo3
Originally posted by: Modeps
dedicated
Damn you!

Correct answer (Value): Virtual server (100%)
Student response: dedicated server
Grade: 0%

Oh well, what'd I expect from ATOT? :p

Try putting some thought into it yourself next time then.

Dedicated: hiring a machine which be meant only for your company, and not shared with others.

Virtual Server: Like you have a server of your own, you control it the same way, but it may well be shared with others. Basically it is software which acts like a standalone server to the one controlling.

Now, is it that hard to figure out which one of those is the correct answer?

The question is worded incorrectly to assume all of that. Rebooting a server is not restarting a service (win) / reloading a server (*nix), it's phyically REBOOTING A SERVER.
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: Modeps
in any event, a 'virtual server' does not necessarily give you access to reboot the f'n server. whoever you're taking this test for is a fgt and should accept dedicated as a good answer.
Agreed. But he's a lazy son of a bitch and turned the class into an online course because he was too fscking lazy to come to the school for four days each week. So we have to take these automated quizzes every couple weeks. It's so lame, I hate this teacher. Can't do his damn job.
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Originally posted by: hjo3
Originally posted by: Modeps
dedicated
Damn you!

Correct answer (Value): Virtual server (100%)
Student response: dedicated server
Grade: 0%

Oh well, what'd I expect from ATOT? :p

Try putting some thought into it yourself next time then.

Dedicated: hiring a machine which be meant only for your company, and not shared with others.

Virtual Server: Like you have a server of your own, you control it the same way, but it may well be shared with others. Basically it is software which acts like a standalone server to the one controlling.

Now, is it that hard to figure out which one of those is the correct answer?

The question is worded incorrectly to assume all of that. Rebooting a server is not restarting a service (win) / reloading a server (*nix), it's phyically REBOOTING A SERVER.

Depends on who you ask, considering that one of the Microsoft exams used to have a question on what was better to secure a network, and Firewall was the wrong answer as you should have chosen Proxy (...)

:p
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Now, is it that hard to figure out which one of those is the correct answer?
Hey, it wasn't multiple choice. I had to actually type something in. And it's not in the dang book... heck, the chapter this quiz was supposed to be on didn't even deal with this stuff (it was on routing, bridges, and subnets). Anyway, I only had 3 minutes remaining on my test and couldn't find a term that satisfactorily matched that definition. Bah.
 

Krazy4Real

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Originally posted by: hjo3
Originally posted by: Modeps
in any event, a 'virtual server' does not necessarily give you access to reboot the f'n server. whoever you're taking this test for is a fgt and should accept dedicated as a good answer.
Agreed. But he's a lazy son of a bitch and turned the class into an online course because he was too fscking lazy to come to the school for four days each week. So we have to take these automated quizzes every couple weeks. It's so lame, I hate this teacher. Can't do his damn job.

Wow.. that sucks. So he actually changed how the course was taught in the middle of the term?
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
Wow.. that sucks. So he actually changed how the course was taught in the middle of the term?
Not the middle; he announced this on what should have been the 7th day of class. I say "should have been" because he was absent for 4 of those first 7 days.
 

BooGiMaN

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you would have gotten it wrong even if you knew it since you would have typed it 'vrtul srvr' with your new leet speak...

good luck getting a job filling out the job application with your new way of talking :p
 

hjo3

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Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
you would have gotten it wrong even if you knew it since you would have typed it 'vrtul srvr' with your new leet speak...
You must have me confused with someone else... :confused:
 

Valhalla1

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I vote for "unmanaged"

managed hosted boxes, software updates and OS lockdown etc belong to datacenter. unmanaged, you are root and do what you want with the box