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Atmosphere to Deliver PGA TOUR Content to Businesses via Streaming Platform – Business Wire

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date December 9, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atmosphere (www.atmosphere.tv), the worldwide leader in streaming TV entertainment for businesses, today announced a content agreement with the PGA TOUR to bring both highlights and dedicated golf programming to the Atmosphere platform and its audience of 60 million monthly viewers.

Atmosphere has built an innovative platform with significant reach and an active, engaged audience, said Norb Gambuzza, PGA TOUR Senior Vice President of Media and Gaming. Were excited to work with Atmosphere to deliver a dedicated PGA TOUR channel onto its platform with a goal of engaging more fans.

Launching today, the channel features a mix of tournament coverage highlights, tournament recaps and footage from the PGA TOURs most iconic moments. Additionally, the PGA TOURs highlights will be played on Atmosphere Sports, the platforms popular sports news channel. The partnership is the latest in Atmospheres continued growth into sports throughout 2022, starting with the launch of Atmosphere Sports in March and continuing in September with RealMadrid TV, a channel dedicated to one of Europes most popular football teams and which features live matches.

With golf being one of the most watched sports in the world, were immensely proud to be partnering with the PGA TOUR to provide businesses with a viewing experience tailored to their spaces, says Blake Sabatinelli, Chief Operating Officer at Atmosphere. The addition of golf to our platform has been one of the biggest requests of our fans, but also one of the hardest to obtain, so to have the worlds most competitive golf tour on Atmosphere shows just how far weve come in 2022, and how much further we can grow in 2023.

Atmosphere is available in over 45,000 venues worldwide across restaurants & bars, gyms and health clubs, medical waiting rooms and more. Optimized for viewing in public spaces, Atmospheres engaging content encompasses viral video compilations, news and sports coverage, lifestyle, extreme sports, art, and ambient nature, designed to complement every business environment. Atmospheres self-service ad portal also provides streaming customers with the ability to run promotions to its captive customers within the content for free.

For more information, visit the Atmosphere website.

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About Atmosphere

Atmosphere is the leading streaming TV platform for businesses, offering more than 60 original and partner TV channels. The platform, which was named on Fast Companys 2022 Most Innovative Companies and Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups lists, has been built from the ground up with proprietary content, technology and data to deliver unparalleled experiences for businesses and advertisers. For more information, visit http://www.atmosphere.tv.

About PGA TOUR

By showcasing golf's greatest players, the PGA TOUR engages, inspires and positively impacts our fans, partners and communities worldwide.

The PGA TOUR, headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, co-sanctions tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamrica and PGA TOUR Canada. Members on the PGA TOUR represent the world's best players, hailing from 28 countries and territories outside the United States (90 international members). The PGA TOUR has long-term domestic distribution partnerships for broadcast coverage on CBS, NBC and Golf Channel and video streaming service on ESPN+. Internationally, PGA TOUR coverage is available across 200+ countries and territories in 27 languages via 43 local broadcast partners. Virtually all tournaments are organized as non-profit organizations to maximize charitable giving, and to date, tournaments across all Tours have generated more than $3.37 billion.

Fans can follow the PGA TOUR onPGATOUR.COM, the No. 1 site in golf, on thePGA TOUR appand on social media channels, includingFacebook, Instagram (inEnglish,SpanishandKorean),LinkedIn,TikTok,Twitter,WeChat,Weibo,Toutiao,DouyinandLINE.

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Announcing Exclusive Events And Updates On The Chess.com Discord – Chess.com

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date December 9, 2022

Are you a member of the Chess.com Discord server? If not, nows the time to join! Weve just revamped our server, giving you lots of brand-new benefits and ways to be part of a community full of 35,000+ chess lovers.

Whats new?

The Chess.com Discord server received a big facelift and tech upgrade recently in the form of a new Discord bot. This bot can connect your Discord and Chess.com accounts together for even more features:

Part of the server upgrades also includes providing our moderators with additional tools to help keep the Chess.com Discord a nice place for everyone. Being part of our online community has never been safer and more fun!

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How to Block Websites on Android – How-To Geek

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date December 9, 2022

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To block websites on Android, install a third-party app like BlockSite, or use Mozilla Firefox as your browser and get a website-blocking add-on. Switching to a custom DNS server will also block a wide swath of time-wasting and inappropriate websites at once for all Android browsers.

Do you want to block a specific site so it wont distract you when youre working? Or maybe you want to restrict access to inappropriate sites? You can block websites on Android either with or without a dedicated app, and well show you how to do both.

RELATED: How to Stop Annoying Website Notifications in Chrome on Android

An easy way to block a website on your Android phone is by using a free site-blocking app. One such app is BlockSite (free but ad-supported), which lets you restrict access to your specified websites at the specified schedule in your web browsers.

Once youve blocked a site with this app, that site isnt accessible in any of your web browsers. Later, you can unblock a site if you want.

To use this method, download and install the free BlockSite app on your phone. Then, launch the app, go through the welcome screens, and give the app all the permissions it needs.

When you reach the apps main screen, select Blocklist followed by the + (plus) button.

On the Add Sites/Apps screen, at the top, tap the text field and type the URL (web link) to the site you want to block. For example, to block wikipedia.org , type wikipedia.org in the text field and then choose the site on the list. You can add multiple sites here to block them on your phone.

Once youve specified the sites, in the apps top-right corner, tap Done.

Select Done in the prompt.

Youve successfully specified the sites you want to block, but your sites arent blocked yet. This is because you need to set up a schedule for when the block comes into effect.

To do that, on the apps main screen, tap Schedule.

Select the days and times when youd like your specified sites to remain blocked. To block them indefinitely, choose Full Week and All Day Long options.

Then, next to Select All, toggle on the option.

And thats all there is to it. Your specified sites are now inaccessible in your phones web browsers. If you try to access one of those sites, youll see a message from BlockSite instead of the actual site content.

If you dont wish to use a third-party app to block sites on your Android phone, you can either restrict website access inside Mozilla Firefox or put a blanket ban on adult sites using custom DNS servers.

If you use Firefox as your primary web browser, a free add-on will restrict access to specific sites in your browser. Note that using this method only blocks your sites in Firefox; your other web browsers will continue to have access to your blocked sites.

To use this method, launch Firefox on your phone. Then, tap the three dots in the top-right corner and choose Add-Ons.

On the Add-Ons page, next to the LeechBlock NG add-on, tap the + (plus) option.

In the open prompts bottom-right corner, tap Add.

When the add-on is installed, select Okay, Got It.

Access Firefoxs Add-Ons page by tapping the three dots in the browsers top-right corner and choosing Add-Ons.

Then, tap LeechBlock NG.

Select Settings.

Tap the large text field and enter the site URLs you want to block. Specify the schedule for when these sites should remain blocked.

Then, scroll down the page and tap Save Options & Close.

And thats it.

From now on, when you try to access a restricted site, Firefox wont load the site for you.

RELATED: How to Block Facebook (or Any Distracting Website)

If youre looking to put a blanket ban on websites containing adult content, pirated media, and malware on your Android phone, use OpenDNS free FamilyShield DNS servers. These servers ensure your phone doesnt load those kinds of websites on your local network.

To begin, launch the Settings app on your Android phone. The exact steps to perform the following process vary by phone model.

In Settings, navigate to Connections > Wi-Fi.

Next to the Wi-Fi network youre connected to, tap the gear icon.

On the screen that opens, tap View More. Then, select the IP Settings option and choose Static.

In the DNS 1 field, enter the following:

Tap the DNS 2 field and enter the following.

At the bottom, tap Save to save your changes.

Your custom DNS servers will now block access to adult websites and other unsafe content on your Android phone.

While youre at it, you may want to learn how to block or limit apps and calls on your Android device to increase your productivity. Its easy to do both of these on your phone.

RELATED: How to Set App Time Limits and Block Apps on Android

Reelgood vs. JustWatch vs. Plex: Battle of the streaming guides – TechHive

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date December 9, 2022

In a perfect world, you wouldnt need apps like Reelgood, JustWatch, or Plex to keep track of your streaming TV options.

But while streaming platforms such as Roku and Apple TV have their own search and guide features built in, none of them fully achieve the kind of universal streaming guide that cord-cutters deserve. They dont fully integrate with Netflix, for instance, and theyre often more interested in upselling you or promoting their own content than connecting you with relevant recommendations.

Thats where the aforementioned streaming guide apps come in. Each of them can suggest things to watch from the streaming services you actually use, and they offer watchlists to help you remember everything youve been meaning to check out. They also offer their own apps on streaming TV devices, so you can use them as a kind of alternative menu during moments of indecision.

Even so, Reelgood, JustWatch, and Plex each have their own flaws, so before you start using them for all your TV needs, take a moment to consider which one might be best for you.

Jared Newman / Foundry

Reelgood has always been the slickest of the universal guide apps. It does a great job suggesting new movies and shows to watch, with recommendations based on your viewing habits along with menus for different genres. Each movie or show is clearly labeled with the streaming service its currently available on, along with ratings from both IMDb and Reelgood itself. The website also has a handy leaving menu so you can catch movies or shows before they become unavailable on your streaming services.

Tracking your shows is easy with Reelgood as well. Whenever you add a show to its watchlist, you can choose the most recent episode youve seen, and you can quickly mark additional episodes as watched as you go. The more you add to your list, the better Reelgoods recommendations get.

Unfortunately, Reelgood has decided to stop development on its TV apps. While the Android TV/Google TV version still works, the Fire TV app is now riddled with error messages, and the Apple TV version can no longer launch playback in other apps.

Reelgood does offer a Play to TV function in its mobile apps, letting you launch content on your TV through a phone or tablet. Still, Ive only gotten this to work on Roku devices, and having to use your phone for navigation isnt always ideal. (Apparently this is a known issue thats being worked on.) Without TV app support, Reelgood isnt as useful as it once was.

Available on: Web, Android, iOS, Android TV/Google TV (for now)

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Compared to Reelgood, JustWatch is a step down on the design front. Its apps offer no easy way to browse by genre, and your watchlist is tucked away behind a secondary menu tab when it really ought to be the first thing you see. Individual show pages are also much sparser, with no supplemental info on actors, directors, or related programming.

That said, JustWatch is the most reliable service Ive tested when it comes to selecting a show on your TV and having it launch in the appropriate streaming service. This deep-linking functionality worked without issue across Fire TV, Android TV/Google TV, and Apple TV.

JustWatchs mobile app is another matter. While it claims to offer a Play on TV function, attempting to use it caused repeated crashing on my iPhone 13 Pro Max. And for mobile viewing, JustWatch wont link to other streaming apps on an iPhone unless Safari is set as your default web browser.

Available on: Web, iOS, Android, Android TV/Google TV, Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TVs, LG TVs, Xbox.

Jared Newman / Foundry

While Plex is better known for its media server features and free content catalog, it also entered the universal guide fray earlier this year. Through the apps Discover section, you can find new movies and shows to watch and add them to a watchlist, which also has its own dedicated tab on the Plex home screen.

Plexs relative inexperience in this arena shows. The app makes no attempt to recommend content based on your viewing habits, and it doesnt have any way to browse by genre. You also cant view IMDb ratings or the source of a particular program without clicking through to its info page.

Linking from Plex to other apps is also inconsistent across platforms. It doesnt work at all on Fire TV (even though it did at launch), and I had trouble linking out from Peacock and Paramount+ on a Chromecast with Google TV. Plexs Apple TV app fared better overall, but linking to Paramount+ content still didnt work.

The upside is that Plexs guide also works with any content on your media server, so if youre using Plexs over-the-air DVR features or pulling in videos from other sources, that content will appear in your watchlist alongside everything else.

Available on:Web, iOS, Android, Android TV/Google TV, Apple TV. (Plex is also available on other platforms, but without deep linking capabilities.)

Reelgood, JustWatch, and Plex arent the only universal guide services, but I focused on them because they all offer ways to browse for content on your TV (and, in some cases, to jump into that content in the corresponding app). If the above options leave you wanting, you can also check out Trakt, TV Time, or Simkl.

Or, you can join in me in hoping that the likes of Roku, Apple, and Amazon improve their own universal guide systems and make these third-party tools unnecessary. Its bound to happen eventually, right?

Reelgood vs. JustWatch vs. Plex: Battle of the streaming guides - TechHive

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On the passing of a beloved Sister and an epiphany about writing that lives on – SDPB Radio

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date December 9, 2022

My writing has always mattered to me, a lot.

Its one of the few things in life that I think I do pretty well.

Dont ask me to explain particle physics, build a wooden cabinet, paint an elegant watercolor scene or fix an ailing carburetor (do cars still have them?).

Stuff like that I cant do. Wont even try.

But give me a pen and paper or a keyboard and a computer screen and I can probably arrange a cluster of thoughts into words that mean a thing or two. To some people, at least, including me.

For 50 years, writing has been my love and my profession. Sometimes it has also been my psychological therapy. Sometimes essential therapy. And all of that matters, so much.

But it was only about 10 years ago that I realized that my writing was something even more than all of that. And that essential epiphany didnt just happen. Sister Jane Frances Mullaney made it happen.

My writing, she pointed out, was also my ministry. My ministry. Think about that.

Ive been thinking about that a lot since Sister Jane Frances died last Thursday. And sad as I am about her passing, I really cant bring myself to say she died too soon. She was 102, and two months short of 103.

She had an extraordinarily full life. And she was ready oh, so ready to meet her maker.

My cousin Mike, who is more commonly known hereabouts as Monsignor Michael Woster, was fortunate he said so himself to be there to administer Last Rites to Sister Jane Frances. It wasnt their first sacramental meeting. Monsignor Mike had offered Jane Frances the Eucharist two or three times a week in the months leading up to her death.

Since he retired as a full-time priest and pastor in July, my cousin has been offering the sacraments to the Benedictine sisters at St. Martin Monastery, a service he provides with pleasure and gratitude. He said during his homily at Sister Jane Frances funeral mass that she always thanked him sincerely after mass.

She said Thank you, he said. But I could see in her eyes that she was also saying Bless you.

And Monsignor Mike said he felt blessed, indeed.

I felt blessed that my cousin was the presiding celebrant along with other priests for the Sister Jane Frances funeral mass in the beautiful stone-and-wood Holy Cross Chapel.

The chapel was once part of the larger monastery complex that was converted into the Terra Sancta Retreat Center, a Catholic elementary school and other offices.

Together in life. Together in Death

A smaller monastery with a chapel, guest wing and health-care wing was built nearby. Its a beautiful little complex, where Sister Jane Frances spent the last years of her life.

The monastery cemetery, where the headstones marking the graves of sisters are lined in neat rows, is in a grassy opening between the old and the new buildings. And there Monsignor Mike and Father Dan Juelfs offered the final prayers over Sister Jane Frances mortal remains, before her dignified-but-plain, biodegradable casket reflecting the simplicity of the Benedictine way was lowered into the earth.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the funeral prayer proclaims.

Together with her sisters in life. Together in death. Exactly how Sister Jane Frances wanted it.

Born the third of six children to Frank and Helena Mullaney on a farm near Sioux Falls on Feb. 5, 1920, Kathleen Marie Mullaney moved to Sturgis with her family in 1927. At 14, she entered the St. Martin Convent as an aspirant, which is someone who moves into a community of women religious to begin a process of discernment about whether that life fits for them and they fit for the community.

She made her profession as a Benedictine sister in 1938. Part of that process, especially in those days prior to changes brought by Vatican II in the early 1960s, was for sisters to take on a new name reflecting their new relationship with God.

Sister Jane Frances attended St. Martin Academy and Mount Marty College and became a registered nurse through St. Johns Hospital in Rapid City, where she also was certified as an x-ray technician.

She continued in medicine with a degree from Mercy College in Detroit and specialties in laboratory and blood bank work, later working as clinical instructor in pediatrics at St. Johns, administrator/director of nursing at the hospital in Martin and then in a supervisory role at the health-care unit back at St. Martin Monastery.

The sisters go where they are needed when they are needed.

While she was at St. Johns in June of 1972, the Rapid City Flood devastated the community. In the early hours of the flood, top officials at the hospital were out of town for a banquet and Sister Jane Frances was the only one left in the hospital who knew the emergency response plan. She led work to prepare for the influx of flood victims and worked the rest of day, through the night and through the next day.

When someone asked Sister Jane Frances how long she had been working without sleep, she said: I dont know. What day is it?

For her, every day was one full of prayer, contemplation and service.

In her later years, Sister Jane Frances worked as hospitality coordinator at the monastery. And as many noted, she was a model of hospitality.

She is not alone in that. It is the Benedictine way. And I have been lucky and am lucky to experience that at St. Martin.

Getting to know the sisters

The Benedictine Sisters of St. Martin are a small, declining community of women religious giving witness to the presence of God in community life through prayer, work, study and leisure lived purposely. They offer a welcoming spirit and hospitality that includes workshops, retreats and spiritual guidance.

They make a difference every day in the church, in their community and in the individual lives of those of lucky enough to know them.

I got involved with St. Martin Monastery more than 20 years ago through my wife, Mary. She was for many years a religion writer for the Rapid City Journal who covered the monastery and its sisters. Eventually, Mary joined the monasterys oblate group.

Oblates from a Latin word meaning offered or dedicated are men and women, Catholics and non-Catholics, ordained or lay, who affiliate with a monastery and commit to living the Benedictine way and taking the spirit of Saint Benedict and the Benedictines into their daily lives.

I first went to St. Martin Monastery in 2001 when I started to travel from Sioux Falls to Rapid City on weekends to see Mary, not long before we got engaged. We often joined Sister Marmion Howe and others on Saturday mornings for centering prayer, a meditative-type prayer done individually but in a group setting.

The centering prayer was usually followed by cookies and coffee/tea, conversation and a video on contemplative prayer and related subjects. And sometimes Mary and I would stay for lunch with the sisters and the oblates.

Through that process, Mary got closer to the St. Martin community, and I was fortunate to tag along.

I knew Sister Marmion first and best. But one by one, I got to know and like and learn from other sisters at the monastery, including Sister Jane Frances.

By then Mary and I were married and I had left my job with the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls and returned to the Rapid City Journal, joining Mary in the newsroom. Several of the sisters regularly complimented both Mary and me on our columns, and were enthusiastic readers.

During one of our visits to St. Martin, I was talking to Sister Jane Frances about various service ministries that oblates and others had. I was then in-between my lay ministry as an altar server and lector for daily mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral and similar daily mass ministry I later commenced at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in North Rapid.

Writing as a ministry? Well, of course

So I didnt have a ministry, I thought. And I was lamenting that fact when Sister Jane Frances smiled, put her hand on my arm and said: Dear, your writing is your ministry. Dont you know that?

Well, once she mentioned it, no, I hadnt known that. Then, suddenly, I did, thanks to Sister Jane Frances.

My writing had always mattered to me. But thinking of it in terms of a ministry made it matter even more. And it added to the sense of responsibility I already felt to shape my writing toward some essential truth.

When I mentioned the ministry point to other sisters at the monastery, they nodded knowingly, as if to say: Well, of course.

Some of those same sisters will read this column. At least one planned to listen in when I discussed Sister Jane Frances on In the Moment with Lori Walsh.

Others, of course, have passed on and will have to read or listen in ways we cant yet understand.

The last time I saw Sister Marmion was in February of 2020. We gathered for Sister Jane Frances 100th birthday party. Sister Marmion was there, too, but noticeably weaker than the last time I had seen her.

Even so, when I bent close to Sister Marmion with a greeting she brightened and said: Oh, its so good to see you.

And so good it was to see her.

Sister Marmions 100th birthday party was coming on March 29, 2020. But Mary and I wouldnt get back for that. COVID-19 hit and access to St. Martin and its vulnerable population of elderly nuns was tightly restricted.

Sister Marmion died on that following Thanksgiving Day. I wrote about her on this blog a few days later.

That birthday party for Sister Jane Frances was the last time I would see her, too. Mary and other oblates started returning to St. Martin after COVID vaccines and treatments came in. But I hadnt been there since that party.

COVID was followed for me by a combination of medical issues that limited my activities for the better part of a year. But there were times in recent months when I could have made it out to the monastery with Mary, and I didnt. I had other things going on. Things that seemed more important than they were.

Ill always regret that.

After one of Marys recent visits for an oblate gathering, she said she feared Sister Jane Frances was failing, since family members were there more often.

Then, last Friday, I was doing dishes in the kitchen and Mary was sitting at the dining-room table going through emails on her phone when one stopped her: Oh. Sister Jane Frances died.

My hearing isnt great. And the dishes were clattering. Who did what? I said.

Sister Jane Frances. She died, Mary said. Remember how much she loved your writing?

I stood still with a dish in my hands. Of course, I remembered.

Marys eyes were teary, but she was smiling. She was 102. What a wonderful life.

Indeed, what a wonderful life, and one that deeply touched so very many, including a guy who came later in his own life to the powerful understanding that, yes, his writing was his ministry.

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Top 10 Best Bare Metal Server Hosting Company In India 2023 – Inventiva

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date November 30, 2022

One way a business with significant web hosting needs can meet those needs is by renting dedicated server space. In contrast to a slower and less expensive shared hosting environment, a dedicated servers resources are completely directed toward meeting your demands. In most cases, youll also have root-level access, allowing you to customize the servers operating system.

Server renters have the option to modify the server to match their specific performance, security, and reliability needs. After all, a dedicated server has a lot of benefits. Dedicated servers can be replaced with bare metal servers, which have no hypervisor overhead and can be virtualized utilizing cloud computing services. This greatly enhances the performance of the hosted apps. As you can anticipate, buying a single machine for your requirements alone has a cost. Because these servers function just like standard PCs, there is a significant likelihood that you may require customer care and technical assistance at some time.

A critical element that must be taken into account while setting up an IT system is servers. This is because it may be the cornerstone for the effective operation of the complete system. Recently, bare metal servers have become increasingly popular. However, because the terms bare metal and dedicated servers are interchangeable, many people commonly misunderstand them. With bare metal servers, the overhead visor that supports virtualization with cloud computing services is removed. The performance of the application is enhanced as a result.

In terms of talking about bare metal servers, the paragraph above is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a tonne more information on bare metal servers that need to be covered. A comprehensive overview of bare metal servers is provided in the section that follows.

Bare Metal Server: What is it?

A physical computer that has been built to operate for a lengthy period to deliver specialized services is known as a bare metal server and is thought to be extremely stable, resilient, and dependable. It is not possible to share a single servers resources across two or more tenants since it is a single-tenant environment. A bare metal server can be free from sounds that often hurt the virtual environment thanks to this split. Additionally, because of this separation, the server may function as a steady environment, which is perfect for processing huge amounts of data.

Additionally, bare metal servers give businesses direct access to the server and let them make use of the underlying hardware architecture. As a result, they are given additional alternatives when building a platform for a service or application. To put it briefly, performance is improved by adding software and removing physical hardware.

Bare metal environments

Physical hardware underlies any system, virtualized or otherwise; however, the phrase bare metal distinguishes between a virtualized environment and a physically dedicated server. They are not shared across many clients in a data center when it comes to bare metal.

A virtualized environment is composed of actual hardware, as was already established, but the deployment approach for shared hosting is different. Since they utilize virtual resources, the end user does not have access to the bare metal level. A bare metal servers single tenant can access the root level to obtain additional software choices; however, this is not the case with a bare metal hypervisor.

Bare metal server

Servers made of bare metal are an excellent option for small and medium-sized businesses. This is because they are an affordable hosting option with quick growth and automation capabilities. Since bare metal servers are made to handle high-intensity workloads, such as those generated by business intelligence and database software, they are ideal for sectors like banking, healthcare, and government. Organizations such as render farms and video encoding activities prefer bare metal servers over virtualized servers due to increased performance availability.

Nowadays, businesses are experimenting more with ML and AI, which combine big data, math, analytics, and visualization. The data processing and GPU capabilities of bare metal servers make them the ideal platform for such jobs because GPUs are the engine that powers deep learning. Additionally, businesses can rent a server from a managed service provider or host bare metal servers in their data centers.

Managing the Server

A big workforce of IT professionals is required to manage bare metal servers properly, but the responsibility can be avoided by renting a server. Once leased, the servers management falls under the exclusive purview of the managed provider, who offers a wide range of services to streamline the system. In other words, by outsourcing managerial responsibilities, one can focus more on the goals of the business. However, if youre unsure of how to handle it without outsourcing, the following guidance might be useful:

Updates: To protect servers from malicious attacks, it is strongly advised that businesses perform routine OS updates and software patches. Additionally, its necessary to frequently run the server application tools ClamAV, rkhunter, and chkrootkit.

Monitoring: A business must constantly keep an eye on the operational metrics of its servers, switches, and firewalls. Firewall policies must be defined to limit traffic based on service ports and destination IP addresses.

Operation management includes several tasks, including data migration, domain name services, hardware replacement, bare metal recovery, and backup. A company should start by determining why it needs bare metal servers in the first place. Every use case calls for a distinct configuration because it might be used for production or development or quality assurance.

An enterprise can choose to self-configure once they are aware of the intended use, or they can ask a managed provider service, which frequently provides pre-configured servers for data processing, intensive graphics processing, and other operations. To have complete control, an enterprise can also decide on the operating system, control panels, and root access that are used beneath the database software. There are still other options, such as installing or configuring a hypervisor specifically for a virtualized environment.

The finest of current technology is offered by bare metal services, which have established themselves as a crucial part of the IT architecture of many businesses. A bare metal server offers customization capabilities coupled with a flexible framework, which can be used for everything from hybridizing infrastructure by combining physical and virtual assets to finding a long-term solution for data storage and transport.

The Evolution of Bare Metal Servers

An explanation of bare metal servers A bare metal server is, to put it simply, a physical server without any software or hypervisor. Processors, storage, and memory are their parts. Bare metal servers are actual servers that are only used by one user, which makes them stand out when compared to cloud-based or virtual hosting services. It may be a person who wants backup hosting for vital data or a website for a full company with many users and permissions.

The main selling point of bare metal servers when they first appeared was that they made it possible for people and organizations to buy their own dedicated server space without having to self-host or share resources with others. This degree of discretion and independence was offered for the first time by a hosting option. Similarly, bare metal servers may offer faster speeds and more dependability than shared hosting choices since resources might be dedicated entirely to a single customer rather than shared among several customers simultaneously. But when customers started looking for less expensive hosting choices, virtual and cloud hosting briefly returned to favor.

What the Future Holds for Bare Metal Servers

The price of bare metal servers has decreased significantly over the past few years as a result of improved hardware accessibility and affordability. Many people have started switching back from virtual hosting to bare metal servers as organizations and business owners discover that their websites require more resource-intensive applications and optimized security.

These servers will be able to process more data in a shorter amount of time than ever before as bare metal server technology advances. As a result, theyll probably become a well-liked choice for hosting Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which process enormous volumes of data. eCommerce websites, which experience fluctuating traffic throughout the year and require dependable hosting during the holiday shopping season, are also anticipated to be in high demand for bare metal servers.

1. Bare Metal iDrive Compute Servers

IDrive is best known for its multi-award winning cloud storage service, but it also provides remote desktops, virtual private servers, and bare metal hosting, among other products. There are already more than 20 data centers spread across the US and Europe.

There is only one SKU available to keep things simple. This bare metal server is currently available at an exclusive 50% discount, bringing the annual cost down from $2220 to just $1110. Remember that the promotion is only valid for the first year. Normal fees will be charged in the following years. You might have to go through an ID verification process, even though IDrive is one of the few services that accept non-business email addresses.

2. Oracle Bare Metal Instance

Oracles Bare Metal Instances (opens in a new tab) may be the solution for you if you want a highly customized bare-metal server configuration that caters to certain workloads. For common workloads, options include a Standard instance configuration that balances CPU cores, memory, and network resources to fit a variety of applications and use cases. Hughes, which offers local NVMe-based SSDs and provides quick random I/O and high IOPs, is designed for performance-intensive database workloads with high IOPS requirements.

There is DenseIO for huge data applications, and HPC Instance is Oracles most potent configuration made for very parallel HPC (high-performance computing) tasks. These bare metal servers can expand up to a staggering 160 cores, 2TB of RAM, and 1PB of block storage and handle applications with heavy demands. Additionally, you have the option of choosing an AMD, Intel, or Ampere CPU.

3. Amazon EC2 C5 Instances

For its EC2 C5 server instances (opens in new tab), which are frequently used to run compute-intensive workloads like batch processing, distributed analytics, and high-performance computing, Amazon introduced a new bare metal option in November 2019. Amazons bare metal instances, known as c5 metal, are targeted at businesses deploying applications that must avoid virtualization-related performance degradation, require access to physical resources, and are designed to run directly on server hardware.

This bare metal server is cost-effective due to its great performance and low cost-per-compute ratio. Demanding workloads such as video encoding, scientific modeling, deep learning inference, multiplayer gaming, etc. may be handled by it. Users are given the option of choosing between Intel and AMD for their CPU. Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Amazon CloudWatch, and other AWS services are all accessible to Amazon EC2 C5 Instances.

4. Alibaba Cloud ECS Bare Metal Instance

Alibabas ECS Bare Metal Instance (opens in new tab) delivers both the elasticity advantages of virtualization and the performance advantages of physical servers since it is built on the companys next-generation virtualization technology. ECS Bare Metal Instance is compatible with all Alibaba Cloud products and enables CPU configurations with eight to 96 cores as well as instance memory extension from 32 GB to 768 GB.

Storage configurations can mount numerous cloud discs for increased storage capacity. They start with virtual server images or cloud discs. You wont need to be concerned about the security of your data because it is all safeguarded by Alibabas strict security guidelines.

Users like this bare metal hosting service because of the rapid setup, despite the supports occasionally poor response times. Hundreds of add-ons, like VPN, Gateway, DNS, and ECS, are also instantly accessible to you.

5.Bare Metal Servers from Fasthost

Fasthosts Bare Metal Servers (opens in a new tab) allows businesses that want access to UK-based data centers and support to run projects on single-tenant servers with dedicated resources that can be bought by the hour or by the month with pay-as-you-go billing. When it comes to storage, you can select a hard drive for great capacity, an SSD for quick storage, or NVMe for quick and capacious storage. AMD and Intel CPUs are available, with up to 18 cores and 192GB of RAM.

Servers have built-in load balancing, which allows resources to be distributed across server infrastructure to maximize performance, and they can be set up in a matter of minutes. You can choose where to host your server and provide an optimal experience based on the location of your visitors (UK, US, Germany, and Spain). Additionally, you have access to a variety of widely used operating systems (Windows and Linux).

6. Elements Bare Metal Cloud Servers from Scaleway

With Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, and other Linux distributions, Scaleway Elements Bare Metal Cloud Servers (opens in a new tab) provide hardware options based on Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC CPUs. Configurations like General Purpose (which balances CPU, RAM, and discs for production settings), High CPU (boosted with CPU for large data applications), and High Memory (boosted with memory for virtualization or RAM-demanding applications) are deployable in a flash.

They provide a variety of features, such as remote booting from an ISO file and server management through the Scaleway Console or an API. The hardware for Scaleway, which is based in France, has been expertly designed and rigorously tested in climate rooms. Users can fully integrate with Scaleways cloud ecosystem, and the hosting company also provides round-the-clock technical support.

7. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

IBMs Cloud Bare Metal Servers offer a more affordable substitute for AWS in many cloud computing applications. Six years after acquiring SoftLayer and its bare-metal server capabilities, the company now oversees more than 60 IBM Cloud data centers across 19 countries.

Its bare-metal servers can be customized to meet workload requirements thanks to their availability in more than 11 million configurations and prices that can be paid hourly, monthly, or through reserved capacity. IBM uses the most recent Nvidia GPUs in addition to 1-, 2-, or 4-core Intel CPUs to handle demanding tasks. The setup is easy, the network is quick, and the tech support is first-rate.

Users have a choice between Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA for their CPU technology. Massive storage expansion options include 24 7.6 TB SSDs or 36 x 12 TB HDDs (432 TB total) (182 TB).

8. Redstation Gamings bare metal servers

Redstations bare metal servers (opens in new tab) are set up to provide players with the lowest pings even if they are thousands of miles apart from their teammates thanks to several Tier 1 transit and peering relationships. The businesss fiber network is suitable for hosting applications needed to monitor and optimize performance, monetize moments, and deliver advertising because it offers unlimited bandwidth. You wont need to be concerned that your gaming customers will experience a DDoS attack mid-session because Redstations servers operate in a DDoS-free environment.

Registration servers are simple to operate since they provide a library of pre-built operating systems. Although there isnt a knowledge base or live chat assistance, the servers are completely customizable, and there is a 100% network and power guarantee. Be aware that planned maintenance and upgrades are not taken into account by the uptime guarantee.

9. Heficeds bare metal servers

The bare-metal servers from HEFICED (opens in new tab) are advertised as having great performance, strong security, and being highly customizable. The companys servers are housed in cutting-edge, ISO-certified Tier 3 data centers with redundant power and cooling systems to guarantee maximum uptime and enterprise-grade infrastructure for mission-critical applications. These facilities are utilized by businesses like IBM, Avast, and PureVPN. Along with numerous other locations in North America and Europe, HEFICED has data centers in Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.

Additionally, they have the Intelligence Platform Management Interface (IPMI) built in to allow for simple remote access and monitoring. You also get access to in-house tech support, which is quick to respond and can address infrastructure-related problems directly on-site. Although it is suitable for intermediate and advanced developers and doesnt have a simple installer, HEFICED gives you incredible control over your server.

10. InMotion

This vendor is serious, offering dedicated server solutions. You get 16 GB of memory, 15 TB of data transmission, a 1 TB main solid-state drive, five dedicated IP addresses, and four CPU cores with eight threads with InMotions entry-level Essential plan. You can even go as high as 1 TB of RAM with up to 50 TB of primary disc space, up to 25 TB of monthly transfers, 3.2 GHz clock rates, 15 IP addresses, and more with the flexible Bare Metal package.

This is the highest level of hosting without really owning your server farm. InMotion may be able to support the busiest, most demanding, and most performant websites. The best performance and resources are provided by InMotions dedicated hosting services. A capable and dependable host is invaluable, especially because you can focus on site expansion while it functions well.

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ServerWhere Kicks Off Netherlands-based 10 Gbps Dedicated Servers and Cloud IaaS – Digital Journal

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date November 30, 2022

ServerWhere.com (SW) platform added Netherlands Dedicated Server Hosting, Private Cloud infrastructure, and Public Cloud Servers connected to 10-gigabit network ports to its service portfolio. SWs Clients can customize their bandwidth commitment starting with 1 Gbps and scaling up to a full 10-gigabit network.

The budget 10 Gbps bare-metal server features Intel Single Xeon E5-2640v4, with 10 cores and 20 Threads at 2.4 GHz, 64 GB RAM and 1.92 TB enterprise SSD disk, and a 2 Gbps dedicated internet network.

ServerWheres clients can also get an AMD-powered server. The entry-level 10 Gbps Dedicated Server with AMD CPU features EPYC 7402P processor with 24 Cores, 48 Threads, 2.80Ghz, 32 GB RAM, two 480 enterprise SSD drives configurable in RAID 0 or RAID 1, and a 1 Gbps dedicated internet connection, scalable to 10 Gbps.

The SW platform users can use a Linux OS or a Windows OS. Other available customizations are a choice of IPv4 and IPv6 address space, Web server software, backup storage, Management service, etc. All 10 Gbps-powered servers are Cloud-ready. They can be customized with VMware ESXi, Proxmox VE, or any other enterprise virtualization, and transformed into dedicated Cloud infrastructures. The storage solutions offered by SW include local, network-attached, or hyper-converged storage.

In the Netherlands, the SW platform uses the EXA data center in Amsterdam and Greenhouse Datacenters in The Hague to deliver dedicated and cloud hosting services.

ServerWhere has recently announced the availability of 1 Gbps Unmetered Dedicated Servers in Italy.

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SW is the leading global digital currency-powered platform for delivering custom-built Cloud Servers and physical Dedicated Servers. SW increases the value of cryptocurrencies. The SWs IaaS platform charges its customers for the IT infrastructure services it provides only in cryptocurrencies and does not use fiat currencies.

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Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.19.50 update arrives with Spectator Mode, new skins, and more – Windows Central

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date November 30, 2022

What you need to know

It has been a while since we've been treated to a new public update for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, and Mojang Studios is breaking the silence with a pretty major release. No, this isn't the still-mysterious Minecraft 1.20 update, of course, but it Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.19.50 is now rolling out to players and it's packed with changes, fixes, and even some brand-new features.

Minecraft is a game-as-a-service, meaning it's constantly being updated by Mojang Studios to make the game even better. The 1.19.50 update is a sizeable effort to do just that, with Mojang Studios implementing new features, community feedback, various improvements and fixes, and more. This is a humungous update, and there's a lot to cover!

The headlining features of the 1.19.50 patch include the new Spectator Mode, which is finally coming over from Java Edition and allows players to spectate Minecraft worlds without being able to interact with the world or be perceived by players, of course. Touch controls are also being massively improved, and are now enabled by default for all touch-enabled devices, complete with a brand-new tutorial.

The Vex, a hostile mob summoned by deadly Evokers, is getting its sleek redesign that makes it more Minecraft-y, and it now resembles an evil version of the friendly Allay. Steve and Alex are also being joined by their seven new friends, Makene, Efe, Noor, Kai, Ari, Sunny, and Zuri, who are Minecraft's latest default skins that can now be selected by all players.

You're not going to find any new features from the Minecraft 1.20 update in this release, but players who prefer to experiment with pre-release Minecraft features on the public build are being treated with the "Next Major Update" toggle, which allows you to create a world with some Minecraft 1.20 features like camels, chiseled bookshelves, hanging signs, and more.

Minecraft is one of the best Xbox games of all time, attracting millions of players every month, and the 1.19.50 update aims to make it greater still. If you're looking for Minecraft-related gifts for yourself or a Minecraft fan in your life, be sure to check out Windows Central's favorite Minecraft toys and gifts.

The full changelog for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.19.50 includes:

Minecraft is included in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Xbox and Windows PCs, making Microsoft's flagship, value-driven gaming subscription the best place to experience Minecraft's latest update.

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What Realm Is Asmongold on in ‘WoW’? Details on His Preferred Realm and Server – Distractify

Post author By Dr Hoster
Post date November 30, 2022

World of Warcraft is played on several different servers, depending on which region he's currently playing. On U.S. Retail, he's on the Kel'Thuzad server. On U.S. Classic, you can find him in the Faerlina server. On the EU Retail version, Asmongold can be found in Argent Dawn.

Whether you want to participate in his fan events or are just hoping to run into him in the game, Asmongold is pretty much all over WoW.

World of Warcraft is available on PC and macOS.

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Dude is getting treated like a god – Fans react to IRL streamer JOEYKAOTYK welcoming Dwight Howard to Taiwan – Sportskeeda

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Post date November 30, 2022

Dude is getting treated like a god - Fans react to IRL streamer JOEYKAOTYK welcoming Dwight Howard to Taiwan

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Fans have shared their reactions to JOEYKAOTYK, an IRL streamer and NRG member, revealing his meeting with former NBA player Dwight Howard in Taiwan.

For those unaware, Dwight joined Taoyuan Leopards in the T1 League earlier this month. It is also said that the 36-year-old's salary is set to be a whopping $1 million, even though the organization caps foreign players' wages to $20K.

JOEYKAOTYK had the opportunity to greet the basketball pro in the red carpet area of a GQ award ceremony in Taiwan. Since joining the Taoyuan Leopards, this marked Dwight's first public appearance.

Reacting to the streamer's clip, fans shared a host of reactions. One Redditor commented:

NRG member JOEYKAOTYK was among the various attendees of the GQ Style Awards that entered its tenth year in Taiwan. Dwight Howard's entrance to the event area was captured on the streamer's live broadcast.

Additionally, Joey could be seen approaching the player and even shaking hands with him. He was heard saying:

Speaking to his chat, JOEYKAOTYK said this:

(Timestamp: 06:14:42)

The clip was shared on a popular subreddit called r/LivestreamFail, which is a dedicated server for the streaming community. The post received a variety of comments, with one user noting that Dwight appeared happy to be in Taiwan after the NBA's apparent unfair treatment. They said:

Another user mentioned that his unprecedented move to Taiwan may spur the country's upcoming generation into taking up basketball. They commented:

A lot of comments spammed "7" under the post. For those unaware, mainland Chinese people often spam the word "6" which sounds like "slick" or "smooth" in Chinese. It has become a way of expressing something "awesome" in a live stream.

Due to the conflicting state of the relationship between the Taiwanese and Chinese, the former type "7," as a gesture of one-upping their counterparts. Here are some of the comments:

Dwight Howard's sensational move to the Taoyuan Leopards will see him bag $1 million a year. Despite there being a wage cap for foreign players, the Taiwanese league has made an exception for the American.

Howard also made an incredible Taiwanese basketball league debut after scoring 38 points, 25 rebounds, nine assists, and four blocks for his team. Taoyuan Leopards went on to win the match 120115 against New Taipei CTBC DEA.