Articles for category: Computer Network

Raghav Aggarwal

What is a Network Load Balancer?

To guarantee a positive user experience and low latency, it becomes essential for client applications to handle massive traffic reliably. The incoming load must be distributed among multiple computing resources in order to handle millions of concurrent incoming requests on an application; this type of computing is known as load balancing. AWS provides a very ...

Deepak Pandey

Types of Servers in Computer Network

You’ve already used the client-server model without even realizing it if you’re reading this article. You (the client) requested a resource (this webpage) delivered by a web server. A server is a computer program or a device that offers functionality to other computer programs known as clients or customers. Servers can provide a variety of ...

Priyanshu Pandey

Difference between Internet and WWW

Some people use the words “internet” and “World Wide Web” interchangeably. They believe they are the same, although this is not the case. The difference between the Internet and WWW (World Wide Web ) is essential to understand. WWW or web is one of the key services offered by the internet. The World Wide Web, ...

Aditya Saxena

Onion Routing

Onion routing is a method of communicating anonymously over a network. A data message is contained within several layers of encryption, in an onion network. This data is transferred via a sequence of network nodes known as onion routers—the onion routers "peel" away one layer, revealing the next destination of the data. Once the decryption ...

Trapti Gupta

Proxy Servers and Web Caching

The proxy server is the gateway that acts as an intermediary server between the user and the internet and entry of cyber attackers is prevented by it.Web caching reduces the workload of the server by serving some of the requests of the web browser with the help of data stored in the cache. Scope What ...

Shivam Verma

Difference Between Static and Dynamic Websites

A website is like a bundle of web pages that holds various things like text, pictures, and videos. Accessing these pages is as simple as typing a specific web address (URL) into your browser’s address bar.Static and dynamic websites are two fundamental types of websites that differ in their structure, content management, and user interaction. ...

Trapti Gupta

Ring Topology

In ring topology, every node has a connection with two neighbor nodes. And they share a single continuous pathway for signal transmission in the whole network. Ring topology is used by the Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN). What is Ring Topology? In a computer network, a ring topology is a type ...

Trapti Gupta

Administrative Distance and Autonomous System

Administrative distance allows one to select the best path for reaching a destination when there are two or more routes defined by two different routing protocols for reaching the same destination node.An autonomous system is a group of more than one associated internet protocol (IP) prefixes along with a clearly described policy about how the ...

Shivam Singla

Difference between CDMA and GSM

One of the most important andpractical aspects of digital communication is mobile communication. It is a tremendous accomplishment in and of itself to be able to wirelessly link two mobile devices, and the two technologies that have shown to be essential to this success are GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code Division ...

Trapti Gupta

XAMPP vs WAMP: Key Differences

The full form of XAMPP is Cross-platform, Apache, Mysql, Php, and Perl. The full form of WAMP is Windows, Apache, Mysql, and Php. The main difference between xampp and wamp is that multiple operating systems are supported by xampp, but wamp can only work on Windows operating systems. In this article, we will learn the ...