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Monday, March 12, 2012

CD Replication, a Professional Copying Way


CD Replication is the professional and original process of making CDs that basically replicate or clone the real master copy. It is also known as CD Pressing, CD Molding or bulk copying. Fundamentally, CD replication is preferably suitable for commercial use. It offers a high quality, rapid and reliable way of replicating data at maximum readability level.

You will find a number of companies in the UK offering CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc bulk copying services. However, not all may be able to provide great quality services and not all may be ISO certified. The more professional ones can fulfil orders of 500 to millions copies of discs, which are configured through multipage Digipak Technique.

CD Molding needs to go through a unique procedure in order to make copies of data. First of all from the original copy, a Glass Master is created which aid in making bulk of exact Molding. From this glass master Stampers or Molds are formed. The stampers behave like blueprints for the bulk copying and use high-tech injection mold machine to make accurate copies of the master copy in the figure of 120mm plastic disc. The created disc is then coated with a reflective aluminum layer. At the end the disc is sealed with a protective lacquer toughened by ultraviolet light rays.

In addition, Molding/Pressing also includes label and packaging to give a professional look to CDs that is why it is often referred to as Professional CD Burning. As the CD Pressing process is completely automated so it requires a bit expensive start up cost and low per unit cost and is proficient to make volumes of at least 1000 units. In other ways, CD Molding is generally used for large amounts of data and can make nearly $1.00 each per disc cost.

The turnaround time for CD Molding is 10-14 days because it needs to add some necessary steps for it completion. The whole procedure is a definite process and prevents factors like pollen and dust etc to maintain quality of exact copies. Disc Pressing ensures reliable copies of data up to the standard.

Sometimes, both the CD Replication/Molding and CD Duplication are used interchangeably but there are few technical differences which makes them dissimilar. The former is meant for commercial use whereas CD duplication is used for personal usage. CD duplication needs individual discs for data burning while CD Molding is a specialized way to make copies of discs via master copy.

In order to produce high volume of data its ideal to go for CD Molding i.e. more than 1,000 discs and for less than 1,000 CDs, CD duplication is a better option. Pressing/Molding of CDs requires 10-14 days for its complete process while CD duplication requires 3-5 days for its process. CD burning is a tiresome process while CD pressing is clearly a quick and more perfect process.

Whether the choice is Molding or duplication, the end product works in a same way. They only differ when we talk about the turnover time and quantity instead of quality. However, CD replication may produce CDs with more professional quality.

Linux or Windows? Which is the best web hosting service to choose?


To emphasis on “Managed Hosting”, mostly users look for either to choose Windows or else Linux Web Hosting. A web hosting is a kind of Internet multitude service that permits organizations and individuals to give World Wide Web entrance to their websites. If we need to use active scripting web contents like E-Commerce web application, forums or blogs then we are obliged to select the web congregation platforms according to our needs. 

The question either which web hosting service is the best to choose depends on following aspects. Whenever any website is launch over windows operating system, known as Windows Hosting. This swarming is preferable for websites that make use of particular applications e.g. ASP.NET, ASP, FrontPage, MSSQL, MS Access, Streaming Media, Expression Web or any other Microsoft proprietary technologies.

Linux is famous for its flexibility and user friendly interface. It is best suited for Network Server Platform. Due to compatibility and Network Server Platform, it has gained much popularity over other standards. Conventionally, applications scripted using MySQL and PHP sprint under this machine services.

Linux is an unlock sourced proposal and its web hording is more affordable with little or no concerning licensing fees. In contrast,leading companies finds it expensive to get licenses to run Windows machine. And so, there exist a price disproportion in both these machines. Windows crowding services including software packages and products includes an associated licensing fee that leading company must pay.

There is one key fallacy that if one can have Windows installed in computer then he needs to have Windows based web hosting. Although a computer’s operating system can be different from operating system of one’s web hosting account. Like for instance if a website holds merely static web pages like having HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), then it could run on both the hosting servers. 

One important difference between the two platform files is that Linux files are case-sensitive while Windows files are case insensitive. For example, on Linux server, www.yahoo.com/index.html and www.yahoo.com/Index.html are two distinct links. But domain name can be either lower or upper case. On other side on a later machine, index.html and Index.html both are considered one and the identical name.

Both of the proposals have gained great features which aid in developing web applications. Other than that there are large number of PHP open source or free software which is based on Linux policy including Joomla, Drupal, WordPress and Zen Cart etc. Linux always perform better than Windows platform with respect to web hosting at Operating System stage. Therefore, developers easily find free softwares to quickly start their websites.

Several users and hosting providers bicker that Linux hosting once-overs are more even and provide more security comparative to Windows hosting. Nevertheless, the strength and security of the web commerce services are dependent on the server administrator instead of platform. Hence to choose “Managed Hosting” is just a matter of inclination.