A guide to your web hosting needs.

Once someone produces your website you need to find web hosting for it somewhere and have a domain registered for it. You don’t need to host your website with the people who developed your site! You can host it anywhere. The Best Top 10 Web Hosting Companies at www.webhostinggeeks.com rates web hosting companies. That’s where I found my host.

In the recent years, VPS hosting has emerged as one of the most popular hosting solutions. More and more webmasters have shown their interest to this type of hosting plan.

Webmasters have started to prefer VPS hosting over the dedicated server plans as the VPS hosting solutions are much more affordable. Again, VPS hosting becomes an ultimate choice as it features similar functionality as that of the dedicated servers.

Businesses which are striving to make an online presence need to invest a little with the VPS Hosting plans. But even with this little investment, they can enjoy all the benefits of a dedicated server.

VPS Hosting plans have proved to be attractive to many developers and resellers. Further, webmaster needs to pay very little attention on the maintenance of a VPS compared to the efforts that he has to put in case of a dedicated server. This would cut down the costs which the webmaster might have incurred for hiring a person to manage his dedicated server.

The savings in terms of the time required to manage the server can now be utilized in running the core business.

But that doesn’t mean that dedicated hosting doesn’t have advantages,simply put it this way , shared hosting involves multiple customers using the same resource pool, while dedicated hosting resources are limited to individual customers.

Dedicated hosting is akin to putting your website or network application in its own building. Resources are set aside for the use of one client, and one client only. The activities of a neighboring website have zero impact on performance and availability.

There are dedicated server and dedicated virtual server options to suit every need and every budget, from simple brochure sites to complex applications. A dedicated hosting solution gives you power, performance, and flexibility, reaping significant economy of scale advantages without the cost of trying to do it in house.

Enhance your computer with Windows 7

Windows 7 is almost out on the market, so now’s the time to think about if you should upgrade. Many consumers are already test-driving Windows 7 Ultimate, thanks to beta and release candidate releases that were offered to the general public throughout the winter, spring and summer of 2009. While free to download and use, the beta and release candidate releases of Windows 7 Ultimate have an expiration date, and when that time comes near, the OS will become all but inoperable, leaving those users no choice but to purchase a retail version of Windows 7, or downgrade back to their prior operating systems.

What does Windows 7 have to offer? Well, many would describe the operating system as being like Windows Vista, but with many enhancements, and a huge boost in performance. One big focus is on performance on multi-core processors, which most newer computers and laptops feature. Boot performance and time has also been addressed and overhauled, so that Windows 7 users will enjoy a boot up that completes in thirty seconds or less. Other key features include improved and advanced touch and speech input and processing, better handling of handwriting recognition programs, and support for additional file formats and virtual hard disks.

Visually, Windows 7 looks a lot like Windows Vista, though some definite differences can be easily spotted. The Windows 7 desktop offers extensive support for themes. Each theme features specific sounds, colors, wallpaper and screensaver. Users of the operating system can select just one wallpaper, or opt to have multiple wallpapers selected, which will be randomly selected for display for an incremental amount of time — the minimum being ten seconds, the maximum being twenty-four hours.

The taskbar and system tray has also been re-designed. Icons are larger and more prominent, but there are no longer text labels to identify programs that are open. Instead, upon hovering your mouse over an open program, a small thumbnail will pop up. The thumbnail will show you a current preview of the program, as well as the program’s title. The system tray can be reduced to show just a few selected icons or none at
all; all other icons can be displayed by clicking on a small white arrow that reveals hidden icons in a small dialog box.

Should you upgrade to Windows 7? Many users of other Windows operating systems are currently asking themselves this same question. First, you will need to determine if your computer has the hardware necessary to run the operating system. Windows 7 requires a minimum 1GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor, 1GB of RAM (for 32-bit processors) or 2GB of RAM (for 64-bit processors), a hard drive that has at least 16GB
free, and a DVD-R/W optical drive. A video card is also required, and it must offer support for DirectX 9 graphics. Of course, keep in mind that these are the bare minimum requirements for Windows 7. For an optimal experience, you’ll definitely want to use better hardware.

Many questions about compatibility are also raised. The good news is that Windows 7 is very generous with even those programs designed for Windows 98 and Windows XP, and in most cases you should be able to run just about any program that you have on an older operating system. And if for some reason you run into problems, Windows 7’s handy compatibility mode options should be able to take care of things.