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The beauty and the graceful charm of plants, trees, stones, pebbles, shrubs, and flowers on the water transcend description. What an appeal there is in water lilies, Nuphar, Nelumbium, and Nymphaea-none of which are easy to find just anywhere. They need observation and should not be taken lightly, although this task can be easy enough if you take your time and conduct the proper research.

Without extensively studying their nature, success in managing these little water plants is not easy to achieve. A landscaper learns above most artists to exercise constraint and humility. Nature is a much better artist than he can hope to be. More often than not, nature does not require additional planting, with the exception of vines, low shrubs, and a tree or two joining the house or structure; nature herself having done the work so well on her own.

Another wonder of nature are rocks and stones, in both natural sources of water and patio fountains. While observing a quiet stream, one is often taken aback by its simplicity and beauty; the tri-colored stones, the cool, clear water flowing ever so perfectly over the smooth surfaces. To complete the natural stance and proper effect of rocks in the landscape, rock plants are required. These types of plants do best in shallow soil and in the narrow spaces and nooks found in such places.

In evaluating various landscapes, there are few things more breathtaking in a park, garden, or outdoor fountain than an ancient wall treated with rock plants in a clever manner. A grand and ancient wall is a precious part of a garden, and the ways of treating it are seemingly limitless. If it is an old wall of great strength, built at a time when neither work was evaded nor material compromised, even if many of the joints are empty, the older stone or brick will stand firmly joined, and, already two or three hundred years of age, will likely stay put well into the future centuries. In such a wall, exotic plants will already have made themselves at home and only a little earth is required and a small plant into some hole, or earth and seed into a narrow opening, to be sure of a good end result and reward.

The very selection of the pebbles and rocks and their beautiful form invites study of the most delightful sort. Think about the possibilities if the same consideration were given to this study as to the collecting of gems or to the use of stained glass. After all there are a small number of things finer than these amazing effects of nature that belong to the countryside and which in general, are overlooked as common and not particularly interesting.

While rock placement can vastly affect a garden's aura and reputation, so does the flow of the various designs. The sound of trickling water or a garden fountain can be enchanting. Garden fountains and large water features add an extra touch of distinctive beauty. Undeniable is the serenity and solace brought about by such soothing sounds. After overcoming the challenges of such intricate design in the placement of flowers, shrubbery, and stones, the decision of placing the garden fountain is in order. Conveniently so, it can be a far simpler process in comparison to prior endeavors.

Sarah Martin is a freelance marketing writer based out of sunny San Diego, CA. She is lucky enough to be able to specialize in home improvement and gardening, one of her favorite personal hobbies. For an amazing selection of garden, patio, and outdoor fountains, please visit http://www.garden-fountains.com

What Is Web Hosting?

Web hosting is a service that allows users to serve their content on internet via their website. Users are provided with a specific space on a web server, where they upload the source files of their web-pages.

Once these files are uploaded on server, the web page can be accessed by the end users. For small websites the files can easily be uploaded by File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but for a complex website, a webmaster may need to install different scripts on server using databases, and to handle some other functions like email etc, so for that cPanel hosting is considered as most useful choice.

Types of Web Hosting

These are the basic types of web hosting according to the usage of service, i.e. complexity of a website.

Free Hosting: As title shows, it's free, so definitely it's provided with a limited set of functions. This type best suits simple sites like blogs. Free attracts everyone so does free hosting, but a major drawback of this type it that it is advertisement supported.

Shared Hosting: In this case your site is hosted on a server that has many other sites on it. All these sites hence share the server resources, i.e. RAM, CPU etc. This type, however, allows customization and advance features, i.e. ready made scripts, email access, website stats etc.

Reseller Hosting: This is an advanced type of shared hosting whereby you want to host more than one site at a single place. You then buy a single account for all your sites. There may be more than one reseller accounts on a single server, i.e. all your sites are on shared hosting if you've reseller hosting, but the difference is that you're managing them from one place.

Dedicated Hosting: This type of hosting allows the webmaster to have full control (including root access) over the server; however, he doesn't own it. This type of hosting suites best to complex and heavy websites, i.e. web community sites with high traffic etc. Another such type is Managed Dedicated Hosting whereby client is not given full control to modify server configuration, and that is to ensure the quality of service from hosting company.

Virtual Dedicated Hosting: This type lets the user feel that he's on his own server, but in actual there are more than one user sharing that server. The user, however, may have root access via Virtual Private Server (VPS).

So, have you made up your mind in which type of web hosting plan to go with? If yes, then it's time for you to pick up a web host. In such case, I would recommend you to check out my favourite web hosting companies: HostMonster and BlueHost.

Article by Phil Anderson.

The beauty of podcast technology is the fact that it uses existing standards and protocols. Rather than a proprietary protocol to host its files, podcast hosting uses the same hosting server that is used to host any web pages and files. It doesn't mean that you can use your hosting accounts interchangeably though, unless your server has the power, bandwidth and disk space to support both podcasts and web sites.

The difference is, podcasts consume more disk space and bandwidth to transfer to the end users. On the other hand, scripts and web applications require more processing power than bandwidth. A web page may average between a few Kilobytes to 100KB. It is small in size but to produce the page requires queries to the database and a lot of computation. But after it, even on a dial-up connection, the page will load quite briefly.

Transferring huge files needs lower computation power, but a lot of bandwidth. Unless your server is connected to fast network, chances are it will be the bottleneck.

There is nothing wrong in using standard web hosting for podcasts if the account has enough bandwidth to handle the transfers. Especially in crowded shared hosting environment, it can be a problem when many podcast subscribers try to download at the same time. It is important that you read the terms of use or user agreement before signing up with a hosting company.

Although the product description offers hundreds of gigabytes worth of disk space and terabytes of monthly bandwidth, some hosting explicitly disallow hosting multimedia files. Others will delete accounts without warning even only after using half of the limit in the running month.

Hosting is also known to limit your bandwidth usage by placing a ceiling on the processing power usage, for example. There are tricks you should be aware of before signing up with a hosting company.

Unfortunately, there is no way you can guarantee this problem will never happen to you, especially if you use a shared server. So do you own due diligence, even if the company offers podcast specific hosting packages. If your podcast is important for your business, it is worth a good home.

Copyright Hendry Lee and MarketingLoop.com

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