Tekker Blog

This blog, along with my other sites, is hosted on a VPS at VPSLand.com.  If you do not know what a VPS is, it stands for Virtual Private Server.  It is where the webhost installs a special software on (in this case) Windows Server that allows them to “slice” the server up into containers that they can sell to customers.

It allows a customer to have their own “server” at a fraction of the cost of a real server.  I have a Windows VPS that I can terminal service into and configure/setup any software of my chosing.  I currently run IIS, Apache, Microsoft SQL Express, MySQL, Filezilla FTP Server and Microsoft DNS Server among other services.

This allows me to run my websites at a very low cost and I don’t have to buy my own expensive server and then pay to host it somewhere.  It also allows me to have the flexibility of my own server and not be restricted to what Plesk or any other webserver “control panel” allows you to do, I can do what I want.  One day I will own a beefy server when I need it .

If you have any questions about what you can and can not do with a VPS, leave a comment and I’ll answer it to the best of my knowledge.

So, I got a new laptop earlier this week.  My only complaint is that the Home and End keys are function keys… apparently I didn’t think things thru and realize that I use the Home and End keys ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!  So I set out to find a way to remap the keys.  Went thru a few links from Google and ran across SharpKeys . It’s a cool little program that allows you to select a key, then a new key to map it to. It writes the changes to the registry and it doesn’t need to be running for the new key mappings to work.