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Xiaomi launched the Mi Notebook 14 and Mi NoteBook 14 Horizon Edition earlier this year. It marked the brand's entry into India's laptop market and both models created a lot of buzz around the tech community.  The Horizon Edition went on to become one of our favourite picks under Rs 60,000 . However, the cheaper model falls in a very crowded market where the competition is extremely intense.  With its entry to the laptop segment, Xiaomi is eyeing to grab a chunk of share in the Rs 40,000 to Rs 60,000 laptop segment. The mantra is pretty simple here. Just like what it did with most of the other products in its ecosystem, especially smartphones, the laptop comes with the latest specs packed in with a price that we can describe as  quite aggressive for the laptop market.  But, there are a couple of cost-cutting measures that might be a deal-breaker for many. However, if you are a person who can leave out those couple of issues and use the machine, you won't be disap...

Founded in Germany way back in 1988, 1&1 IONOS is now Europe's largest web hosting provider, hosting more than 12 million domains in its data centers around the world. There are products covering every area (Image credit: 1&1 IONOS) The company has a vast range of products covering just about every possible need: regular shared hosting, website builder plans, simple and managed WordPress products, professional ecommerce platforms and some very capable VPS, cloud and dedicated servers. There's real depth here, too. The 1&1 IONOS ecommerce Website Builder plan isn't just the company's regular shared hosting with PrestaShop pre-installed, for instance, as you'll see with many providers. It's a full-featured service which works for everyone from web store newbies to big established businesses, with catalogues of up to a million products, and the ability to sell on Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Instagram and more. Want to try 1&1 IONOS? Check ou...

A2 Hosting is an experienced provider with products for just about every web hosting need: shared plans, managed WordPress, VPS, cloud, dedicated, reseller and more. The company has a strong focus on performance, with website talk of ‘blazing fast web browsing’ and ‘20x times faster’ ‘Turbo Servers’, but it also has plenty of other features on offer. Shared hosting begin with the Startup plan . Baseline hosting products often have some major restrictions, but the limits here are relatively minor: 100GB storage, 5 databases and support for a single website, no problem at all for many users. And the rest of the plan is seriously impressive, with features including unlimited bandwidth, free SSL, unlimited email accounts, basic Cloudflare integration, cPanel, a choice of four data centers (Michigan, Arizona, Amsterdam, Singapore), a template-based website builder, 1-click install of WordPress and hundreds of other apps via Softaculous, and 24/7 support via phone, ticket and live chat....

US-based Dotster started life as a domain registrar around 18 years ago, moved into web hosting , and is now owned by the mammoth Endurance International Group. These days, Dotster looks to be more of a brand for standard EIG products, rather than an independent company. Its social media pages have posted nothing beyond a COVID-19 update since March 2018, for instance, and its main hosting products are identical to EIG's Domain.com , including the pricing and even some of the website graphics. Right now, that means three very ordinary-looking shared hosting plans. These start with a 1 website, unlimited storage, free SSL, 10 database and 5 FTP account setup for $3.75 a month over one, two or three years, renewing at $4.99. And the high-end Ultra plan offers unlimited websites, databases and FTP accounts, and includes Premium support, for $13.75 a month on all subscription lengths. (There's no initial discount so it also renews at $13.75.) You can sign up for Dotster here...

One of the biggest names in the VPN business, HideMyAss! (HMA) has been protecting its users' privacy for more than 15 years, and it's been owned by security giant Avast since 2016. The company offers a vast network of 1,000+ servers in 290+ locations across 190+ countries. That's fewer servers than some of the top providers, but many more locations and countries ( NordVPN has 5,800+ servers across 59 countries, ExpressVPN has 3,000+ servers across 160 locations and 94 countries). Want to try HideMyAss? Check out the website here There's P2P support, but only on a handful of locations, in fact just eight via our Windows client (five in Europe, three in the US). Industrial-strength privacy is provided via OpenVPN and IKEv2 support, AES-256-GCM data encryption, RSA-4096 for handshaking and SHA-256 data authentication. HideMyAss! has its own DNS service to help avoid DNS leaks and, as a bonus, it blocks access to malicious and phishing sites. The HideMyAss! ...