A survey of Free Hostia

We, at vidarr.group, have chosen 'Free Hostia' to be our present domain name and web hosting provider. Therefore we anticipate that this short evaluation of 'Free Hostia' is perhaps going to be quite helpful for other individuals from all over the Globe who seek domain name and web hosting services. We say people from all around the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'Free Hostia' presently supplies domain and hosting services in multiple datacenter facility sites: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering nearly the whole planet. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Free Hostia' in a few words:

Shared Hosting Plans

The first detail we, at vidarr.group, have discerned is the modest prices of the shared web page hosting plans provided by 'Free Hostia'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the web hosting packages provided by 'Free Hostia' are driven by a custom built, leading edge cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, CP, web space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on an independent pack of web servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting company on the Globe will have considerable troubles with, since cPanel is a one-server based web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like email, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being dealt with by one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web space hosting corporations cannot add additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they must build their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared hosting packages, which are powered by an authentic clustered web hosting solution. With a shared webspace hosting package, each client pays only for his/her account, thus maintaining the price amazingly low (because plenty of customers use one and the same web hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a clustered web page hosting platform, allows you to pay only for the reserves that you indeed need, avoiding a scenario where you pay for an advanced site hosting plan that you cannot actually utilize, or for a basic hosting account that cannot shelter your web site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a basic plan and upgrade as your site grows. Thus, you spare money that you can expend on promoting the web page while it is still new. Each web space hosting package furnished by 'Free Hostia' sports an online site building tool and more than forty popular script platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for web page design solutions. 'Free Hostia' provides shared webspace hosting plans in several different regions across the World. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; 2 European data centers - in Great Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific region. In this way, practically the whole Earth is encompassed to provide you and your web page's visitors with a stable and fast web page hosting service at a desired place. Altogether, the shared hosting solutions supplied 'Free Hostia' are very well stocked and come at an attractive price (beginning from $0.00 for the Chocolate plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To clients with little to no experience, a private virtual server may seem problematic to administer. That's perhaps why 'Free Hostia' also stores semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main North American data center facility in Chicago. Handling these accounts is comparable to administering a typical shared site hosting account through a web space hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the functionalities of a shared hosting package such as a free-of-cost web site building tool and a script installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated web server package is many times greater than that of a shared hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared with the shared website hosting packages. When contrasted with a shared web page hosting account, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain name allowance is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated server web hosting plans do not ship with complete root access (we, at vidarr.group, deem this a small defect), but the benefit is that they are administered via the same website hosting CP GUI as the shared webspace hosting plans. This indicates that a known graphical user interface is available to all users who do not have enough self-condifence to administer a virtual private web server, yet need more power and supplies than a VPS web server can give them. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the reserves of the same powerful avant-garde servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual web hosting server plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical server), whereas the VPS web servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'Free Hostia' can be defined as being amazingly affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $29.95 for the Boabab package.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

In vidarr.group's opinion, large web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous web storefronts with thousands of clients need a much more powerful hosting solution. It appears that the guys from 'Free Hostia' have reached the same conclusion too. To satisfy its clients' needs, 'Free Hostia' offers a selection of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specs the web hosting servers arrive with: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of data storage and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt guarantee the fast and stable work of any sort of site. According to 'Free Hostia', the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding websites. We, from vidarr.group, think that all dedicated server specifications provided by 'Free Hostia' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as each hosting server arrives with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software platform and a free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated hosting servers offered by 'Free Hostia' are all unmanaged. We, at vidarr.group, regard this as a minor negative point, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade includes a bunch of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. Several Control Panel (CP) user interfaces are offered with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (vidarr.group's) prognosis is that the great drag-and-drop File Manager available in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel will probably render the use of any FTP client pointless. Our (vidarr.group's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'Free Hostia' don't seem to be very low priced (yet the Hepsia hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), commencing from $139.95 for the Arctic package.