An assessment of Free Hostia

We, at graysunentertainment.com, have picked 'Free Hostia' to be our current domain and web hosting provider. This is why we presume that this succinct evaluation of 'Free Hostia' is probably going to be very useful for other people from all over the Globe in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all over the World, since the mere fact is that 'Free Hostia' presently provides domain and hosting services in numerous server farm facility locations: in the US (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering nearly the whole Earth. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'Free Hostia' in short:

Shared Hosting Services

The initial thing we, at graysunentertainment.com, have perceived is the budget prices of the shared webspace hosting solutions delivered by 'Free Hostia'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web site hosting accounts supplied by 'Free Hostia' are driven by an in-house built, avant-garde cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being dealt with by a different pack of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting provider on the Earth will have great predicaments with, because cPanel is a one-server based web space hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, website hosting CP, disk space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on one and the same server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting distributors are unable to include additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they must invent their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web hosting plans, which are powered by an authentic cloud web site hosting system. With a shared web hosting account, each client pays just for his/her plan, thus maintaining the web space hosting price amazingly low (because plenty of customers use the same web server). In brief, a shared hosting account, which is hosted on a cloud web space hosting solution, enables you to pay solely for the reserves that you actually require, avoiding a scenario where you pay for a high-end website hosting package that you cannot really use, or for a low-end web hosting plan that cannot handle your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a tiny plan and upgrade as your web page grows. So, you economize money that you can spend on promoting the web site while it is still brand new. Each site hosting package supplied by 'Free Hostia' offers an online website builder and more than 40 popular script platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you hundreds of dollars for site design solutions. 'Free Hostia' furnishes shared web hosting accounts in a number of different geographical regions across the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; two European data center facilities - in Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific. That way, practically the whole World is covered to present you and your visitors with a steady and dependable web site hosting service at a nearby place. As a whole, the shared hosting accounts furnished 'Free Hostia' are very well appointed and are available at an affordable price (starting from $0.00 for the Chocolate plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To people with little or no practice, a VPS hosting server may appear difficult to administer. That's probably why 'Free Hostia' also keeps semi-dedicated web servers in its main US server farm facility in Chicago. Managing these packages is comparable to handling a regular shared webspace hosting package via a website hosting CP user interface. They have all the features of a shared web space hosting plan such as a free-of-cost web site building tool and a web app installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server plan is many times greater than that of a shared site hosting account. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is approximately 5 times as much as compared to the shared web site hosting accounts. When compared to a shared website hosting account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a trend too. The semi-dedicated web hosting plans do not ship with complete root access (we, at graysunentertainment.com, deem this a little disadvantage), but the benefit is that they are administered via the same Control Panel user interface as the shared web hosting accounts. This means that a known graphical environment is accessible by all users who are not confident enough to handle a VPS web server, yet require more power and supplies than a VPS web hosting server can offer. This is so because the semi-dedicated servers share the system resources of the same powerful avant-garde hosting servers as the ones which host the private virtual web server hosting plans, still, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between 20 to thirty per server), while the virtual hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to 120 per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers supplied by 'Free Hostia' can be classified as being quite affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $29.95 for the Boabab plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

According to graysunentertainment.com, big websites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular online stores with thousands of clients need a much more powerful web page hosting environment. It seems that the chaps from 'Free Hostia' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To answer its users' requirements, 'Free Hostia' provides an assortment of dedicated servers that can cope with millions of daily visits. That estimate is based on the hardware configurations the hosting servers ship with: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly guarantee the quick and steady performance of any type of website. According to 'Free Hostia', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-demanding websites. We, from graysunentertainment.com, consider that all dedicated server accounts furnished by 'Free Hostia' are also suitable for establishing a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server offers free invoicing software platform and a bonus domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers offered by 'Free Hostia' are all unmanaged. We, at graysunentertainment.com, regard this as a small minus, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade provides a bouquet of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of hosting CP (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (graysunentertainment.com's) prediction is that the outstanding point-and-click File Manager added in the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel will probably make the recourse to any FTP client futile. Our (graysunentertainment.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Free Hostia' don't seem to be very cheap (still the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain name allowance will undoubtedly make you smile), beginning from $139.95 for the Arctic plan.