A survey of Free Hostia

We, at caspiancontrols.com, have chosen 'Free Hostia' to be our current domain and web hosting provider. Therefore we imagine that this short evaluation of 'Free Hostia' is perhaps going to be quite useful for other people from all over the World who are searching for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all over the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'Free Hostia' presently provides domain and hosting services in numerous datacenter locations: in America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, covering virtually the whole Earth. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Free Hostia' in brief:

Shared Webspace Hosting Packages

The first thing we, at caspiancontrols.com, have observed is the cheap 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 hosting. The good thing here is that the webspace hosting accounts supplied by 'Free Hostia' are driven by a custom built, ultramodern cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by a separate pack of servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting corporation on the Globe will have great troubles with, since cPanel is a one-server based webspace hosting environment (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, CP, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on a single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel web page hosting vendors cannot add additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they must invent their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web hosting accounts, which are driven by a real clustered webspace hosting platform. With a shared website hosting package, each client pays solely for his/her package, thus retaining the hosting price very low (since plenty of clients are hosted on one and the same hosting server). In brief, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a cloud hosting solution, enables you to pay just for the reserves that you actually need, avoiding a scenario where you pay for a high-end webspace hosting plan that you cannot really use, or for a basic website hosting package that cannot handle 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 web page grows. Thus, you spare funds that you can invest in advertising the website while it is still novel. Every web space hosting package delivered by 'Free Hostia' includes an online site building tool and over forty widely used script software platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'Free Hostia' supplies shared hosting plans in several different countries across the Globe. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European server farms - in England and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, nearly the entire World is covered to provide you and your visitors with a steady and fast web page hosting service at a desired place. On the whole, the shared hosting packages supplied 'Free Hostia' are quite well appointed and are available at a very modest price (beginning from $0.00 for the Chocolate plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little or no experience, a private virtual hosting server may appear tough to handle. That's probably why 'Free Hostia' also houses semi-dedicated web servers in its principal United States data center facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is similar to administering a regular shared website hosting package via a web hosting CP GUI. They have all the features of a shared web page hosting plan such as a free website builder and a web application installation tool, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated server web hosting package is many times larger than that of a shared web space hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is approximately 5 times as much as compared to the shared site hosting packages. When compared to a shared web space hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is enormous: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain name quota is a pattern as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting plans do not ship with root-level access (we, at caspiancontrols.com, consider this a little defect), but the advantage is that they are administered through the very same hosting CP GUI as the shared webspace hosting plans. This indicates that a user-friendly graphical interface is accessible by all customers who do not have enough confidence to handle a VPS server, but at the same time demand more power and features than a virtual server can bestow on them. This is so because the semi-dedicated web servers share the system resources of the very same powerful leading edge servers as the ones which host the private virtual hosting server plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical server), whereas the VPS servers can reach a much greater number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Free Hostia' can be categorized as being quite inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), starting from $29.95 for the Boabab package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In caspiancontrols.com's opinion, large websites such as social networks, community and business portals or popular online storefronts with 1000s of customers need a much more powerful web space hosting platform. It seems that the chaps from 'Free Hostia' have come to the same conclusion as well. To live up to its customers' expectations, 'Free Hostia' delivers a collection of dedicated web servers that can cope with millions of daily visits. That assessment is based on the hardware specs the hosting servers sport: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit network cards will doubtlessly guarantee the quick and steady performance of any kind of website. According to 'Free Hostia', the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring websites. We, from caspiancontrols.com, deem that all dedicated server specs supplied by 'Free Hostia' are also appropriate for establishing a hosting reseller business as each web server ships with free-of-charge billing transaction software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers delivered by 'Free Hostia' are all unmanaged. We, at caspiancontrols.com, count this as a minor defect, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand support, the Managed Services upgrade provides a handful of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A handful of web space hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (caspiancontrols.com's) forecast is that the great point and click File Manager added in the Hepsia web hosting CP will perhaps make the use of any File Transfer Protocol client pointless. Our (caspiancontrols.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Free Hostia' don't appear to be very inexpensive (still the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), starting from $139.95 for the Arctic plan.