A survey of Hostomedia

We, at siestah.com, have selected 'Hostomedia' to be our current domain name and web hosting distributor. Hence we imagine that this brief assessment of 'Hostomedia' is maybe going to be very useful for other folks from all around the Globe who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state individuals from all over the World, because the simple fact is that 'Hostomedia' currently provides domain and hosting services in multiple data center sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in the United Kingdom (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing practically the whole World. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Hostomedia' in a few words:

Shared Web Hosting Services

The initial thing we, at siestah.com, have detected is the cheap prices of the shared webspace hosting solutions supplied by 'Hostomedia'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the web site hosting accounts provided by 'Hostomedia' are driven by an in-house built, cutting edge cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, runs on an independent host of servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting company on the Globe will have great predicaments with, because cPanel is a one-server based web site hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on one single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting distributors are unable to add new functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to create their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web site hosting accounts, which are driven by a real cloud website hosting system. With a shared site hosting plan, each customer pays solely for his/her plan, thus maintaining the hosting price really low (because a lot of clients are hosted on the same web hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting package, which is hosted on a clustered web hosting solution, allows you to pay only for the resources that you indeed require, avoiding a scenario where you pay for an advanced web hosting package that you cannot really use, or for a low-end website hosting package that cannot accommodate your web site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 clicks of the mouse grants you the flexibility to kick off with a basic plan and upgrade as your web page grows. In this way, you spare cash that you can invest in advertising the web site while it is still new. Every web site hosting package supplied by 'Hostomedia' contains an online site building tool and more than forty widely used script software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for web design services. 'Hostomedia' provides shared web space hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions around the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European datacenters - in England and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific region. In this way, virtually the entire Globe is encompassed to provide you and your site's visitors with a steady and dependable site hosting service at a convenient place. Altogether, the shared hosting solutions provided 'Hostomedia' are quite well stocked and come at an attractive price (starting from $2.75 for the Standard package).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To users with little or no experience, a virtual web hosting server may seem complicated to administer. That's probably why 'Hostomedia' also keeps semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its principal North American data center in Chicago. Administering these plans is similar to administering a normal shared site hosting package via a webspace hosting Control Panel GUI. They have all the features of a shared hosting plan such as a fee-free website builder and a web app installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server web hosting account is many times larger than that of a shared site hosting account. For example, the CPU power that can be used is approximately 5 times as much as compared with the shared web space hosting packages. When compared to a shared web page hosting account, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is great: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name quota is a rule too. The semi-dedicated web server plans do not ship with complete root access (we, at siestah.com, consider this a small minus), but the plus is that they are administered through the same web page hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared site hosting plans. This goes to say that a well-known graphical interface is accessible by all customers who are not confident enough to administer a virtual web server, yet are in need of more power and resources than a virtual web server can offer. This is like that because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the resources of the very same powerful hyper-advanced servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual server hosting plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very low (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical machine), while the virtual private hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to 120 per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Hostomedia' can be labeled as being quite affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the CPU Luxe plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In siestah.com's opinion, huge web sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular online storefronts with 1000s of clients demand a much more powerful web hosting solution. It appears that the blokes from 'Hostomedia' have drawn the same conclusion as well. To answer its clients' demands, 'Hostomedia' supplies a collection of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That evaluation rests on the hardware configurations the hosting servers boast: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of storage space and Gigabit network cards will undoubtedly guarantee the quick and steady work of any sort of website. According to 'Hostomedia', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring web sites. We, from siestah.com, deem that all dedicated server plans offered by 'Hostomedia' are also appropriate for launching a hosting reseller business as every dedicated hosting server includes free-of-charge billing software platform and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'Hostomedia' are all unmanaged. We, at siestah.com, deem this a minor disadvantage, which can be righted by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you need assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes a number of additional services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of web page hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are offered with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (siestah.com's) forecast is that the excellent point-and-click File Manager added in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel will probably render the utilization of any FTP software program useless. Our (siestah.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Hostomedia' don't appear to be very low priced (still the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), beginning from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.