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A review of Hosting for All

We, at wiseware.com.au, have selected 'Hosting for All' to be our current domain and hosting distributor. Therefore we deem that this short assessment of 'Hosting for All' is probably going to be very helpful for other people from all over the Globe in search for domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all around the World, because the simple truth is that 'Hosting for All' currently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous data center facility sites: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing nearly the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Hosting for All' in short:

Shared Website Hosting Plans

The initial detail we, at wiseware.com.au, have observed is the affordable prices of the shared web space hosting packages provided by 'Hosting for All'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the webspace hosting accounts delivered by 'Hosting for All' are powered by an in-house built, futuristic cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like email, databases, Control Panel, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being served by an independent host of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Globe will have colossal problems with, because cPanel is a single server based web page hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being handled by one and the same web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based site hosting distributors cannot add additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they must devise their own file platform), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting plans, which are driven by a real cloud web hosting solution. With a shared site hosting package, each customer pays solely for his/her account, thus keeping the price very low (since multiple users use the same web server). In brief, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a clustered webspace hosting system, enables you to pay only for the resources that you actually require, precluding a scenario where you pay for an advanced web page hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a small web page hosting plan that cannot handle your website. The option to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a tiny package and upgrade as your web site expands. Hence, you spare money that you can spend on advertising the web page while it is still new. Each site hosting package furnished by 'Hosting for All' comprises an online site builder and over forty popular script software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web design solutions. 'Hosting for All' furnishes shared web page hosting solutions in a number of different countries across the World. There is one server farm in Chicago encompassing the US and Canada; 2 European data center facilities - in England and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, virtually the whole Earth is covered to supply you and your web site's visitors with a steady and dependable web site hosting service at a convenient place. All in all, the shared hosting solutions offered 'Hosting for All' are quite well furnished and come at a very attractive price (beginning from $2.92 for the Starter plan).

Virtual Servers

As your web site becomes more popular, more individuals will visit it simultaneously, thus generating greater web hosting server load. Shared web page hosting accounts fix specific restrictions so that all the accounts on the web hosting server have their part of the system resources. Hence, for more visited sites, a VPS web server (VPS) would be a better decision. A VPS server offers the ideal balance between performance and price. It emulates a dedicated web hosting server and with 'Hosting for All' all Virtual Private Servers that are available offer full root-level access and a bouquet of Operating Systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and hosting Control Panel interfaces (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to select from. Please pay close heed to the Hepsia webspace hosting CP. As opposed to cPanel (which costs ten dollars a month on top of the preferred private virtual server web hosting plan's price), Hepsia is included at no additional monthly charge (it's free with all virtual web hosting server accounts and functions with all Linux Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel runs solely with CentOS) and boasts an amazing Domain Manager through which you can register, migrate, renew and manipulate Top-Level Domains (cPanel does not have such a section at all)! The more skilled users can administer the VPS through a Secure Shell console, but new kids on the block can also manage it easily through a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization panel, installing server-side software, rebooting single services or the entire VPS web hosting server. Pay attention to this circumstance: the chief benefit of the private virtual hosting server packages is that if the web server load exceeds the package's limit, additional reserves can be allocated to this very Virtual Private Server for a certain spell of time as long as they are available on the physical web hosting server. All in all, a VPS enormously surpasses the capacities of any shared website hosting plan and the extra resources offer an even more stable and dependable service. With 'Hosting for All', the prices for the Virtual Private Server plans commence at just $25.00 for the Base VPS package. All virtual web server hosting accounts are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, offering optimum performance for your websites.

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To clients with little to no experience, a private virtual server may seem troublesome to handle. That's probably why 'Hosting for All' also offers semi-dedicated web servers in its principal United States server farm in Chicago. Handling these accounts is similar to managing a normal shared hosting package through a webspace hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the functionalities of a shared web hosting package such as a free website builder and a PHP script installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated web server hosting plan is many times bigger than that of a shared web page hosting package. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared to the shared webspace hosting accounts. When compared with a shared web site hosting account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is great: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name allowance is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated hosting plans do not come with full root-level access (we, at wiseware.com.au, think of this as a tiny weakness), but the advantage is that they are administered via the very same site hosting CP user interface as the shared site hosting accounts. This suggests that a well-known graphical interface is available to all clients who do not feel self-confident enough to administer a VPS, but at the same time need more power and reserves than a virtual server can confer to them. This is like that because the semi-dedicated servers share the resources of the same powerful top-class web servers as the ones which host the virtual web server hosting packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very low (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical server), whereas the private virtual servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'Hosting for All' can be categorized as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $30.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to wiseware.com.au, huge web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or popular online storefronts with thousands of customers require a much more powerful webspace hosting environment. It seems that the fellows from 'Hosting for All' have come to the same conclusion as well. To fulfil its customers' demands, 'Hosting for All' provides a selection of dedicated hosting servers that can cope with millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware specifications the hosting servers sport: multi-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of storage space and Gigabit network interface cards will undoubtedly guarantee the quick and steady work of any sort of website. According to 'Hosting for All', the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring web sites. We, from wiseware.com.au, deem that all dedicated server plans supplied by 'Hosting for All' are also suitable for setting up a hosting reseller business as each web hosting server ships with free-of-cost invoicing software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web hosting servers provided by 'Hosting for All' are all unmanaged. We, at wiseware.com.au, count this as a minor disadvantage, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you require assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes a handful of additional services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of webspace hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (wiseware.com.au's) prediction is that the exceptional drag and drop File Manager added in the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel will possibly render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol software program pointless. Our (wiseware.com.au's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Hosting for All' don't seem to be very cheap (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), beginning from $140.00 for the Budget package.