An assessment of Free Hostia

We, at crewcolombia.com, have picked 'Free Hostia' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. This is why we think that this brief review of 'Free Hostia' is perchance going to be quite useful for other people from all around the World in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all over the Globe, since the mere fact is that 'Free Hostia' presently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous datacenter sites: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing nearly the whole Globe. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Free Hostia' in a few words:

Shared Web Hosting Solutions

The initial thing we, at crewcolombia.com, have seen is the cut-rate prices of the shared website hosting solutions supplied by 'Free Hostia'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the webspace hosting plans offered by 'Free Hostia' are driven by a custom invented, leading edge cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being run on a different group of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting supplier in the World will have enormous troubles with, since cPanel is a one-server based web page hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, stats, and so on, runs on one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web site hosting vendors are not able to add extra functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they need to set up their own file platform), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared hosting accounts, which are powered by a genuine clustered webspace hosting solution. With a shared hosting account, each customer pays just for his/her package, thus retaining the web space hosting price very low (since a lot of clients share the same hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a clustered website hosting platform, enables you to pay only for the reserves that you indeed need, evading a situation where you pay for a feature-rich web site hosting plan that you cannot actually use, or for a basic site hosting account that cannot shelter your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end plan and upgrade as your web presence expands. Thus, you save capital that you can invest in promoting the web page while it is still novel. Each and every webspace hosting plan furnished by 'Free Hostia' arrives with an online web site building tool and more than 40 widely used script platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web design solutions. 'Free Hostia' provides shared web space hosting plans in a number of different countries across the Globe. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the United States and Canada; two European datacenters - in Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. That way, virtually the whole Earth is encompassed to present you and your website's visitors with a steady and dependable web hosting solution at a desired place. As a whole, the shared hosting accounts provided 'Free Hostia' are really well appointed and come at an attractive price (starting from $0.00 for the Chocolate package).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To customers with little or no experience, a VPS may seem troublesome to manage. That's probably why 'Free Hostia' also hosts semi-dedicated servers in its main United States data center facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is comparable to managing a typical shared web hosting package through a web space hosting Control Panel interface. They have all the specs of a shared site hosting plan such as a free website building tool and a web app installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated account is many times bigger than that of a shared plan. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is almost FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web space hosting plans. When contrasted with a shared site hosting package, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is big: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD quota is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting accounts do not include complete server root access (we, at crewcolombia.com, deem this a little downside), but the good point is that they are administered through the same Control Panel interface as the shared webspace hosting accounts. This indicates that a well-known graphical user interface is accessible by all clients who are not self-confident enough to handle a virtual private hosting server, but at the same time demand more power and supplies than a virtual private web hosting server can furnish them with. This is like that because of the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the very same powerful first-class web servers as the ones which host the private virtual server accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical machine), while the VPS hosting servers can reach a much greater number (80 to 120 per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Free Hostia' can be dubbed as being quite cheap (as far as price is concerned), starting from $29.95 for the Boabab plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

According to crewcolombia.com, big websites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular online stores with 1000s of clients request a much more powerful site hosting platform. It appears that the guys from 'Free Hostia' have reached the same conclusion as well. To fulfil its customers' demands, 'Free Hostia' offers a collection of dedicated hosting servers that can cope with millions of daily hits. That estimate is based on the hardware specs the web servers come with: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of data storage and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt ensure the fast and stable work of any sort of site. In 'Free Hostia's opinion, the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring websites. We, from crewcolombia.com, think that all dedicated server configurations furnished by 'Free Hostia' are also suitable for setting up a hosting reseller business as every hosting server offers free invoice transaction software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers provided by 'Free Hostia' are all unmanaged. We, at crewcolombia.com, consider this a slight weak point, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you need assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes a selection of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. A handful of hosting CP (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (crewcolombia.com's) prognosis is that the magnificent drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia hosting Control Panel will probably render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol client futile. Our (crewcolombia.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Free Hostia' don't appear to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia site hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), commencing from $139.95 for the Arctic package.