A survey of Free Hostia

We, at azkron.com, have picked 'Free Hostia' to be our current domain and hosting provider. Therefore we believe that this succinct assessment of 'Free Hostia' is perchance going to be very useful for other individuals from all around the Globe who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all around the Globe, since the simple fact is that 'Free Hostia' currently offers domain and hosting services in multiple datacenter sites: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing virtually the whole planet. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Free Hostia' in a few words:

Shared Website Hosting Accounts

The first detail we, at azkron.com, have discerned is the reasonable prices of the shared webspace hosting solutions offered 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 website hosting plans furnished by 'Free Hostia' are driven by a custom created, avant-garde cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web space hosting CP, data storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on an autonomous group of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Earth will have mammoth difficulties with, since cPanel is a single server based site hosting platform (each hosting service, such as email, databases, webspace hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, runs on a single server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based web page hosting companies are unable to add new functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to concoct their own file system), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared hosting plans, which are driven by an actual cloud webspace hosting platform. With a shared website hosting account, each client pays only for his/her account, thus retaining the web hosting price amazingly low (since lots of users utilize the same hosting server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting account, which is hosted on a cloud web page hosting platform, allows you to pay solely for the reserves that you actually require, refraining from a scenario where you pay for a powerful site hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a low-end web space hosting package that cannot accommodate your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a basic plan and upgrade as your web site grows. Hence, you economize capital that you can expend on promoting the web site while it is still new. Each webspace hosting plan provided by 'Free Hostia' comes with an online site building tool and more than forty widely used script-driven software applications including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for website design services. 'Free Hostia' furnishes shared website hosting plans in several different regions around the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European data centers - in Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. Thus, approximately the whole World is encompassed to present you and your visitors with a steady and dependable web hosting solution at a preferred location. On the whole, the shared hosting solutions offered 'Free Hostia' are really well equipped and are available at a cut-rate price (beginning from $0.00 for the Chocolate plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To users with little to no experience, a VPS web hosting server may seem difficult to administer. That's probably why 'Free Hostia' also keeps semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal North American datacenter in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to handling a typical shared web space hosting account through a Control Panel user interface. They have all the functionalities of a shared web space hosting plan such as a free-of-charge site building tool and a script installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated server hosting plan is many times greater than that of a shared webspace hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is approximately 5 times as much as compared to the shared accounts. When juxtaposed to a shared web site hosting package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name allowance is a trend as well. The semi-dedicated server hosting packages do not offer full server root access (we, at azkron.com, regard this as a small weakness), but the benefit is that they are administered via the same Control Panel tool as the shared web hosting plans. This hints that a familiar GUI is available to all clients who are not self-confident enough to administer a private virtual web server, yet require more power and system resources than a VPS server can furnish them with. This is so because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful high-class hosting servers as the ones which host the Virtual Private Server plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical server), while the virtual private web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Free Hostia' can be categorized as being amazingly affordable (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $29.95 for the Boabab package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In azkron.com's opinion, huge web pages such as social networks, community and business web portals or popular online storefronts with 1000s of clients request a much more powerful website hosting solution. It appears that the guys from 'Free Hostia' have reached the same conclusion too. To fulfil its clients' needs, 'Free Hostia' offers a bouquet of dedicated web servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That assessment stands on the hardware specifications the hosting servers boast: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of web space and Gigabit NICs will no doubt ensure the quick and steady work of any kind of web site. According to 'Free Hostia', the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from azkron.com, consider that all dedicated server configurations delivered by 'Free Hostia' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as every dedicated web server provides free-of-cost billing transaction software platform and a fee-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers furnished by 'Free Hostia' are all unmanaged. We, at azkron.com, count this as a little problem, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you need support, the Managed Services upgrade offers a selection of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bunch of website hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (azkron.com's) prediction is that the great point and click File Manager offered by the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel will probably render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software program futile. Our (azkron.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Free Hostia' don't appear to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain allowance will no doubt make you smile), starting from $139.95 for the Arctic plan.