A survey of NTCHosting

We, at wardonthenet.com, have chosen 'NTCHosting' to be our current domain and web hosting vendor. Therefore we deem that this concise evaluation of 'NTCHosting' is maybe going to be very helpful for other individuals from all around the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We state individuals from all around the World, since the simple fact is that 'NTCHosting' presently distributes domain and hosting services in numerous datacenter locations: in North America (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering practically the entire planet. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'NTCHosting' in brief:

Shared Webspace Hosting Solutions

The first thing we, at wardonthenet.com, have spotted is the cheap prices of the shared hosting packages delivered by 'NTCHosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the webspace hosting plans furnished by 'NTCHosting' are driven by an in-house designed, modern cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, stats, etc., is being handled by an independent bunch of servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Earth will have enormous difficulties with, because cPanel is a one-server based website hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, site hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being run on one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based webspace hosting providers are unable to add new functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to build their own file system), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web page hosting plans, which are driven by a real cloud webspace hosting platform. With a shared web page hosting account, each customer pays only for his/her plan, thus retaining the hosting price really low (since plenty of clients share the same hosting server). In short, a shared hosting package, which runs on a clustered web hosting solution, enables you to pay only for the reserves that you actually demand, averting a situation where you pay for a high-end web page hosting plan that you cannot really utilize, or for a low-end web hosting package that cannot host your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a small plan and upgrade as your online presence expands. Thus, you save money that you can invest in promoting the site while it is still brand new. Every webspace hosting plan delivered by 'NTCHosting' arrives with an online site building tool and over 40 widely used script-driven platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'NTCHosting' delivers shared web site hosting plans in several different countries across the World. There is one data center in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; two European datacenter facilities - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. That way, nearly the entire Globe is covered to provide you and your web site's visitors with a stable and fast web space hosting solution at a preferred place. All in all, the shared hosting accounts supplied 'NTCHosting' are really well furnished and come at a very reasonable price (starting from $4.95 for the Budget plan).

Virtual Private Servers

As your site gets more well known, more individuals will drop in on it at one and the same time, thus producing greater web hosting server load. Shared website hosting packages put specific limits so that all the clients on the web server have their allotment of the system resources. So, for more popular web sites, a VPS web server (VPS) would be a better solution. A Virtual Private Server provides the ideal proportion between productivity and price. It echoes a dedicated server and with 'NTCHosting' all Virtual Private Servers that are available arrive with root access and a bouquet of OSs (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and site hosting Control Panel user interfaces (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to pick from. Please pay particular attention to the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. In contrast with cPanel (which costs $10.00 a month on top of the preferred virtual private hosting server plan's price), Hepsia is available at no additional monthly charge (it's free with all virtual server hosting plans and works with all Linux OSs: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel performs exclusively with CentOS) and features a fabulous Domain Manager via which you can register, transfer, renew and manipulate TLDs (cPanel does not include such an interface at all)! The more skilled clients can manage the VPS through a Secure Shell client, but tyros can also manage it effortlessly via a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization software, installing server-side software applications, restarting given services or the entire VPS web server. Pay heed to this fact: the major benefit of the VPS hosting server plans is that if the server load reaches the package's limit, additional resources can be allotted to this very private virtual web server for a certain span of time as long as they are available on the physical hosting server. As a whole, a virtual private web hosting server immensely surpasses the capacities of any shared website hosting package and the additional reserves provide an even more steady and reliable service. With 'NTCHosting', the prices for the private virtual hosting server accounts commence at just $25.00 for the VPS Deal package. All virtual server web hosting accounts are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, ensuring optimum performance for your web sites.

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To customers with little to no practice, a virtual web hosting server may appear troublesome to manage. That's probably why 'NTCHosting' also stores semi-dedicated web servers in its main North American server farm facility in Chicago. Handling these packages is similar to administering a regular shared webspace hosting account via a CP interface. They have all the functionalities of a shared hosting package such as a free-of-cost web site builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the amount of system resources offered by a semi-dedicated server web hosting package is many times bigger than that of a shared web space hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is about FIVE times as much as compared to the shared packages. When contrasted with a shared web site hosting package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain name quota is a norm too. The semi-dedicated web server accounts do not ship with root access (we, at wardonthenet.com, think that this is a slight weak point), but the benefit is that they are administered via the same web site hosting Control Panel interface as the shared site hosting packages. This signifies that a familiar GUI is offered to all users who do not have enough confidence to manage a VPS hosting server, but at the same time are in need of more power and resources than a virtual web server can provide them with. This is so because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the same powerful first-class hosting servers as the ones which host the private virtual server hosting accounts, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), whereas the VPS web hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to 120 per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'NTCHosting' can be labeled as being amazingly cheap (as far as price is concerned), commencing from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In wardonthenet.com's opinion, large sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous web storefronts with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful web space hosting environment. It appears that the folks from 'NTCHosting' have drawn the same conclusion as well. To meet its users' anticipations, 'NTCHosting' delivers a collection of dedicated servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That estimation rests on the hardware configurations the dedicated servers arrive with: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will definitely ensure the fast and steady work of any sort of website. In 'NTCHosting's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring websites. We, from wardonthenet.com, think that all dedicated server specifications furnished by 'NTCHosting' are also suitable for beginning a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web hosting server ships with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software platform and a bonus domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'NTCHosting' are all unmanaged. We, at wardonthenet.com, regard this as a tiny downside, which can be righted by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade offers an assortment of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (wardonthenet.com's) prediction is that the splendid drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel will probably render the recourse to any FTP software pointless. Our (wardonthenet.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'NTCHosting' don't appear to be very low priced (yet the Hepsia website hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain quotas will no doubt make you smile), beginning from $170.00 for the Gold package.