A review of Linux Hosts Inc.

We, at diadon.co.uk, have selected 'Linux Hosts Inc.' to be our present domain name and hosting vendor. Therefore we consider that this brief assessment of 'Linux Hosts Inc.' is probably going to be very useful for other people from all around the World in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We say individuals from all around the Globe, because the mere fact is that 'Linux Hosts Inc.' currently furnishes domain and hosting services in multiple data center locations: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing approximately the entire Earth. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Linux Hosts Inc.' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Site Hosting Plans

The initial detail we, at diadon.co.uk, have spotted is the affordable prices of the shared website hosting plans delivered by 'Linux Hosts Inc.'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the web space hosting accounts delivered by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' are powered by an in-house developed, cutting edge cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being handled by a different host of web servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting company on the Earth will have enormous difficulties with, because cPanel is a one-server based web page hosting platform (each web hosting service, like email, databases, web space hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, runs on one and the same web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based hosting vendors are not able to add additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared website hosting plans, which are powered by an actual clustered web site hosting system. With a shared web hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her account, thus retaining the webspace hosting price very low (because multiple clients share one and the same web server). In short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a clustered site hosting system, permits you to pay solely for the reserves that you really require, precluding a situation where you pay for a feature-rich site hosting package that you cannot truly use, or for a tiny web page hosting package that cannot handle your web site. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two clicks of the mouse gives you the flexibility to kick off with a basic plan and upgrade as your web presence grows. Thus, you economize funds that you can spend on publicizing the web site while it is still novel. Each and every web space hosting account furnished by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' contains an online website building tool and over 40 popular script-driven platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web page design services. 'Linux Hosts Inc.' offers shared webspace hosting plans in a number of different countries across the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European data centers - in the United Kingdom and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific region. That way, virtually the whole planet is covered to supply you and your website's visitors with a stable and reliable webspace hosting service at a preferred place. As a whole, the shared hosting accounts offered 'Linux Hosts Inc.' are very well appointed and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $6.92 for the Starter package).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To users with little or no experience, a Virtual Private Server may appear problematic to administer. That's probably why 'Linux Hosts Inc.' also hosts semi-dedicated web servers in its main North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is comparable to managing a regular shared webspace hosting plan via a site hosting CP user interface. They have all the specs of a shared web space hosting package such as a fee-free web site builder and a web application installer, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated web server plan is many times bigger than that of a shared web space hosting plan. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is almost FIVE times as much as compared to the shared website hosting accounts. When contrasted with a shared web page hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted Top-Level Domain quota is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated server web hosting packages do not arrive with full root-level access (we, at diadon.co.uk, deem this a slight disadvantage), but the good point is that they are administered via the same webspace hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared web space hosting packages. This means that a user-friendly GUI is accessible by all customers who do not feel confident enough to manage a private virtual web server, but at the same time require more power and reserves than a virtual server can supply them with. This is so because of the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the resources of the same powerful top-class servers as the ones which accommodate the VPS accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per server), while the private virtual servers can reach a much greater number (eighty to 120 per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' can be classified as being quite inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $40.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

According to diadon.co.uk, enormous websites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous web storefronts with thousands of clients require a much more powerful site hosting environment. It appears that the fellows from 'Linux Hosts Inc.' have reached the same conclusion too. To live up to its users' needs, 'Linux Hosts Inc.' supplies an assortment of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated web servers come with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of disk space and Gigabit network cards will no doubt guarantee the quick and stable work of any type of website. According to 'Linux Hosts Inc.', the original hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from diadon.co.uk, think that all dedicated server accounts offered by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' are also suitable for setting up a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated web server offers free billing transaction software platform and a free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated hosting servers delivered by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' are all unmanaged. We, at diadon.co.uk, count this as a little drawback, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $36.00 USD. So, if you are in need of assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes several extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. An array of hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are available with each of the servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (diadon.co.uk's) forecast is that the amazing drag and drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel will possibly render the use of any File Transfer Protocol software program useless. Our (diadon.co.uk's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Linux Hosts Inc.' don't seem to be very cheap (still the Hepsia web site hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), commencing from $85.00 for the Xeon E3 v5 plan.