An evaluation of HostingBox

We, at technobau.eu, have picked 'HostingBox' to be our current domain and web hosting distributor. This is why we imagine that this concise evaluation of 'HostingBox' is probably going to be very useful for other people from all over the Globe in need of domain name and web hosting services. We say folks from all around the World, because the mere truth is that 'HostingBox' currently offers domain and hosting services in numerous server farm sites: in North America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, encompassing nearly the entire planet. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'HostingBox' in brief:

Shared Site Hosting Packages

The first detail we, at technobau.eu, have perceived is the low prices of the shared webspace hosting plans delivered by 'HostingBox'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the hosting packages provided by 'HostingBox' are driven by a custom designed, state-of-the-art cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by an individual set of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting corporation on the Earth will have enormous complications with, because cPanel is a one single server based web space hosting platform (each web hosting service, like mail, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based hosting distributors are not able to add new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to invent their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared webspace hosting plans, which are driven by an actual clustered web page hosting system. With a shared web hosting package, each client pays only for his/her account, thus preserving the web site hosting price really low (since numerous customers utilize one and the same web server). In short, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a clustered web site hosting solution, permits you to pay just for the resources that you really require, averting a situation where you pay for a feature-rich webspace hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a low-end site hosting package that cannot handle your web site. The option to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to start with a low-end plan and upgrade as your website expands. Hence, you economize capital that you can expend on advertising the web page while it is still novel. Each hosting plan supplied by 'HostingBox' arrives with an online website builder and over forty widely used script platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web design solutions. 'HostingBox' offers shared site hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions around the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago encompassing the United States and Canada; 2 European server farms - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, approximately the whole planet is encompassed to supply you and your website's visitors with a steady and dependable web site hosting solution at a nearby place. All in all, the shared hosting packages offered 'HostingBox' are quite well stocked and come at a very inexpensive price (beginning from $5.00 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To people with little to no practice, a virtual hosting server may appear problematic to handle. That's perhaps why 'HostingBox' also hosts semi-dedicated web servers in its principal US data center facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is similar to handling a typical shared web page hosting plan through a hosting CP tool. They have all the specs of a shared hosting account such as a free website builder and a web app installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server hosting plan is many times larger than that of a shared package. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is almost FIVE times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting plans. When matched against a shared web site hosting package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting plans do not come with root-level access (we, at technobau.eu, deem this a tiny problem), but the advantage is that they are administered through the very same CP GUI as the shared website hosting plans. This means that a user-friendly graphical environment is offered to all users who are not self-confident enough to administer a VPS hosting server, yet are in need of more power and resources than a virtual private web server can offer. This is so because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the reserves of the very same powerful avant-garde web servers as the ones which host the VPS web server accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical server), while the private virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to 120 per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'HostingBox' can be classified as being amazingly affordable (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $20.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In technobau.eu's opinion, enormous web sites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful hosting platform. It seems that the guys from 'HostingBox' have drawn the same conclusion too. To meet its customers' expectations, 'HostingBox' provides an assortment of dedicated servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That estimate rests on the hardware configurations the servers include: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of disk space and Gigabit network cards will undoubtedly guarantee the quick and steady work of any sort of web site. In 'HostingBox's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from technobau.eu, deem that all dedicated server accounts furnished by 'HostingBox' are also suitable for launching a hosting reseller business as every web hosting server comes with free-of-charge invoice transaction software platform and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated servers provided by 'HostingBox' are all unmanaged. We, at technobau.eu, think of this as a slight weakness, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax of $35.00 USD. So, if you require assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers a bouquet of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of web hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are available with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (technobau.eu's) forecast is that the splendid drag-and-drop File Manager added in the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel will probably render the recourse to any FTP client useless. Our (technobau.eu's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers delivered by 'HostingBox' don't seem to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia CP and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will definitely make you smile), commencing from $40.00 for the Atom 2c plan.