An evaluation of Xpress Hosting

We, at abacusdubai.ae, have selected 'Xpress Hosting' to be our present domain name and hosting distributor. Hence we anticipate that this short assessment of 'Xpress Hosting' is probably going to be quite helpful for other people from all around the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We state folks from all over the World, since the simple fact is that 'Xpress Hosting' currently provides domain and hosting services in multiple data center facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering practically the whole planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Xpress Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Web Page Hosting Accounts

The initial detail we, at abacusdubai.ae, have spotted is the modest prices of the shared web site hosting plans furnished by 'Xpress Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the webspace hosting packages provided by 'Xpress Hosting' are powered by an in-house created, futuristic cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, website hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being handled by a separate bunch of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting firm on the Earth will have great troubles with, since cPanel is a one-server based webspace hosting platform (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, stats, and so on, runs on a single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web site hosting suppliers are not able to include additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to invent their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared site hosting plans, which are powered by a genuine clustered website hosting system. With a shared site hosting package, each client pays only for his/her plan, thus maintaining the hosting price very low (because multiple users use the same web hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting plan, which is hosted on a cloud site hosting solution, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you indeed require, refraining from a situation where you pay for a feature-rich hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a basic webspace hosting account that cannot shelter your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with only 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a tiny package and upgrade as your web site grows. Hence, you save capital that you can invest in publicizing the site while it is still new. Each web site hosting account offered by 'Xpress Hosting' comes with an online web site builder and over forty widely used script platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web page design solutions. 'Xpress Hosting' provides shared website hosting plans in a number of different countries across the World. There is one server farm in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European datacenters - in the United Kingdom and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, practically the entire Earth is encompassed to supply you and your site's visitors with a stable and reliable hosting solution at a convenient place. All in all, the shared hosting plans furnished 'Xpress Hosting' are quite well furnished and come at a good price (beginning from £4.46 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To customers with little or no experience, a VPS web server may seem troublesome to handle. That's perhaps why 'Xpress Hosting' also hosts semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main North American data center facility in Chicago. Handling these packages is comparable to administering a conventional shared web site hosting package via a site hosting CP tool. They have all the specs of a shared plan such as a free-of-cost website builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated account is many times larger than that of a shared plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared to the shared website hosting plans. When juxtaposed to a shared web space hosting account, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD quota is a standard too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting packages do not ship with complete root access (we, at abacusdubai.ae, deem this a little minus), but the plus is that they are administered through the same hosting Control Panel tool as the shared website hosting accounts. This implies that a recognizable graphical user interface is offered to all customers who do not have enough self-condifence to manage a private virtual hosting server, yet need more power and features than a Virtual Private Server can give them. This is so because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the reserves of the same powerful top-class servers as the ones which host the VPS web hosting server plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per server), while the virtual private hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers supplied by 'Xpress Hosting' can be dubbed as being quite inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), commencing from £17.37 for the Mercury plan.

Dedicated Servers

According to abacusdubai.ae, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular online shops with 1000s of clients require a much more powerful hosting environment. It appears that the guys from 'Xpress Hosting' have come to the same conclusion as well. To meet its users' needs, 'Xpress Hosting' provides an assortment of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimate rests on the hardware specifications the servers include: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will no doubt ensure the fast and steady performance of any kind of website. In 'Xpress Hosting's opinion, the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from abacusdubai.ae, believe that all dedicated server solutions supplied by 'Xpress Hosting' are also appropriate for establishing a hosting reseller business as each hosting server arrives with free invoice transaction software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers supplied by 'Xpress Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at abacusdubai.ae, consider this a slight weak point, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee which amounts to £31.17 GBP. So, if you demand assistance, the Managed Services upgrade provides various supplementary services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A bunch of site hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (abacusdubai.ae's) forecast is that the magnificent point-and-click File Manager included in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel will perhaps render the use of any FTP client futile. Our (abacusdubai.ae's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'Xpress Hosting' don't seem to be very cheap (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain allowance will no doubt make you smile), commencing from £34.65 for the Mont Blanc package.