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An evaluation of Exclusive Hosting

We, at icgeneral.org, have chosen 'Exclusive Hosting' to be our present domain name and hosting supplier. Hence we deem that this concise assessment of 'Exclusive Hosting' is perhaps going to be very useful for other folks from all around the World who need domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all over the Globe, because the simple fact is that 'Exclusive Hosting' currently delivers domain and hosting services in multiple data center sites: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing practically the whole World. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Exclusive Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Web Hosting Services

The initial thing we, at icgeneral.org, have discerned is the inexpensive prices of the shared web hosting solutions furnished by 'Exclusive 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 hosting accounts furnished by 'Exclusive Hosting' are powered by a custom invented, ultramodern cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as email, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, etc., runs on an individual group of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting supplier on the Earth will have great predicaments with, since cPanel is a single server based web page hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, website hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on a single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting distributors cannot add new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file platform), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting plans, which are powered by a real clustered web page hosting system. With a shared package, each customer pays only for his/her package, thus keeping the website hosting price very low (because lots of customers share the same web hosting server). In short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web site hosting system, permits you to pay solely for the resources that you actually require, refraining from a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich web hosting package that you cannot really use, or for a tiny website hosting package that cannot shelter your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a small package and upgrade as your online presence grows. Thus, you save capital that you can invest in advertising the website while it is still novel. Each web hosting package provided by 'Exclusive Hosting' comprises an online website builder and more than forty popular script-driven platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for site design services. 'Exclusive Hosting' provides shared hosting packages in several different regions across the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; two European data centers - in the UK and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, virtually the entire planet is covered to provide you and your visitors with a steady and fast web page hosting service at a desired place. As a whole, the shared hosting packages supplied 'Exclusive Hosting' are really well furnished and are available at a very good price (starting from $3.25 for the Exclusive plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To clients with little to no experience, a virtual private web server may appear tough to handle. That's probably why 'Exclusive Hosting' also keeps semi-dedicated servers in its principal US server farm in Chicago. Handling these packages is similar to handling a typical shared web site hosting package via a site hosting CP interface. They have all the specs of a shared account such as a free website building tool and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated hosting server plan is many times larger than that of a shared web site hosting package. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared webspace hosting packages. When juxtaposed to a shared web site hosting plan, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain allowance is a rule too. The semi-dedicated web hosting packages do not arrive with complete root access (we, at icgeneral.org, think of this as a tiny weak point), but the advantage is that they are managed via the very same web hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared website hosting plans. This hints that a user-friendly GUI is available to all customers who do not feel self-confident enough to administer a virtual web server, but at the same time demand more power and reserves than a private virtual server can provide them with. This is so because the semi-dedicated web servers share the system resources of the same powerful cutting edge hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS web hosting plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is very low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), whereas the virtual web hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'Exclusive Hosting' can be dubbed as being amazingly inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $22.00 for the Rocket package.

Dedicated Servers

In icgeneral.org's opinion, big web pages such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of customers request a much more powerful hosting environment. It seems that the blokes from 'Exclusive Hosting' have drawn the same conclusion as well. To satisfy its customers' needs, 'Exclusive Hosting' provides a selection of dedicated servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That assessment is based on the hardware specifications the dedicated web hosting servers are offering: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt guarantee the fast and stable work of any type of site. According to 'Exclusive Hosting', the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from icgeneral.org, consider that all dedicated server plans delivered by 'Exclusive Hosting' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as every hosting server comes with free-of-charge billing transaction software platform and a complimentary domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated servers furnished by 'Exclusive Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at icgeneral.org, think that this is a slight inconvenience, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you require backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes an assortment of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A handful of webspace hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (icgeneral.org's) prognosis is that the great drag and drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web page hosting CP will possibly render the recourse to any FTP software program useless. Our (icgeneral.org's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Exclusive Hosting' don't appear to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain allowance will doubtlessly make you smile), starting from $75.00 for the X2 SSD plan.