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A review of NTCHosting

We, at goodbyeforgrace.com, have chosen 'NTCHosting' to be our present domain name and hosting provider. This is why we anticipate that this succinct assessment of 'NTCHosting' is perhaps going to be quite helpful for other folks from all over the World in search for domain name and web hosting services. We say people from all around the Globe, since the mere fact is that 'NTCHosting' presently provides domain and hosting services in multiple server farm sites: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, embracing approximately the whole Earth. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'NTCHosting' in brief:

Shared Web Space Hosting Solutions

The initial detail we, at goodbyeforgrace.com, have noted is the modest prices of the shared web page hosting services provided by 'NTCHosting'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web space hosting plans delivered by 'NTCHosting' are powered by an in-house devised, cutting edge cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, website hosting CP, disk space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on an independent host of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting company on the Earth will have considerable troubles with, because cPanel is a single server based webspace hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, web site hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by a single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based webspace hosting providers are not able to include new functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to build their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web hosting packages, which are powered by an authentic clustered web page hosting platform. With a shared site hosting plan, each client pays solely for his/her account, thus maintaining the hosting price really low (because numerous customers use the same server). In brief, a shared hosting account, which runs on a clustered webspace hosting platform, permits you to pay solely for the resources that you indeed require, averting a situation where you pay for an advanced hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a tiny web page hosting account that cannot shelter your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with only 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to commence with a low-end package and upgrade as your web page grows. In this way, you spare funds that you can spend on publicizing the site while it is still novel. Each and every hosting package furnished by 'NTCHosting' comes with an online web site building tool and more than forty widely used script-driven software applications including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web site design solutions. 'NTCHosting' furnishes shared webspace hosting solutions in several different geographical regions across the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; 2 European server farms - in the United Kingdom and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, almost the entire Earth is encompassed to supply you and your visitors with a steady and reliable webspace hosting service at a nearby location. On the whole, the shared hosting plans furnished 'NTCHosting' are very well equipped and are available at a budget price (starting from $4.95 for the Budget package).

VPS Web Hosting Servers

As your web page becomes more popular, more people will visit it at one and the same time, thereby bringing about greater server load. Shared website hosting packages put specific restrictions so that all the hosting accounts on the hosting server have their allotment of the system resources. Therefore, for more popular sites, a virtual private hosting server (VPS) would be a better choice. A virtual private web hosting server provides the optimum proportion between performance and cost. It mimics a dedicated server and with 'NTCHosting' all Virtual Private Servers on offer offer full server root privileges and a handful of OSs (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and web space hosting Control Panel interfaces (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to pick from. Please pay detailed attention to the Hepsia hosting CP. Unlike cPanel (which costs ten dollars per month atop the preferred VPS hosting package's cost), Hepsia is available at no additional monthly cost (it's free with all Virtual Private Server web hosting plans and functions with all Linux OSs: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel functions exclusively with CentOS) and includes a fabulous Domain Manager through which you can register, relocate, renew and manipulate domains (cPanel does not include such a section at all)! The more knowledgeable users can administer the VPS through an SSH console, but inexperienced customers can also manage it effortlessly via a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization platform, installing server-side software, rebooting particular services or the entire VPS web server. Pay attention to this circumstance: the major benefit of the virtual web server hosting packages is that if the web hosting server load reaches the account's allowance, extra reserves can be allocated to this very virtual private web hosting server for a given spell of time if they are available on the physical web hosting server. All in all, a private virtual server vastly surpasses the capacities of any shared hosting account and the extra reserves provide an even more stable and dependable service. With 'NTCHosting', the prices for the virtual web server plans commence at only $25.00 for the VPS Deal plan. All virtual private hosting server plans are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, ensuring optimal performance for your web pages.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To clients with little or no experience, a private virtual web server may seem hard to administer. That's perhaps why 'NTCHosting' also hosts semi-dedicated servers in its main North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is comparable to administering a typical shared package through a web site hosting Control Panel user interface. They have all the features of a shared web page hosting package such as a free-of-charge web site builder and a web app installer, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated hosting server plan is many times bigger than that of a shared webspace hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web hosting plans. When juxtaposed to a shared web site hosting package, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD allowance is a principle too. The semi-dedicated web hosting plans do not come with root privileges (we, at goodbyeforgrace.com, regard this as a tiny negative point), but the plus is that they are managed through the same Control Panel user interface as the shared web site hosting plans. This indicates that a well-known graphical environment is accessible by all customers who do not have enough confidence to handle a private virtual web server, yet demand more power and supplies than a virtual web hosting server can deliver. This is like that because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful hyper-advanced web hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the private virtual server packages, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical machine), whereas the VPS web servers can reach a much greater number (80 to 120 per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'NTCHosting' can be categorized as being quite inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), starting from $35.95 for the Pioneer package.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to goodbyeforgrace.com, big sites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or famous web shops with thousands of customers demand a much more powerful site hosting solution. It appears that the guys from 'NTCHosting' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To fulfil its users' expectations, 'NTCHosting' provides a number of dedicated web hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That evaluation is based on the hardware specifications the web servers sport: multi-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will undoubtedly guarantee the fast and steady performance of any sort of web site. In 'NTCHosting's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding web sites. We, from goodbyeforgrace.com, consider that all dedicated server solutions delivered by 'NTCHosting' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server offers free-of-cost invoicing software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web servers supplied by 'NTCHosting' are all unmanaged. We, at goodbyeforgrace.com, think of this as a little disadvantage, which can be righted by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of aid, the Managed Services upgrade includes a few supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of web hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (goodbyeforgrace.com's) prediction is that the great drag and drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web space hosting CP will perhaps render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol software useless. Our (goodbyeforgrace.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'NTCHosting' don't seem to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia web space hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will no doubt make you smile), commencing from $170.00 for the Gold plan.