A survey of Host Mates

We, at bevansconstructions.com.au, have selected 'Host Mates' to be our current domain name and hosting vendor. This is why we suppose that this concise review of 'Host Mates' is probably going to be very helpful for other individuals from all around the Globe who seek domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all over the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'Host Mates' currently offers domain and hosting services in multiple data center sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering nearly the entire Earth. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Host Mates' in brief:

Shared Webspace Hosting Accounts

The first thing we, at bevansconstructions.com.au, have observed is the cheap prices of the shared site hosting packages furnished by 'Host Mates'. 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 accounts provided by 'Host Mates' are driven by a custom invented, modern cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, like email, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, runs on an autonomous set of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting vendor on the Earth will have big predicaments with, since cPanel is a single server based web space hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being handled by one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based web site hosting providers are not able to include extra functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they have to design their own file system), which is at the bottom of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web page hosting accounts, which are powered by an authentic clustered website hosting platform. With a shared web space hosting package, each customer pays just for his/her package, thus maintaining the webspace hosting price really low (because numerous clients share one and the same web hosting server). In short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud website hosting system, enables you to pay only for the resources that you really need, refraining from a situation where you pay for a high-end web hosting package that you cannot truly use, or for a basic hosting plan that cannot accommodate your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two clicks of the mouse gives you the flexibility to start with a small plan and upgrade as your online presence expands. Hence, you save funds that you can invest in promoting the website while it is still brand new. Each and every web site hosting account supplied by 'Host Mates' contains an online website builder and more than forty widely used script-driven software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you hundreds of dollars for web design solutions. 'Host Mates' distributes shared web site hosting services in a number of different regions around the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; 2 European server farms - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, practically the entire planet is encompassed to provide you and your website's visitors with a stable and dependable web hosting solution at a nearby location. Altogether, the shared hosting accounts supplied 'Host Mates' are quite well equipped and come at a very good price (beginning from A$11.28 for the Hostmate Special package).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To users with little or no practice, a virtual server may appear complicated to administer. That's perhaps why 'Host Mates' also stores semi-dedicated servers in its principal North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to administering a standard shared site hosting package via a Control Panel GUI. They have all the specs of a shared website hosting plan such as a fee-free site building tool and a web app installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server package is many times larger than that of a shared web hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting packages. When compared with a shared web site hosting account, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted domain allowance is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated web hosting plans do not arrive with root access (we, at bevansconstructions.com.au, think of this as a small negative point), but the benefit is that they are managed via the same web hosting Control Panel tool as the shared web page hosting plans. This suggests that a well-known GUI is available to all users who are not self-confident enough to administer a virtual private web server, but at the same time need more power and supplies than a private virtual web hosting server can deliver. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the same powerful high-class web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual server hosting accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical server), whereas the virtual hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to 120 per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Host Mates' can be categorized as being very affordable (as far as price is concerned), commencing from A$28.67 for the Semi Dedicated 1 package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

According to bevansconstructions.com.au, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and corporate portals or famous online stores with 1000s of clients need a much more powerful web site hosting platform. It seems that the blokes from 'Host Mates' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To live up to its users' needs, 'Host Mates' provides an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can cope with millions of daily hits. That estimation stands on the hardware specifications the web servers have: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, 2000 GB of web space and Gigabit network interface cards will doubtlessly guarantee the fast and stable performance of any kind of website. In 'Host Mates's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from bevansconstructions.com.au, consider that all dedicated server specifications supplied by 'Host Mates' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as each server comes with free-of-charge invoice transaction software and a bonus domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers furnished by 'Host Mates' are all unmanaged. We, at bevansconstructions.com.au, count this as a tiny disadvantage, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee of A$56.99 AUD. So, if you need support, the Managed Services upgrade provides a bunch of additional services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A selection of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are offered with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (bevansconstructions.com.au's) prognosis is that the amazing point and click File Manager offered by the Hepsia site hosting Control Panel will probably make the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol client futile. Our (bevansconstructions.com.au's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'Host Mates' don't seem to be very low priced (yet the Hepsia hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from A$99.07 for the Atom 1 package.