An evaluation of LinuxSolutions

We, at linuxsolutions.es, have picked 'LinuxSolutions' to be our current domain name and hosting provider. Therefore we imagine that this succinct review of 'LinuxSolutions' is perchance going to be quite useful for other folks from all over the Globe in search for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all around the World, because the simple fact is that 'LinuxSolutions' currently offers domain and hosting services in several data center sites: in America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing virtually the whole planet. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'LinuxSolutions' in brief:

Shared Hosting Services

The first thing we, at linuxsolutions.es, have perceived is the inexpensive prices of the shared webspace hosting plans supplied by 'LinuxSolutions'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the web site hosting plans supplied by 'LinuxSolutions' are powered by an in-house developed, cutting edge cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, web hosting CP, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on a separate pack of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting corporation in the World will have enormous problems with, because cPanel is a one-server based webspace hosting platform (each hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, web hosting CP, web space, DNS, stats, etc., is being tackled by one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel web site hosting firms are not able to add additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to construct their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared site hosting plans, which are driven by an actual cloud web hosting platform. With a shared site hosting account, each customer pays solely for his/her package, thus preserving the web hosting price very low (because lots of customers are located on the same server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting account, which runs on a clustered webspace hosting system, enables you to pay just for the reserves that you actually require, avoiding a situation where you pay for a feature-rich website hosting plan that you cannot actually use, or for a tiny hosting package that cannot accommodate your web page. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with only 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a small plan and upgrade as your site grows. That way, you save funds that you can expend on promoting the web page while it is still brand new. Every hosting plan offered by 'LinuxSolutions' arrives with an online site builder and more than forty widely used script software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for web design services. 'LinuxSolutions' provides shared hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions across the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in England and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. Thus, practically the entire Globe is covered to present you and your visitors with a stable and fast hosting service at a nearby location. All in all, the shared hosting solutions supplied 'LinuxSolutions' are really well furnished and come at a very low price (beginning from €3.29 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To people with little or no experience, a virtual private web hosting server may seem complicated to handle. That's probably why 'LinuxSolutions' also offers semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main American datacenter facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is similar to managing a regular shared package through a website hosting Control Panel GUI. They have all the features of a shared site hosting account such as a free web site builder and a PHP script installer, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated web server hosting account is many times bigger than that of a shared web page hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is about 5 times as much as compared to the shared web hosting packages. When matched against a shared website hosting plan, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is enormous: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD allowance is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated web server hosting packages do not offer root access (we, at linuxsolutions.es, think of this as a small weakness), but the advantage is that they are administered via the very same web hosting CP GUI as the shared web site hosting packages. This implies that a known graphical interface is accessible by all users who do not have enough self-condifence to manage a private virtual hosting server, but at the same time are in need of more power and supplies than a VPS can supply them with. This is so because the semi-dedicated web servers share the reserves of the very same powerful high-end web servers as the ones which host the virtual server hosting plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), while the VPS web servers can reach a much greater number (80 to a hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'LinuxSolutions' can be classified as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from €19.23 for the Semi Dedicated 1 plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In linuxsolutions.es's opinion, big web sites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular online stores with 1000s of customers demand a much more powerful web hosting solution. It appears that the chaps from 'LinuxSolutions' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To satisfy its customers' demands, 'LinuxSolutions' supplies a number of dedicated hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimation rests on the hardware specifications the dedicated web servers are offering: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of data storage and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly ensure the quick and stable performance of any sort of web site. In 'LinuxSolutions's opinion, the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-demanding web sites. We, from linuxsolutions.es, deem that all dedicated server packages supplied by 'LinuxSolutions' are also suitable for beginning a hosting reseller business as each and every hosting server comes with free-of-charge invoice transaction software platform and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'LinuxSolutions' are all unmanaged. We, at linuxsolutions.es, consider this a small weak point, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax of €31.85 EUR. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade provides a selection of supplementary services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. A bouquet of web page hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (linuxsolutions.es's) prediction is that the magnificent drag-and-drop File Manager added in the Hepsia hosting CP will probably render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol client pointless. Our (linuxsolutions.es's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'LinuxSolutions' don't appear to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), beginning from €114.46 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.