An evaluation of NTC Hosting

We, at lemessos.com, have selected 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain name and web hosting provider. This is why we expect that this short review of 'NTC Hosting' is probably going to be very useful for other individuals from all around the Globe who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all around the Globe, because the simple truth is that 'NTC Hosting' currently delivers domain and hosting services in several data center sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in the United Kingdom (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering nearly the entire World. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'NTC Hosting' in brief:

Shared Webspace Hosting Packages

The initial detail we, at lemessos.com, have spotted is the cut-rate prices of the shared web site hosting solutions delivered by 'NTC Hosting'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the web hosting packages delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are driven by an in-house developed, state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, web site hosting CP, web space, DNS, stats, and so on, runs on an individual stack of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting supplier on the Globe will have immense predicaments with, because cPanel is a one-server based web site hosting environment (each hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, CP, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being dealt with by one single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based site hosting providers are unable to add additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to invent their own file system), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web site hosting plans, which are powered by an actual cloud website hosting platform. With a shared web page hosting plan, each client pays solely for his/her package, thus preserving the webspace hosting price very low (because many clients are located on the same web hosting server). In a few words, a shared hosting package, which is being served by a cloud hosting system, permits you to pay just for the resources that you actually require, averting a scenario where you pay for a high-end site hosting account that you cannot truly use, or for a tiny site hosting account that cannot host your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just 2 mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a tiny package and upgrade as your Internet presence expands. Hence, you spare money that you can invest in promoting the website while it is still new. Each and every site hosting account delivered by 'NTC Hosting' comes with an online web site building tool and over forty widely used script-driven software platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for site design solutions. 'NTC Hosting' distributes shared web space hosting accounts in a number of different regions around the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; two European datacenter facilities - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. Hence, approximately the whole Earth is encompassed to provide you and your site's visitors with a stable and fast webspace hosting service at a preferred place. All in all, the shared hosting packages provided 'NTC Hosting' are very well appointed and are available at a cut-rate price (beginning from $5.25 for the Budget plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To customers with little or no practice, a Virtual Private Server may seem problematic to administer. That's perhaps why 'NTC Hosting' also offers semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its principal North American data center facility in Chicago. Managing these packages is comparable to managing a conventional shared hosting account through a webspace hosting Control Panel user interface. They have all the specs of a shared web page hosting plan such as a fee-free web site builder and a web app installation tool, but the amount of system resources offered by a semi-dedicated server web hosting plan is many times larger than that of a shared hosting account. For example, the CPU power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared with the shared packages. When juxtaposed to a shared site hosting package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain quota is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting server plans do not ship with full root-level access (we, at lemessos.com, think of this as a slight downside), but the advantage is that they are administered via the very same hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared web site hosting accounts. This signifies that a recognizable graphical user interface is accessible by all users who are not self-confident enough to handle a private virtual web server, yet need more power and supplies than a virtual hosting server can provide them with. This is like that because the semi-dedicated web servers share the system resources of the very same powerful high-class hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the VPS server web hosting plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per server), while the VPS web servers can reach a much greater number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers supplied by 'NTC Hosting' can be branded as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

In lemessos.com's opinion, big web pages such as social networks, community and corporate portals or famous web stores with 1000s of clients need a much more powerful hosting platform. It seems that the fellows from 'NTC Hosting' have reached the same conclusion too. To answer its users' demands, 'NTC Hosting' provides a number of dedicated web servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specifications the dedicated web hosting servers arrive with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of data storage and Gigabit network cards will definitely ensure the quick and stable work of any type of website. In 'NTC Hosting's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring web sites. We, from lemessos.com, think that all dedicated server configurations provided by 'NTC Hosting' are also appropriate for launching a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated web server comes with free-of-cost invoicing software and a bonus domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web servers provided by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at lemessos.com, deem this a small disadvantage, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand help, the Managed Services upgrade provides several supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, web hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A number of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (lemessos.com's) forecast is that the magnificent drag-and-drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel will perhaps render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software program useless. Our (lemessos.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers delivered by 'NTC Hosting' don't appear to be very low priced (still the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will no doubt make you smile), beginning from $60.00 for the Diamond 1 plan.