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A review of Smartway Hosting

We, at barryargus.com, have selected 'Smartway Hosting' to be our present domain and hosting provider. Therefore we deem that this concise assessment of 'Smartway Hosting' is probably going to be quite helpful for other folks from all over the Globe who need domain name and web hosting solutions. We say individuals from all around the World, since the simple truth is that 'Smartway Hosting' presently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous data center sites: in North America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing approximately the whole World. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Smartway Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Web Site Hosting Plans

The first detail we, at barryargus.com, have noted is the modest prices of the shared web site hosting services provided by 'Smartway 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 webspace hosting accounts furnished by 'Smartway Hosting' are powered by a custom devised, futuristic cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, like email, databases, website hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being run on an individual stack of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting provider on the Earth will have immense difficulties with, since cPanel is a single server based web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being run on a single web server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web hosting corporations cannot add new functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they have to concoct their own file system), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web space hosting packages, which are driven by a genuine clustered webspace hosting system. With a shared site hosting plan, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus maintaining the price amazingly low (because many users use the same server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which is hosted on a cloud web space hosting solution, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you really demand, averting a situation where you pay for a powerful hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a basic web hosting plan that cannot accommodate your web site. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a small plan and upgrade as your website grows. Hence, you economize cash that you can expend on advertising the site while it is still brand new. Each web hosting package supplied by 'Smartway Hosting' offers an online site building tool and over forty widely used script platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for site design services. 'Smartway Hosting' supplies shared site hosting plans in several different geographical regions across the Globe. There is one data center in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; 2 European data centers - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. Thus, nearly the entire World is encompassed to provide you and your site's visitors with a stable and dependable hosting service at a convenient place. All in all, the shared hosting packages supplied 'Smartway Hosting' are very well appointed and come at a very modest price (beginning from $3.50 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To users with little to no practice, a private virtual web hosting server may seem hard to administer. That's probably why 'Smartway Hosting' also offers semi-dedicated web servers in its main United States server farm facility in Chicago. Managing these packages is similar to administering a standard shared site hosting account through a site hosting Control Panel GUI. They have all the functionalities of a shared hosting plan such as a fee-free web site builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated web hosting package is many times bigger than that of a shared website hosting package. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web hosting packages. When contrasted with a shared web page hosting plan, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is great: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD quota is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated server web hosting plans do not ship with root privileges (we, at barryargus.com, think that this is a little problem), but the advantage is that they are managed through the very same web page hosting CP interface as the shared site hosting packages. This suggests that a well-known GUI is accessible by all users who do not feel confident enough to handle a private virtual web hosting server, but at the same time need more power and system resources than a virtual private hosting server can give them. This is so because the semi-dedicated web servers share the reserves of the same powerful ultramodern web servers as the ones which host the virtual server packages, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical server), while the virtual servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Smartway Hosting' can be dubbed as being very inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), starting from $20.00 for the Manager package.

Dedicated Web Servers

According to barryargus.com, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous online shops with thousands of clients require a much more powerful web site hosting platform. It appears that the guys from 'Smartway Hosting' have reached the same conclusion too. To live up to its clients' expectations, 'Smartway Hosting' delivers a number of dedicated servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specifications the web servers come with: many-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly guarantee the quick and stable work of any type of site. In 'Smartway Hosting's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-requiring web sites. We, from barryargus.com, think that all dedicated server accounts delivered by 'Smartway Hosting' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as every web server offers free-of-cost invoicing transaction software platform and a complimentary domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web servers offered by 'Smartway Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at barryargus.com, deem this a slight downside, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you demand help, the Managed Services upgrade offers an array of supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A bunch of website hosting CP (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (barryargus.com's) prediction is that the superb drag and drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia web space hosting CP will probably make the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol client futile. Our (barryargus.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'Smartway Hosting' don't seem to be very low priced (still the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name allowance will beyond doubt make you smile), commencing from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.