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An evaluation of NTC Hosting

We, at robertgroll.eu, have selected 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain and web hosting vendor. Therefore we presume that this succinct evaluation of 'NTC Hosting' is probably going to be very useful for other people from all over the Globe who are searching for domain name and web hosting services. We state folks from all around the World, since the mere fact is that 'NTC Hosting' currently distributes domain and hosting services in numerous server farm sites: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, encompassing virtually the entire Earth. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'NTC Hosting' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Space Hosting Plans

The first thing we, at robertgroll.eu, have detected is the inexpensive prices of the shared web space hosting solutions supplied by 'NTC Hosting'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the web site hosting accounts furnished by 'NTC Hosting' are driven by a custom developed, advanced cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, Control Panel, disk space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being served by an independent bunch of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting company on the Globe will have enormous complications with, because cPanel is a one-server based webspace hosting environment (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel hosting corporations cannot include additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to devise their own file platform), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared webspace hosting accounts, which are powered by a real clustered hosting system. With a shared web page hosting plan, each customer pays just for his/her account, thus maintaining the website hosting price really low (because many customers are hosted on the same hosting server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a clustered web site hosting solution, allows you to pay just for the reserves that you indeed demand, precluding a scenario where you pay for an advanced site hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a small website hosting package that cannot host your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a small plan and upgrade as your web page expands. That way, you spare money that you can invest in promoting the website while it is still brand new. Each and every web page hosting plan furnished by 'NTC Hosting' boasts an online web site builder and over forty widely used script-driven software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for website design solutions. 'NTC Hosting' offers shared site hosting services in several different geographical regions across the World. There is one server farm facility in Chicago covering the United States and Canada; two European datacenter facilities - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. In this way, nearly the entire Earth is covered to provide you and your website's visitors with a steady and fast web page hosting service at a desired location. Altogether, the shared hosting packages delivered 'NTC Hosting' are really well equipped and are available at a budget price (starting from $4.95 for the Budget plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To clients with little or no practice, a virtual private hosting server may appear difficult to handle. That's probably why 'NTC Hosting' also offers semi-dedicated servers in its main North American datacenter in Chicago. Handling these plans is comparable to administering a standard shared web hosting plan through a web page hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the specs of a shared web page hosting account such as a free-of-cost website builder and a script installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server hosting package is many times greater than that of a shared hosting account. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is about FIVE times as much as compared with the shared web page hosting plans. When juxtaposed to a shared web hosting account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain name quota is a pattern as well. The semi-dedicated hosting accounts do not arrive with full server root access (we, at robertgroll.eu, think that this is a minor problem), but the benefit is that they are managed via the same web page hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared webspace hosting plans. This hints that a user-friendly graphical interface is offered to all users who do not feel confident enough to manage a virtual web server, but at the same time demand more power and system resources than a virtual private hosting server can deliver. This is like that because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the resources of the very same powerful ultramodern hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS web server hosting packages, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical server), while the virtual servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to 120 per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'NTC Hosting' can be dubbed as being quite cheap (as far as price is concerned), commencing from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to robertgroll.eu, large web sites such as social networks, community and business portals or popular web stores with 1000s of customers demand a much more powerful web site hosting solution. It seems that the fellows from 'NTC Hosting' have come to the same conclusion too. To live up to its users' needs, 'NTC Hosting' offers an array of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That estimation is based on the hardware specifications the web servers boast: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of disk space and Gigabit network cards will no doubt ensure the quick and steady work of any kind of site. According to 'NTC Hosting', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring web sites. We, from robertgroll.eu, consider that all dedicated server configurations delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are also appropriate for starting a hosting reseller business as every dedicated server offers free-of-cost invoice transaction software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web hosting servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at robertgroll.eu, count this as a little drawback, which can be amended by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you need assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes several supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. Several web hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (robertgroll.eu's) forecast is that the splendid drag and drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web site hosting CP will perhaps render the use of any FTP software useless. Our (robertgroll.eu's) inference is that the dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' don't appear to be very cheap (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will definitely make you smile), beginning from $40.00 for the Gold 1 package.