A survey of NTC Hosting

We, at africaluxuryholiday.com, have selected 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. This is why we consider that this brief assessment of 'NTC Hosting' is maybe going to be very useful for other folks from all around the Globe who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We state folks from all around the Globe, since the mere truth is that 'NTC Hosting' presently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous server farm facility sites: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, encompassing virtually the whole Globe. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'NTC Hosting' in short:

Shared Web Site Hosting Services

The first thing we, at africaluxuryholiday.com, have spotted is the inexpensive prices of the shared site hosting plans offered by 'NTC Hosting'. 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 web site hosting plans furnished by 'NTC Hosting' are driven by an in-house devised, leading edge cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being served by an autonomous host of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting supplier in the World will have big troubles with, because cPanel is a single server based web hosting environment (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web site hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being tackled by one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web site hosting suppliers are not able to include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they must design their own file platform), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web hosting plans, which are powered by a genuine cloud web page hosting solution. With a shared web space hosting plan, each client pays solely for his/her plan, thus maintaining the web hosting price really low (since many clients are hosted on one and the same hosting server). In short, a shared hosting package, which is being served by a cloud web space hosting system, enables you to pay solely for the reserves that you really demand, precluding a scenario where you pay for an advanced web site hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a tiny web site hosting package that cannot shelter your website. The option to upgrade your account from one package to another with just 2 clicks of the mouse gives you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end plan and upgrade as your web presence grows. Thus, you economize funds that you can spend on promoting the website while it is still brand new. Each and every hosting package provided by 'NTC Hosting' comprises an online site builder and more than forty popular script-driven software platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for website design services. 'NTC Hosting' supplies shared web hosting plans in several different regions around the Globe. There is one data center in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; two European server farms - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific. Thus, virtually the entire planet is encompassed to present you and your web site's visitors with a steady and reliable web page hosting service at a preferred location. Altogether, the shared hosting services supplied 'NTC Hosting' are really well stocked and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $5.25 for the Budget package).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To users with little or no practice, a private virtual hosting server may seem complicated to handle. That's probably why 'NTC Hosting' also offers semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main North American data center facility in Chicago. Handling these packages is similar to handling a standard shared plan through a web hosting Control Panel user interface. They have all the specs of a shared account such as a fee-free site builder and a web application installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated server web hosting plan is many times larger than that of a shared hosting account. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared with the shared web hosting packages. When matched against a shared account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD quota is a standard too. The semi-dedicated web server plans do not come with full root privileges (we, at africaluxuryholiday.com, regard this as a tiny weakness), but the benefit is that they are administered through the very same website hosting Control Panel interface as the shared web page hosting plans. This signifies that a user-friendly graphical interface is available to all users who do not feel confident enough to manage a VPS, yet demand more power and features than a virtual private web server can confer to them. This is so because the semi-dedicated servers share the reserves of the same powerful top-class hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the private virtual web server accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical machine), while the virtual private web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'NTC Hosting' can be branded as being quite cheap (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Servers

According to africaluxuryholiday.com, large sites such as social networks, community and business web portals or popular online shops with 1000s of customers require a much more powerful web space hosting solution. It seems that the chaps from 'NTC Hosting' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To answer its users' requirements, 'NTC Hosting' provides a selection of dedicated web hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated hosting servers are offering: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of web space and Gigabit network cards will doubtlessly ensure the fast and stable performance of any type of website. In 'NTC Hosting's opinion, the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring web sites. We, from africaluxuryholiday.com, consider that all dedicated server specs supplied by 'NTC Hosting' are also appropriate for kickstarting a hosting reseller business as each and every server includes free-of-cost invoicing transaction software and a free-of-charge domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at africaluxuryholiday.com, consider this a small drawback, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade offers a bunch of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A bouquet of web space hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (africaluxuryholiday.com's) prediction is that the great drag and drop File Manager included in the Hepsia website hosting CP will probably render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol software program pointless. Our (africaluxuryholiday.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' don't appear to be very affordably priced (still the Hepsia site hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from $95.00 for the Diamond 1 plan.