A survey of NTC Hosting

We, at groll.hu, have selected 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain name and hosting supplier. Therefore we believe that this short evaluation of 'NTC Hosting' is maybe going to be quite useful for other individuals from all over the World who need domain name and web hosting services. We state individuals from all over the World, because the simple fact is that 'NTC Hosting' currently supplies domain and hosting services in multiple server farm facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, covering approximately the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'NTC Hosting' in brief:

Shared Web Hosting Plans

The first detail we, at groll.hu, have detected is the cheap prices of the shared hosting services 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 webspace hosting packages furnished by 'NTC Hosting' are driven by a custom devised, leading edge cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, like email, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by an autonomous pack of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting vendor on the Globe will have considerable problems with, since cPanel is a one-server based site hosting environment (each web hosting service, like mail, databases, Control Panel, disk space, DNS, stats, etc., is being served by a single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel web space hosting suppliers are not able to include new functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they have to devise their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web hosting packages, which are driven by a real cloud hosting solution. With a shared site hosting account, each customer pays only for his/her account, thus keeping the website hosting price amazingly low (since plenty of customers are located on the same web server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a clustered web hosting platform, permits you to pay just for the resources that you indeed demand, precluding a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich site hosting plan that you cannot truly use, or for a small web page hosting account that cannot host your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a small plan and upgrade as your website expands. Thus, you save cash that you can expend on promoting the web site while it is still new. Each and every web hosting account provided by 'NTC Hosting' arrives with an online web site builder and over 40 widely used script software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web page design solutions. 'NTC Hosting' furnishes shared hosting services in several different geographical regions around the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; two European data centers - in the UK and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, nearly the whole Earth is encompassed to provide you and your web page's visitors with a stable and fast site hosting solution at a convenient place. All in all, the shared hosting packages offered 'NTC Hosting' are really well appointed and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $5.25 for the Budget plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To people with little or no experience, a private virtual hosting server may seem tough to manage. That's perhaps why 'NTC Hosting' also stores semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal United States datacenter facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is comparable to administering a normal shared webspace hosting plan through a web space hosting Control Panel interface. They have all the features of a shared website hosting package such as a free web site builder and a web app installer, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated hosting server package is many times greater than that of a shared site hosting plan. For example, the CPU power that can be used is approximately 5 times as much as compared to the shared web space hosting plans. When compared to a shared web space hosting account, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is great: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD quota is a trend too. The semi-dedicated web hosting server accounts do not include full root access (we, at groll.hu, regard this as a little weak point), but the advantage is that they are managed via the same web space hosting CP GUI as the shared web hosting plans. This suggests that a user-friendly GUI is offered to all customers who are not self-confident enough to handle a virtual server, but at the same time need more power and reserves than a VPS can furnish them with. This is like that because of the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful first-class hosting servers as the ones which host the Virtual Private Server hosting accounts, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is very low (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical machine), whereas the virtual hosting servers can reach a much greater number (80 to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' can be categorized as being very affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

In groll.hu's opinion, large websites such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous web shops with 1000s of customers request a much more powerful webspace hosting environment. It seems that the folks from 'NTC Hosting' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To answer its customers' anticipations, 'NTC Hosting' supplies a bouquet of dedicated web servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That estimate rests on the hardware configurations the dedicated servers ship with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of storage space and Gigabit network interface cards will beyond doubt guarantee the quick and steady performance of any kind of web site. According to 'NTC Hosting', the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring web sites. We, from groll.hu, believe that all dedicated server accounts delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are also appropriate for launching a hosting reseller business as every server provides free-of-cost billing transaction software platform and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at groll.hu, think of this as a minor defect, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes a number of supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of web hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (groll.hu's) forecast is that the superb point-and-click File Manager included in the Hepsia site hosting CP will possibly render the utilization of any FTP software program useless. Our (groll.hu's) inference is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'NTC Hosting' don't seem to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia web site hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name allowance will undoubtedly make you smile), commencing from $60.00 for the Diamond 1 plan.