An assessment of I'mHosting

We, at dolphintek.biz, have picked 'I'mHosting' to be our present domain and web hosting provider. This is why we deem that this concise review of 'I'mHosting' is perhaps going to be quite useful for other individuals 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 simple fact is that 'I'mHosting' currently supplies domain and hosting services in several server farm facility locations: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing almost the whole planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'I'mHosting' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Space Hosting Plans

The initial thing we, at dolphintek.biz, have noticed is the low-cost prices of the shared hosting accounts provided by 'I'mHosting'. 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 plans supplied by 'I'mHosting' are driven by a custom devised, innovative cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, web hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on a separate stack of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting vendor in the World will have enormous problems with, since cPanel is a single server based web space hosting environment (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being dealt with by one single server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel website hosting corporations cannot add additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to concoct their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared website hosting plans, which are powered by an authentic cloud hosting platform. With a shared web page hosting plan, each customer pays just for his/her account, thus retaining the hosting price amazingly low (since lots of clients are hosted on one and the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a cloud webspace hosting system, allows you to pay just for the resources that you really need, refraining from a situation where you pay for a powerful web hosting plan that you cannot really use, or for a tiny hosting account that cannot host your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a small package and upgrade as your online presence expands. Thus, you save funds that you can expend on publicizing the site while it is still brand new. Each and every web page hosting plan supplied by 'I'mHosting' ships with an online site builder and over 40 popular script-driven software applications including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for site design solutions. 'I'mHosting' supplies shared web page hosting packages in a number of different countries across the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago encompassing the US and Canada; two European datacenters - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific. Thus, nearly the whole World is encompassed to supply you and your visitors with a stable and dependable web page hosting solution at a convenient location. On the whole, the shared hosting services furnished 'I'mHosting' are really well furnished and come at a very cheap price (starting from $5.67 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little to no experience, a virtual hosting server may appear problematic to manage. That's probably why 'I'mHosting' also keeps semi-dedicated web servers in its main United States data center facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to administering a conventional shared account through a web site hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the functionalities of a shared website hosting package such as a free site builder and a web application installation tool, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated server hosting account is many times greater than that of a shared website hosting account. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly 5 times as much as compared to the shared webspace hosting plans. When contrasted with a shared website hosting plan, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name quota is a standard as well. The semi-dedicated hosting accounts do not include root privileges (we, at dolphintek.biz, consider this a slight inconvenience), but the plus is that they are managed via the very same webspace hosting Control Panel tool as the shared plans. This implies that a user-friendly graphical interface is accessible by all customers who are not confident enough to handle a Virtual Private Server, but at the same time demand more power and system resources than a private virtual server can deliver. This is so owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the reserves of the same powerful avant-garde web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual private web server accounts, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical server), whereas the VPS web servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to 120 per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'I'mHosting' can be branded as being quite cheap (as far as price is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In dolphintek.biz's opinion, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or famous online storefronts with thousands of customers need a much more powerful web space hosting platform. It appears that the folks from 'I'mHosting' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To fulfil its users' demands, 'I'mHosting' supplies a bouquet of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That evaluation is based on the hardware specs the dedicated hosting servers arrive with: multi-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, 2000 GB of storage space and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt ensure the fast and steady performance of any sort of site. In 'I'mHosting's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from dolphintek.biz, deem that all dedicated server packages delivered by 'I'mHosting' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as each and every web server comes with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software and a bonus domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web servers offered by 'I'mHosting' are all unmanaged. We, at dolphintek.biz, deem this a little inconvenience, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand support, the Managed Services upgrade offers several extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (dolphintek.biz's) prediction is that the remarkable point-and-click File Manager included in the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel will possibly make the use of any FTP software program useless. Our (dolphintek.biz's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'I'mHosting' don't appear to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.