A review of CrownHost

We, at crowntechconsulting.com, have picked 'CrownHost' to be our current domain and web hosting provider. Hence we imagine that this concise assessment of 'CrownHost' is perchance going to be very helpful for other people from all around the World in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We state individuals from all around the World, because the simple truth is that 'CrownHost' currently delivers domain and hosting services in numerous data center sites: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, encompassing approximately the entire World. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'CrownHost' in short:

Shared Web Page Hosting Services

The initial thing we, at crowntechconsulting.com, have noticed is the low prices of the shared site hosting solutions delivered by 'CrownHost'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the webspace hosting accounts delivered by 'CrownHost' are powered by an in-house built, avant-garde cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, hosting CP, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being served by a separate group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting supplier in the World will have considerable troubles with, because cPanel is a one single server based web site hosting environment (each web hosting service, like email, databases, CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web site hosting companies cannot include new functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they must create their own file system), which is at the bottom of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web space hosting plans, which are powered by a real clustered web space hosting system. With a shared website hosting account, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus preserving the webspace hosting price amazingly low (since lots of customers utilize the same web hosting server). In brief, a shared hosting package, which is hosted on a cloud web page hosting solution, permits you to pay solely for the resources that you indeed require, escaping a situation where you pay for a feature-rich web space hosting plan that you cannot truly use, or for a tiny site hosting account that cannot accommodate your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end package and upgrade as your site grows. That way, you save funds that you can spend on publicizing the web site while it is still novel. Each and every web hosting package delivered by 'CrownHost' includes an online site building tool and more than 40 popular script-driven platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web site design services. 'CrownHost' delivers shared web hosting plans in a number of different regions across the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago covering the United States and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. Thus, practically the entire Earth is covered to supply you and your visitors with a steady and dependable web space hosting solution at a nearby location. Altogether, the shared hosting services delivered 'CrownHost' are quite well appointed and are available at a low-cost price (beginning from €4.66 for the Economy plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little to no experience, a private virtual server may seem complicated to handle. That's perhaps why 'CrownHost' also hosts semi-dedicated servers in its main American server farm facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is comparable to handling a typical shared web hosting package through a site hosting Control Panel interface. They have all the specs of a shared webspace hosting package such as a free-of-charge site builder and a web application installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated web server package is many times greater than that of a shared hosting package. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is approximately FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web hosting packages. When compared to a shared web space hosting account, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is enormous: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD allowance is a standard too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting plans do not arrive with full server root privileges (we, at crowntechconsulting.com, deem this a minor problem), but the plus is that they are managed via the very same site hosting Control Panel user interface as the shared webspace hosting accounts. This means that a recognizable graphical user interface is offered to all clients who do not have enough self-condifence to handle a virtual server, yet are in need of more power and resources than a VPS hosting server can bestow on them. This is so because of the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the same powerful high-end hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS hosting server packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per server), whereas the VPS web servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'CrownHost' can be labeled as being amazingly inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), starting from €20.86 for the Mercury package.

Dedicated Web Servers

In crowntechconsulting.com's opinion, enormous sites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous online stores with thousands of customers request a much more powerful site hosting platform. It appears that the chaps from 'CrownHost' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To fulfil its clients' anticipations, 'CrownHost' offers an assortment of dedicated web hosting servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That estimation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated servers have: many-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of web space and Gigabit network cards will definitely ensure the quick and stable work of any type of site. In 'CrownHost's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from crowntechconsulting.com, deem that all dedicated server configurations supplied by 'CrownHost' are also suitable for beginning a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated server comes with free invoice transaction software platform and a free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'CrownHost' are all unmanaged. We, at crowntechconsulting.com, deem this a minor downside, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly fee of €32.59 EUR. So, if you are in need of backing, the Managed Services upgrade offers a number of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. Several web page hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (crowntechconsulting.com's) prognosis is that the exceptional drag and drop File Manager included in the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel will probably render the use of any File Transfer Protocol client futile. Our (crowntechconsulting.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers delivered by 'CrownHost' don't seem to be very affordably priced (still the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will no doubt make you smile), commencing from €116.32 for the Xeon D plan.