A survey of Lonex

We, at mupinc.net, have selected 'Lonex' to be our present domain name and web hosting distributor. Hence we deem that this short assessment of 'Lonex' is probably going to be quite helpful for other people from all around the Globe in need of domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all over the Globe, because the simple truth is that 'Lonex' presently provides domain and hosting services in multiple server farm sites: in America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing practically the whole World. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Lonex' in a few words:

Shared Web Site Hosting Solutions

The initial thing we, at mupinc.net, have perceived is the low-cost prices of the shared hosting plans delivered by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the site hosting packages offered by 'Lonex' are driven by a custom created, state-of-the-art cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, site hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being served by a different set of servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting company on the Earth will have enormous complications with, since cPanel is a one-server based web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as email, databases, hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being run on one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web site hosting corporations are not able to include new functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared site hosting accounts, which are powered by a genuine cloud web site hosting platform. With a shared web site hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her package, thus maintaining the site hosting price amazingly low (since plenty of users share the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting plan, which is hosted on a clustered web site hosting solution, allows you to pay just for the resources that you actually require, escaping a situation where you pay for a high-end web page hosting plan that you cannot actually utilize, or for a small web site hosting package that cannot host your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to commence with a small plan and upgrade as your web page grows. Hence, you spare capital that you can expend on advertising the site while it is still brand new. Every web space hosting plan furnished by 'Lonex' comprises an online web site building tool and over 40 popular script platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'Lonex' delivers shared web hosting services in several different countries across the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in Great Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific region. Hence, nearly the whole planet is encompassed to present you and your web page's visitors with a steady and dependable site hosting solution at a convenient place. On the whole, the shared hosting packages supplied 'Lonex' are very well appointed and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $3.95 for the Personal package).

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

As your web page gets more famous, more visitors will drop in on it at the same time, thus producing greater server load. Shared website hosting packages fix some limits so that all the hosting customers on the web server have their portion of the system resources. Hence, for more visited websites, a virtual private hosting server (VPS) would be a better choice. A VPS web hosting server provides the best proportion between performance and price. It simulates a dedicated hosting server and with 'Lonex' all Virtual Private Servers that are being offered offer root access and a collection of Operating Systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and CP tools (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to choose from. Please pay careful attention to the Hepsia web site hosting CP. As opposed to cPanel (which costs 10 dollars a month on top of the preferred virtual private web hosting server package's cost), Hepsia is provided at no additional monthly cost (it's free with all VPS web server hosting accounts and works with all Linux Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel functions only with CentOS) and boasts a stunning Domain Manager where you can register, migrate, renew and handle TLDs (cPanel does not offer such a section at all)! The more capable customers can manage the VPS via an SSH client program, but newcomers can also manage it effortlessly via a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization platform, installing server-side software, restarting particular services or the entire private virtual server. Give attention to this fact: the chief advantage of the private virtual web server accounts is that if the web server load reaches the account's limit, extra reserves can be allocated to this given virtual web server for a certain interval of time as long as they are available on the physical server. On the whole, a VPS server greatly exceeds the capacities of any shared site hosting package and the additional reserves provide an even more steady and dependable service. With 'Lonex', the prices for the virtual server hosting accounts commence at only $25.00 for the VPS Light plan. All VPS hosting server accounts are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, providing optimum performance for your sites.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little to no practice, a virtual server may seem complicated to manage. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also offers semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Administering these plans is comparable to handling a standard shared web hosting package through a web page hosting CP interface. They have all the features of a shared web hosting plan such as a free web site building tool and a PHP script installer, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server web hosting package is many times larger than that of a shared webspace hosting plan. For example, the CPU power that can be utilized is approximately 5 times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting packages. When contrasted with a shared hosting account, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated server hosting packages do not arrive with complete root-level access (we, at mupinc.net, regard this as a little minus), but the advantage is that they are managed through the very same web space hosting Control Panel user interface as the shared webspace hosting packages. This suggests that a recognizable GUI is offered to all clients who are not confident enough to administer a virtual hosting server, but at the same time demand more power and features than a VPS hosting server can give them. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the system resources of the same powerful hyper-advanced hosting servers as the ones which host the private virtual web server hosting packages, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), whereas the private virtual servers can reach a much greater number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'Lonex' can be branded as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Servers

In mupinc.net's opinion, huge web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of clients request a much more powerful web space hosting platform. It seems that the chaps from 'Lonex' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To fulfil its users' needs, 'Lonex' offers an assortment of dedicated web servers that can cope with millions of daily hits. That evaluation stands on the hardware configurations the web hosting servers come with: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of data storage and Gigabit NICs will no doubt guarantee the fast and stable performance of any kind of site. According to 'Lonex', the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-demanding sites. We, from mupinc.net, deem that all dedicated server specifications offered by 'Lonex' are also suitable for establishing a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated hosting server offers free-of-cost billing software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated servers delivered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at mupinc.net, think that this is a little minus, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly fee of $30.00 USD. So, if you need help, the Managed Services upgrade provides a bouquet of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, web server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A selection of hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (mupinc.net's) prognosis is that the amazing drag-and-drop File Manager included in the Hepsia Control Panel will probably render the use of any FTP client pointless. Our (mupinc.net's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Lonex' don't appear to be very cheap (still the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), starting from $160.00 for the Optima plan.