A survey of Lonex

We, at oho-ho.com, have chosen 'Lonex' to be our current domain and web hosting provider. This is why we expect that this short assessment of 'Lonex' is perchance going to be very helpful for other individuals from all around the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all over the World, since the mere fact is that 'Lonex' currently offers domain and hosting services in multiple data center locations: in the US (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing practically the entire Earth. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Lonex' in a nutshell:

Shared Webspace Hosting Packages

The initial detail we, at oho-ho.com, have detected is the low prices of the shared hosting packages furnished by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good news here is that the site hosting plans supplied by 'Lonex' are powered by a custom devised, modern 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 run on an independent stack of servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Globe will have big troubles with, because cPanel is a one-server based web space hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by one single server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel site hosting distributors are not able to include additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they have to invent their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web page hosting plans, which are driven by an actual clustered website hosting platform. With a shared web hosting plan, each client pays only for his/her account, thus retaining the website hosting price amazingly low (because many clients are hosted on one and the same web hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a clustered web site hosting system, allows you to pay solely for the resources that you really need, refraining from a situation where you pay for a powerful web space hosting account that you cannot actually utilize, or for a basic web site hosting plan that cannot shelter your web site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a basic package and upgrade as your web page grows. So, you economize money that you can expend on promoting the web page while it is still new. Every web page hosting account supplied by 'Lonex' comes with an online website building tool and more than forty widely used script-driven software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'Lonex' distributes shared site hosting solutions in a number of different regions across the Globe. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the US and Canada; 2 European data center facilities - in Great Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. That way, almost the whole planet is encompassed to supply you and your site's visitors with a steady and fast web page hosting service at a desired location. Altogether, the shared hosting packages offered 'Lonex' are very well equipped and come at a very good price (starting from $4.25 for the Personal plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To people with little to no practice, a VPS hosting server may appear hard to administer. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also offers semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main American server farm in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to handling a standard shared web hosting account via a CP interface. They have all the functionalities of a shared webspace hosting plan such as a free site builder and a PHP script installer, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated hosting server plan is many times bigger than that of a shared web hosting package. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is approximately FIVE times as much as compared to the shared packages. When juxtaposed to a shared account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting accounts do not come with root-level access (we, at oho-ho.com, think of this as a slight disadvantage), but the advantage is that they are managed via the very same webspace hosting CP GUI as the shared site hosting plans. This implies that a familiar graphical user interface is offered to all clients who do not have enough confidence to manage a Virtual Private Server, yet require more power and supplies than a virtual hosting server can deliver. This is like that because of the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the reserves of the very same powerful avant-garde web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual private hosting server plans, still, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical server), whereas the VPS web servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to a hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Lonex' can be dubbed as being quite inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In oho-ho.com's opinion, enormous sites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular web stores with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful web space hosting environment. It appears that the fellows from 'Lonex' have come to the same conclusion as well. To live up to its customers' needs, 'Lonex' offers a collection of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That evaluation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated web hosting servers come with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of disk storage and Gigabit network interface cards will undoubtedly ensure the quick and stable performance of any kind of site. According to 'Lonex', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring websites. We, from oho-ho.com, think that all dedicated server solutions supplied by 'Lonex' are also suitable for beginning a hosting reseller business as each and every hosting server arrives with free-of-charge invoice transaction software and a free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated hosting servers delivered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at oho-ho.com, think of this as a tiny weak point, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of $30.00 USD. So, if you require assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers various supplementary services such as a regular backup, software installation, web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A number of web page hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are available with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (oho-ho.com's) prognosis is that the splendid drag-and-drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web site hosting CP will probably make the use of any FTP client futile. Our (oho-ho.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Lonex' don't seem to be very modestly priced (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), commencing from $40.00 for the Optima 01 plan.