A survey of Lonex

We, at swiftwinds.net, have selected 'Lonex' to be our current domain name and hosting vendor. Hence we imagine that this brief evaluation of 'Lonex' is maybe going to be very useful for other individuals from all over the Globe who are searching for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all around the Globe, since the mere fact is that 'Lonex' presently furnishes domain and hosting services in several server farm facility sites: in North America (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing almost the entire planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Lonex' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Site Hosting Plans

The initial detail we, at swiftwinds.net, have perceived is the reasonable prices of the shared site hosting plans delivered by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the hosting accounts provided by 'Lonex' are driven by an in-house developed, ultramodern cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like email, databases, webspace hosting CP, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being handled by an autonomous stack of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting company in the World will have colossal difficulties with, since cPanel is a one single server based web space hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being dealt with by one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based site hosting distributors cannot include new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they need to make their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting packages, which are powered by an actual clustered web space hosting system. With a shared web page hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her package, thus keeping the webspace hosting price very low (because lots of clients share one and the same web hosting server). In a few words, a shared hosting package, which is hosted on a clustered hosting platform, enables you to pay only for the reserves that you actually require, escaping a scenario where you pay for an advanced web site hosting package that you cannot really use, or for a low-end website hosting package that cannot host your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a low-end package and upgrade as your web site expands. Thus, you spare funds that you can expend on promoting the site while it is still new. Each and every site hosting package delivered by 'Lonex' sports an online site builder and over 40 popular script software platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web site design solutions. 'Lonex' supplies shared webspace hosting accounts in a number of different regions across the Globe. There is one server farm 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 encompasses the Asia Pacific region. In this way, almost the whole World is covered to present you and your web site's visitors with a stable and fast webspace hosting service at a convenient location. On the whole, the shared hosting accounts furnished 'Lonex' are really well furnished and come at an excellent price (starting from $4.25 for the Personal package).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To customers with little or no practice, a private virtual server may seem complicated to handle. That's probably why 'Lonex' also keeps semi-dedicated servers in its principal American datacenter facility in Chicago. Handling these packages is similar to managing a regular shared web site hosting account through a website hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the specs of a shared web site hosting account such as a fee-free website builder and a script installation tool, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated server web hosting account is many times greater than that of a shared package. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is approximately FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web space hosting plans. When matched against a shared web hosting account, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is great: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted Top-Level Domain quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated web hosting accounts do not come with full root-level access (we, at swiftwinds.net, consider this a tiny inconvenience), but the advantage is that they are administered through the same web hosting CP interface as the shared web hosting accounts. This signifies that a user-friendly GUI is accessible by all users who do not have enough self-condifence to manage a VPS hosting server, yet need more power and system resources than a private virtual server can supply them with. This is like that because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the same powerful leading edge web servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual server hosting plans, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical machine), while the VPS servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers supplied by 'Lonex' can be dubbed as being quite inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

In swiftwinds.net's opinion, large websites such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous web shops with thousands of customers call for a much more powerful web site hosting platform. It seems that the blokes from 'Lonex' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To meet its users' demands, 'Lonex' supplies a bouquet of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That estimation rests on the hardware specifications the hosting servers ship with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of data storage and Gigabit network interface cards will beyond doubt guarantee the fast and stable performance of any sort of web site. According to 'Lonex', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from swiftwinds.net, deem that all dedicated server specs supplied by 'Lonex' are also appropriate for establishing a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated hosting server comes with free-of-cost invoicing software and a bonus domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers delivered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at swiftwinds.net, count this as a tiny weak point, which can be amended by paying a monthly tax of $30.00 USD. So, if you are in need of assistance, the Managed Services upgrade provides an assortment of supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of site hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are available with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (swiftwinds.net's) prediction is that the outstanding point-and-click File Manager added in the Hepsia web space hosting CP will possibly make the use of any FTP software useless. Our (swiftwinds.net's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'Lonex' don't seem to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), commencing from $95.00 for the Xenia 01 package.