An assessment of NTC Hosting

We, at fotomaximo.com, have chosen 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain and web hosting supplier. This is why we consider that this short evaluation of 'NTC Hosting' is probably going to be quite useful for other people from all around the Globe in need of domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all over the World, since the mere truth is that 'NTC Hosting' currently provides domain and hosting services in several datacenter facility locations: in the US (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, encompassing practically the whole Globe. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'NTC Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Website Hosting Packages

The first detail we, at fotomaximo.com, have discerned is the cut-rate prices of the shared web hosting services offered by 'NTC Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the site hosting plans delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are powered by a custom built, futuristic cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like mail, databases, hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., runs on an autonomous bunch of servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting firm on the Earth will have considerable complications with, because cPanel is a one single server based web hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being served by one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based hosting suppliers cannot include additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they must make their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared site hosting packages, which are powered by a genuine cloud website hosting solution. With a shared web site hosting account, each customer pays only for his/her plan, thus keeping the webspace hosting price very low (since multiple customers are located on one and the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting plan, which runs on a cloud web space hosting platform, permits you to pay only for the reserves that you indeed require, avoiding a scenario where you pay for a high-end web space hosting package that you cannot actually utilize, or for a low-end site hosting account that cannot handle your web page. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end package and upgrade as your web presence expands. Thus, you spare capital that you can invest in promoting the web site while it is still brand new. Each website hosting plan offered by 'NTC Hosting' offers an online website building tool and more than 40 popular script-driven platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for website design solutions. 'NTC Hosting' distributes shared website hosting services in a number of different regions around the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago encompassing the United States and Canada; 2 European data centers - in the UK and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific region. Thus, nearly the whole World is encompassed to provide you and your web site's visitors with a steady and dependable website hosting solution at a desired place. Altogether, the shared hosting services furnished 'NTC Hosting' are quite well appointed and come at a budget price (beginning from $4.95 for the Budget plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To people with little or no practice, a Virtual Private Server may seem tough to handle. That's perhaps why 'NTC Hosting' also stores semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main United States datacenter facility in Chicago. Managing these accounts is comparable to administering a normal shared webspace hosting account via a web hosting Control Panel tool. They have all the functionalities of a shared webspace hosting plan such as a fee-free website builder and a web application installation tool, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated account is many times bigger than that of a shared hosting account. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is approximately FIVE times as much as compared with the shared web space hosting packages. When contrasted with a shared web page hosting plan, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated hosting server accounts do not come with full root-level access (we, at fotomaximo.com, think that this is a tiny disadvantage), but the advantage is that they are administered through the very same CP GUI as the shared web page hosting packages. This hints that a recognizable graphical environment is offered to all customers who are not confident enough to handle a VPS web server, yet require more power and reserves than a VPS server can confer to them. This is like that because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the reserves of the same powerful ultramodern servers as the ones which host the VPS web hosting accounts, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical machine), while the VPS servers can reach a much greater number (80 to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' can be defined as being very affordable (as far as price is concerned), starting from $35.95 for the Pioneer plan.

Dedicated Servers

In fotomaximo.com's opinion, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or famous web stores with 1000s of clients demand a much more powerful website hosting environment. It appears that the guys from 'NTC Hosting' have reached the same conclusion as well. To answer its clients' anticipations, 'NTC Hosting' offers a collection of dedicated hosting servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That assessment rests on the hardware specs the dedicated web hosting servers come with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt guarantee the quick and stable performance of any kind of website. In 'NTC Hosting's opinion, the original hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-demanding websites. We, from fotomaximo.com, believe that all dedicated server solutions supplied by 'NTC Hosting' are also suitable for kickstarting a hosting reseller business as each and every web server arrives with free-of-cost billing transaction software and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at fotomaximo.com, think that this is a minor inconvenience, which can be righted by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you need assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers a selection of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. An assortment of web hosting CP (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (fotomaximo.com's) forecast is that the impressive point and click File Manager included in the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel will probably make the use of any FTP software useless. Our (fotomaximo.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers provided by 'NTC Hosting' don't seem to be very low priced (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain allowance will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from $40.00 for the Gold 1 plan.