An assessment of Lonex

We, at glassartphotography.com, have picked 'Lonex' to be our present domain and web hosting vendor. Hence we expect that this concise evaluation of 'Lonex' is perhaps going to be very useful for other people from all over the World in search for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all around the World, because the simple fact is that 'Lonex' currently delivers domain and hosting services in multiple server farm facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering practically the whole planet. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Lonex' in short:

Shared Site Hosting Plans

The first detail we, at glassartphotography.com, have detected is the cheap prices of the shared web page hosting packages provided 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 web page hosting accounts offered by 'Lonex' are driven by an in-house created, ultramodern cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on an autonomous group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting firm in the World will have mammoth predicaments with, since cPanel is a one single server based site hosting environment (each hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, webspace hosting CP, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on a single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel hosting firms are unable to add extra functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they must concoct their own file platform), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared webspace hosting accounts, which are driven by an actual clustered web page hosting system. With a shared site hosting package, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus maintaining the hosting price very low (because numerous customers utilize the same web server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which is hosted on a cloud web page hosting system, enables you to pay solely for the resources that you really require, precluding a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich website hosting account that you cannot really utilize, or for a tiny hosting package that cannot shelter your website. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to commence with a small plan and upgrade as your web presence grows. That way, you spare capital that you can expend on promoting the web site while it is still new. Each web hosting package offered by 'Lonex' boasts an online website building tool and over 40 popular script-driven software applications such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web site design services. 'Lonex' distributes shared web space hosting plans in several different regions around the Globe. There is one server farm in Chicago covering the US and Canada; 2 European server farm facilities - in Great Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. In this way, approximately the whole planet is encompassed to present you and your site's visitors with a stable and fast site hosting solution at a preferred location. All in all, the shared hosting services supplied 'Lonex' are really well appointed and are available at a very modest price (starting from $4.25 for the Personal package).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To people with little to no experience, a private virtual server may appear hard to handle. That's probably why 'Lonex' also keeps semi-dedicated servers in its principal North American data center facility in Chicago. Managing these packages is similar to handling a typical shared webspace hosting package through a site hosting CP user interface. They have all the features of a shared web site hosting package such as a free-of-charge website building tool and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated web server hosting package is many times larger than that of a shared hosting plan. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is approximately 5 times as much as compared to the shared hosting plans. When juxtaposed to a shared website hosting plan, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is enormous: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a trend too. The semi-dedicated server hosting packages do not come with complete root access (we, at glassartphotography.com, deem this a slight negative point), but the good point is that they are managed through the same web hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared website hosting plans. This goes to say that a recognizable graphical user interface is accessible by all users who do not have enough confidence to manage a private virtual hosting server, but at the same time are in need of more power and reserves than a Virtual Private Server can offer. This is so because of the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the reserves of the same powerful ultramodern hosting servers as the ones which host the private virtual server hosting accounts, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to thirty per server), whereas the virtual hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Lonex' can be branded as being very affordable (as far as price is concerned), starting from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In glassartphotography.com's opinion, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous web storefronts with 1000s of clients request a much more powerful web space hosting solution. It seems that the blokes from 'Lonex' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To meet its clients' anticipations, 'Lonex' provides an assortment of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware specs the hosting servers include: multi-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of web space and Gigabit network cards will beyond doubt ensure the fast and stable work of any kind of web site. In 'Lonex's opinion, the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-demanding sites. We, from glassartphotography.com, deem that all dedicated server solutions provided by 'Lonex' are also appropriate for beginning a hosting reseller business as each and every hosting server provides free-of-cost invoicing transaction software platform and a charge-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers offered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at glassartphotography.com, think that this is a tiny problem, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $30.00 USD. So, if you need support, the Managed Services upgrade includes several extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A number of website hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (glassartphotography.com's) forecast is that the amazing drag-and-drop File Manager added in the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel will possibly render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol software pointless. Our (glassartphotography.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Lonex' don't seem to be very cheap (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), beginning from $60.00 for the Xenia 01 plan.