A survey of NTC Hosting

We, at maracrestacamp.com, have chosen 'NTC Hosting' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. Hence we suppose that this short assessment of 'NTC Hosting' is perhaps going to be very helpful for other people from all over the World in search for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say folks from all over the World, since the mere fact is that 'NTC Hosting' currently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous data center sites: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing approximately the entire Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'NTC Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Site Hosting Services

The first thing we, at maracrestacamp.com, have detected is the cut-rate prices of the shared hosting solutions provided by 'NTC Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the website hosting packages delivered by 'NTC Hosting' are driven by a custom devised, avant-garde cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, website hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by an individual stack of servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Globe will have considerable predicaments with, because cPanel is a one-server based web site hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, web hosting CP, data storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being tackled by one single server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web space hosting distributors cannot add additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to concoct their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web space hosting accounts, which are powered by a real clustered web space hosting solution. With a shared web space hosting account, each customer pays only for his/her account, thus keeping the website hosting price amazingly low (since plenty of users share the same hosting server). In short, a shared hosting package, which runs on a cloud hosting system, enables you to pay only for the reserves that you really require, precluding a situation where you pay for a high-end web page hosting account that you cannot actually use, or for a low-end website hosting plan that cannot host your web site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to kick off with a tiny plan and upgrade as your web site grows. In this way, you spare cash that you can expend on publicizing the site while it is still brand new. Every web space hosting package furnished by 'NTC Hosting' sports an online site builder and more than forty widely used script platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for site design solutions. 'NTC Hosting' delivers shared webspace hosting solutions in a number of different regions around the Globe. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in England and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. That way, nearly the whole Globe is encompassed to present you and your web page's visitors with a steady and fast hosting service at a nearby place. Altogether, the shared hosting accounts delivered 'NTC Hosting' are quite well stocked and are available at a good price (starting from $5.25 for the Budget package).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little to no practice, a virtual private web hosting server may appear problematic to manage. That's perhaps why 'NTC Hosting' also houses semi-dedicated servers in its principal US data center facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is comparable to managing a standard shared hosting package through a website hosting CP interface. They have all the specs of a shared web site hosting plan such as a free-of-charge site builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated server package is many times greater than that of a shared site hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared with the shared accounts. When compared to a shared site hosting account, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a standard as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting server accounts do not include complete root access (we, at maracrestacamp.com, think of this as a minor downside), but the plus is that they are managed through the same web site hosting Control Panel user interface as the shared web hosting plans. This goes to say that a well-known graphical user interface is available to all customers who are not confident enough to administer a VPS, but at the same time require more power and reserves than a virtual web hosting server can offer. This is so because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the same powerful first-rate web hosting servers as the ones which host the private virtual web server accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per server), whereas the private virtual web servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to 120 per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'NTC Hosting' can be categorized as being quite cheap (as far as price is concerned), starting from $35.95 for the Pioneer package.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to maracrestacamp.com, large web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous web stores with thousands of customers need a much more powerful web hosting environment. It appears that the fellows from 'NTC Hosting' have drawn the same conclusion too. To satisfy its customers' requirements, 'NTC Hosting' delivers a collection of dedicated web hosting servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That estimation stands on the hardware specs the dedicated servers arrive with: multi-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will definitely ensure the quick and steady work of any sort of web site. In 'NTC Hosting's opinion, the original hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-demanding sites. We, from maracrestacamp.com, consider that all dedicated server accounts supplied by 'NTC Hosting' are also appropriate for beginning a hosting reseller business as each server provides free invoice transaction software and a charge-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web hosting servers provided by 'NTC Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at maracrestacamp.com, consider this a slight defect, which can be corrected by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of help, the Managed Services upgrade provides several supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bunch of web site hosting CP (CP) interfaces are available with each of the hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (maracrestacamp.com's) prediction is that the splendid point and click File Manager available in the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel will probably render the recourse to any FTP software pointless. Our (maracrestacamp.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'NTC Hosting' don't seem to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia website hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), starting from $60.00 for the Diamond 1 plan.