A review of Lonex

We, at photographybysandy.co.uk, have chosen 'Lonex' to be our present domain and web hosting vendor. This is why we anticipate that this brief assessment of 'Lonex' is perchance going to be quite helpful for other folks from all over the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say individuals from all over the Globe, because the simple fact is that 'Lonex' presently delivers domain and hosting services in numerous data center locations: in America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing nearly the entire World. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Lonex' in a nutshell:

Shared Site Hosting Plans

The initial detail we, at photographybysandy.co.uk, have observed is the budget prices of the shared site hosting accounts supplied by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the site hosting plans provided by 'Lonex' are driven by a custom invented, innovative cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as email, databases, Control Panel, web space, DNS, stats, etc., is being handled by an individual host of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting vendor in the World will have great troubles with, because cPanel is a one single server based site hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being served by one and the same server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based web site hosting companies cannot add new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they need to build their own file platform), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared site hosting plans, which are driven by a genuine cloud webspace hosting platform. With a shared website hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her plan, thus retaining the web hosting price very low (because plenty of customers utilize one and the same server). In a few words, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web hosting system, permits you to pay solely for the reserves that you indeed need, evading a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich webspace hosting package that you cannot really use, or for a small web hosting plan that cannot accommodate your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks gives you the flexibility to start with a tiny package and upgrade as your web presence expands. So, you save funds that you can expend on publicizing the site while it is still new. Each web hosting plan delivered by 'Lonex' includes an online web site builder and over forty widely used script software applications including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for web site design solutions. 'Lonex' furnishes shared web page hosting accounts in a number of different geographical regions around the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago encompassing the United States of America and Canada; two European datacenter facilities - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. In this way, virtually the entire Earth is covered to present you and your site's visitors with a stable and reliable web space hosting service at a preferred location. All in all, the shared hosting accounts provided 'Lonex' are quite well appointed and come at a very modest price (starting from $3.95 for the Personal package).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little or no experience, a VPS web server may seem difficult to handle. That's probably why 'Lonex' also houses semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal North American data center facility in Chicago. Managing these accounts is comparable to administering a conventional shared web site hosting account through a hosting CP GUI. They have all the features of a shared web hosting package such as a free-of-cost site builder and a web app installer, but the amount of system resources offered by a semi-dedicated web server hosting account is many times bigger than that of a shared package. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web site hosting plans. When compared with a shared package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted domain name quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated hosting packages do not ship with root privileges (we, at photographybysandy.co.uk, deem this a tiny weakness), but the plus is that they are managed through the very same website hosting CP GUI as the shared web page hosting accounts. This goes to say that a user-friendly graphical environment is accessible by all clients who do not feel confident enough to administer a private virtual server, but at the same time are in need of more power and reserves than a VPS server can deliver. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful leading edge servers as the ones which accommodate the private virtual server web hosting accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per server), while the virtual servers can reach a much greater number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'Lonex' can be defined as being quite cheap (as far as price is concerned), starting from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus plan.

Dedicated Servers

In photographybysandy.co.uk's opinion, enormous sites such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous web storefronts with 1000s of customers request a much more powerful website hosting environment. It seems that the guys from 'Lonex' have drawn the same conclusion too. To satisfy its customers' needs, 'Lonex' offers an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specifications the servers come with: multi-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit network interface cards will beyond doubt guarantee the quick and steady work of any type of website. According to 'Lonex', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from photographybysandy.co.uk, believe that all dedicated server packages furnished by 'Lonex' are also appropriate for setting up a hosting reseller business as every web hosting server includes free-of-cost billing transaction software platform and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers provided by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at photographybysandy.co.uk, deem this a small defect, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax of $30.00 USD. So, if you require aid, the Managed Services upgrade provides a selection of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. Several hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are offered with each of the hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (photographybysandy.co.uk's) forecast is that the amazing drag and drop File Manager added in the Hepsia site hosting CP will perhaps render the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol software pointless. Our (photographybysandy.co.uk's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'Lonex' don't appear to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name allowance will no doubt make you smile), commencing from $40.00 for the Optima 01 plan.