An evaluation of Lonex

We, at scrittle.com, have chosen 'Lonex' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. This is why we presume that this concise assessment of 'Lonex' is probably going to be quite useful for other folks from all over the Globe who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We say people from all over the World, since the simple truth is that 'Lonex' presently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous server farm facility locations: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing approximately the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Lonex' in short:

Shared Site Hosting Plans

The first thing we, at scrittle.com, have seen is the cheap prices of the shared web page hosting accounts furnished by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web page hosting packages provided by 'Lonex' are driven by an in-house created, avant-garde cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being handled by a separate pack of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting provider on the Earth will have great troubles with, since cPanel is a one single server based hosting platform (each web hosting service, like email, databases, hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being handled by one and the same web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based web page hosting firms cannot include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file system), which is at the bottom of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web hosting packages, which are powered by a genuine cloud site hosting solution. With a shared package, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus retaining the price very low (since multiple users are located on one and the same web server). In short, a shared hosting plan, which is hosted on a clustered web site hosting platform, allows you to pay just for the resources that you really need, evading a situation where you pay for a feature-rich webspace hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a small web hosting plan that cannot shelter your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks of the mouse grants you the flexibility to start with a low-end plan and upgrade as your online presence grows. Thus, you save capital that you can expend on advertising the website while it is still brand new. Each and every web site hosting package provided by 'Lonex' arrives with an online site builder and more than 40 popular script-driven software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web site design services. 'Lonex' offers shared web site hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions around the Globe. There is one data center facility in Chicago encompassing the United States and Canada; 2 European data centers - in the United Kingdom and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. In this way, approximately the entire Globe is encompassed to present you and your site's visitors with a steady and fast web site hosting service at a nearby location. All in all, the shared hosting solutions delivered 'Lonex' are really well furnished and are available at a very reasonable price (beginning from $4.25 for the Personal plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To users with little or no experience, a VPS web hosting server may seem problematic to manage. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also offers semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its principal North American data center facility in Chicago. Handling these packages is comparable to managing a typical shared web hosting account via a website hosting CP GUI. They have all the functionalities of a shared web page hosting account such as a free-of-charge site building tool and a web app installation tool, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated web server plan is many times larger than that of a shared site hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is almost 5 times as much as compared to the shared web hosting packages. When compared to a shared web hosting plan, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name quota is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated web server hosting packages do not come with full root privileges (we, at scrittle.com, think that this is a slight inconvenience), but the benefit is that they are managed via the same CP tool as the shared web space hosting plans. This hints that a user-friendly graphical user interface is offered to all clients who are not confident enough to manage a virtual private hosting server, yet are in need of more power and reserves than a private virtual web hosting server can confer to them. This is so because the semi-dedicated servers share the reserves of the very same powerful cutting edge web servers as the ones which host the virtual hosting server packages, still, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between 20 to thirty per physical machine), whereas the virtual private hosting servers can reach a much greater number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Lonex' can be branded as being quite cheap (as far as cost is concerned), starting from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In scrittle.com's opinion, big web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or popular online storefronts with 1000s of clients request a much more powerful web hosting platform. It seems that the blokes from 'Lonex' have reached the same conclusion too. To meet its users' needs, 'Lonex' provides a selection of dedicated servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That assessment rests on the hardware configurations the dedicated servers have: multi-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will beyond doubt ensure the fast and steady work of any kind of web site. According to 'Lonex', the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from scrittle.com, believe that all dedicated server configurations furnished by 'Lonex' are also suitable for establishing a hosting reseller business as each and every web hosting server ships with free-of-cost invoicing software platform and a free-of-charge domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web servers delivered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at scrittle.com, deem this a small disadvantage, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee of $30.00 USD. So, if you demand assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers a bunch of additional services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. An array of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are offered with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (scrittle.com's) prediction is that the exceptional point and click File Manager added in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel will perhaps render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software futile. Our (scrittle.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Lonex' don't seem to be very affordably priced (still the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), beginning from $95.00 for the Xenia 01 package.