An assessment of Lonex

We, at abbozzi.com, have selected 'Lonex' to be our current domain name and hosting provider. This is why we deem that this concise evaluation of 'Lonex' is perchance going to be very useful for other folks from all around the World in search for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all around the World, since the simple truth is that 'Lonex' currently offers domain and hosting services in multiple data center locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing almost the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Lonex' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Site Hosting Packages

The initial detail we, at abbozzi.com, have observed is the budget prices of the shared web space hosting packages supplied by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the hosting plans furnished by 'Lonex' are powered by an in-house designed, state-of-the-art cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being handled by an independent group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting vendor in the World will have big difficulties with, since cPanel is a one single server based web page hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being handled by one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web page hosting suppliers are unable to add new functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file platform), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web page hosting packages, which are powered by an authentic cloud web site hosting platform. With a shared website hosting plan, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus retaining the web space hosting price very low (because plenty of users share one and the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting account, which is hosted on a clustered web page hosting system, enables you to pay solely for the reserves that you actually need, refraining from a scenario where you pay for a high-end web space hosting plan that you cannot really utilize, or for a small web page hosting package that cannot host your web site. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two clicks gives you the flexibility to start with a basic plan and upgrade as your web page expands. Thus, you spare cash that you can spend on advertising the website while it is still brand new. Every website hosting package offered by 'Lonex' boasts an online website builder and more than 40 widely used script-driven software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for site design solutions. 'Lonex' delivers shared site hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions around the Globe. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; 2 European datacenter facilities - in England and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, virtually the whole planet is covered to present you and your website's visitors with a steady and reliable webspace hosting service at a preferred place. Altogether, the shared hosting services furnished 'Lonex' are very well stocked and are available at a very cheap price (starting from $3.95 for the Personal package).

Private Virtual Hosting Servers

As your site grows more famous, more people will open it simultaneously, thus making bigger web server load. Shared web hosting accounts impose given limitations so that all the web hosting clients on the server have their cut of the system reserves. Therefore, for more well known web sites, a private virtual hosting server (VPS) would be a better selection. A private virtual server offers the best proportion between performance and price. It mimics a dedicated web server and with 'Lonex' all Virtual Private Servers on offer include root access and a collection of OSs (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and web hosting Control Panel interfaces (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to select from. Please pay keen attention to the Hepsia hosting CP. Unlike cPanel (which costs 10.00 USD a month atop the preferred VPS server web hosting plan's cost), Hepsia comes at no extra monthly cost (it's free with all private virtual web hosting server accounts and works with all Linux Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel performs exclusively with CentOS) and sports a great Domain Manager where you can register, relocate, renew and administer top-level domain names (cPanel does not offer such a user interface at all)! The more experienced users can manage the VPS via a Secure Shell client program, but greenhorns can also manage it effortlessly via a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization console, installing server-side software applications, rebooting given services or the whole virtual private web server. Pay heed to this thing: the major advantage of the virtual private web server plans is that if the web server load surpasses the plan's limit, extra resources can be allocated to this specific VPS hosting server for a given span of time as long as they are available on the physical hosting server. As a whole, a VPS hosting server vastly exceeds the capacities of any shared site hosting package and the additional reserves offer an even more steady and dependable service. With 'Lonex', the prices for the private virtual server web hosting plans commence at just $25.00 for the VPS Light plan. All VPS server web hosting plans are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, offering optimum performance for your sites.

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To customers with little or no experience, a private virtual server may seem troublesome to manage. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also stores semi-dedicated web servers in its main American server farm in Chicago. Administering these packages is comparable to managing a standard shared web page hosting plan via a Control Panel GUI. They have all the features of a shared account such as a free-of-charge website builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated web server hosting package is many times bigger than that of a shared plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is almost FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web hosting plans. When compared to 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 TLD quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated web hosting packages do not offer complete server root access (we, at abbozzi.com, count this as a slight problem), but the good point is that they are administered through the same webspace hosting Control Panel tool as the shared web site hosting packages. This indicates that a well-known GUI is available to all clients who do not have enough self-condifence to handle a virtual server, but at the same time need more power and features than a virtual web hosting server can bestow on them. This is so owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the same powerful cutting edge hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual server hosting plans, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical server), while the VPSs can reach a much bigger number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'Lonex' can be categorized as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Web Servers

According to abbozzi.com, huge web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or popular web stores with 1000s of clients call for a much more powerful web site hosting platform. It appears that the blokes from 'Lonex' have come to the same conclusion as well. To fulfil its customers' anticipations, 'Lonex' offers a number of dedicated servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That estimate rests on the hardware specs the dedicated servers come with: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly guarantee the fast and stable work of any type of web site. In 'Lonex's opinion, the primary hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from abbozzi.com, believe that all dedicated server plans supplied by 'Lonex' are also suitable for establishing a hosting reseller business as every dedicated hosting server offers free invoicing software and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers delivered by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at abbozzi.com, regard this as a minor minus, which can be corrected by paying a monthly fee of $30.00 USD. So, if you need backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes a selection of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. Several website hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (abbozzi.com's) forecast is that the remarkable drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia web site hosting CP will possibly make the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software program futile. Our (abbozzi.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Lonex' don't seem to be very cheap (still the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), starting from $160.00 for the Optima package.