A review of LivingstoneIT Hosting

We, at siriusconsultants.co.nz, have chosen 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' to be our current domain and hosting supplier. This is why we believe that this succinct review of 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' is maybe going to be very helpful for other individuals from all around the World who are searching for domain name and web hosting services. We state folks from all around the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' presently delivers domain and hosting services in multiple server farm facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, encompassing virtually the entire planet. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' in a nutshell:

Shared Web Site Hosting Services

The initial detail we, at siriusconsultants.co.nz, have spotted is the low-cost prices of the shared webspace hosting services furnished by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the web hosting packages supplied by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' are powered by an in-house designed, avant-garde cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as email, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being served by an independent group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting company on the Earth will have big predicaments with, since cPanel is a one single server based web site hosting environment (each hosting service, such as email, databases, web site hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., runs on one single web server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting providers cannot include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to develop their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared webspace hosting packages, which are driven by a real cloud hosting system. With a shared hosting account, each customer pays solely for his/her plan, thus preserving the web hosting price amazingly low (since many clients use the same web hosting server). In brief, a shared hosting package, which is hosted on a cloud webspace hosting platform, enables you to pay solely for the reserves that you really require, avoiding a situation where you pay for an advanced website hosting package that you cannot actually utilize, or for a low-end web page hosting package that cannot accommodate your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a basic package and upgrade as your web presence grows. So, you spare money that you can invest in promoting the web page while it is still new. Each and every website hosting plan supplied by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' ships with an online website builder and more than forty widely used script software platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web page design solutions. 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' offers shared web page hosting services in several different countries around the World. There is one server farm facility in Chicago covering the US and Canada; two European datacenters - in Great Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. In this way, virtually the whole Globe is covered to supply you and your website's visitors with a steady and fast hosting service at a desired place. All in all, the shared hosting services provided 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' are really well furnished and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $5.83 for the Starter package).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To customers with little to no practice, a virtual private web server may appear complicated to manage. That's probably why 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' also keeps semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Handling these accounts is similar to handling a standard shared web space hosting account via a web space hosting CP interface. They have all the specs of a shared web space hosting package such as a free-of-cost website builder and a script installer, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated web hosting account is many times larger than that of a shared hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is almost FIVE times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting accounts. When compared with a shared plan, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a standard as well. The semi-dedicated web server plans do not include complete server root access (we, at siriusconsultants.co.nz, consider this a small weak point), but the good point is that they are managed through the very same web site hosting CP GUI as the shared site hosting plans. This indicates that a user-friendly GUI is available to all clients who are not self-confident enough to manage a virtual private web server, yet require more power and reserves than a private virtual hosting server can deliver. This is like that because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the same powerful cutting edge servers as the ones which accommodate the private virtual server hosting packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), whereas the virtual private web servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to 120 per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' can be branded as being very inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Fast plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In siriusconsultants.co.nz's opinion, enormous websites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous online stores with 1000s of customers demand a much more powerful site hosting platform. It seems that the guys from 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' have reached the same conclusion too. To answer its clients' requirements, 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' supplies a bouquet of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That assessment rests on the hardware specs the dedicated web hosting servers ship with: multi-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of data storage and Gigabit NICs will doubtlessly guarantee the fast and steady work of any sort of website. In 'LivingstoneIT Hosting's opinion, the primary hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from siriusconsultants.co.nz, think that all dedicated server plans supplied by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' are also suitable for starting a hosting reseller business as every web hosting server comes with free-of-charge billing transaction software and a free-of-charge domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web servers supplied by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at siriusconsultants.co.nz, consider this a small defect, which can be amended by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you need backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes several extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated web server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. An array of web page hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (siriusconsultants.co.nz's) forecast is that the outstanding point-and-click File Manager offered by the Hepsia CP will possibly make the utilization of any File Transfer Protocol client useless. Our (siriusconsultants.co.nz's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'LivingstoneIT Hosting' don't seem to be very modestly priced (yet the Hepsia web hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), starting from $40.00 for the Atom 2c package.