A survey of PhotoIreland Hosting

We, at buildunbuild.com, have picked 'PhotoIreland Hosting' to be our present domain and web hosting distributor. This is why we deem that this brief assessment of 'PhotoIreland Hosting' is perhaps going to be very helpful for other folks from all over the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all around the World, because the mere truth is that 'PhotoIreland Hosting' presently delivers domain and hosting services in multiple data center locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, covering nearly the whole World. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'PhotoIreland Hosting' in short:

Shared Web Space Hosting Plans

The first thing we, at buildunbuild.com, have noticed is the cut-rate prices of the shared site hosting packages delivered by 'PhotoIreland Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the web site hosting accounts delivered by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' are powered by a custom developed, innovative cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on a different pack of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting firm in the World will have mammoth troubles with, because cPanel is a one-server based hosting environment (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, web hosting CP, data storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being handled by one single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel site hosting vendors cannot add additional functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they must build their own file platform), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting packages, which are powered by an authentic clustered web hosting system. With a shared package, each client pays only for his/her package, thus maintaining the website hosting price very low (because many clients use one and the same server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting package, which is being served by a clustered web hosting platform, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you really demand, precluding a situation where you pay for an advanced website hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a low-end site hosting plan that cannot handle your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a tiny package and upgrade as your web page expands. Thus, you spare capital that you can spend on advertising the site while it is still brand new. Each webspace hosting plan delivered by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' boasts an online web site building tool and more than 40 widely used script-driven software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you hundreds of dollars for web site design solutions. 'PhotoIreland Hosting' offers shared web hosting packages in several different countries across the Globe. There is one datacenter in Chicago encompassing the United States and Canada; two European server farms - in England and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. In this way, almost the entire World is encompassed to supply you and your visitors with a stable and dependable web hosting solution at a desired location. On the whole, the shared hosting plans furnished 'PhotoIreland Hosting' are quite well equipped and are available at a very cheap price (beginning from €4.02 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To customers with little or no practice, a VPS may seem problematic to handle. That's perhaps why 'PhotoIreland Hosting' also offers semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main United States server farm in Chicago. Administering these accounts is comparable to administering a normal shared website hosting plan through a web page hosting Control Panel interface. They have all the specs of a shared hosting account such as a free-of-charge web site builder and a PHP script installation tool, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated package is many times bigger than that of a shared web site hosting account. For example, the CPU power that can be used is almost 5 times as much as compared with the shared site hosting accounts. When juxtaposed to a shared web page hosting plan, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD allowance is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated server web hosting plans do not include complete root access (we, at buildunbuild.com, think that this is a small weak point), but the good point is that they are managed through the very same web space hosting Control Panel user interface as the shared site hosting packages. This means that a familiar GUI is accessible by all clients who do not have enough confidence to handle a Virtual Private Server, yet demand more power and system resources than a virtual private web server can supply them with. This is so because of the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the reserves of the same powerful first-rate web servers as the ones which host the virtual hosting server packages, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to thirty per physical server), while the private virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' can be labeled as being very cheap (as far as price is concerned), beginning from €19.23 for the Semi Dedicated 1 package.

Dedicated Web Servers

In buildunbuild.com's opinion, huge websites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of customers need a much more powerful web space hosting solution. It appears that the guys from 'PhotoIreland Hosting' have drawn the same conclusion too. To answer its clients' requirements, 'PhotoIreland Hosting' provides a bouquet of dedicated web servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That evaluation stands on the hardware configurations the hosting servers include: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will beyond doubt guarantee the quick and steady performance of any kind of web site. In 'PhotoIreland Hosting's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding web sites. We, from buildunbuild.com, believe that all dedicated server packages provided by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as every hosting server arrives with free-of-cost billing software and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated hosting servers furnished by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at buildunbuild.com, regard this as a minor defect, which can be righted by paying a monthly tax of €34.25 EUR. So, if you demand help, the Managed Services upgrade provides a bouquet of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A bouquet of Control Panel (CP) user interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (buildunbuild.com's) prediction is that the splendid drag and drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel will possibly make the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol client futile. Our (buildunbuild.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'PhotoIreland Hosting' don't seem to be very modestly priced (yet the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will definitely make you smile), starting from €155.21 for the Xeon Scalable 8c package.