An assessment of Lonex

We, at turl.me, have chosen 'Lonex' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. Hence we suppose that this succinct review of 'Lonex' is maybe 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 around the Globe, because the simple fact is that 'Lonex' presently offers domain and hosting services in numerous data center facility sites: 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 almost the whole World. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could expect from 'Lonex' in short:

Shared Web Space Hosting Plans

The initial thing we, at turl.me, have noted is the cut-rate prices of the shared web space hosting accounts supplied by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good news here is that the website hosting accounts provided by 'Lonex' are driven by an in-house built, advanced cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, stats, and so on, runs on a separate stack of hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Globe will have mammoth problems with, because cPanel is a single server based web page hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, site hosting CP, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being dealt with by one and the same server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel site hosting firms are not able to include new functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they must develop their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting plans, which are driven by a genuine clustered webspace hosting platform. With a shared website hosting package, each client pays only for his/her plan, thus maintaining the webspace hosting price amazingly low (since numerous customers utilize one and the same web server). In short, a shared hosting plan, which runs on a clustered web site hosting system, allows you to pay only for the resources that you indeed demand, evading a scenario where you pay for an advanced hosting plan that you cannot actually utilize, or for a basic hosting package that cannot handle your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to commence with a small package and upgrade as your web presence grows. In this way, you economize funds that you can spend on publicizing the website while it is still brand new. Every web space hosting package delivered by 'Lonex' offers an online website building tool and over 40 widely used script-driven software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for site design solutions. 'Lonex' provides shared web page hosting services in several different regions across the Globe. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the United States and Canada; two European datacenters - in Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. Thus, practically the whole Earth is encompassed to supply you and your website's visitors with a steady and reliable website hosting service at a convenient place. Altogether, the shared hosting services provided 'Lonex' are very well stocked and are available at a very modest price (starting from $3.95 for the Personal plan).

Virtual Private Hosting Servers

As your site becomes more well known, more individuals will drop in on it at the same time, thus initiating higher server load. Shared web hosting packages fix certain restrictions so that all the hosting clients on the hosting server have their quota of the system reserves. Therefore, for more well known sites, a virtual web server (VPS) would be a better option. A Virtual Private Server offers the ideal ratio between performance and cost. It mimics a dedicated web hosting server and with 'Lonex' all Virtual Private Servers on offer include full root privileges and a selection of Operating Systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and Control Panel tools (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to pick from. Please pay close attention to the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. In contrast with cPanel (which costs $10.00 a month atop the preferred virtual private web server hosting package's price), Hepsia is available at no additional monthly cost (it's free with all virtual web hosting server plans and is compatible with all Linux Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel performs exclusively with CentOS) and includes a superb Domain Manager where you can register, relocate, renew and administer Top-Level Domains (cPanel does not feature such a GUI at all)! The more knowledgeable customers can administer the VPS via an SSH client program, but greenhorns can also manage it easily through a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization software, installing server-side software, rebooting given services or the whole private virtual web server. Give attention to this detail: the main advantage of the VPS server hosting plans is that if the web server load exceeds the account's allocation, additional resources can be allotted to this particular virtual private web hosting server for a certain amount of time if they are available on the physical web server. As a whole, a VPS web server vastly exceeds the capabilities of any shared hosting package and the additional reserves ensure an even more stable and secure service. With 'Lonex', the prices for the virtual web hosting server accounts start at just $25.00 for the VPS Light plan. All private virtual web hosting server accounts are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, offering optimal performance for your sites.

Semi-dedicated Servers

To customers with little to no experience, a virtual private web server may appear problematic to administer. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also houses semi-dedicated web servers in its principal North American datacenter in Chicago. Managing these accounts is comparable to administering a typical shared webspace hosting plan through a web site hosting CP tool. They have all the specs of a shared web page hosting plan such as a free-of-charge website building tool and a PHP script installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated hosting account is many times larger than that of a shared web site hosting plan. For instance, the CPU power that can be utilized is nearly 5 times as much as compared to the shared web space hosting plans. When contrasted with a shared web space hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is enormous: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD allowance is a standard too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting packages do not arrive with root access (we, at turl.me, deem this a slight problem), but the advantage is that they are administered via the same website hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared webspace hosting plans. This hints that a user-friendly graphical user interface is offered to all users who do not feel self-confident enough to handle a virtual web server, yet demand more power and features than a virtual server can confer to them. This is so because of the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the resources of the very same powerful first-rate servers as the ones which host the virtual web server accounts, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), whereas the virtual private hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to one hundred and twenty per server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Lonex' can be dubbed as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

According to turl.me, huge sites such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous online shops with thousands of clients demand a much more powerful web hosting solution. It seems that the chaps from 'Lonex' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To answer its customers' requirements, 'Lonex' supplies an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can cope with millions of daily hits. That evaluation is based on the hardware specs the dedicated hosting servers have: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of storage space and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly ensure the fast and steady performance of any kind of website. According to 'Lonex', the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding websites. We, from turl.me, believe that all dedicated server accounts offered by 'Lonex' are also appropriate for commencing a hosting reseller business as every dedicated web server arrives with free invoicing software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web hosting servers furnished by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at turl.me, regard this as a little defect, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $30.00 USD. So, if you are in need of aid, the Managed Services upgrade includes an array of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (turl.me's) prognosis is that the impressive drag and drop File Manager available in the Hepsia web hosting CP will possibly make the recourse to any FTP software program futile. Our (turl.me's) inference is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Lonex' don't appear to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain allowance will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from $160.00 for the Optima plan.