An assessment of Lonex

We, at aviancavirtual.com.br, have chosen 'Lonex' to be our present domain and web hosting vendor. This is why we believe that this concise review of 'Lonex' is perchance going to be quite helpful for other folks from all around the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state people from all around the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'Lonex' currently provides domain and hosting services in multiple datacenter facility sites: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing nearly the whole Globe. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Lonex' in brief:

Shared Site Hosting Plans

The first detail we, at aviancavirtual.com.br, have detected is the low prices of the shared website hosting services furnished by 'Lonex'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the web space hosting accounts furnished by 'Lonex' are driven by a custom invented, ultramodern cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, like email, databases, hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, etc., runs on an autonomous host of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Earth will have considerable difficulties with, since cPanel is a one single server based web space hosting platform (each hosting service, such as electronic mail, databases, site hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, runs on a single hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based website hosting firms are unable to include additional functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they have to construct their own file system), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web site hosting accounts, which are driven by a real clustered web site hosting platform. With a shared web space hosting account, each customer pays solely for his/her plan, thus preserving the web site hosting price amazingly low (because many users are hosted on one and the same web hosting server). In short, a shared hosting plan, which is hosted on a clustered web hosting system, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you indeed require, averting a situation where you pay for an advanced website hosting plan that you cannot really use, or for a low-end webspace hosting plan that cannot shelter your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a small package and upgrade as your web site grows. Thus, you economize funds that you can invest in promoting the site while it is still new. Each and every webspace hosting plan delivered by 'Lonex' contains an online site builder and over forty widely used script software platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for web page design solutions. 'Lonex' delivers shared site hosting services in several different regions across the World. There is one server farm facility in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; 2 European datacenters - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. Hence, approximately the entire World is encompassed to provide you and your web site's visitors with a steady and fast website hosting solution at a preferred location. As a whole, the shared hosting packages provided 'Lonex' are very well furnished and come at a very inexpensive price (starting from $3.95 for the Personal plan).

Virtual Private Web Servers

As your site gets more well known, more people will drop in on it at the same time, thus generating bigger hosting server load. Shared web hosting plans have some restrictions so that all the hosting customers on the server have their part of the system reserves. So, for more famous web sites, a private virtual hosting server (VPS) would be a finer solution. A virtual web server offers the best proportion between performance and price. It emulates a dedicated web server and with 'Lonex' all Virtual Private Servers that are made available arrive with full root privileges and a collection of Operating Systems (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and webspace hosting Control Panel GUIs (Hepsia, cPanel, DirectAdmin) to pick from. Please pay precise heed to the Hepsia website hosting CP. As opposed to cPanel (which costs 10.00 USD per month on top of the selected virtual server web hosting package's price), Hepsia is added at no further monthly cost (it's free with all private virtual server hosting packages and runs with all Linux OSs: CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, while cPanel is compatible only with CentOS) and includes a great Domain Manager where you can register, migrate, renew and manipulate TLDs (cPanel does not have such a section at all)! The more experienced clients can administer the VPS via a Secure Shell console, but novices can also manage it effortlessly through a Parallels Virtuozzo or OpenVZ virtualization client, installing server-side software applications, restarting given services or the entire VPS web server. Pay attention to this thing: the chief benefit of the virtual hosting server packages is that if the hosting server load exceeds the plan's limit, additional resources can be allocated to this specific private virtual hosting server for a specific stretch of time as long as they are available on the physical web server. As a whole, a VPS web hosting server hugely surpasses the capacities of any shared web page hosting plan and the extra reserves provide an even more steady and dependable service. With 'Lonex', the prices for the private virtual web server hosting accounts begin at only $25.00 for the VPS Light package. All virtual hosting server accounts are available in Chicago, London and Sydney, guaranteeing optimum performance for your sites.

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To clients with little to no experience, a VPS may seem tough to administer. That's perhaps why 'Lonex' also keeps semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main North American data center facility in Chicago. Handling these accounts is comparable to administering a regular shared web site hosting plan via a webspace hosting CP interface. They have all the functionalities of a shared hosting package such as a free website building tool and a web application installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated server web hosting account is many times greater than that of a shared plan. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is approximately 5 times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting accounts. When compared with a shared web space hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is great: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD quota is a standard too. The semi-dedicated server hosting packages do not come with full root privileges (we, at aviancavirtual.com.br, regard this as a tiny problem), but the good point is that they are administered through the same webspace hosting Control Panel user interface as the shared web space hosting packages. This goes to say that a recognizable graphical interface is available to all users who do not have enough confidence to administer a VPS server, but at the same time are in need of more power and features than a Virtual Private Server can bestow on them. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful avant-garde hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS web server hosting accounts, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), whereas the VPSs can reach a much higher number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers supplied by 'Lonex' can be classified as being quite inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $30.00 for the Semi-dedicated Plus package.

Dedicated Servers

In aviancavirtual.com.br's opinion, big web sites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous online shops with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful web hosting solution. It seems that the blokes from 'Lonex' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To answer its customers' anticipations, 'Lonex' provides a collection of dedicated web servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That estimation stands on the hardware configurations the servers are offering: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will no doubt guarantee the quick and steady work of any sort of website. According to 'Lonex', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from aviancavirtual.com.br, think that all dedicated server solutions supplied by 'Lonex' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated server comes with free billing software and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web servers furnished by 'Lonex' are all unmanaged. We, at aviancavirtual.com.br, deem this a slight disadvantage, which can be corrected by paying a monthly fee which amounts to $30.00 USD. So, if you require backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes a bunch of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bunch of site hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are available with each of the hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (aviancavirtual.com.br's) forecast is that the excellent drag and drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia web hosting CP will possibly make the use of any File Transfer Protocol client pointless. Our (aviancavirtual.com.br's) inference is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'Lonex' don't appear to be very cheap (still the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name allowance will no doubt make you smile), commencing from $160.00 for the Optima package.