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A review of BRAND A CLOUD

We, at smartplace.in, have selected 'BRAND A CLOUD' to be our present domain and web hosting provider. Therefore we anticipate that this brief assessment of 'BRAND A CLOUD' is probably going to be very helpful for other individuals from all around the Globe who need domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all over the World, since the simple fact is that 'BRAND A CLOUD' currently furnishes domain and hosting services in multiple data center facility locations: in the USA (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering nearly the entire Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'BRAND A CLOUD' in brief:

Shared Hosting Plans

The initial detail we, at smartplace.in, have discerned is the cheap prices of the shared web page hosting accounts offered by 'BRAND A CLOUD'. 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 packages offered by 'BRAND A CLOUD' are driven by an in-house designed, modern cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like email, databases, website hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, statistics, etc., runs on an autonomous set of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting distributor in the World will have immense predicaments with, because cPanel is a one single server based web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being dealt with by one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting distributors cannot add new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they have to invent their own file platform), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web hosting packages, which are driven by an authentic clustered site hosting system. With a shared site hosting account, each customer pays just for his/her plan, thus retaining the web hosting price very low (because plenty of customers share one and the same hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web hosting solution, allows you to pay only for the reserves that you really demand, avoiding a situation where you pay for an advanced web hosting plan that you cannot really use, or for a low-end web site hosting package that cannot handle your site. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only two clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a low-end plan and upgrade as your online presence grows. So, you save money that you can invest in publicizing the web site while it is still new. Each and every web hosting package supplied by 'BRAND A CLOUD' contains an online website building tool and more than 40 widely used script software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'BRAND A CLOUD' delivers shared webspace hosting accounts in several different countries across the Globe. There is one server farm in Chicago covering the United States and Canada; two European server farms - in Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. In this way, nearly the entire World is encompassed to present you and your web site's visitors with a stable and fast webspace hosting solution at a desired place. On the whole, the shared hosting services delivered 'BRAND A CLOUD' are very well furnished and are available at a very attractive price (starting from $10.49 for the Enterprise plan).

Dedicated Servers

In smartplace.in's opinion, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular online storefronts with 1000s of customers demand a much more powerful web page hosting platform. It appears that the blokes from 'BRAND A CLOUD' have come to the same conclusion as well. To meet its clients' anticipations, 'BRAND A CLOUD' provides a selection of dedicated hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That assessment stands on the hardware configurations the web hosting servers arrive with: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of data storage and Gigabit NICs will undoubtedly ensure the fast and steady performance of any sort of website. In 'BRAND A CLOUD's opinion, the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring web sites. We, from smartplace.in, think that all dedicated server specifications supplied by 'BRAND A CLOUD' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as each web server arrives with free-of-cost billing transaction software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated servers supplied by 'BRAND A CLOUD' are all unmanaged. We, at smartplace.in, consider this a tiny problem, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly fee of $30.00 USD. So, if you demand backing, the Managed Services upgrade includes a selection of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. An array of webspace hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (smartplace.in's) forecast is that the amazing drag and drop File Manager included in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel will probably make the use of any FTP client futile. Our (smartplace.in's) inference is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'BRAND A CLOUD' don't seem to be very low priced (still the Hepsia hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from $145.00 for the Xeon Scalable 8c plan.