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A review of BLUE RIBBON HOSTING

We, at bluevictoriancandles.com, have selected 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' to be our current domain name and web hosting vendor. Hence we suppose that this brief assessment of 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' is probably going to be quite helpful for other individuals from all over the Globe in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We state folks from all over the World, because the simple fact is that 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' presently delivers domain and hosting services in several data center facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering practically the entire planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' in a few words:

Shared Web Page Hosting Accounts

The first detail we, at bluevictoriancandles.com, have seen is the low-cost prices of the shared web space hosting packages furnished by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the hosting packages supplied by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' are driven by a custom created, avant-garde cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, webspace hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being dealt with by an autonomous host of servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting corporation on the Earth will have big difficulties with, because cPanel is a one single server based webspace hosting platform (each hosting service, like mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being tackled by one single server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel site hosting corporations cannot add additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to make their own file system), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web page hosting packages, which are driven by a genuine clustered website hosting platform. With a shared website hosting package, each customer pays just for his/her package, thus retaining the webspace hosting price really low (since multiple customers share one and the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting package, which runs on a cloud web page hosting solution, enables you to pay just for the reserves that you really demand, averting a situation where you pay for a feature-rich web hosting account that you cannot really utilize, or for a low-end web hosting plan that cannot accommodate your site. The option to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end package and upgrade as your website expands. Hence, you economize capital that you can spend on publicizing the web site while it is still brand new. Every website hosting plan delivered by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' comprises an online site builder and over 40 widely used script software applications among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for website design services. 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' delivers shared hosting accounts in several different countries around the Globe. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; two European data center facilities - in the United Kingdom and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific. Hence, virtually the entire Globe is encompassed to provide you and your web site's visitors with a stable and reliable web site hosting service at a convenient place. All in all, the shared hosting plans furnished 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' are quite well furnished and come at a low-cost price (starting from $6.25 for the Beginner Plan package).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To clients with little or no practice, a virtual private hosting server may appear difficult to handle. That's probably why 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' also hosts semi-dedicated servers in its main North American server farm in Chicago. Administering these packages is comparable to handling a conventional shared site hosting plan via a web space hosting CP GUI. They have all the functionalities of a shared site hosting plan such as a fee-free web site building tool and a web application installation tool, but the amount of system resources typical of a semi-dedicated web hosting server account is many times greater than that of a shared site hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is approximately 5 times as much as compared with the shared webspace hosting packages. When juxtaposed to a shared web hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted domain name quota is a trend as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting server accounts do not ship with complete root access (we, at bluevictoriancandles.com, consider this a minor downside), but the good point is that they are administered through the very same web page hosting Control Panel tool as the shared web page hosting packages. This suggests that a familiar graphical interface is offered to all customers who do not have enough confidence to handle a virtual web server, but at the same time demand more power and system resources than a private virtual hosting server can give them. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the reserves of the same powerful first-rate hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS server web hosting accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical machine), whereas the private virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' can be classified as being quite affordable (as far as cost is concerned), starting from $20.00 for the Manager plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In bluevictoriancandles.com's opinion, enormous web sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous web stores with 1000s of customers require a much more powerful website hosting solution. It appears that the guys from 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' have reached the same conclusion as well. To answer its customers' anticipations, 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' offers an array of dedicated servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That evaluation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated web servers boast: multi-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of disk space and Gigabit network cards will no doubt ensure the fast and steady work of any sort of web site. In 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING's opinion, the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from bluevictoriancandles.com, consider that all dedicated server specs offered by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' are also appropriate for kickstarting a hosting reseller business as each and every web hosting server includes free invoicing transaction software and a free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers furnished by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' are all unmanaged. We, at bluevictoriancandles.com, deem this a minor negative point, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you require backing, the Managed Services upgrade provides a handful of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A handful of site hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (bluevictoriancandles.com's) prediction is that the outstanding point and click File Manager included in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel will perhaps render the use of any FTP client useless. Our (bluevictoriancandles.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers delivered by 'BLUE RIBBON HOSTING' don't appear to be very cheap (still the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), beginning from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c package.