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A review of WhitePointerNet

We, at hotpinkbanana.com, have selected 'WhitePointerNet' to be our present domain and hosting provider. This is why we anticipate that this short review of 'WhitePointerNet' is perchance going to be quite helpful for other people from all over the Globe who seek domain name and web hosting services. We state individuals from all over the Globe, since the simple truth is that 'WhitePointerNet' currently furnishes domain and hosting services in multiple data center locations: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering virtually the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'WhitePointerNet' in a nutshell:

Shared Website Hosting Plans

The initial thing we, at hotpinkbanana.com, have observed is the cut-rate prices of the shared web site hosting plans offered by 'WhitePointerNet'. 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 site hosting packages supplied by 'WhitePointerNet' are driven by a custom designed, ultramodern cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, like mail, databases, web page hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being dealt with by a different bunch of servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting supplier on the Earth will have mammoth predicaments with, because cPanel is a single server based web space hosting environment (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, web hosting CP, web space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being served by one single web server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web site hosting vendors are not able to add extra functionality and handle it the way they want it) and there is no open source file platform (they must build their own file platform), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting packages, which are driven by a genuine cloud website hosting platform. With a shared plan, each customer pays only for his/her plan, thus retaining the web space hosting price very low (since a lot of customers share the same web server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting plan, which is hosted on a clustered web site hosting system, permits you to pay solely for the reserves that you actually need, precluding a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich web space hosting package that you cannot actually utilize, or for a low-end web site hosting package that cannot shelter your web site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a low-end plan and upgrade as your online presence grows. Thus, you save funds that you can spend on advertising the website while it is still new. Every site hosting account furnished by 'WhitePointerNet' ships with an online website building tool and over forty popular script-driven platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for web site design solutions. 'WhitePointerNet' supplies shared website hosting solutions in a number of different countries across the World. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the United States of America and Canada; 2 European datacenters - in Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, practically the entire planet is encompassed to provide you and your web page's visitors with a stable and dependable website hosting service at a desired place. Altogether, the shared hosting solutions supplied 'WhitePointerNet' are very well stocked and come at a very affordable price (starting from A$7.92 for the Economy plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To clients with little to no practice, a virtual server may seem tough to manage. That's perhaps why 'WhitePointerNet' also stores semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its principal American datacenter in Chicago. Managing these plans is similar to handling a typical shared site hosting account via a web page hosting CP interface. They have all the features of a shared web hosting plan such as a free-of-charge site building tool and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated package is many times larger than that of a shared web site hosting package. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly 5 times as much as compared to the shared site hosting packages. When matched against a shared site hosting plan, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD quota is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated hosting packages do not offer server root access (we, at hotpinkbanana.com, think of this as a minor minus), but the benefit is that they are administered via the same web hosting CP interface as the shared web hosting accounts. This means that a user-friendly graphical user interface is accessible by all customers who are not self-confident enough to handle a virtual private hosting server, but at the same time are in need of more power and reserves than a Virtual Private Server can furnish them with. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the system resources of the same powerful cutting edge hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual server packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is very low (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), whereas the VPSs can reach a much greater number (eighty to 120 per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'WhitePointerNet' can be defined as being amazingly inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), starting from A$30.00 for the Semi Base plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to hotpinkbanana.com, huge sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular online shops with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful webspace hosting environment. It seems that the guys from 'WhitePointerNet' have come to the same conclusion too. To satisfy its customers' demands, 'WhitePointerNet' provides an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That estimation is based on the hardware configurations the dedicated web servers ship with: multi-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of disk space and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt guarantee the fast and stable performance of any kind of site. In 'WhitePointerNet's opinion, the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding websites. We, from hotpinkbanana.com, think that all dedicated server plans furnished by 'WhitePointerNet' are also suitable for launching a hosting reseller business as each web hosting server ships with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software and a free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web hosting servers delivered by 'WhitePointerNet' are all unmanaged. We, at hotpinkbanana.com, deem this a slight weakness, which can be rectified by paying a monthly fee which amounts to A$58.60 AUD. So, if you demand aid, the Managed Services upgrade includes a handful of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of site hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (hotpinkbanana.com's) forecast is that the impressive drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia Control Panel will perhaps render the recourse to any FTP client useless. Our (hotpinkbanana.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'WhitePointerNet' don't appear to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia webspace hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from A$210.61 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.