A survey of Ark SERVERS

We, at sydneycollectables.com.au, have chosen 'Ark SERVERS' to be our present domain name and web hosting supplier. Therefore we deem that this succinct assessment of 'Ark SERVERS' is maybe going to be quite useful for other people from all over the World in need of domain name and web hosting services. We say people from all over the Globe, because the mere truth is that 'Ark SERVERS' currently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous data center locations: in North America (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, encompassing almost the entire planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Ark SERVERS' in short:

Shared Web Space Hosting Packages

The initial thing we, at sydneycollectables.com.au, have observed is the cheap prices of the shared web site hosting packages provided by 'Ark SERVERS'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web page hosting packages supplied by 'Ark SERVERS' are powered by an in-house devised, advanced cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web space hosting CP, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being dealt with by an autonomous group of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting distributor on the Globe will have enormous complications with, since cPanel is a one-server based webspace hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as email, databases, web site hosting CP, data storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being run on a single web server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based web page hosting corporations cannot add additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to develop their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared website hosting plans, which are driven by a real cloud web space hosting system. With a shared account, each client pays just for his/her package, thus retaining the price really low (because multiple users use one and the same web server). In brief, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web space hosting system, permits you to pay solely for the resources that you actually demand, avoiding a situation where you pay for a high-end web space hosting package that you cannot actually utilize, or for a basic hosting plan that cannot handle your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a basic plan and upgrade as your site expands. Thus, you spare capital that you can expend on publicizing the web site while it is still novel. Every website hosting plan furnished by 'Ark SERVERS' contains an online web site builder and more than 40 widely used script software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for site design services. 'Ark SERVERS' furnishes shared web hosting packages in a number of different regions across the World. There is one server farm in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; 2 European datacenters - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. In this way, virtually the entire Earth is covered to present you and your web page's visitors with a stable and dependable site hosting solution at a convenient location. Altogether, the shared hosting plans delivered 'Ark SERVERS' are really well equipped and are available at a very good price (beginning from A$5.84 for the ARK4-STARTER Shared Hosting plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To users with little to no experience, a virtual private web hosting server may seem problematic to administer. That's probably why 'Ark SERVERS' also houses semi-dedicated web servers in its main North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Handling these plans is similar to handling a typical shared web site hosting package through a web space hosting CP GUI. They have all the features of a shared web hosting plan such as a free-of-charge web site builder and a web app installer, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated web server account is many times greater than that of a shared website hosting plan. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is about 5 times as much as compared with the shared accounts. When juxtaposed to a shared package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is immense: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted TLD quota is a principle too. The semi-dedicated packages do not ship with root access (we, at sydneycollectables.com.au, deem this a slight downside), but the good point is that they are managed via the same site hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared web space hosting accounts. This implies that a familiar GUI is offered to all customers who do not have enough confidence to handle a VPS server, but at the same time are in need of more power and features than a Virtual Private Server can provide them with. This is so owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the reserves of the very same powerful ultramodern hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the VPS web server hosting packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to thirty per server), while the private virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to one hundred and twenty per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'Ark SERVERS' can be classified as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from A$28.67 for the ARK2-PRO Semi Dedicated Server plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In sydneycollectables.com.au's opinion, huge websites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous online stores with thousands of clients demand a much more powerful webspace hosting platform. It appears that the blokes from 'Ark SERVERS' have arrived at the same conclusion as well. To answer its users' needs, 'Ark SERVERS' delivers an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That estimate is based on the hardware specifications the dedicated web hosting servers sport: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of disk storage and Gigabit network cards will undoubtedly guarantee the fast and stable work of any type of web site. In 'Ark SERVERS's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from sydneycollectables.com.au, consider that all dedicated server specs supplied by 'Ark SERVERS' are also appropriate for launching a hosting reseller business as every web server comes with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software platform and a free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated hosting servers provided by 'Ark SERVERS' are all unmanaged. We, at sydneycollectables.com.au, count this as a little downside, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of A$48.65 AUD. So, if you are in need of assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes a few additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of site hosting Control Panel (CP) user interfaces are available with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (sydneycollectables.com.au's) prediction is that the excellent drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia hosting CP will probably render the use of any File Transfer Protocol software useless. Our (sydneycollectables.com.au's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Ark SERVERS' don't seem to be very inexpensive (still the Hepsia hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain quotas will no doubt make you smile), commencing from A$99.07 for the ARK3-BUDGET Dedicated Server package.