An assessment of Zona Informatica

We, at alcalisa.com, have picked 'Zona Informatica' to be our present domain and web hosting provider. This is why we deem that this short review of 'Zona Informatica' is perhaps going to be quite helpful for other individuals from all around the Globe who are searching for domain name and web hosting solutions. We state individuals from all over the World, because the simple fact is that 'Zona Informatica' presently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous server farm locations: in North America (Chicago, IL), in the United Kingdom (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing almost the whole World. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Zona Informatica' in a few words:

Shared Web Site Hosting Solutions

The first thing we, at alcalisa.com, have perceived is the inexpensive prices of the shared webspace hosting solutions delivered by 'Zona Informatica'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the hosting plans delivered by 'Zona Informatica' are powered by an in-house developed, modern cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like mail, databases, web page hosting CP, data storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being run on an individual group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting vendor in the World will have immense problems with, because cPanel is a one-server based hosting environment (each hosting service, like email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel web site hosting vendors cannot add new functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to design their own file system), which is the prerequisite of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared hosting accounts, which are powered by an authentic clustered web hosting platform. With a shared hosting account, each client pays solely for his/her package, thus preserving the site hosting price really low (because plenty of customers are hosted on one and the same server). In short, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a clustered hosting platform, enables you to pay just for the resources that you actually require, averting a situation where you pay for a powerful web space hosting account that you cannot actually use, or for a low-end web page hosting account that cannot shelter your web page. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to start with a tiny plan and upgrade as your web site grows. So, you save money that you can invest in advertising the site while it is still novel. Every webspace hosting account provided by 'Zona Informatica' offers an online site building tool and more than 40 widely used script-driven software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for web page design solutions. 'Zona Informatica' distributes shared web hosting services in a number of different geographical regions around the World. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the United States of America and Canada; two European datacenters - in Great Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. Hence, approximately the entire planet is covered to present you and your website's visitors with a steady and dependable hosting solution at a desired location. On the whole, the shared hosting accounts offered 'Zona Informatica' are very well stocked and come at a low-cost price (beginning from $5.83 for the Simple plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To customers with little or no practice, a VPS hosting server may seem problematic to handle. That's perhaps why 'Zona Informatica' also keeps semi-dedicated servers in its principal United States server farm in Chicago. Handling these packages is comparable to handling a regular shared site hosting plan through a webspace hosting CP tool. They have all the functionalities of a shared webspace hosting plan such as a free-of-cost site building tool and a script installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated web hosting server 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 with the shared web space hosting packages. When juxtaposed to a shared package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD quota is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting packages do not ship with full server root privileges (we, at alcalisa.com, regard this as a minor disadvantage), but the benefit is that they are managed through the same webspace hosting CP interface as the shared web space hosting packages. This hints that a familiar graphical environment is offered to all customers who do not feel confident enough to administer a VPS, yet are in need of more power and features than a virtual server can confer to them. This is like that because the semi-dedicated servers share the resources of the same powerful leading edge hosting servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual server web hosting packages, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical machine), whereas the virtual servers can reach a much greater number (80 to a hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'Zona Informatica' can be categorized as being very inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), commencing from $29.99 for the Fast plan.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

In alcalisa.com's opinion, big web sites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous online shops with thousands of clients call for a much more powerful webspace hosting platform. It appears that the guys from 'Zona Informatica' have come to the same conclusion too. To live up to its users' requirements, 'Zona Informatica' provides a selection of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimate stands on the hardware configurations the dedicated hosting servers boast: multi-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of web space and Gigabit NICs will beyond doubt guarantee the quick and stable work of any sort of website. In 'Zona Informatica's opinion, the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from alcalisa.com, believe that all dedicated server accounts supplied by 'Zona Informatica' are also appropriate for launching a hosting reseller business as every dedicated web server offers free-of-charge invoicing software platform and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web servers provided by 'Zona Informatica' are all unmanaged. We, at alcalisa.com, consider this a tiny weakness, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly fee of $36.00 USD. So, if you need support, the Managed Services upgrade includes several supplementary services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. Several website hosting CP (CP) tools are available with each of the web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (alcalisa.com's) prognosis is that the magnificent drag-and-drop File Manager included in the Hepsia hosting CP will possibly make the recourse to any FTP client pointless. Our (alcalisa.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Zona Informatica' don't seem to be very cheap (yet the Hepsia website hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain allowance will no doubt make you smile), commencing from $45.00 for the Atom 2c plan.