A survey of Smartest Media

We, at bac-lb.org, have chosen 'Smartest Media' to be our current domain name and web hosting distributor. Hence we presume that this succinct assessment of 'Smartest Media' is perhaps going to be quite useful for other individuals from all over the World in need of domain name and web hosting services. We state people from all around the Globe, because the mere fact is that 'Smartest Media' currently furnishes domain and hosting services in several data center facility sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in the United Kingdom (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering almost the entire Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'Smartest Media' in brief:

Shared Site Hosting Services

The first thing we, at bac-lb.org, have seen is the low prices of the shared site hosting solutions provided by 'Smartest Media'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web hosting accounts supplied by 'Smartest Media' are powered by a custom developed, innovative cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being run on an autonomous bunch of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting company in the World will have mammoth complications with, since cPanel is a single server based webspace hosting environment (each hosting service, such as email, databases, site hosting CP, web space, DNS, stats, etc., runs on one and the same web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel web page hosting providers are unable to include extra functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to devise their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared hosting packages, which are powered by a real cloud web hosting platform. With a shared site hosting account, each client pays just for his/her account, thus retaining the web hosting price really low (because multiple clients are located on the same server). In short, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a clustered hosting platform, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you really require, precluding a scenario where you pay for an advanced web site hosting account that you cannot truly utilize, or for a small web page hosting plan that cannot accommodate your web page. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a low-end package and upgrade as your web page grows. That way, you save cash that you can invest in publicizing the web page while it is still novel. Each hosting package delivered by 'Smartest Media' boasts an online web site builder 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 site design solutions. 'Smartest Media' supplies shared website hosting services in a number of different countries across the Globe. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in the UK and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. That way, nearly the whole planet is encompassed to provide you and your site's visitors with a steady and fast website hosting solution at a nearby location. As a whole, the shared hosting accounts provided 'Smartest Media' are very well appointed and come at a very cheap price (starting from $2.75 for the Startup package).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To people with little or no experience, a virtual private hosting server may seem troublesome to administer. That's probably why 'Smartest Media' also keeps semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its main North American datacenter facility in Chicago. Handling these accounts is comparable to handling a regular shared package via a hosting CP GUI. They have all the specs of a shared package such as a free-of-charge website building tool and a PHP script installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated server hosting account is many times larger than that of a shared web site hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web hosting accounts. When compared with a shared web hosting package, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is big: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain allowance is a norm too. The semi-dedicated hosting accounts do not ship with full server root privileges (we, at bac-lb.org, deem this a slight inconvenience), but the good point is that they are managed via the same Control Panel tool as the shared accounts. This suggests that a known GUI is available to all customers who are not self-confident enough to administer a private virtual web server, but at the same time require more power and resources than a virtual hosting server can bestow on them. This is so due to the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the system resources of the very same powerful cutting edge web servers as the ones which host the VPS server accounts, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per physical server), while the virtual private hosting servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Smartest Media' can be labeled as being amazingly affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Mini package.

Dedicated Web Servers

In bac-lb.org's opinion, big web pages such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous web storefronts with thousands of customers call for a much more powerful web site hosting solution. It seems that the fellows from 'Smartest Media' have drawn the same conclusion too. To live up to its users' anticipations, 'Smartest Media' provides a collection of dedicated web servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimate stands on the hardware specifications the dedicated web hosting servers boast: multi-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of storage space and Gigabit network interface cards will doubtlessly guarantee the fast and steady work of any kind of website. In 'Smartest Media's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring websites. We, from bac-lb.org, consider that all dedicated server solutions delivered by 'Smartest Media' are also appropriate for setting up a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server includes free invoicing transaction software and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers offered by 'Smartest Media' are all unmanaged. We, at bac-lb.org, count this as a slight negative point, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you require support, the Managed Services upgrade provides an assortment of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. Several webspace hosting Control Panel (CP) GUIs are offered with each of the dedicated hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (bac-lb.org's) forecast is that the great drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia webspace hosting CP will possibly render the use of any FTP client useless. Our (bac-lb.org's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'Smartest Media' don't appear to be very inexpensive (still the Hepsia web site hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), beginning from $60.00 for the Xeon E3 v3 package.