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A review of Blue Ribbon Hosting

We, at newbranson.com, have picked 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' to be our current domain name and hosting provider. Hence we believe that this brief evaluation of 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' is maybe going to be quite helpful for other people from all over the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting services. We state people from all over the Globe, since the mere truth is that 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' currently provides domain and hosting services in multiple data center facility sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in Great Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing almost the whole Globe. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' in a nutshell:

Shared Hosting Packages

The initial detail we, at newbranson.com, have seen is the cheap prices of the shared website hosting packages offered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the web hosting packages delivered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' are powered by a custom created, leading edge cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, web hosting CP, disk space, DNS, stats, etc., is being tackled by an independent group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting provider in the World will have considerable predicaments with, since cPanel is a one single server based web page hosting environment (each hosting service, such as email, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being dealt with by a single web server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel web site hosting suppliers are not able to include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they must concoct their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared website hosting accounts, which are powered by a genuine clustered webspace hosting platform. With a shared webspace hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her package, thus retaining the web hosting price very low (because plenty of clients use the same server). In short, a shared hosting package, which is hosted on a cloud site hosting solution, allows you to pay solely for the reserves that you indeed need, escaping a scenario where you pay for a high-end web site hosting plan that you cannot actually use, or for a low-end site hosting plan that cannot host your site. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with only 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a basic package and upgrade as your web site grows. In this way, you economize cash that you can expend on promoting the website while it is still new. Every webspace hosting plan delivered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' includes an online website builder and over 40 popular script-driven software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you 100s of dollars for web site design solutions. 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' furnishes shared web hosting packages in a number of different geographical regions across the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European server farms - in Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, practically the entire World is encompassed to provide you and your web site's visitors with a stable and reliable web hosting service at a convenient location. All in all, the shared hosting solutions furnished 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' are very well stocked and are available at a very good price (beginning from $4.16 for the Beginner plan).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To clients with little or no practice, a virtual private web hosting server may appear complicated to handle. That's probably why 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' also houses semi-dedicated web servers in its main American server farm facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to handling a conventional shared webspace hosting account via a site hosting CP interface. They have all the features of a shared web space hosting plan such as a fee-free website builder and a script installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated web hosting server plan is many times bigger than that of a shared hosting account. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is about FIVE times as much as compared to the shared web page hosting accounts. When compared with a shared website hosting account, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted top-level domain name quota is a trend too. The semi-dedicated web hosting packages do not ship with full root access (we, at newbranson.com, think of this as a little downside), but the good point is that they are managed through the very same hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared packages. This suggests that a well-known graphical user interface is offered to all customers who are not confident enough to manage a virtual web server, but at the same time need more power and system resources than a virtual web server can bestow on them. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the very same powerful leading edge servers as the ones which accommodate the private virtual server web hosting accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to thirty per server), while the virtual web servers can reach a much greater number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers offered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' can be defined as being quite affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Manager package.

Dedicated Web Servers

According to newbranson.com, large web pages such as social networks, community and business portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful hosting solution. It appears that the chaps from 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' have reached the same conclusion as well. To answer its users' demands, 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' delivers an assortment of dedicated hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That assessment stands on the hardware specs the servers are offering: many-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of disk storage and Gigabit NICs will doubtlessly guarantee the quick and stable work of any type of website. In 'Blue Ribbon Hosting's opinion, the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from newbranson.com, believe that all dedicated server specifications delivered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server offers free-of-cost billing transaction software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web hosting servers delivered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at newbranson.com, consider this a small inconvenience, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you require help, the Managed Services upgrade offers an array of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A number of web site hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (newbranson.com's) prediction is that the magnificent point and click File Manager added in the Hepsia web site hosting CP will possibly render the use of any File Transfer Protocol software futile. Our (newbranson.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers delivered by 'Blue Ribbon Hosting' don't seem to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia web hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), starting from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c package.