A survey of Rai Hosting

We, at kereb.com, have picked 'Rai Hosting' to be our present domain name and hosting provider. This is why we deem that this short evaluation of 'Rai Hosting' is maybe going to be quite useful for other people from all around the World in need of domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all around the Globe, because the simple fact is that 'Rai Hosting' currently provides domain and hosting services in numerous datacenter sites: in America (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, embracing virtually the whole World. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Rai Hosting' in a few words:

Shared Webspace Hosting Packages

The initial thing we, at kereb.com, have seen is the inexpensive prices of the shared web site hosting packages offered by 'Rai Hosting'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the website hosting accounts delivered by 'Rai Hosting' are powered by a custom designed, modern cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web hosting CP, data storage, DNS, stats, etc., runs on an independent set of servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting distributor in the World will have mammoth predicaments with, because cPanel is a single server based website hosting environment (each hosting service, like mail, databases, webspace hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being handled by a single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based site hosting providers are unable to add extra functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they must devise their own file system), which is the foundation of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared webspace hosting packages, which are driven by an authentic clustered webspace hosting system. With a shared webspace hosting package, each client pays just for his/her plan, thus maintaining the hosting price amazingly low (because a lot of customers utilize the same web server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting package, which is being served by a cloud website hosting platform, enables you to pay just for the resources that you actually need, averting a situation where you pay for an advanced webspace hosting plan that you cannot really utilize, or for a low-end web hosting package that cannot handle your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with just 2 clicks gives you the flexibility to start with a small plan and upgrade as your web site grows. So, you save cash that you can expend on promoting the web site while it is still new. Every web page hosting package offered by 'Rai Hosting' comes with an online website builder and over forty widely used script platforms including WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for web design solutions. 'Rai Hosting' supplies shared site hosting accounts in a number of different regions across the World. There is one data center facility in Chicago encompassing the United States of America and Canada; 2 European datacenter facilities - in Great Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia Pacific region. Thus, nearly the whole World is encompassed to provide you and your website's visitors with a steady and dependable webspace hosting service at a nearby location. On the whole, the shared hosting solutions offered 'Rai Hosting' are quite well stocked and are available at a very affordable price (starting from $2.75 for the Standard package).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To customers with little to no experience, a virtual web hosting server may appear problematic to administer. That's perhaps why 'Rai Hosting' also stores semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main US datacenter in Chicago. Handling these packages is comparable to administering a conventional shared web hosting package through a web site hosting Control Panel GUI. They have all the specs of a shared site hosting account such as a free-of-cost web site building tool and a PHP script installation tool, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated hosting package is many times larger than that of a shared web site hosting plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is approximately 5 times as much as compared with the shared web site hosting accounts. When juxtaposed to a shared web hosting plan, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted domain name allowance is a norm as well. The semi-dedicated web server accounts do not ship with root access (we, at kereb.com, think of this as a minor negative point), but the plus is that they are administered via the same web site hosting CP tool as the shared web space hosting plans. This hints that a well-known graphical environment is accessible by all users who are not confident enough to handle a VPS server, but at the same time are in need of more power and supplies than a private virtual web server can furnish them with. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the reserves of the same powerful leading edge web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual web hosting server accounts, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is very small (somewhere between 20 to 30 per server), whereas the virtual hosting servers can reach a much bigger number (80 to a hundred and twenty per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Rai Hosting' can be defined as being very affordable (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $20.00 for the Fast plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In kereb.com's opinion, enormous web sites such as social networks, community and business web portals or popular web storefronts with 1000s of customers demand a much more powerful hosting platform. It appears that the folks from 'Rai Hosting' have reached the same conclusion as well. To satisfy its customers' demands, 'Rai Hosting' provides a collection of dedicated servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware specifications the hosting servers come with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, 2000 GB of web space and Gigabit NICs will no doubt ensure the fast and stable work of any sort of website. According to 'Rai Hosting', the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more resource-requiring websites. We, from kereb.com, consider that all dedicated server specifications provided by 'Rai Hosting' are also appropriate for kickstarting a hosting reseller business as every dedicated server arrives with free billing software platform and a free-of-cost domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated hosting servers supplied by 'Rai Hosting' are all unmanaged. We, at kereb.com, consider this a little weak point, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you require assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers an array of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. An assortment of hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are offered with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (kereb.com's) prediction is that the magnificent point and click File Manager available in the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel will possibly make the use of any File Transfer Protocol software program useless. Our (kereb.com's) inference is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'Rai Hosting' don't seem to be very inexpensive (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will no doubt make you smile), starting from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.