An evaluation of Sivda

We, at forum-re.com, have chosen 'Sivda' to be our current domain name and hosting supplier. This is why we consider that this short assessment of 'Sivda' is perhaps going to be very helpful for other individuals from all over the World who are searching for domain name and web hosting services. We say folks from all around the Globe, because the mere truth is that 'Sivda' presently delivers domain and hosting services in several datacenter facility locations: in the US (Chicago, IL), in England (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering almost the entire Globe. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Sivda' in a nutshell:

Shared Website Hosting Accounts

The first detail we, at forum-re.com, have observed is the budget prices of the shared web site hosting services provided by 'Sivda'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the website hosting packages furnished by 'Sivda' are powered by a custom created, cutting edge cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, like email, databases, hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being dealt with by an autonomous bunch of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting supplier on the Earth will have considerable problems with, since cPanel is a single server based web space hosting environment (each hosting service, like email, databases, web space hosting CP, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being tackled by a single server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based web page hosting vendors cannot include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they have to create their own file platform), which is at the bottom of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared webspace hosting accounts, which are driven by a real clustered webspace hosting platform. With a shared webspace hosting account, each customer pays solely for his/her package, thus maintaining the web space hosting price really low (since numerous clients are hosted on one and the same web hosting server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web page hosting platform, permits you to pay solely for the resources that you indeed require, evading a situation where you pay for a powerful web site hosting plan that you cannot actually utilize, or for a tiny website hosting plan that cannot accommodate your web page. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two clicks gives you the flexibility to kick off with a low-end package and upgrade as your online presence expands. So, you economize funds that you can spend on promoting the web site while it is still novel. Each web site hosting plan offered by 'Sivda' offers an online site building tool and more than forty popular script platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'Sivda' furnishes shared webspace hosting services in a number of different regions across the Globe. There is one data center facility in Chicago covering the USA and Canada; two European datacenter facilities - in Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific. In this way, almost the entire Globe is encompassed to present you and your web site's visitors with a stable and dependable web space hosting solution at a nearby place. As a whole, the shared hosting packages furnished 'Sivda' are quite well stocked and are available at an excellent price (beginning from $6.08 for the Standard plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To customers with little or no practice, a VPS web server may seem problematic to manage. That's perhaps why 'Sivda' also stores semi-dedicated web hosting servers in its principal United States datacenter facility in Chicago. Handling these accounts is comparable to managing a normal shared web page hosting plan via a site hosting CP user interface. They have all the specs of a shared web hosting package such as a fee-free site builder and a web app installation tool, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated web hosting package is many times bigger than that of a shared package. For example, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is about 5 times as much as compared with the shared web space hosting accounts. When juxtaposed to a shared web site hosting account, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is great: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted domain name quota is a principle too. The semi-dedicated web hosting plans do not include full root-level access (we, at forum-re.com, count this as a slight negative point), but the plus is that they are managed via the same Control Panel interface as the shared web space hosting packages. This implies that a user-friendly graphical environment is accessible by all users who are not confident enough to handle a Virtual Private Server, yet demand more power and features than a private virtual hosting server can furnish them with. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the system resources of the very same powerful cutting edge web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual private hosting server plans, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to thirty per physical server), whereas the virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (80 to 120 per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'Sivda' can be defined as being very affordable (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Mini package.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

According to forum-re.com, big sites such as social networks, community and business portals or popular online stores with 1000s of customers require a much more powerful web page hosting environment. It seems that the folks from 'Sivda' have drawn the same conclusion too. To live up to its customers' expectations, 'Sivda' offers a selection of dedicated web servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specs the dedicated servers sport: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of disk storage and Gigabit NICs will doubtlessly guarantee the quick and steady performance of any type of website. According to 'Sivda', the primary hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from forum-re.com, believe that all dedicated server specifications furnished by 'Sivda' are also suitable for setting up a hosting reseller business as every dedicated hosting server ships with free-of-charge invoicing transaction software platform and a cost-free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated hosting servers offered by 'Sivda' are all unmanaged. We, at forum-re.com, deem this a minor weak point, which can be adjusted by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you need backing, the Managed Services upgrade provides a bouquet of additional services such as a routine backup, software installation, dedicated web hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A bouquet of site hosting CP (CP) interfaces are available with each of the web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (forum-re.com's) prognosis is that the great point and click File Manager included in the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel will probably render the use of any FTP software useless. Our (forum-re.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Sivda' don't appear to be very modestly priced (yet the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain allowance will definitely make you smile), commencing from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.