A survey of BEA Cloud

We, at balamandhills.com, have selected 'BEA Cloud' to be our present domain name and hosting supplier. This is why we believe that this succinct assessment of 'BEA Cloud' is probably going to be very helpful for other folks from all over the World who seek domain name and web hosting services. We state people from all over the World, since the mere fact is that 'BEA Cloud' currently furnishes domain and hosting services in several datacenter sites: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing virtually the whole planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could expect from 'BEA Cloud' in short:

Shared Website Hosting Plans

The first thing we, at balamandhills.com, have discerned is the modest prices of the shared web site hosting accounts provided by 'BEA Cloud'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the website hosting packages supplied by 'BEA Cloud' are powered by a custom invented, cutting edge cloud web hosting solution (each hosting service, like mail, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being run on an independent host of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting supplier on the Globe will have immense troubles with, since cPanel is a one single server based hosting environment (each hosting service, like mail, databases, web page hosting CP, web space, DNS, statistics, etc., runs on one single web hosting server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based web page hosting distributors cannot include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they need to create their own file system), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's get back to the shared web site hosting accounts, which are powered by an actual clustered web page hosting solution. With a shared web space hosting package, each customer pays only for his/her plan, thus keeping the hosting price really low (since numerous customers use the same server). In brief, a shared hosting plan, which runs on a cloud web page hosting solution, permits you to pay only for the resources that you really require, precluding a situation where you pay for a feature-rich webspace hosting account that you cannot actually use, or for a basic web hosting plan that cannot accommodate your web site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two clicks of the mouse gives you the flexibility to commence with a basic plan and upgrade as your Internet presence grows. So, you economize funds that you can expend on advertising the web site while it is still new. Each and every web space hosting package furnished by 'BEA Cloud' contains an online website building tool and more than 40 popular script-driven software platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you hundreds of dollars for site design services. 'BEA Cloud' provides shared website hosting solutions in a number of different regions across the World. There is one server farm in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European datacenters - in Great Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. That way, approximately the entire Earth is covered to supply you and your website's visitors with a stable and reliable webspace hosting service at a convenient location. All in all, the shared hosting packages supplied 'BEA Cloud' are really well stocked and come at a very affordable price (beginning from $5.42 for the Mini package).

Semi-dedicated Web Hosting Servers

To users with little to no experience, a VPS web hosting server may appear troublesome to administer. That's probably why 'BEA Cloud' also keeps semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main American datacenter in Chicago. Managing these plans is comparable to managing a normal shared web hosting package via a web site hosting Control Panel user interface. They have all the functionalities of a shared web space hosting account such as a free-of-cost site building tool and a script installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated hosting server account is many times larger than that of a shared web space hosting package. For example, the CPU power that can be used is about 5 times as much as compared to the shared website hosting plans. When matched against a shared web hosting package, the number of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain quota is a trend too. The semi-dedicated server hosting packages do not offer full server root access (we, at balamandhills.com, consider this a minor weakness), but the advantage is that they are managed via the very same web page hosting CP interface as the shared web hosting plans. This means that a known graphical interface is available to all users who do not feel confident enough to handle a private virtual server, but at the same time need more power and supplies than a virtual server can furnish them with. This is like that because the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful avant-garde hosting servers as the ones which host the Virtual Private Server hosting plans, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), while the virtual web servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'BEA Cloud' can be defined as being quite cheap (as far as cost is concerned), commencing from $40.00 for the Pre-Dedicated Silver plan.

Dedicated Web Servers

In balamandhills.com's opinion, big websites such as social networks, community and business web portals or popular online storefronts with thousands of customers call for a much more powerful web hosting platform. It appears that the blokes from 'BEA Cloud' have arrived at the same conclusion too. To fulfil its users' demands, 'BEA Cloud' offers a bouquet of dedicated hosting servers that can tackle millions of daily visits. That estimation rests on the hardware specifications the web servers arrive with: many-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk space and Gigabit network interface cards will beyond doubt guarantee the fast and stable work of any sort of website. According to 'BEA Cloud', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding websites. We, from balamandhills.com, think that all dedicated server specs furnished by 'BEA Cloud' are also appropriate for starting a hosting reseller business as each server includes free-of-cost invoice transaction software platform and a free domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated servers offered by 'BEA Cloud' are all unmanaged. We, at balamandhills.com, regard this as a small weakness, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you need aid, the Managed Services upgrade provides a handful of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. A selection of site hosting Control Panel (CP) interfaces are available with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (balamandhills.com's) forecast is that the splendid drag and drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia CP will possibly render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software program pointless. Our (balamandhills.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'BEA Cloud' don't appear to be very inexpensive (still the Hepsia web site hosting CP and the unlimited hosted domain name allowance will beyond doubt make you smile), commencing from $90.00 for the Xeon E3 v5 package.