An assessment of AND-GATE

We, at kb1.uk, have chosen 'AND-GATE' to be our present domain and hosting supplier. Hence we suppose that this short evaluation of 'AND-GATE' is maybe going to be very useful for other people from all over the Globe who seek domain name and web hosting services. We say folks from all around the Globe, since the mere truth is that 'AND-GATE' presently furnishes domain and hosting services in multiple datacenter facility sites: in North America (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, covering almost the entire World. At least from the point of view of the Internet. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'AND-GATE' in a few words:

Shared Web Hosting Services

The initial detail we, at kb1.uk, have observed is the cut-rate prices of the shared webspace hosting solutions provided by 'AND-GATE'. 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 web site hosting plans delivered by 'AND-GATE' are driven by a custom built, state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform (each hosting service, like mail, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being dealt with by a different group of servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting provider on the Earth will have immense troubles with, since cPanel is a one single server based web site hosting platform (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web space hosting CP, disk storage, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by one single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel website hosting firms are unable to include additional functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they must set up their own file system), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web page hosting packages, which are driven by a genuine cloud web page hosting platform. With a shared package, each client pays solely for his/her plan, thus preserving the web hosting price very low (because plenty of customers are hosted on one and the same web hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web hosting system, permits you to pay just for the resources that you indeed need, evading a scenario where you pay for a high-end web site hosting account that you cannot really utilize, or for a tiny webspace hosting account that cannot host your web page. The ability to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two clicks of the mouse gives you the flexibility to begin with a small package and upgrade as your site grows. Hence, you save cash that you can expend on publicizing the web site while it is still brand new. Each web hosting account delivered by 'AND-GATE' offers an online web site building tool and more than 40 popular script-driven platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for web design services. 'AND-GATE' furnishes shared website hosting accounts in several different geographical regions across the World. There is one server farm in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; two European server farm facilities - in Britain and in Sweden; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia-Pacific. That way, virtually the entire Globe is encompassed to present you and your visitors with a stable and fast hosting service at a nearby location. As a whole, the shared hosting solutions furnished 'AND-GATE' are quite well furnished and are available at a good price (beginning from $5.25 for the Starter plan).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To customers with little to no experience, a VPS web hosting server may appear problematic to administer. That's perhaps why 'AND-GATE' also hosts semi-dedicated web servers in its main US server farm in Chicago. Managing these accounts is comparable to administering a standard shared hosting plan via a web hosting Control Panel GUI. They have all the features of a shared plan such as a fee-free web site building tool and a web application installer, but the amount of system resources provided by a semi-dedicated server hosting package is many times bigger than that of a shared hosting plan. For example, the CPU power that can be used is approximately FIVE times as much as compared with the shared web site hosting accounts. When compared with a shared web space hosting plan, the quota of database queries included within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is big: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted top-level domain name allowance is a standard too. The semi-dedicated web server hosting plans do not offer full root access (we, at kb1.uk, deem this a slight weakness), but the good point is that they are administered via the very same website hosting CP user interface as the shared web space hosting accounts. This means that a familiar GUI is accessible by all customers who do not have enough self-condifence to manage a virtual private hosting server, yet demand more power and system resources than a VPS can supply them with. This is so because the semi-dedicated hosting servers share the system resources of the very same powerful top-class web servers as the ones which host the VPS hosting server packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is very low (somewhere between 20 to thirty per server), while the virtual hosting servers can reach a much greater number (eighty to a hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'AND-GATE' can be labeled as being amazingly inexpensive (as far as cost is concerned), beginning from $20.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 package.

Dedicated Servers

In kb1.uk's opinion, huge sites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous web stores with thousands of customers require a much more powerful webspace hosting solution. It seems that the fellows from 'AND-GATE' have reached the same conclusion as well. To answer its clients' anticipations, 'AND-GATE' delivers a collection of dedicated web servers that can tackle millions of daily hits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specs the hosting servers ship with: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, two thousand GB of storage space and Gigabit NICs will doubtlessly ensure the fast and steady performance of any kind of site. According to 'AND-GATE', the primary hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-requiring web sites. We, from kb1.uk, think that all dedicated server accounts provided by 'AND-GATE' are also suitable for establishing a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server comes with free invoicing software and a complimentary domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated web servers furnished by 'AND-GATE' are all unmanaged. We, at kb1.uk, consider this a small minus, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of assistance, the Managed Services upgrade offers a selection of supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, hosting server monitoring and troubleshooting operations. A bunch of hosting CP (CP) interfaces are available with each of the dedicated web servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (kb1.uk's) prognosis is that the splendid point and click File Manager added in the Hepsia CP will possibly make the utilization of any FTP software program pointless. Our (kb1.uk's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'AND-GATE' don't appear to be very low priced (still the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name allowance will doubtlessly make you smile), starting from $80.00 for the Xeon E3 v5 plan.