A survey of marcos

We, at keystonehope.org, have picked 'marcos' to be our current domain and hosting vendor. This is why we believe that this concise evaluation of 'marcos' is perhaps going to be quite useful for other individuals from all over the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say individuals from all over the Globe, because the mere truth is that 'marcos' currently provides domain and hosting services in several server farm facility locations: in the US (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, covering practically the whole Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could expect from 'marcos' in short:

Shared Hosting Services

The first detail we, at keystonehope.org, have spotted is the cheap prices of the shared site hosting plans offered by 'marcos'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared web hosting. The good thing here is that the web page hosting accounts furnished by 'marcos' are powered by an in-house designed, leading edge cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, like mail, databases, hosting CP, disk space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being tackled by an individual stack of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is something EVERY cPanel web hosting company on the Globe will have mammoth predicaments with, since cPanel is a one-server based web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like mail, databases, web hosting Control Panel, disk space, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being dealt with by one and the same server), cPanel is not open source (therefore the cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations cannot 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 platform), which is at the bottom of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared web hosting accounts, which are powered by an actual clustered webspace hosting platform. With a shared site hosting plan, each client pays solely for his/her plan, thus keeping the web hosting price very low (because lots of users are hosted on one and the same hosting server). In a nutshell, a shared hosting package, which is being served by a cloud web site hosting solution, permits you to pay just for the reserves that you really need, refraining from a situation where you pay for an advanced web page hosting account that you cannot truly use, or for a small web space hosting plan that cannot shelter your web page. The option to upgrade your account from one package to another with just two mouse clicks gives you the flexibility to begin with a small package and upgrade as your online presence expands. That way, you economize cash that you can spend on promoting the web page while it is still new. Every website hosting plan supplied by 'marcos' includes an online web site building tool and more than forty popular script software platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for web design solutions. 'marcos' supplies shared site hosting accounts in several 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, nearly the entire World is encompassed to present you and your visitors with a steady and dependable webspace hosting service at a preferred place. As a whole, the shared hosting plans furnished 'marcos' are quite well furnished and come at a budget price (starting from $3.00 for the Starter package).

Dedicated Servers

In keystonehope.org's opinion, huge web sites such as social networks, community and business portals or famous web shops with 1000s of customers call for a much more powerful web hosting solution. It appears that the chaps from 'marcos' have drawn the same conclusion too. To fulfil its users' demands, 'marcos' delivers a bouquet of dedicated hosting servers that can manage millions of daily hits. That estimate is based on the hardware configurations the web hosting servers ship with: many-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, 2000 gigabytes of disk storage and Gigabit network interface cards will no doubt guarantee the fast and stable performance of any kind of web site. In 'marcos's opinion, the primary hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-requiring sites. We, from keystonehope.org, consider that all dedicated server solutions delivered by 'marcos' are also appropriate for initiating a hosting reseller business as each and every dedicated hosting server arrives with free invoicing software and a free domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'marcos' are all unmanaged. We, at keystonehope.org, regard this as a tiny disadvantage, which can be rectified by paying a monthly tax of $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of aid, the Managed Services upgrade offers a bunch of extra services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated web server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A handful of webspace hosting Control Panel (CP) user interfaces are offered with each of the dedicated servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (keystonehope.org's) prognosis is that the outstanding point-and-click File Manager added in the Hepsia site hosting CP will perhaps make the use of any File Transfer Protocol software useless. Our (keystonehope.org's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers supplied by 'marcos' don't appear to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia web page hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain quotas will undoubtedly make you smile), starting from $145.00 for the Xeon Scalable 8c package.