An assessment of Clic

We, at beyondcr.net, have selected 'Clic' to be our present domain name and web hosting provider. Therefore we suppose that this concise review of 'Clic' is perhaps going to be quite useful for other people from all over the Globe who are searching for domain name and web hosting services. We say individuals from all around the World, because the simple truth is that 'Clic' presently distributes domain and hosting services in several data center locations: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, covering virtually the entire Globe. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Clic' in brief:

Shared Web Hosting Solutions

The first detail we, at beyondcr.net, have seen is the inexpensive prices of the shared webspace hosting plans offered by 'Clic'. 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 page hosting packages supplied by 'Clic' are powered by an in-house devised, futuristic cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like email, databases, CP, data storage, DNS, stats, etc., is being tackled by an autonomous group of web servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting company in the World will have great problems with, because cPanel is a single server based web site hosting environment (each hosting service, such as mail, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, runs on a single web server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based web site hosting corporations are unable to add extra functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they have to devise their own file platform), which is the basis of any cloud web hosting service. Let's return to the shared webspace hosting plans, which are driven by an authentic clustered web space hosting solution. With a shared hosting package, each customer pays just for his/her account, thus preserving the webspace hosting price very low (since plenty of users share one and the same server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a cloud hosting platform, enables you to pay only for the reserves that you actually require, refraining from a scenario where you pay for a feature-rich web site hosting package that you cannot actually use, or for a small web space hosting plan that cannot host your website. The possibility to upgrade your account from one package to another with only two mouse clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a tiny plan and upgrade as your site grows. Hence, you economize money that you can spend on publicizing the site while it is still novel. Each and every web space hosting plan supplied by 'Clic' sports an online site building tool and more than forty popular script-driven software applications like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will economize you 100s of dollars for web page design solutions. 'Clic' delivers shared web site hosting plans in a number of different geographical regions across the Globe. There is one data center in Chicago encompassing the US and Canada; 2 European server farms - in the UK and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. In this way, nearly the whole planet is covered to supply you and your website's visitors with a steady and dependable site hosting solution at a convenient location. Altogether, the shared hosting plans delivered 'Clic' are really well appointed and are available at a very cheap price (beginning from $3.00 for the Simple package).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To people with little to no experience, a virtual web server may appear difficult to manage. That's probably why 'Clic' also hosts semi-dedicated hosting servers in its main United States server farm facility in Chicago. Administering these accounts is similar to administering a regular shared site hosting package via a Control Panel interface. They have all the features of a shared website hosting plan such as a free-of-cost web site builder and a web app installer, but the system resource quota typical of a semi-dedicated web server hosting package is many times larger than that of a shared plan. For instance, the central processing unit power that can be utilized is almost 5 times as much as compared to the shared hosting accounts. When matched against a shared hosting account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is great: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted top-level domain name quota is a pattern too. The semi-dedicated server web hosting accounts do not include server root access (we, at beyondcr.net, think that this is a minor disadvantage), but the plus is that they are administered through the same hosting Control Panel interface as the shared website hosting accounts. This hints that a familiar graphical user interface is offered to all users who are not confident enough to manage a virtual hosting server, yet need more power and reserves than a VPS can furnish them with. This is like that because of the fact that the semi-dedicated servers share the reserves of the same powerful first-rate servers as the ones which host the VPS web server hosting plans, still, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite small (somewhere between 20 to thirty per physical machine), whereas the virtual web hosting servers can reach a much higher number (eighty to 120 per physical machine). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers furnished by 'Clic' can be classified as being amazingly inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), commencing from $20.00 for the Galaxy package.

Dedicated Servers

In beyondcr.net's opinion, enormous sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or popular online shops with 1000s of clients need a much more powerful site hosting environment. It seems that the folks from 'Clic' have drawn the same conclusion as well. To satisfy its users' expectations, 'Clic' delivers a bouquet of dedicated hosting servers that can manage millions of daily visits. That estimate stands on the hardware configurations the hosting servers have: many-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of data storage and Gigabit network cards will definitely guarantee the fast and steady work of any sort of website. According to 'Clic', the primary hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-demanding websites. We, from beyondcr.net, believe that all dedicated server specifications delivered by 'Clic' are also suitable for initiating a hosting reseller business as every dedicated web hosting server provides free invoicing transaction software platform and a free-of-charge domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web hosting servers provided by 'Clic' are all unmanaged. We, at beyondcr.net, think that this is a tiny negative point, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of $32.00 USD. So, if you are in need of aid, the Managed Services upgrade provides an array of supplementary services such as a regular backup, software installation, dedicated hosting server surveillance and troubleshooting procedures. A bunch of website hosting CP (CP) tools are offered with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (beyondcr.net's) prognosis is that the great point-and-click File Manager available in the Hepsia CP will probably render the use of any FTP client useless. Our (beyondcr.net's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers provided by 'Clic' don't seem to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia web site hosting CP and the unmetered hosted domain allowance will beyond doubt make you smile), beginning from $115.00 for the Xeon Scalable 6c plan.