Web hosting ranked
With Cloud being ubiquituous for sharing knowledge and ecommerce via web, this article explores best Web Hosting rankings along with their Infrastructure capabilities and Datacenter locations
Mutinational companies would prefer Providers with multiple datacenter locations
SMEs would prefer locations closer to their client base to reduce latency
Individuals would prefer value for money
TERMS
PROVIDER
Hosting Provider
Provider can offer any combination of Infrastructure / Web / Server / Solutions
PRICE-BAND
Relative pricing with other comparable vendors
HIGH — Higher pricing than others
MID — On par with others
LOW — Lower pricing than others
INFRASTRUCTURE
Provider Infrastructure
DATACENTER — Provider owns DATACENTERS
SERVERS — Provider typically owns servers
SERVICES — Provider does not own infrastructure and provides services
Some of notable Datacenter providers are Digital realty, NTT, Equinix, Levelhouse, China Telecom
DATACENTER LOCATIONS
NA — North America (USA and Canada)
EU — European Union and UK
MENA — Middle East and North Africa
APAC — Asia Pacific
RATING
A — Very Good
A- — Above Average
B — Average
C — Below Average
Rating factors -
Pricing and value for money
Services (like Developer friendly, Panel features etc)
Performance (Quality of — Network, Storage , Locations, etc)
Support
Datacenters and locations
VPS Hosting / Dedicated Hosting
Provider with SERVICE is not rated
Shared Hosting / VPS Hosting
DATACENTER TIERS
Datacenter tier classification — GOALS
Tier 1 — Long term
Tier 2 — Redundancy
Tier 3 — High availability
Tier 4 — Fully redundant / Fault tolerant
Datacenter tier classification — OVERVIEW
Tier 1 — Basic / non-redundant
Tier 2 — + Redundant capacity (UPS, HVAC)
Tier 3 — + Multiple distribution paths (Network , Electrical , Storage etc) + Dual powered systems (IT)
Tier 4 — + Fully redundant (Network , Electrical , Storage etc) + Dual powered systems ( Power + Cooling/HVAC)
Our Hosting services include IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Private Cloud solutions , Virtual Private Servers, Dedicated/Bare-Metal servers, Server Load-balancing solutions, DRaaS , Colocation, Security DDoS Mitigation services
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