An evaluation of Nautilus Design

We, at saltwest.co, have chosen 'Nautilus Design' to be our current domain name and hosting vendor. This is why we consider that this concise review of 'Nautilus Design' is perchance going to be quite helpful for other people from all over the World who are looking for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say folks from all around the Globe, since the mere truth is that 'Nautilus Design' presently provides domain and hosting services in several data center facility locations: in the United States of America (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Scandinavia (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thereby, embracing practically the entire World. At least from the point of view of the World Wide Web. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Nautilus Design' in a few words:

Shared Web Hosting Packages

The initial thing we, at saltwest.co, have discerned is the budget prices of the shared web page hosting plans offered by 'Nautilus Design'. Shared doesn't sound very well, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared hosting. The good news here is that the web page hosting accounts supplied by 'Nautilus Design' are powered by a custom invented, innovative cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, disk storage, DNS, stats, and so on, is being served by a separate group of web hosting servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance EVERY cPanel web hosting corporation in the World will have mammoth predicaments with, because cPanel is a one-server based web site hosting platform (each hosting service, like email, databases, web hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, stats, etc., is being dealt with by one and the same hosting server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel hosting companies are unable to include additional functionality and manipulate it the way they want it) and there is no open source file system (they need to construct their own file platform), which is the premise of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web space hosting plans, which are powered by an authentic clustered web hosting solution. With a shared site hosting account, each customer pays only for his/her package, thus maintaining the web hosting price amazingly low (since plenty of customers utilize one and the same hosting server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which runs on a cloud web site hosting solution, enables you to pay solely for the resources that you indeed require, escaping a situation where you pay for a powerful web space hosting account that you cannot truly utilize, or for a basic web site hosting plan that cannot accommodate your site. The possibility to upgrade your account from one plan to another with only 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a small plan and upgrade as your website grows. In this way, you save capital that you can invest in promoting the site while it is still novel. Every web hosting plan offered by 'Nautilus Design' contains an online website building tool and over forty popular script-driven software applications like WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you 100s of dollars for site design services. 'Nautilus Design' supplies shared website hosting accounts in a number of different countries across the World. There is one data center in Chicago covering the United States of America and Canada; two European datacenters - in the United Kingdom and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. Thus, almost the whole Earth is encompassed to present you and your site's visitors with a stable and reliable web space hosting service at a convenient place. On the whole, the shared hosting plans provided 'Nautilus Design' are really well furnished and come at a very attractive price (beginning from $5.83 for the Standard package).

Semi-dedicated Web Servers

To people with little or no practice, a virtual web hosting server may seem problematic to handle. That's probably why 'Nautilus Design' also keeps semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal American data center facility in Chicago. Administering these plans is comparable to administering a typical shared hosting plan via a website hosting Control Panel interface. They have all the features of a shared webspace hosting plan such as a free-of-cost web site builder and a web application installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated web hosting server package is many times bigger than that of a shared website hosting package. For example, the central processing unit power that can be used is nearly FIVE times as much as compared to the shared website hosting plans. When contrasted with a shared web site hosting plan, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting plans is vast: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted TLD allowance is a trend too. The semi-dedicated web server accounts do not include full root-level access (we, at saltwest.co, think that this is a minor weak point), but the advantage is that they are administered through the very same website hosting Control Panel tool as the shared web page hosting packages. This suggests that a user-friendly graphical environment is offered to all users who are not self-confident enough to manage a virtual hosting server, yet need more power and resources than a virtual private web server can offer. This is like that due to the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the same powerful high-class web hosting servers as the ones which host the VPS web server hosting plans, yet, the number of the semi-dedicated web hosting servers is quite low (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), whereas the virtual web hosting servers can reach a much greater number (80 to 120 per server). Having that info in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Nautilus Design' can be branded as being quite affordable (as far as price is concerned), beginning from $20.00 for the Galaxy package.

Dedicated Web Servers

In saltwest.co's opinion, big sites such as social networks, community and corporate web portals or famous online shops with thousands of clients require a much more powerful webspace hosting environment. It appears that the folks from 'Nautilus Design' have come to the same conclusion too. To meet its clients' expectations, 'Nautilus Design' provides an array of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimation is based on the hardware specs the hosting servers sport: many-core processors, up to 4 gigabytes of RAM, 2000 GB of disk storage and Gigabit NICs will no doubt ensure the quick and steady work of any type of web site. According to 'Nautilus Design', the original hardware specifications can be upgraded for more resource-demanding web sites. We, from saltwest.co, deem that all dedicated server specs provided by 'Nautilus Design' are also appropriate for starting a hosting reseller business as each and every server arrives with free-of-cost invoicing software platform and a complimentary domain reseller account. Sadly, the dedicated web hosting servers supplied by 'Nautilus Design' are all unmanaged. We, at saltwest.co, count this as a minor weak point, which can be corrected by paying a monthly tax which amounts to $32.00 USD. So, if you demand assistance, the Managed Services upgrade includes various supplementary services such as a routine backup, software installation, server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. A selection of webspace hosting CP (CP) user interfaces are available with each of the servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (saltwest.co's) forecast is that the exceptional point-and-click File Manager available in the Hepsia CP will probably render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software useless. Our (saltwest.co's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Nautilus Design' don't seem to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia webspace hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will no doubt make you smile), commencing from $40.00 for the Atom 2c package.