With VPS web hosting you will often see specifications on web hosting websites like Guaranteed RAM and Burstable RAM and may be wondering what this means.
Well when you see Guaranteed RAM it means that with the plan that you choose that you will have a guaranteed amount, so for example you may have Guaranteed RAM of 256MB, so you know that this is pretty much yours to use, but should your website/s receieve a bit of a spike then you can safely use the Burstable RAM, you dont have to do anything specific to use the Burstable RAM, it will be setup that way, and an example of available Burstable RAM could be 1GB.
Its not uncommon for a website to get a bit of a spike of activity and so the Burstable RAM helps your website deal with this, but at the web host that you choose, they most likely would not allow your website/s to go into the Burstable RAM and be using it constantly.
If your website/s hosted on the VPS server are beginning to use the resources more heavily and constantly then the web host would probably contact you suggesting that you upgrade to the next level VPS plan that they may offer or to a dedicated hosting plan if they offer that.
The Burstable RAM is sort of like a safety net to deal with a sudden overflow of resource use that is more than your Guaranteed RAM, just as long as you dont constantly eat into it then its fine to temporarily have your websites use beyond your Guaranteed RAM amount specified.
The use of the Burstable RAM will depend on the availability of resources on the server that your VPS account is on, as a number of VPS servers will be sharing one box, so as long as its available on the server then its there for you to temporarily use.
- Guaranteed RAM - Yours to use, usually less the amount of Burstable RAM.
- Burstable RAM - Available to you for short bursts.
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Full Review
Pandela offer a hosting package referred to as "Premium Web Hosting" that offers 20GB disk space and 200GB of bandwidth per account, the hosting of domains is limited to 3 and a free domain is available with the hosting if you choose to sign up for a 1 or 2 year hosting plan with them.
The control panel in place is called NextGen, which claims to be powerful and unique, it looks like it provides some decent control and similar to cPanel you can control your domains, email accounts, database management, use the support system and check your website statistics from within the control panel.
The NextGenCP is built solely for Pandela and the hosting plan that they offer.
Up to a 1000 email accounts can be created, programming and script languages are supported like PHP 5, Perl and SSI, and up to 5 MySQL databases can be used.
100 FTP accounts can be setup and website statistics are available.
The price starts at 1 month for $8.95 but you can make savings if you purchase the hosting for 3 or 6 months and the setup fee is less with those, if you commit to a 12 month or 24 month plan then there is no setup fee and the savings in place for the 24 month plan mean that the monthly hosting cost works out to $4.95
The free domain, if you choose to take advantage of it is only available with the 12 and 24 month plans.
Visit Pandela for more information on their premium web hosting plan.
Rating (out of 10)
Price
The pricing is reasonable and savings are available for long term plans but for short therm plans there is a setup fee.
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6 |
Discounts Available
There are long term plan discounts available, resulting in substantial savings and no setup fees if choosing the 12 or 24 month plans.
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7 |
Upgrade Flexibility
Upgrade options are in place for extra bandwidth and disk space.
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7 |
Support
24/7 Support is available through a ticket system and contact form.
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7 |
Payment Options
Credit Card and Paypal payment options are in place.
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7 |
Total
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6.8
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Filed under: Shared Hosting Reviews by admin
1 Comment » Published June 26, 2008
Full Review
Downtownhost offer a variety of web hosting options with one of them being shared web hosting, they have three different plans called, Shared Bronze, Shared Silver and Shared Gold.
Shared Bronze offers: 5GB of disk space which is a decent amount of storage space and a lot of customers most likely wouldn't run out of space too soon with that, and available bandwidth is 100GB, which is very decent per month, you can host unlimited domains so using the plan for hosting of multiple websites is fine with addon domains.
Also the email accounts available to use are unlimited so you can create individual email accounts for each domain added if you choose to use the plan for more than one website.
24/7 Live support is available and a 30 day money back guarantee is in place.
The Shared Bronze plan is $15.95 if your paying monthly but you can pay for 3 months (quarterly) or 6 months (semi-annually) and save money with the available discounts, you can also purchase 1, 2 or 3 years hosting with savings on each term and the price becoming only $4.95 if you dedicate yourself to 3 years with them.
The Shared Silver plan is much as with the Bronze plan, but with increased disk space, 7GB and more available bandwidth, 250GB bandwidth, the price is $17.95 per month and $6.95 if you dedicate yourself to 3 years on the Shared Silver plan.
The Shared Gold plan again is with the same features as the Bronze plan but with even more disk space, 15GB of disk space and 300GB of bandwidth, the price is $25.95 for one month and if you commit to 3 years its $12.95 per month.
All 3 packages come with cPanel and 23 languages are supported with this control panel, various email features and software and scripts support, as well as other additional features like unlimited MySQL databases and an option for a dedicated static IP address on a monthly basis for an additional $2.
The above shared hosting plans are on linux servers (CentOS Linux)
Visit Downtownhost to see their shared hosting plans.
Rating (out of 10)
Price
Each plan is reasonably priced for what is included.
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6 |
Discounts Available
Substantial discounts are available if committing to a long term price plan.
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8 |
Upgrade Flexibility
Plan upgrades can be performed upon request by sending an email.
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7 |
Support
Support is available with individual sections, helpful links, a helpdesk, live chat, tutorials and support email.
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9 |
Payment Options
Payments accepted by credit card including Visa, Mastercard and American Express, as well as Paypal.
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8 |
Total
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7.6
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Filed under: Shared Hosting Reviews by admin
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