An assessment of Dasa

We, at distcarhn.com, have picked 'Dasa' to be our current domain and web hosting supplier. This is why we think that this concise evaluation of 'Dasa' is probably going to be quite useful for other folks from all around the World in search for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all around the World, because the mere truth is that 'Dasa' currently supplies domain and hosting services in numerous datacenter locations: in the United States (Chicago, IL), in the UK (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). That way, embracing nearly the whole planet. At least as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'Dasa' in a nutshell:

Shared Hosting Packages

The first detail we, at distcarhn.com, have noted is the budget prices of the shared website hosting accounts offered by 'Dasa'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is referred to as: shared web hosting. The good news here is that the web space hosting accounts supplied by 'Dasa' are powered by a custom designed, cutting edge cloud web hosting platform (each web hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, website hosting Control Panel, data storage, DNS, statistics, and so on, is being served by an independent bunch of servers in a cluster). This is a circumstance ANY cPanel web hosting vendor on the Globe will have great difficulties with, since cPanel is a one-server based website hosting platform (each hosting service, like electronic mail, databases, site hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being dealt with by a single server), cPanel is not open source (that is why the cPanel-based web page hosting vendors cannot add extra functionality and handle it the way they need it) and there is no open source file system (they have to make their own file platform), which is the precondition of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web hosting packages, which are powered by an authentic clustered site hosting system. With a shared site hosting plan, each client pays only for his/her account, thus retaining the webspace hosting price amazingly low (because multiple clients utilize the same web server). In brief, a shared hosting plan, which is being served by a clustered webspace hosting solution, allows you to pay solely for the reserves that you actually need, averting a scenario where you pay for a powerful web hosting account that you cannot really use, or for a low-end website hosting account that cannot accommodate your website. The ability to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just two clicks grants you the flexibility to kick off with a small package and upgrade as your web site grows. Thus, you spare capital that you can invest in promoting the web site while it is still new. Each web space hosting account provided by 'Dasa' sports an online web site building tool and over 40 popular script platforms among them WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will spare you hundreds of dollars for web design services. 'Dasa' supplies shared web hosting services in several different geographical regions across the World. There is one datacenter facility in Chicago encompassing the USA and Canada; 2 European datacenters - in Great Britain and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which covers the Asia-Pacific. Thus, nearly the whole planet is encompassed to present you and your site's visitors with a steady and reliable web space hosting solution at a nearby place. All in all, the shared hosting solutions furnished 'Dasa' are very well furnished and come at an affordable price (beginning from $10.17 for the Micro plan).

Semi-dedicated Servers

To people with little or no experience, a private virtual server may appear difficult to handle. That's probably why 'Dasa' also keeps semi-dedicated servers in its main United States datacenter in Chicago. Managing these accounts is comparable to administering a conventional shared website hosting account through a web hosting CP interface. They have all the specs of a shared hosting package such as a fee-free website building tool and a web application installation tool, but the system resource quota offered by a semi-dedicated server web hosting account is many times bigger than that of a shared site hosting package. For instance, the CPU power that can be used is approximately FIVE times as much as compared with the shared web hosting accounts. When compared with a shared web space hosting account, the quota of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting packages is big: 90 000 / hour. An unlimited hosted Top-Level Domain quota is a rule as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting packages do not come with complete root access (we, at distcarhn.com, consider this a small inconvenience), but the plus is that they are managed through the very same web hosting Control Panel GUI as the shared web hosting accounts. This suggests that a user-friendly graphical interface is offered to all clients who do not feel self-confident enough to handle a private virtual web server, but at the same time require more power and reserves than a virtual web hosting server can provide them with. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated web servers share the system resources of the very same powerful cutting edge web servers as the ones which accommodate the virtual private web hosting server packages, however, the number of the semi-dedicated hosting servers is very small (somewhere between twenty to 30 per physical machine), while the VPS servers can reach a much bigger number (eighty to one hundred and twenty per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers delivered by 'Dasa' can be categorized as being amazingly cheap (as far as cost is concerned), starting from $20.00 for the Semi Dedicated 1 plan.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

In distcarhn.com's opinion, enormous web pages such as social networks, community and business web portals or famous online shops with thousands of customers call for a much more powerful site hosting platform. It appears that the guys from 'Dasa' have reached the same conclusion too. To answer its clients' demands, 'Dasa' supplies a number of dedicated hosting servers that can handle millions of daily hits. That evaluation rests on the hardware specifications the web hosting servers boast: multi-core processors, up to four GB of RAM, two thousand GB of storage space and Gigabit NICs will definitely ensure the fast and stable work of any type of site. According to 'Dasa', the original hardware configurations can be upgraded for more resource-requiring sites. We, from distcarhn.com, think that all dedicated server plans furnished by 'Dasa' are also suitable for kickstarting a hosting reseller business as every web server comes with free-of-charge billing transaction software and a fee-free domain reseller account. Unlickily, the dedicated hosting servers delivered by 'Dasa' are all unmanaged. We, at distcarhn.com, count this as a little disadvantage, which can be amended by paying a monthly tax of $36.00 USD. So, if you demand help, the Managed Services upgrade provides a handful of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, web server monitoring and troubleshooting procedures. A bunch of web site hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are available with each of the web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (distcarhn.com's) prognosis is that the outstanding point and click File Manager available in the Hepsia web space hosting CP will possibly make the recourse to any FTP client pointless. Our (distcarhn.com's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers offered by 'Dasa' don't appear to be very affordably priced (yet the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and the unlimited hosted domain name quotas will doubtlessly make you smile), beginning from $60.00 for the Xeon E3 v3 plan.