A review of E-CRIPTE

We, at growvision.pt, have chosen 'E-CRIPTE' to be our present domain and web hosting vendor. This is why we consider that this concise evaluation of 'E-CRIPTE' is probably going to be very useful for other folks from all around the World who are searching for domain name and web hosting solutions. We say people from all around the World, since the simple truth is that 'E-CRIPTE' currently distributes domain and hosting services in numerous server farm facility sites: in the US (Chicago, IL), in Britain (Maidenhead, 20 miles outside London), in Sweden (Stockholm) and in Australia (Sydney). Thus, covering approximately the whole World. At least as far as the Internet is concerned. So, here is what you could anticipate from 'E-CRIPTE' in short:

Shared Webspace Hosting Plans

The initial thing we, at growvision.pt, have observed is the low prices of the shared hosting packages provided by 'E-CRIPTE'. Shared doesn't seem very good, does it? Well, that's what it is called: shared hosting. The good thing here is that the hosting accounts supplied by 'E-CRIPTE' are powered by an in-house developed, avant-garde cloud web hosting solution (each web hosting service, such as mail, databases, hosting Control Panel, web space, DNS, stats, and so on, is being served by an independent host of hosting servers in a cluster). This is something ANY cPanel web hosting corporation on the Earth will have immense predicaments with, because cPanel is a one single server based hosting environment (each hosting service, like email, databases, site hosting Control Panel, storage space, DNS, statistics, etc., is being dealt with by a single server), cPanel is not open source (hence the cPanel-based hosting providers are not able to add new functionality and manipulate it the way they need it) and there is no open source file platform (they need to concoct their own file platform), which is at the heart of any cloud web hosting service. Let's go back to the shared web page hosting packages, which are driven by a genuine clustered hosting solution. With a shared web page hosting account, each customer pays just for his/her account, thus keeping the webspace hosting price really low (because a lot of users use one and the same server). To cut a long story short, a shared hosting account, which is being served by a clustered web hosting system, allows you to pay only for the resources that you really require, precluding a scenario where you pay for a high-end hosting package that you cannot truly use, or for a small hosting plan that cannot shelter your web page. The option to upgrade your account from one plan to another with just 2 clicks grants you the flexibility to begin with a low-end plan and upgrade as your web page grows. That way, you spare money that you can invest in publicizing the website while it is still brand new. Each web space hosting package delivered by 'E-CRIPTE' arrives with an online site builder and over forty widely used script software platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Zen Cart and Moodle that will save you hundreds of dollars for website design services. 'E-CRIPTE' supplies shared webspace hosting accounts in several different regions across the Globe. There is one server farm in Chicago encompassing the US and Canada; 2 European data center facilities - in England and in Scandinavia; and another one in Australia, which encompasses the Asia Pacific. Hence, virtually the entire planet is covered to present you and your site's visitors with a steady and reliable webspace hosting service at a convenient place. On the whole, the shared hosting plans delivered 'E-CRIPTE' are quite well appointed and come at a budget price (starting from €4.92 for the Junior package).

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers

To people with little or no practice, a VPS may seem tough to administer. That's probably why 'E-CRIPTE' also keeps semi-dedicated hosting servers in its principal US data center facility in Chicago. Managing these plans is similar to managing a typical shared web hosting account via a web space hosting CP interface. They have all the specs of a shared web space hosting plan such as a fee-free website building tool and a PHP script installer, but the system resource quota provided by a semi-dedicated web server package is many times larger than that of a shared web hosting plan. For example, the CPU power that can be used is approximately FIVE times as much as compared with the shared web site hosting packages. When compared with a shared web space hosting package, the number of database queries added within the semi-dedicated hosting accounts is huge: 90 000 / hour. An unmetered hosted Top-Level Domain allowance is a standard as well. The semi-dedicated web hosting accounts do not arrive with complete root-level access (we, at growvision.pt, deem this a little defect), but the benefit is that they are administered through the very same hosting CP interface as the shared web page hosting plans. This goes to say that a user-friendly graphical environment is available to all clients who are not confident enough to handle a private virtual web hosting server, but at the same time require more power and features than a private virtual web server can give them. This is like that owing to the fact that the semi-dedicated web hosting servers share the resources of the same powerful first-rate web hosting servers as the ones which host the virtual private hosting server accounts, still, the number of the semi-dedicated servers is quite low (somewhere between 20 to 30 per physical server), while the virtual web servers can reach a much higher number (80 to 120 per physical server). Having that information in mind, the semi-dedicated servers provided by 'E-CRIPTE' can be categorized as being very inexpensive (as far as price is concerned), starting from €19.99 for the Mercurio package.

Dedicated Servers

In growvision.pt's opinion, huge sites such as social networks, community and corporate portals or famous online stores with thousands of clients require a much more powerful web page hosting environment. It seems that the blokes from 'E-CRIPTE' have reached the same conclusion too. To live up to its clients' demands, 'E-CRIPTE' supplies a number of dedicated web hosting servers that can handle millions of daily visits. That estimate rests on the hardware configurations the web servers have: Dual and Quad-core processors, up to four gigabytes of RAM, two thousand GB of web space and Gigabit NICs will no doubt guarantee the quick and steady work of any type of site. According to 'E-CRIPTE', the original hardware specs can be upgraded for more system resource-demanding websites. We, from growvision.pt, consider that all dedicated server specs offered by 'E-CRIPTE' are also appropriate for commencing a hosting reseller business as each dedicated web server ships with free-of-cost invoice transaction software and a free-of-charge domain reseller account. Unfortunately, the dedicated web hosting servers delivered by 'E-CRIPTE' are all unmanaged. We, at growvision.pt, count this as a slight minus, which can be amended by paying a monthly fee of €36.00 EUR. So, if you demand support, the Managed Services upgrade includes an assortment of extra services such as a routine backup, software installation, web server surveillance and troubleshooting operations. Several webspace hosting Control Panel (CP) tools are available with each of the dedicated web hosting servers - Hepsia, cPanel and DirectAdmin. Our (growvision.pt's) prognosis is that the magnificent drag-and-drop File Manager offered by the Hepsia Control Panel will possibly render the recourse to any File Transfer Protocol software pointless. Our (growvision.pt's) conclusion is that the dedicated servers furnished by 'E-CRIPTE' don't seem to be very modestly priced (still the Hepsia web space hosting Control Panel and the unmetered hosted domain name quotas will beyond doubt make you smile), starting from €151.13 for the Xeon Е5 2630L v4 plan.