Overview: ServInt prides itself on providing personalized hosting solutions. They offer flexible and customizable options for businesses and developers.
Pricing:
Shared VPS: $27/mo for VPS hosting.
Cloud VPS: $69/mo for VPS hosting.
Dedicated: $239/mo for dedicated hosting.
Ideal Customer: With ServInt’s scalability and premium hosting options they cater more to growing businesses than beginning webmasters.
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Unique Features:
Cloudflare: Cloudflare is a unique feature available to all ServInt users and setting it up usually takes less than 5 minutes. Once your website is part of Cloudflare it gets passed through their global network, which provides you with two distinct advantages. Firstly, malicious attacks and threats such as comment spam, email harvesters, cross-site scripting, SQL injections, abusive bots and crawlers, and DDoS attacks are all prevented through Cloudflare acting as a proxy between your ServInt server and external visitors to your site. Visitors, crawlers, bots, and attackers all have to pass through Cloudflare’s globally distributed network which then filters out and decides who to let in and block, leaving your site protected and attack free. By stopping these threats way before they actually reach your website, it allows you to preserve your bandwidth and resources for your much needed legitimate website traffic. Another unique advantage Cloudflare provides is optimization for your website. The delivery of your web pages are automatically optimized (allowing for fast page load times for your visitors), and by using local storage on browsers and mobile devices your site is left best rendered. Cloudflare also optimizes your HTML so that even third party resources cannot affect and slow down your page loading times.
Together with the above, there are many other benefits to using Cloudflare. Cloudflare provides the latest CDN technology with a total of 63 data centers worldwide. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) essentially helps you to distribute your content around the world allowing it to be closer to your visitors using geographically dispersed servers (so users can use a network of servers spread around the world, instead of them all overloading your one specific web host server). Therefore by using Servint’s Cloudflare CDN you can provide website load times that are 2 times faster, with 65% fewer requests, and can save you up to 60% of your bandwidth. Another feature that Cloudflare provides is a custom built and fully owned DNS service. A DNS service (which stands for Domain Name System) is a system which contains a database of network names and addresses around the world so when you type in a website into your browser, it can automatically be matched and recognized. Cloudflare has one of the fastest DNS services around and provides a DNS that is very secure, global, and powerful. Lastly, Cloudflare also provides you with site analytics and mobile apps. Site Analytics is a feature not always available on other packages and where you can obtain information about website traffic, visitors and threats. Cloudflare apps allow you to install web apps on your site faster and quicker.
Jelastic PAAS: Jelastic PAAS is a feature available on ServInt designed specially for software developers and ISVS allowing you to deploy a working cloud solution in hours instead of months. It provides everything you need for a turnkey cloud solution. Some of the specific features you can get with Jelastic includes monitoring, provisioning, authentication, billing, health checking and statistics, together with support and maintenance. Some of the advantages of using Jelastic PAAS includes faster deployment (applications can be deployed in seconds), GIT and SVN support, simpler management (with easy to use dashboards), enterprise class availability (isolated containers mean failures do not strike other environments), full elastic scalability (with automatic vertical scalability as well as horizontal scaling, meaning that if application demand shrinks, resources are sent back to the cloud ensuring optimized application density), together with an assurance that almost any application can be supported (with no complex APIs to have to code on any required changes to your application).
Managed Migration: Do you have a host you are very unhappy with but are afraid of the hassle of switching servers? Are you looking to switch hosts but unsure how to migrate all your information and data across. ServInt offers a Managed Migration Service which takes all the hassle and effort out of moving servers. ServInt will move all your files and databases from your current hosting company together with bringing over any custom configurations you require. All you are required to do is create a new account (where you can get ServInt Managed Migration for free) and then repoint your DNS. The services apply to ‘cPanel to cPanel’ migrations as well as ‘Plesk to cPanel’ migrations.
Pros:
- Cloudflare: Acting as a virtual doorman to your website Cloudflare offers a level of security that is not found at many other hosts.
- Customer Support: Their options are front and center on the website with chat, phone number, and email links always at the top of the page. They promise 24/7 chat and online support. Concierge members also have 24/7 phone support.
- Managed Migration: No need to worry about the stress of switching hosts, let ServInt manage the process for you. And the best part is that it’s free when you establish a new account.
- WP Friendly: Servint has special WP hosting for WordPress users and Bloggers. They will install the software for you upon request and even has WP technical support if you need it.
Cons:
- No Uptime Guarantee: There is no uptime guarantee listed on their website however they make a strong case for their customer support to be able to quickly handle any issues.
- Fully managed hosting: While ServInt does have managed options, concierge and premium, you will have to contact their expert team to price the premium option.
- Not for beginners: Servint does have a wide variety of options for businesses, bloggers, and agencies but those new to the web may be overwhelmed here.
Summary:
Starting at $27 a month and going up to $329 a month ServInt is certainly a more upscale and premium product compared to other servers such as GoDaddy and Bluehost. However, they offer a large variety of services in return for this such as Linux, WHM, VPS, CentOS, together with the above unique features described.
Takeaway: The availability of phone support and instant help from ServInt has mixed response reviews, however, there is no doubt that if you are a professional or business looking to scale up your website then ServInt offers ample services unavailable as easily elsewhere. On the flip side, if you are newly setting up a personal blog with little traffic, this premium service may not be suited to you.
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