Expert 247-host Review
Jonathan Griffin. Editor, Hosting Expert, SEO Developer, & SEO Consultant.
“Their standard Linux-based hosting is fairly ordinary, but if you have a few extra dollars, then you may want to consider their Business SSD hosting that offers SSD storage, as well as a range of resource allocations.
On a plus side, their Shared Hosting uses Litespeed, which is a high-performance, high-scalability server used in place of Apache. “
- Litespeed web server provides increased performance.
- Increased server stability with CloudLinux to prevent noisy resource hogging by any one individual user.
- DDoS protection enabled as standard.
- Softaculous installer provides easy installation of WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
- Free migration from your existing hosting provider.
- SSD storage available on their Business SSD Hosting plans.
Jonathan Griffin. Editor, Hosting Expert, SEO Developer, & SEO Consultant.
“Overall, we get the impression that their VPS hosting is a little overpriced, especially for the unmanaged \ non-ssd variants. They do offer several options for VPS hosting, including unmanaged, managed, premium SSD, and Windows. “- Choice of managed or unmanaged Linux Servers, as well as unmanaged Windows Servers.
- SSD storage is available as an option for their Linux Servers.
- CentOS Linux with full Root Access. cPanel included, with WHMCS available on some plans.
- Scalable on demand, without interruption to your service.
- Free Install of nginx, OPcache, memcache, eAccelerator
- Remote offsite backups available for a small fee. 99.99% Uptime Guarantee.
Their VPS offerings are quite interesting. They offer three different types of Linux plans (managed, unmanaged, managed SSD), and one type of Windows VPS plan. Their more expensive plans even come with a free WHMCS or Clientexec licence; great if you want to resell web hosting from a VPS.
Servers are offered in the US, Canada (except Windows) and Europe, and the technology used is very solid. They even will help you install NGINX \ memcache which is good.
The only issue is that 247-host are a relatively unknown entity. The number of reviews left around the web appear to be relatively positive, and they appear to be active on forums such as Webhostingtalk responding to any issues. That being said, we can’t help being “turned off” by their antiquated website design.
We run through some of the highlighted features below:
Managed VPS
You will find a list of all the advertised features for their Managed Linux servers below:
- Free cPanel/WHM
- CentOS Linux with Full Root Access
- Fully Optimized & Secured
- Easily Scalable Without Service Interruptions
- Free Install of nginx, OPcache, memcache, eAccelerator
- Free Migration from another host
- Choice of US, Canada and Europe Data Centers
- 99.99% Uptime Guarantee
- You do get Root access so you can install anything you like, and their SSD variant comes with SSD storage.
Unmanaged VPS
Their unmanaged VPS are a little different technology-wise:
- Free SolusVM panel
- Choice of Linux operating systems
- OpenVZ or KVM VPS with Full Root Access
- Choice of US and European Data Centers
- 45 day money back guarantee
Unmanaged Windows VPS
The main thing to point out is that their cheapest wVPS-1 plan is severely limited, and as such may be unsuitable for your needs.
- Windows 2012 Server with Remote Desktop (RDP)
- KVM Based Virtualizor Technology
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- WebSitePanel Control Panel
- Choice of US and European Data Centers
- 45 day money back guarantee
Jonathan Griffin. Editor, Hosting Expert, SEO Developer, & SEO Consultant.
“24-7 offers a variety of different reseller hosting plans, primarily distinguished by the amount of disk space. However, their higher priced plans also include SSD storage, and free Clientexec or WHMCS. All plans come with the LiteSpeed Webserver for performance, and choice of standard (budget) or SSD Storage. “- FREE cPanel Control Panel, WHM & SSH access
- Resell services at any price, plus oversell resources as required.
- Domain reseller account.
- Free WHMCS for billing management.
- SSD storage available on Premium reseller plans for better performance.
- Choice of US, Canada, Europe, or Asia data center locations.
If you were aiming to set up your own web hosting business, or just resell to your own clients 247-web is definitely worth considering.
There are quite a few excellent selling points you would be able to advertise, including:
- LiteSpeed - This is a high performance Apache drop-in replacement, and has a streamlined event-driven architecture. If you have a high traffic server (great for reseller hosting), then it will reduce memory consumption and CPU usage increasing website performance. Also, due to its optimized code, it will serve static content faster.
- CloudLinux - You can promote the use of CloudLinux by promoting reliable and secure servers. CloudLinux isolates each cPanel account ensuring greater security, and places arbitary limits on the amount of resources each account can use, thus preventing one cPanel account slowing others down. For reseller hosting, and web hosting companies, this is great.
- CloudFlare - Allows users to easily add a CDN, and other performance related features for free. Not only does this keep the end users happy, but also reduces the number of resources they use. You can read more about CloudFlare here.
- PHP 7 - This is the latest version of PHP, and is signifanctly faster than prior versions. You can read more about it here.
- SSD Storage - This increases performance, both in terms of throughput, but also latency, significantly improvement website performance. You can read more about SSD hosting here.
And of course, with WHMCS, you will be able to manage your clients easily with this powerful billing \ support system.
Jonathan Griffin. Editor, Hosting Expert, SEO Developer, & SEO Consultant.
“247-host offer a simple selection of dedicated hosting plans utilizing Intel Xeon servers. All come with full management, cPanel, server monitoring and root access.
The price is relatively high for the servers, so a much of that must be attributable to the management service. “
- FREE WHM + cPanel Control Panel. Easily create multiple accounts.
- US or European Data Centers.
- Full Management and Monitoring.
- Free Enom account for reselling domain names.
- Choice of HDD storage, or SSD.
- Enterprise Intel Xeon Servers - E3-1220, E3-1230, E5-2670, or E3-1241.
A great variety of pre-configured servers with both SSD and non-SSD variants.
All servers come with a primary and secondary hard disk, but there is no information if they are configured in RAID for resilience against hardware failure.
Full management is included, coupled with full Root access enabling you to also make custom changes to your server with the peace of mind that help is available should you need it.
Users Reviews
The user ratings to the right reflect the total rating score of all 3 VPS Hosting Reviews left by our readers.
The user ratings to the right reflect the total rating score of all 2 Reseller Hosting Reviews left by our readers.
The user ratings to the right reflect the total rating score of all 3 Dedicated Hosting Reviews left by our readers.
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Jonathan Griffin Editor, SEO Consultant, & Developer.
Jonathan Griffin is The Webmaster's Editor & CEO, managing day-to-day editorial operations across all our publications. Jonathan writes about Development, Hosting, and SEO topics for The Webmaster and The Search Review with more than nine years of experience. Jonathan also manages his own SEO consultancy, offering SEO developer services. He is an expert on site-structure, strategy, Schema, AMP, and technical SEO. You can find Jonathan on Twitter as @thewebmastercom.