Best hosting

After thinking about it for a long time, you have decided that you will create your first website and are therefore looking for a hosting service that, in addition to meeting your needs, may also be able to host your project under construction. After doing a web search, however, you agreed on the fact that you need the help of an expert and, specifically, you decided to consult this guide, trusting to be able to read my advice.

You have done very well to contact me: if I have decided to address the topic on Aranzulla.it it is because I know how difficult it is to juggle the resources of the Web. important, if you are not knowledgeable in the matter. Also, when looking for the best hosting service, you need to do a thorough research to be able to better evaluate all the possibilities. In short, as you can understand, this is not an easy choice, even more difficult if it is a paid hosting. Rightly, before spending any money you would like to think about it and be sure of the choice to make.

You have every reason to think this way and, for this very reason I want to give you a hand and summarize which, in my opinion, are the best hosting on the square. Clearly keep in mind that, in this guide I will mainly talk about what are the paid hosting services, since a paid hosting is certainly more suitable for opening a professional website. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a free hosting, I invite you to consult my dedicated guide, in which I have given space to hosting services that will allow you to open your website at no cost. Are you ready to get started? Yup? Very well! I wish you a good read as usual and, in this case, I also wish you my most sincere “good luck” for your Web project.

Index

• Aruba
• Xlogic Hosting
• IKOULA
• Vhosting Solution
• GoDaddy

Aruba

Aruba is a famous company that deals with domains, hosting, clouds, dedicated servers and certified services. It offers Linux and Windows hosting solutions suitable for all needs and budgets.

Going into more detail, Linux hosting packages all offer a wide range of free software and CMS, such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Prestashop and Magento. They also include domain registration, unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, web space backup, mailboxes with IMAP, antivirus and antispam, 2Gbit / s of bandwidth and DV SSL certificate. Prices start at € 11.99 + VAT/year. Below I propose a detailed description of all the available solutions.

• Basic– is the cheapest and most essential Linux hosting package, perfect for those who want maximum freedom of customization. At a cost of 11.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 28.99 euros + VAT/year, it offers unlimited disk space and traffic, a domain, 5 1GB mailboxes, the SSL DV certificate and free assistance 24 / 7. It also offers the possibility to request the activation of GigaMail boxes of 5GB each, of PEC boxes on domain and of a MySQL database with backup. More info here.
• Easy– is the best-selling Linux hosting package on Aruba. It includes all the benefits of the Basic package, plus unlimited 5GB mailboxes, 10 GigaMail mailboxes of 5GB each, 5 SSD storage databases for a total of 1GB (with backup) and Web marketing statistics. It costs 19.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 50 euros + VAT/year. More info here.
• Advanced– is the Linux hosting solution designed to develop dynamic, advanced and high-performance websites. It includes all the features of the Easy package, but with 20 GigaMail boxes of 5GB each and 5 PEC boxes on domain of 1GB each. It costs 29.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 70 euros + VAT/year. More info here.
• Professional– is the most complete Aruba Linux hosting package ever. For 49.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 150 euros + VAT/year it offers all the advantages of the Advanced package, plus 30 GigaMail boxes of 5GB each and 10 PEC boxes on a domain of 1GB each. More info here.

Now let’s move on to the Windows hosting packages, which represent the international standard for .ASP and .NET developers, and are ready to use solutions like BlogEngine.NET , SUBTEXT, yaf and mojoPortal. They support various languages. such as ASP.NET, Visual Studio, ASP, PHP and perl.

The available solutions are quite in line with those dedicated to Linux hosting. They all include domain registration, unlimited disk space and traffic, web space backup, mailboxes with IMAP, antivirus and antispam, 1Gbit / s of bandwidth and DV SSL certificate. Now I will illustrate them in detail.

• Basic– is the basic Aruba Windows hosting package. At a cost of 11.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 28.99 euros + VAT/year it offers unlimited disk space and traffic, a domain, 5 1GB mailboxes, the SSL DV certificate, the application SiteBuilder and free 24/7 support. It is possible to optionally add one or more 5GB GigaMail mailboxes, PEC mailboxes on domain and an MSSQL database (SQL Server 2008 R2) with backup. More info here.
• Easy– is the most popular Aruba Windows hosting package. For 19.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 50 euros + VAT/year it offers the advantages of the Basic package, plus unlimited 5GB mailboxes, 10 GigaMail mailboxes of 5GB each, a 1GB database with backup and Web marketing statistics. More info here.
• Advanced– a package designed for the development of dynamic, advanced and high-performance websites. For 29.99 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 70 euros + VAT/year it offers all the advantages of the Easy package, plus 20 5GB GigaMail accounts and 5 PEC accounts on a 1GB domain each. More info here.
• Professional– is the most complete Windows hosting solution available in the Aruba price list. At a cost of € 49.99 + VAT/year for the 1st year and then € 150 + VAT/year, it offers all the features of the Advanced package, plus 30 5GB GigaMail accounts and 10 PEC accounts on a 1GB domain each. More info here.

Among the most interesting offers of Aruba, there are also those relating to WordPress hosting, with the famous CMS pre-installed on unlimited web space, MySQL database and second level domain (new or transferred). The plans related to WordPress hosting are four, of which one standard and three of Managed WordPress Hosting, that is with an all-in-one solution that provides for automatic platform update (including themes and plugins), specialized support, optimized performance, staging environment to test site changes without making them public, site backup and restore on demand, and much more. Here they are all in detail.

• WordPress hosting (24.99 euros + VAT per year)– includes unlimited disk space with pre-installed WordPress, thousands of themes and plugins, second level domain, dedicated MySQL database, unlimited traffic volume, daily backups with data retention for 7 days, malware detection, DV SSL certificate, five 1GB mailboxes and free 24/7 support. It also allows the addition of unlimited mailboxes and the activation of PEC on domain.
• Smart Managed WordPress Hosting (79 euros + VAT per year discounted to 29 euros + VAT the first year)– includes unlimited disk space on SSD with pre-installed WordPress and automatic updates for cores, themes and plugins, thousands of themes and plugins, second level domain, dedicated MySQL database (1GB), daily backups with data retention for 7 days, two backups on demand with one-click restore, specialist support with 1 free credit, optimized performance, staging environment (to test changes made to the site without “affecting” the public version of the site), malware detection, DV SSL certificate, five boxes 1GB email and free 24/7 support. It also allows the addition of unlimited mailboxes and the activation of PEC on domain. It is recommended for sites that have up to 50,000 monthly visitors.
• Premium Managed WordPress Hosting (129 euros + VAT per year discounted to 39 euros + VAT the first year)– includes all the benefits of the Smart Managed WordPress Hosting plan, plus 2GB for the MySQL database, traffic volume up to 500,000 visitors per month , specialist support with 2 free credits, 4 on-demand backups with one-click restore and unlimited 1GB email accounts and 5 PEC on domain. It is recommended for sites that have up to 500,000 monthly visitors.
• Top Managed WordPress Hosting (229 euros + VAT per year discounted to 119 euros + VAT the first year)– includes all the benefits of the Premium Managed WordPress Hosting plan, plus specialist support with 3 free credits, 4 on-demand backups with restore in one unlimited clicks and email boxes of 1GB and 10 PEC on domain. It is recommended for sites that have up to 1,000,000 monthly visitors.

For more information on Aruba hosting plans with WordPress, see my dedicated guide.

For those with advanced needs, Aruba Business (the Aruba channel dedicated to IT professionals and resellers) offers Cloud Hosting: a service that is halfway between a real VPS hosting and a shared Web hosting, thanks to which you can freely allocate resources between your domains and monitor their use by having access to hourly statistics.

This solution includes single-domain or multi-domain hosting based on Linux or Windows and many other scalable resources: unlimited sites (in the multi-domain version), one domain, unlimited SSD space and traffic, up to 8GB of RAM, unlimited 1GB databases on SSD, certificate SSL DV and access to a panel of your choice between Plesk and cPanel for resource management. Furthermore, there is support for over 400 free applications, such as WordPress, Joomla, WooCommerce, Prestashop, Drupal and Magento.

Below you will find the Aruba Cloud Hosting plans currently available, their features and their prices.

• Single Domain Cloud Hosting– for 45 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 75 euros + VAT/year it offers the registration of a domain, a website, unlimited web space on SSD, 10 2GB mailboxes (1GB Inbox + 1GB Web storage), unlimited databases on SSD (for a total of 1GB), 1GB of RAM and access to a panel of your choice between Plesk (with Linux or Windows based hosting) and cPanel (with Linux based hosting).
• Multidomain Cloud Hosting– with prices starting from 174 euros + VAT/year for the 1st year and then 290 euros + VAT/year, it offers domain registration, unlimited websites, unlimited web space on SSD, 10 mailboxes from 2GB for each domain (1GB Inbox + 1GB Web storage), unlimited databases on SSD (for a total of 1GB), 2-8GB of RAM and access to a panel of your choice between Plesk (with Linux or Windows-based hosting) and cPanel (with Linux based hosting).

For more information on this, I invite you to consult my tutorial dedicated specifically to Aruba Cloud Hosting and the official website of Aruba Cloud Hosting.

Xlogic Hosting

Now I want to talk to you about the hosting plans offered by Xlogic Hosting, an Italian company born in 2011, based in Collegno (TO), known for its high quality hosting services offered at competitive prices.

Xlogic uses  Litespeed, a high performance Apache replacement, thanks to which it is possible to have a fast, stable and secure site. The CloudLinux operating system also contributes greatly to security which, together with  CageFS, provides a Web Hosting environment with a virtualized file system, in which each user can only act on their own area (without “seeing” other users on the server) and therefore, it does not run the risk of spreading any viruses or malware between the various accounts.

All plans proposed by Xlogic Hosting include an integrated LiteSpeed ​​cache system ( LSCache ), the presence of an SSL certificate  (Comodo) on each domain/subdomain and the ability to manage the  PHP version (and related parameters) through the panel cPanel control, which is the most popular and used on the Web. In addition, there is the possibility of having technicians configure the  Cloudflare CDN for free.

Below, you can find in detail all the offers of Xlogic Hosting, suitable for all budgets and all hosting needs.

• Shared Hosting(starting from 19 euros/year) – is the most popular and cheapest solution. LSCache is configured on all plans and SSD drives and NVMe SSDs (Hosting Power, Business) are used.
  • MINI (19 euros): 4GB disk space, 50GB of monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, 1 domain that can be hosted.
  • LITE (29 euros): 8GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 1 domain that can be hosted, Site Builder
  • PLUS (39 euros): 12GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 1 domain that can be hosted, Site Builder, Automatic backup.
  • POWER (54 euros): 20GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 1 host domain, Site Builder, Automatic Backup, Malware Detection.
• Multidomain Hosting (starting from 49 euros/year)– allows you to host multiple domains on the same hosting plan. The features are the same as the Shared Hosting plan.
  • BASIC (49 euros): 16GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 5 hosted domains, Site Builder.
  • PREMIUM (89 euros): 24GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 10 domains that can be hosted, Site Builder, Automatic Backup, Malware Detection.
  • MASTER (139 euros): 30GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 15 hosted domains, Site Builder, Automatic Backup, Malware Detection.
  • BUSINESS (304 euros): 50GB disk space, unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited database/email addresses, Antivirus / AntiSpam, 40 hosted domains, Site Builder, Automatic Backup, Malware Detection.
• Hosting Reseller(starting from 154 euros/year) – a whitelabel solution that allows you to resell Xlogic hosting plans to your customers, managing them through your own control panel.
• Dedicated Hosting(starting from 120 euros/year) – it is the solution suitable for websites that need more resources than a Shared Hosting but which in any case do not need a more professional and expensive solution. The resources are dedicated in percentage based on the chosen plan.
• VPS SSD(starting from 8 euros per month) – solution based on the use of VPS, that is a virtual portion created inside a server where resources are dedicated. It is a suitable solution for websites that require a lot of resources.
• Dedicated Servers(starting from 59 euros per month) – is the most powerful and professional solution, suitable for websites that require intensive use of resources.

Take advantage of the Xlogic Hosting promotion now and buy the plans at 20% less for the first year.

The promotion is valid for new customers only and can only be used once per customer. The promotion cannot be combined with other discounts and is valid only on the purchase and not on the renewal or upgrade of the following Hosting plans:

Shared Hosting | WordPress hosting | Dedicated Hosting | Reseller hosting

Upon renewal of the hosting service you can choose to pay the total amount of the plan or not to renew it without any penalty.

Use the exclusive Promotional Code immediately by inserting it when ordering: XL-Aranzulla.

All the aforementioned plans guarantee full compatibility with the main CMS, such as WordPress, Joomla, Prestashop and Drupal (in this regard, I also point out the Xlogic Hosting WordPress Hosting plans ) and allow you to access the Xlogic Hosting Site Builder, a tool that allows you to set up professional sites optimized for search engines in a very simple way, even without having specific skills in this regard.

To underline, then, the customer service of Xlogic Hosting, which is active 365 days a year (including holidays) and guarantees immediate answers via ticket, email and chat, naturally also in Italian. More information is available on the Xlogic Hosting website.

IKOULA

Now I’d like to tell you about IKOULA’s dedicated servers and private/hybrid cloud.

IKOULA is a French company, founded in 1998, specializing in web hosting, dedicated servers and cloud that has a very important infrastructure, consisting of two proprietary data centers in France (Reims and Laon), branches in the Netherlands and Spain and a network capacity of 50 Gbits.

Among its main strengths, there are flexibility – it allows you to pay only for what you really need – and the professionalism of its support team, which speaks 13 different languages ​​and is available 24 hours a day and 7 days. a week, to support customers in the realization of all their projects.

As for dedicated servers, IKOULA offers a wide range of solutions, all very flexible. The servers, being dedicated precisely, become the property of the user who purchases them and, therefore, it is possible to freely manage their administration (admin and root/admin access) and take full advantage of all the resources, without limits in the installation. of CRM, websites, WordPress, Prestashop and other applications.

Below, you will find the full range of IKOULA dedicated servers with some of the most interesting offers for each of them. It should be noted that all offers can be customized by clicking on the Configure button on the IKOULA website and adjusting the hardware and software parameters of the server to be purchased.

• Gamma Starter– the most affordable servers, ideal for those about to start their first projects online.
  • IKL starter– starting from € 19.99 + VAT / month (without obligation). Includes Intel Celeron G3900 processor with 1 CPU (2C / 2T) at 2.8GHz; 8GB of DDR4 RAM; 2TB of SATA 3 storage with Software Raid Option and 1Gbp / s of bandwidth.
• Agile range– versatile and customizable servers, ideal for any type of project (e.g. website, email server, gaming server, AI, Blockchain etc.), all with a good quality/price ratio.
  • Agile S– starting from € 29.99 + VAT / month. Includes Intel Xeon E3 1220v5 processor with 1 CPU (4C / 4T) at 3GHz; 8GB of DDR4 RAM; 1TB of SATA storage or 240GB of SSD storage; 1GB GeForce GT 710 GPU with Software Raid Option and 1Gbp / s of bandwidth. More info here.
• Power range– powerful and efficient servers, ideal for professionals, SMEs and large groups. They are equipped with Raid card and KVM over IP.
  • P-Silver Core– starting from 169.99 euros + VAT / month. Includes Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor with 1 CPU (8C / 16T) at 2.1GHz; 64GB of DDR4 RAM; 2 x 2TB SATA storage drives or 2 x 240GB SSD storage drives; KVM hardware raid over IP and 1Gbp / s of bandwidth. More info here.
• Xtreme range– high-end servers, dedicated to the enterprise world. Ideal for virtualization and simulation of large-scale science or computer projects.
  • X-Gold Core– starting at € 409.99 + VAT/month. Includes Intel Bi-Xeon Gold 5120 processor with 2 CPUs (28C / 56T) at 2.2GHz; 128GB of DDR4 RAM; 2 x 4TB SATA storage drives or 2 x 480GB SSD storage drives; KVM hardware raid over IP and 1Gbp / s of bandwidth. More info here.
• Master range– specialized servers, with NVIDIA GPUs, for the most varied projects that require large computing capabilities (eg 3D modeling or Blockchain algorithms).
  • GPU Master– starting from 89.99 euros + VAT / month (without obligation). Includes Intel Xeon E3 1230v5 processor with 1 CPU (4C / 8T) at 3.4GHz; 16GB of DDR4 RAM; 1TB of SATA 3 storage and GF GTX 1070 8GB / 1920 Coeurs GPU. More info here .
• Classic range– old servers, but not underperforming, that IKOULA offers at a very low price. Ideal for projects that do not require particularly advanced resources.
  • Classic Green– starting from € 8.99 + VAT / month. It includes the Intel Atom Dual Core 510 HT processor with 1 CPU (2C / 4T) at 1.66GHz; 4GB of DDR4 RAM and 1TB of SATA storage. More info here.

To get a complete overview of IKOULA’s dedicated servers, I suggest you take a “jump” on the company’s website and browse the price list with all the offers available.

Now let’s move on to IKOULA’s private and hybrid cloud computing solution, called IKOULA ONE, which offers a single interface comprising an orchestrator, load balancer, firewall rules and an EC2 compatible API. Thanks to the storage of the VMs on the same host or on a 10G network, low latency is also guaranteed, while backup to the cloud allows you to always have your data safe.

To underline the fact that IKOULA ONE is available in 3 continents (Europe, United States and Asia) and it is therefore possible to deploy each private cloud on different geographical areas, thus approaching its customers regardless of their location. Also in this case, then, there is support and monitoring by IKOULA experts 24/7 and 365 days a year.

IKOULA offers several private / hybrid cloud plans, all customizable and offering the user full availability of their resources. The payment is monthly, in order to always keep the expenses under control. Here’s everything in detail.

• M-STRATUS SERVER XEON E5-1650– 6 cores-12 Thread at 3.5GHz, 64GB of RAM, useful storage of 900GB on SSD, 2 x 900GB SSD with Hardware Raid, 2 x 1 Gbs network card, host outsourcing service included, single management interface included.
• STRATUS SERVER XEON E5-1660– 8 cores-16 Thread at 3.2GHz, 128GB of RAM, 1.8TB useful storage on SSD, 4 x 900GB SSD with Hardware Raid, 2 x 1 Gbs network card, host outsourcing service included , single management interface included.
• CUMULUS SERVER BI XEON E5-2643– 12 cores-24 Threads at 3.4GHz, 256GB of RAM, 3.6TB useful storage on SSD, 16 480GB SSD with Hardware Raid, 2 x 10 Gbs network card, host outsourcing service included, single management interface included.
• CUMULUS SERVER BI XEON E5-2643– 16 cores-24 Thread at 3.2GHz, 384GB of RAM, useful storage of 5.2TB on SSD, 20 x 480GB SSD with Hardware Raid, 2 x 10 Gbs network card, host outsourcing service included, single management interface included.

For more information on IKOULA’s cloud service, visit the company’s official website.

Vhosting Solution

VHosting Solution is a well-known Italian company that offers fast hosting plans on SSDs suitable for every type of need: ranging from optimized plans for CMS such as WordPress (even multidomain ), Joomla, PrestaShop and Magento to the “generic” low cost ones, professional and semi-dedicated. Then there are the reseller plans to resell to their customers.

Among the main strengths of VHosting Solution, we find competitive prices, support in Italian (accessible via chat, email and telephone) and the use of numerous data centers located in Europe. The company bases its principles on three factors: performance, with the continuous search for ideal technologies to increase the performance of hosted websites; the specificity, i.e. the possibility, for each individual product, of having the service suitable to support the technical specifications of each website; and ease of use, as evidenced by the management panels of all the services provided.

Below you will find the most interesting VHosting Solution packages of the moment. Using my Aranzulla-VHosting coupon code you can get a 15% discount on all hosting services in the catalog (except for reseller hosting services ). The discount is automatically applied on renewal but cannot be used to renew or upgrade existing hosting plans. Instead, it can be reused several times by those who have used it.

• Low Cost Hosting (from 26 euros/year)– includes from 4 to 25GB of space on NVMe SSD, free domain, 1 managed domain, Apache HTTP Server with NGINX Cache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30-day money-back guarantee. More info here.
• WordPress hosting (from 45 euros/year)– includes from 20 to 50GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, free migration of 1 WordPress site, Apache HTTP Server with Varnish Cache or LsCache, mailboxes unlimited emails, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30/45 day money back guarantee. More info here .
• Joomla Hosting (from 30 euros/year)– includes from 8 to 12GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, NGINX Cache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30 day money back guarantee. More info here .
• PrestaShop hosting (from 30 euros/year)– includes from 8 to 12GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, NGINX Cache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30 day money back guarantee. More info here .
• Magento hosting (from 120 euros/year)– includes from 45 to 55GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 2 or 3 managed domains, LsCache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 60 day money back guarantee. More info here.
• Hosting Pro (from 120 euros/year)– includes from 45 to 55GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain forever, 2 or 3 managed domains, free migration of 1 WordPress site, LsCache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and a 60 day money back guarantee. More info here.
• Semi-Dedicated Hosting (from 225 euros/year)– includes 75GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain forever, 4 or 5 managed domains, free migration of 1 WordPress site, LsCache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 60 day money back guarantee. More info here.

GoDaddy

Mainly known as a website for buying domains on the Internet, Godaddy is actually a very valid hosting that offers different tariff plans, specially designed for the most common CMS, such as WordPress. I’ll tell you below about Godaddy’s hosting solutions and their main features.

• Starter: This plan gives you 30GB of storage for 1 website, 256MB of RAM, 1 database, unlimited bandwidth, and free one-click WordPress installation. It costs 3.65 euros / month for 1 year and then 4.87 euros / month.
• Economy: Offers 100GB of storage for 1 website, standard performance, 10 databases, unlimited bandwidth and free one-click WordPress installation + free Office 365 options and free domain for the first year. It costs 4.87 euros/month for 1 year and then 9.14 euros/month.
• Deluxe: Includes storage, unlimited websites and bandwidth, standard performance, 25 databases, and free one-click WordPress installation. It costs 6.09 euros / month for 1 year and then 12.19 euros / month.
• Ultimate: Offers unlimited storage, websites, database and bandwidth, double the processing power, free one-click WordPress installation and options for Office 365 free for 1 year, free domain for 1 year, free Premium DNS and free SSL certificate for 1 year. It costs 9.75 euros / month for 1 year and then 20.73 euros / month.

Technical assistance is included free of charge in all the tariff plans in question and is also available by telephone in Italy. More info here.