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Today many web hosts offer SSD disks instead of standard SATA HDD for web hosting. But are you aware that the disk I/O (i.e. disk speed) is just 1 MB per second. That is you can read or write data with only 1 MB per second though the SSD disks allow 1000 MB per second speed – well, that’s the limitation of 99% of world’s web host who offer shared hosting, cPanel hosting or cloud hosting. A low disk speed makes your site load SLOW not matter even if you use 2 CPU or 2 GB of RAM.

As the web pro I migrated from various popular web hosts in all these years – right from godaddy, 1and1, namecheap, bluehost, hostgator, buyshared, bigrock, a2hosting, iweb, inmotion, siteground, stablehost, a small orange, milesweb, and many more. Though they were good web hosts, no one offered anything beyond 5 MB/s disk I/O on their shared web hosting platform.

My friend who runs a popular, high traffic technology blog on wordpress CMS then recommended me to try out The-Online.com shared web hosting in the cloud. The-Online.com is one of the vary few hosts on the Internet who offers 40 MB/s disk I/O on standard plans, and 100 MB/s disk I/O on premium plans.

I transferred my sites to The-Online.com – total 7 – 4 wordpress sites having 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors per day and 1 forum, and 2 personal blogs on their web hosting plan and instantly felt the difference – my sites started loading super-fast!

I picked up the Super hosting plan that came with cPanel control panel, unlimited disk space (that’s SSD), unlimited premium bandwidth (they’ve Level 3, ATT, Telia, Tata multi-home bandwidth), unlimited databases, and other standard features. What was exceptional about The-Online.com web hosting is they offer Free Dedicated IP, Free SSL cert, Free Domain Name (.com or .net) and Free Backups and Restore and Free CDN with the web hosting plan – all it cost me just $5.99 per month (renewal price is $7.99)

Performance:

The-Online.com uses enterprise-grade SSDs which outperform other web hosts who use consumer-grade SSDs which are bit slower, having low RPM. Another thing is about disk I/O which is set to 100 MB/s – which means this speed equals to a managed VPS or virtual machine plan rather than shared hosting. And as per The-Online.com’s Promise of Service they do not oversell the hosting node. Normally I found one server to host about 800-900 customer accounts, and the server’s RAM is just 32 GB or max 64 GB – which makes everyone’s site hosted on that server load slow, for both, users and search engines. But at The-Online.com they allow only 100-120 customer account on single server and it has RAM above 100 GB. Ample of free RAM, less customers per server, means your sites load faster, they perform well.

Another important thing that I would like to mention is they host your database on SSD powered separate server. I have not seen any shared web host to offer MySQL or MariaDB hosted on external server specifically configured and fully managed for you at any extra cost. Normally other web host will charge you minimum $20 per month to host your database on separate database server.

This are the main performance advantages I found in The-Online.com web hosting.

Note: They’ve datacenters in U.S., UK, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, India, China – I tried their U.S. based datacenter. Performance on other datacenter can be varied.

Reliability:

Reliability of any web host is important. I want a peace-of-mind realizing my sites are always up, and that there is no downtime, sites load quicker with no errors, and that sites are backed up and I can restore a single file or entire site or database quickly with single click from the control panel – these were my basic requirements and I’m glad to say that after hosting my sites with The-Online.com for over a year – they are quite reliable.

Support:

The-online.com offers personal and friendly support. The moment I signed up for web hosting plan I got a welcome email followed by a personal email from their Hosting Department. The support guy asked me if I wanted any help regarding setting up my site, pointing my domain / DNS, setting email account, creating a database, or uploading the site with FTP client, etc. Since I’m a web pro I cloud do all those things myself through their control panel, but for novice users who onboard, this email really helps you. It contains links to their Help center, Knowledge-base on how to set up hosting account, set up sites etc. – The best thing is, they’ll do this for you at no extra cost. You’ll have to just grant access to your account and sit back and enjoy your coffee and they’ll set everything for you! Alert: At my old web host they tried to charge me $79 per hour for this task.

In one year I opened 2-3 support tickets – all technical – one was regarding .htaccess other was about wordpress plugin error and one was regarding database optimization – all tickets were well escalated in time. Yes, they took around 2 hours or 3 may be. But there was not instant canned replies. Reply was always in-detail, and they used to solve all my queries/problem I faced. Normally a web host will never look into your plugin related problem but guys at The-Online.com really care to keep your site online.

Would I recommend The-Online.com hosting?

Yes. If you have multiple sites, high traffic sites, wordpress blogs, static personal or business sites – whatever – before trying out any other web hosting company, try The-Online.com – The fastest speed and performance you’ll experience.

Why would you host with The-Online.com?

They use enterprise-grade SSD disks (others use consumer-grade SSD or HDD)
Multi-homed premium bandwidth (others use single bandwidth provider)
Higher limit on disk speed 100 MB/s I/O (others limit 1 MB/s)
Unlimited space – No inode limit (others limits 100,000 inodes)
Intel Xeon Gold or E5 processors – latest in the industry
PHP 7.x
MySQL and more faster MariaDB database
Separate database server (others host on same webserver)
Daily backups and restore (others charge for restore)

Note: they do have 45 days full money-back guarantee. So your money is safe.

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