TechAsh's Blog

Ok, so this is my first real blog post and I have decided to write about x10Hosting. They are a web host providing both free and paid services.

For those of you unfamiliar with web design and web hosting, a web hosting company is a company that provide web space for your websites to allow visitors to access it, and in my opinion x10Hosting is one of the best around. Now I am an Administrator for x10Hosting, so perhaps I'm biased, but the shear number of users x10Hosting has speaks for itself, there are literally thousands of people using x10Hosting.

To start with, a bit of history. When I first started designing websites I used the webspace that my ISP provided, however I soon outgrew the feeble 20MB that they provided. So I went looking for another hosting company. I had tried loads, most having annoying restrictions on the type or size of files that you can upload, or a minimum number of hits required. I eventually found a company called ZendURL who were excellent, right up to the point that they went out of business. After that I moved to x10Hosting (This was about 2.5 years ago) and have been with them ever since. x10Hosting provided all the features I needed and more, as well as having generally good uptime. In June the following year I became a member of staff at x10Hosting, and have been working my way up the ranks since then, to my current position of Admin. Being an Admin comes with some nice benefits the best being a free VPS (Virtual Private Server) which is what this website runs on.

So now that you know the background I'll briefly run through what x10Hosting offers. Firstly their free plans offer unrivalled amounts of disk space and bandwidth (With the option of upgrading to even more for a small fee), as well as plenty of MySQL databases and Addon Domain (again more available for a small fee). Most importantly, there are no forced ads (No adverts are placed on your site). The free plan is perfect for anyone looking to set up their first website.
However that's not all x10Hosting offers, they also provide paid hosting at great prices. They have a numbers of paid plans to suite all needs, however one thing they all have in common is unlimited disk space and bandwidth, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. These plans are perfect for people looking to set up their own business and need a reliable hosting provider.
Finally x10Hosting offers VPSs which are basically virtual servers that behave like a dedicated server. This means that you get full control over what happens on your server and you can set it up in a way that suites you. I should mention that the VPSs are unmanaged, which means that x10Hosting staff can't help you with installing software on your server or the general running of the server. However there is a wonderful community that would be willing to help you out should you run into any problems, and that's what I'm going to talk about next.

x10Hosting as a highly active Forum with loads of members who are willing to help you out with any problems, the staff are also very active on the Forums regally contributing to discussions and helping users (Not just with problems with their account). Also x10Hosting runs an IRC server (Internet Relay Chat) where users can chat and get help.

So, that's about it really. I would strongly recommend you check out x10Hosting and seriously consider it whether you are looking to set up a small personal website or blog, or a large corporate website, x10Hosting can provide for both.