Posted on December 19th, 2011
Web Hosting Service, HostColor introduces FREE CDN
HostColor, recently revealed that their Shared Plan is CDN enabled now. The move has been implemented in its data centers which are based in United States and Europe with plans underway regarding providing clients with three choices of CDNs. One of them has already been provided to customers namely CloudFlare, which can be used free of charge.
This CDN is operable from a total of 14 data centers situated across the globe. This allows online users to access HostColor at a faster pace and also because the data present is compact enough to allow them to access it readily. The function also serves as a filter by stopping illicit requests from coming through thus allowing the servers to concentrate on genuine traffic.
Some of the advantages of utilizing this feature in HostColor’s Shared Hosting include speedy website load, bot and threat security, informing clients regarding malware in their computer, enhanced website performance etc. The CDN service can be used by HostColor clients by accessing the ‘Software/Services’ option in their ‘Domain Owner Panel’.
According to the results of a trial run with the initial accounts using CloudFlare, websites loaded quickly on a browser using the function as compared to others. Additionally, a lower ping time was also observed from approximately 60 reputable IT regions like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt etc.
Each Shared Account hosted on HostColor is secured via RAID 10 redundant arrangement of Western Digital RE 3 or RE quality edition hard drives. Some of the features include PHP 5.2.xx, Perl 5.8.x and Python 2.4.x scripts, Ruby on Rails; MySQL 5.0.xx, PostgreSQL 81.xx databases and Apache 2.2.xx. Customers can establish approximately 200 Open Source applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, MODx, Zikula, Typo3, Magento, ZenPhoto, MediaWiki, Dolphin, Elg, phpBB, Pligg, OpenX, Piwik Analytics, phpCollab, etc. – through 1 click right from their cPanel “Domain Owner Panel” control panel via a user-friendly Softaculous auto-installer software library.