Host Armada Development Hosting Review 2020: Is It Worth Trying? (TRUTH)

Posted on the 28 August 2020 by Jitendra Vaswani @JitendraBlogger

Developing your website in the right direction is as important as creating one. With Host Armada there is a wide variety of Development Hosting Plans to choose from. But before we get into those details lets brush up some basics.

A development hosting plan means a website host that is accompanied by specialized tools to improvise the website's performance, speed, and security. It generates a competitive advantage to the website pushing its rank to a higher place. You also don't need to transport any software application from one data center to another. The development of the hosting service itself does this activity. For example, It moves the application from the server to the cloud.

Following are the key advantages of Development Hosting:

Now you know the perks of opting for a development hosting from Host Armada, let's check out their cool packages

Host Armada's development hosting plans for shared hosting:

Start Dock

You can host a single website on this package with 15 GB of native SSD storage for unmatched read or write speeds resulting in improved website loading speed. This package has up to thirty thousand unique visitors every month and the best part is Host Armada transfers your current or registers a new domain name for free for each web hosting plan that you purchase with Host Armada. The domain name will also be renewed at zero cost as long as you are a customer of Host Armada. Start Dock has two CPU cores and a RAM of 2 GB.

Star Dock has access to up to twenty entry processes, forty total processes and takes just 2 seconds for the script to get executed. The average CPU usage is around forty percent per day and file count is two lakh fifty thousand.

Start Dock also offers a free transfer of one website and charges additional fixed costs depending on the number of additional transfers of the websites.

The hosting is available in entire Europe, Asia, and Australia. If you are not satisfied or Start Dock fails in its promised services, the money is returned within 45 days. All the Domain name system entries within the prescribed zones will be managed completely for every site associated with the Host Armada Web Hosting plan. You will also be able to configure a redirection in case you would like to partially or completely redirect its traffic. However, in the Start Dock, there is no option of free private nameservers and Addon Domains. You can associate multiple website names with one domain and unlimited subdomains can opt.

Coming to the Caching and Loading Speed features, the webserver of Start Dock is NGINX and it's cache works only for static files, unlike the Speed Reaper plan which works for both the static and the dynamic files. The HTTP protocol is HTTP/2 and does not have Memcached, APC and an OpCache. Start Dock is supported by Cloudflare, Mod_Expires, Mod_Rewrite SEO URLs, Browser Cache Optimization, Brotli Compression, and KeepAlive.

Start Dock has top-notch security features. It provides a network firewall and web application firewall. Herd immunity and AI is used to discover new threats. It defends the website against many types of attacks such as port scans, DoS attacks, and brute attacks. Start Dock sniffs the threats before-hand and protects the domains against zero-day vulnerabilities and exploitations. It detects automatically the real-time attacks and blocks those potential malicious executions immediately without any delay.

Start Dock has a pre-written policy abandoning all those known attacks and risks and blocks them automatically. It keeps an eye on the server logs and scans the log file diplomatically and further blocks those IP addresses that display malicious signs. The PHP versions are updated automatically and run without any vulnerabilities. Furthermore, Start Dock is supported by Brute Force protection, Malware protection, Virus or Malware scanning, Hotlink protection, Directory Password protection, Client area TFA, CageFs, Web hosting Account Isolation and Cloud Linux. It backs up seven times a day and monitors the servers live all the time, seriously.

Talking about its technical features they are available always at any time and can be reached by any medium such as ticketing, phone or chat. It also offers OpenSource updating or Applications and also their plugin or installation of the module with their updates too. Start Dock restores hacked websites, provides consultation to websites, and installs SSL with zero cost.

The cPanel and the SSL features are too good to miss out. You can add unlimited email accounts with the mailbox size of a maximum of 750 MB, attachments of 50 MB. Around four hundred emails are sent in an hour, which is around twenty a minute. You are allowed to add around twenty recipients per mail. The development features are supported by SSH or Bash Access, Perl, Python, Node.js, Git, WP CLI, Drush, and PHP Frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Zend.

The regular renewal price of this package is 7.99$ per month and the current promotional code brings down the price to 1.20$ per month.

Web Warp

You can host unlimited websites on this package with 30GB of native SSD storage for unmatched read or write speeds resulting in improved website loading speed. This package has up to sixty thousand unique visitors every month and the best part is Host Armada transfers your current or registers a new domain name for free for each web hosting plan that you purchase with Host Armada. The domain name will also be renewed at zero cost as long as you are a customer of Host Armada. Web Warp has four CPU cores and a RAM of 4 GB.

Web Warp has access to up to thirty entry processes, fifty total processes and takes just 2 seconds for the script to get executed. The average CPU usage is around sixty percent per day and file count is three lakh fifty thousand. Web Warp also offers a free transfer of three websites and charges additional fixed costs depending on the number of additional transfers of the websites.

The hosting is available in entire Europe, Asia, and Australia. If you are not satisfied or if Web Warp fails in its promised services, the money is returned within 45 days. All the Domain name system entries within the prescribed zones will be managed completely for every site associated with the Host Armada Web Hosting plan. You will also be able to configure a redirection in case you would like to partially or completely redirect its traffic. In the Web Warp plan, there are free private nameservers and unlimited Addon Domains. You can associate multiple website names with one domain and unlimited subdomains can opt.

Coming to the Caching and Loading Speed features, the webserver of Web Warp is NGINX and it's cache works only for static files, unlike the Speed Reaper plan which works for both the static and the dynamic files. The HTTP protocol is HTTP/2 and does not have Memcached, APC and an OpCache. Web Warp is supported by Cloudflare, Mod_Expires, Mod_Rewrite SEO URLs, Browser Cache Optimization, Brotli Compression, and KeepAlive.

Web Warp has top-notch security features. It provides a network firewall and web application firewall. Herd immunity and AI is used to discover new threats. It defends the website against many types of attacks such as port scans, DoS attacks, and brute attacks. Start Dock sniffs the threats before-hand and protects the domains against zero-day vulnerabilities and exploitations. It detects automatically the real-time attacks and blocks those potential malicious executions immediately without any delay. Web Warp has a pre-written policy abandoning all those known attacks and risks and blocks them automatically.

It keeps an eye on the server logs and scans the log file diplomatically and further blocks those IP addresses that display malicious signs. The PHP versions are updated automatically and run without any vulnerabilities. Furthermore, Web Warp is supported by Brute Force protection, Malware protection, Virus or Malware scanning, Hotlink protection, Directory Password protection, Client area TFA, CageFs, Web hosting Account Isolation and Cloud Linux. It backs up fourteen times a day and monitors the servers live all the time, seriously.

Talking about its technical features they are available always at any time and can be reached by any medium such as ticketing, phone, or chat. It also offers OpenSource updating or Applications and also their plugin or installation of the module with their updates too. Web Warp restores hacked websites, provides consultation to websites, and installs SSL with zero cost.

The cPanel and the SSL features are too good to miss out. You can add unlimited email accounts with the mailbox size of a maximum of 1500 MB, attachments of 50 MB. Around four hundred emails are sent in an hour, which is around twenty a minute. You are allowed to add around forty recipients per mail. The database size is 750 MB with a table size of 250 MB and it takes a second for executing the queries. The development features are supported by SSH or Bash Access, Perl, Python, Node.js, Git, WP CLI, Drush, and PHP Frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Zend.

The regular renewal price of this package is 12.95$ per month and the current promotional code brings down the price to 1.94$ per month.

Speed Reaper

You can host a single website on this package with 15 GB of native SSD storage for unmatched read or write speeds resulting in improved website loading speed. This package has up to thirty thousand unique visitors every month and the best part is Host Armada transfers your current or registers a new domain name for free for each web hosting plan that you purchase with Host Armada. The domain name will also be renewed at zero cost as long as you are a customer of Host Armada. Start Dock has two CPU cores and a RAM of 2 GB.

Star Dock has access to up to twenty entry processes, forty total processes and takes just 2 seconds for the script to get executed. The average CPU usage is around forty percent per day and file count is two lakh fifty thousand.

Start Dock also offers a free transfer of one website and charges additional fixed costs depending on the number of additional transfers of the websites.

The hosting is available in entire Europe, Asia, and Australia. If you are not satisfied or Start Dock fails in its promised services, the money is returned within 45 days. All the Domain name system entries within the prescribed zones will be managed completely for every site associated with the Host Armada Web Hosting plan. You will also be able to configure a redirection in case you would like to partially or completely redirect its traffic. However, in the Start Dock, there is no option of free private nameservers and Addon Domains. You can associate multiple website names with one domain and unlimited subdomains can opt.

Coming to the Caching and Loading Speed features, the webserver of Start Dock is NGINX and it's cache works only for static files, unlike the Speed Reaper plan which works for both the static and the dynamic files. The HTTP protocol is HTTP/2 and does not have Memcached, APC and an OpCache. Start Dock is supported by Cloudflare, Mod_Expires, Mod_Rewrite SEO URLs, Browser Cache Optimization, Brotli Compression, and KeepAlive.

Start Dock has top-notch security features. It provides a network firewall and web application firewall. Herd immunity and AI is used to discover new threats. It defends the website against many types of attacks such as port scans, DoS attacks, and brute attacks. Start Dock sniffs the threats before-hand and protects the domains against zero-day vulnerabilities and exploitations. It detects automatically the real-time attacks and blocks those potential malicious executions immediately without any delay.

Start Dock has a pre-written policy abandoning all those known attacks and risks and blocks them automatically. It keeps an eye on the server logs and scans the log file diplomatically and further blocks those IP addresses that display malicious signs. The PHP versions are updated automatically and run without any vulnerabilities. Furthermore, Start Dock is supported by Brute Force protection, Malware protection, Virus or Malware scanning, Hotlink protection, Directory Password protection, Client area TFA, CageFs, Web hosting Account Isolation and Cloud Linux. It backs up seven times a day and monitors the servers live all the time, seriously.

Talking about its technical features they are available always at any time and can be reached by any medium such as ticketing, phone, or chat. It also offers OpenSource updating or Applications and also their plugin or installation of the module with their updates too. Start Dock restores hacked websites, provides consultation to websites, and installs SSL with zero cost.

The cPanel and the SSL features are too good to miss out. You can add unlimited email accounts with the mailbox size of a maximum of 750 MB, attachments of 50 MB. Around four hundred emails are sent in an hour, which is around twenty a minute. You are allowed to add around twenty recipients per mail. The development features are supported by SSH or Bash Access, Perl, Python, Node.js, Git, WP CLI, Drush, and PHP Frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel, and Zend.

The regular renewal price of this package is 7.99$ per month and the current promotional code brings down the price to 1.20$ per month.

Following are the development hosting plans for VPS Hosting:

Web shuttle
  • The hardware specifications are:
  • 50 GB SSD storage,
  • I core CPU and
  • 2 GB
  • The network specifications are:
  • 2 TB Bandwidth
  • 40 Gbps Speed In
  • 2000 Mbps Speed Out
  • Following are it's utilities:
  • Daily Backups
  • cPanel
  • Nginx Web Service
Web Voyager
  • Hardware Specifications:
  • 80 GB SSD Storage
  • 2 Cores CPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Network Specifications:
  • 4 TB Bandwidth
  • 40 Gbps Speed In
  • 4000 Mbps Speed Out
  • Utilities:
  • Daily Backups
  • cPanel
  • Nginx Web Service
Web Raider
  • Hardware Specifications:
  • 160 GB SSD Storage
  • 4 Crores CPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • Network Specifications:
  • 5 TB Bandwidth
  • 40 Gbps Speed In
  • 5000 Mbps Speed Out
  • Utilities:
  • Daily Backups
  • cPanel
  • Nginx Web Service
Site Carrier
  • Hardware Specifications:
  • 320 GB SSD Storage
  • 6 Cores CPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • Network Specifications:
  • 8 TB Bandwidth
  • 40 Gbps Speed In
  • 6000 Mbps Speed Out
  • Utilities:
  • Daily Backups
  • cPanel
  • Nginx Web Service
  • Following are the development hosting plans for Dedicated server hosting:
Armada DS - Liftoff! Armada DS - Low Orbit Armada DS - High Orbit

How To Setup Development Hosting By Host Armada (Step By Step)

Since now you are well versed with the plans lets go for one with the following simple steps. Step 1:

Begin the process by logging into your Host Armada account or you can even proceed like a guest.

Step 2:

Click on the Hosting tab above, and you will see development hosting at the end.

Step 3:

Click on it and the following page appears.

Step 4:

Scroll down a little and tap on the get started button

Step 5:

You will have first choose the main hosting you prefer before moving on to the development hosting.

Step 6:

After clicking on the main hosting, choose your choice of development hosting and tap on the order now button.

Step 7:

You can either register a new domain or transfer your domain from another registrar or use your existing domain and update your nameservers.

Step 8:

If the domain name to be registered is available then the following pop up appears.

Step 9:

Choose the period for which you would like to register your domain and continue

Step 10:

You will be directed to the following page. Choose the type of billing cycle i.e. annually or biennial or triennially

Step 11:

Choose the location of the datacenter

Step 12:

Preview order when you are done

Step 13:

The following page appears

Step 14:

Click on continue

Step 15:

The complete order summary is shown as below, You can still make changes if any by just going back to the previous steps

Step 16:

Enter the promotional code if you have any and tap the validate button. Promotional codes offer huge discounts and bring the price of the service by a large amount.

Step 17:

Once you checkout, the following page appears where you are supposed to fill in the necessary details

Step 18:

The details are pretty basic and take just a couple of minutes to fill them out.

Step 19:

Do enter all the details correctly and scroll down to the payment methods

Step 20:

Once you are entering the payment details, checkout.

If you would like to receive notifications,(it's always best if you do) tap on yes and tick the terms of service and checkout.

Simple, wasn't it?

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Conclusion: Host Armada Development Hosting Review 2020

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