Website loading speed and performance are perhaps the most highly sought-after metrics amongst clients when it comes to their online projects. They bring benefits, such as a more pleasant user experience (UX) and most importantly, better website rankings in search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others. In this article, we are going to list all the gains your website accumulates from being hosted on each of our hosting plans.

What our plans all have in common?

• Latest available and stable hardware on the market. This guarantees the smooth operation of the server and also ensures redundancy in terms of hardware
• SSD (Solid State) drives. Any self-respecting hosting provider out there should have implemented this type of storage unit on their servers. The speed gain is unquestionable and if performance is your top priority you should always aim to have your website hosted on a server powered by SSD-based storage.
• The latest stable PHP version with opcode caching along with older branches to offer flexibility for developers.
• Latest stable MySQL version guaranteeing peace of mind for website creators who need a reliable development environment.
• All our plans are fully compatible with CloudFlare and you can integrate your website with it when you are hosting with HostArmada.
• cPanel based servers. The most powerful and widely used hosting control panel in the world. By itself, it does not necessarily speed up your website, however, the user-friendliness it brings enables you to quickly handle any hosting-related tasks so that you can put more time and effort into what’s really important for you - your website, while we handle all the technical aspects of the service!
• Keep-Alive. This feature of the webserver enables HTTP request forking through a single TCP connection. Instead of having to open one connection per a request made for your website, the webserver will channel them through a single one, speeding up their delivery to the visitor’s browser, thus making your website load quicker!
• Leverage Browser Caching. This service was implemented on the webserver to reduce the amount of time, larger pages take to load. What it does is enabling your browser to store the larger static resources of your page as cache and instead of having to download them each time the page is visited, the browser can immediately display the content from this cache.

Speed Benefits of our Start Dock and Web Warp Hosting Plans

In addition to the above-listed features, our Start Dock and Web Warp plans also include:

• Nginx Web Server In addition to Apache, we have set up and configured Nginx as a reverse proxy to cache static resources on your site and deliver them to your visitor’s browsers quicker, thus boosting the performance of your website.
• mod_lsapi to enable connection pooling, thus resulting in lesser resource consumption on the server overall which stimulates a significant speed increase.
• CloudLinux and CageFS that are absolutely mandatory for Shared Hosting Servers. You need to be certain that you always get what you pay for and the resources that come with your plan are at your disposal whenever your site needs them. These two services ensure this by evenly distributing the server’s resources accordingly amongst all the users on the server.
• Gzip Compression. This service takes the static data of your website, compresses it, and then dispatches it in that format to your visitors’ browser at a much faster rate. This data is typically represented by the static content on your sites, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, and images as they benefit a lot more from compression than the rest of the file types.

Speed Benefits of our Speed Reaper Hosting Plan

In addition to the features listed under “What our plans all have in common”, this hosting solution includes:

• LiteSpeed Web Server. This is a complete drop-in replacement of the Apache Web Server most people are used to. Not only is it compatible with the most widely known and utilized Apache modules but in addition to that it increases the speed of the websites using it by almost 10 times, outperforming both Apache, Nginx, and Varnish! Online studies and tests have proven that this state-of-the-art web server’s architecture reduces the infamous TTFB by 3 times when compared to Apache, Nginx, or Varnish.
• LSCache Plugin/Module. Access to the LSCache caching plugins for the most famous open-source applications, such as WordPress, Magento, PrestaShop, and OpenCart. Not only will this plugin be completely available for FREE with this plan but our technical support team will handle the installation process and configuration for you!
• Brothli Compression. This is a lossless type of compression, similar to Gzip, however, it is much faster and offers better compression.
• APCu. This is a caching mechanism incorporating opcode caching. In addition to storing precompiled versions of PHP files, it also stores other operations such as file processing and network resource fetching.
• Memcached. This type of caching service is used to speed up dynamic, database-driven websites by caching data and objects in memory, reducing the number of reading operations required. If you want to use it, please contact our technical support team and request activation for your account.
• Fewer Clients on the server. This is pretty self-explanatory. We reduce the server’s user count by 3 times in order to guarantee 3 times more resources for the clients hosted there. This translates into higher resource availability of their sites, thus more performance whenever such is needed.
• LSCache Plugin for most of the Open-Source Applications. LiteSpeed developers have created their own custom caching plugin which is fully integrable with the majority of the OpenSource applications out there, such as WordPress, Magento, Joomla, and OpenCart. You can view the results from their tests, on their official benchmark page!
• HTTP/2 over QUIC. LiteSpeed is the first web server ever to integrate this amazing feature, which came to be known as the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) - HTTP/3. The benefits of this new protocol include speed, performance, and a more stable connection, given the UDP nature of HTTP/3.
• More CPU and Ram availability. We have made adjustments to the server and hosting accounts accordingly so that users can rely on extra CPU and Memory whenever needed!

Benefits of our VPS CLOUD and Dedicated CPU Server plans

In addition to the benefits mentioned under our “What our plans all have in common” our VPS CLOUD and Dedicated CPU servers include:

• Dedicated resources (CPU, Disk, and RAM). These plans are completely dedicated to you, in terms of resources so you will not be facing situations where you feel slowdowns as soon as you get more visitors as you may observe on shared hosting every now and then. The resources on these types of servers will be yours to take advantage of 100% of the time!
• Flexible configuration options. As you are the only one using this solution, additional configurations or services can be installed to further enhance the projects you host here. Our team of technical experts will be there to assist you every step of the way.
• Tweakable environment, based on application necessity - We have put a lot of work and effort into designing our environment and making it as good as it can be for our client’s websites. As every website is different and unique, there are times where a certain aspect on the server can be a tweak to squeeze that extra drop of performance.
• More upgrade options. As your website grows and attracts more visitors, your server may start seeming under tuned to handle the vast number of visitors. These solutions offer a huge room to grow in and the upgrade options are practically limitless as our exceptional technical team is very resourceful and ready to offer our clients a custom solution when necessary.
• Nginx Web Server. In addition to Apache, we have set up and configured Nginx as a reverse proxy to cache static resources on your site and deliver them to your visitor’s browsers quicker, thus boosting the performance of your website.
• mod_lsapi to enable connection pooling, thus resulting in lesser resource consumption on the server overall which stimulates a significant speed increase.
• Gzip Compression. This service takes the static data of your website, compresses it, and then dispatches it in that format to your visitors’ browser at a much faster rate. This data is typically represented by the static content on your sites, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript files, and images as they benefit a lot more from compression than the rest of the file types.

Final Words

We hope that this article has given you information and a lot of reasons to trust our servers and sign up to really see the difference. If you need more information or help to decide what is best for your plan, please do not hesitate to contact our sales team. They are 24/7 available over the live chat on our website.