StartLogic Hosting Plan

It’s good to see folks at StartLogic are putting ongoing efforts in upgrading their hosting features. As for one of the latest updates, StartLogic current Mail 3.0 will be upgraded to Mail 4.0. The upgrades will offer a better enhanced mail management options.

For those who’re using Mail 3.0, you can manually upgrade your email management service. To upgrade, simply login to your vDeck control panel, go to “Mail Central” and click “Mail Tool Settings” on your right. The Mail Tool Settings page allows you to easily update by just checking on the radio button.

In case you’ve miss this and do not complete the upgrade prior to November 30, it will be upgraded automatically on that date.

It’s common for webmasters to upload their web files directly once the hosting account is setup. However if you’re new to StartLogic, you might get this even after you had uploaded your website with an index file.

Solution: Delete the Home.html

Reason being is that there’s a default file (named Home.html) at StartLogic. In order for your website/blog to be running on your StartLogic account, you’ll need to delete this file first.

You can locate the Home.html at the root of your public_html folder. Just delete it and your customized index files will be shown as your website homepage. Problem solved – pretty simple, but it can be pulling your hairs if you don’t know how.

When you’re hosting with StartLogic, it’s important to know that the web host limits your MySQL usage. As in one of the latest notice released, StartLogic sets the bar at 50,000 MySQL queries per hour. Users who exceed the quota will be warned with an immediate notice (I suspect temporary account suspension might be the next consequences).

For your reference, here is the full version of the notice

MySQL QUERIES: 50,000 PER HOUR

To ensure optimum MySQL performance for all our customers, we are limiting the number of queries per login to 50,000 per hour and the duration of individual queries to 60 seconds.

This should not be an issue for the vast majority of customers — in fact, most customers will experience improved performance as a result of this measure. However, if you do suspect that you’re exceeding the query limit, log into your MySQL Management Tool, and if you’re over the limit, you’ll see a notice with more info.

We apologize for any inconvenience; however, on a shared hosting platform, there are practical limits to the amount of resources we can dedicate to individual customers. If this becomes an issue for you, you may be able to reduce the number of queries you are running by using application-level caching, combining queries or taking advantage of nested queries wherever you can.

My comment on this policy

Well calling this unfair on the limitations, StartLogic users should be happy that at least they are listing down the policy clearly.

It’s no secret that while shared hosting accounts nowadays are offered with unlimited bandwidth/disk storage, the hosting usage is limited by computer’s resources. In fact many other web hosts wouldn’t list down the policy clear and surprise their users with a sudden-suspend on their hosting account (due to overusing server resources).

Also 50,000 queries per hour should be pretty sufficient for most website. As said, the policy should not be an issue for the vast majority of customers; whereas, most customers will experience improved performance as a result of this measure.

In case you’re planning to signup with StartLogic services, here’s a quick run thru on the signup process. The ordering process is pretty simple and direct.

StartLogic signup step-by-step guide

StartLogic offers three major hosting plans – PersonalLogic, ProLogic, and VPSLogic. PersonalLogic is the entry level package; ProLogic is the standard shared hosting plan; and VPSLogic is the virtual server with unique IP address. First, select your desired hosting plan and click “Sign Up”. Generally most customers will go with the ProLogic package as it provides best value.

Moving on, you’ll come to a page where you’ll need to select a domain for your registration. It can be an existing domain that you wish to move over to StartLogic; or you can search for a new unregistered domain name. Registration of the first domain name is free if you’re a new StartLogic customer (so why not take advantage on this and get an extra new domain name).

Next you’ll see the summary of your order along with some other products offer. StartLogic offer private business directory submission, extra site backup tools, as well as private SSL services. Pick whatever that you desired and click “Continue”.

Account details are required on the next two steps of the ordering process. First, you’ll need to keyin your password info, full name for the registration, as well as your contacts. Upon check out, you’ll need to submit your credit card (or PayPal) info in order to complete the payment.

Click “Check Out” to finish. As soon as your payment is done you’ll receive a confirmation email from StartLogic, updating you on your order status as well as login details. There you go, you have now complete your signup with StartLogic.

How soon will my hosting account ready to be used?

While StartLogic claims instant activation on their end, I found that there are roughly 15 – 30 minutes delay on the account activation. Thus my advise is to wait for half and hour after you completed your signup and you should be able to sign in here to your StartLogic vDeck.