Exigent.com.au review

First impression

Exigent Australia provides hosting, reseller hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), dedicated servers, colocation, backups, email, domain registration, and SSL certificates among other services. It has three data centers located in Australia and its website is in English. Exigent Australia provides a free cloud web hosting service that our local communities, not-for-profit groups, charities and organisations need to create their online presence.

Based in Brisbane, Australia, Fluccs (which powers exigent.com.au) provides a full suite of web services with a specific focus on managed cloud computing and the provision of infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Exigent gives its clients an option to choose which of its data centers they’d like to use to host their website. Its server locations are all in Australia – Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.

Trial period

Exigent Australia provides a free cloud web hosting service that the local communities, not-for-profit groups, charities and organisations need to create their online presence.

As part of the eligibility to be apart of their free cloud web hosting service, the not-for-profit group or charity must be registered with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) as a not-for-profit organisation.

Billing cycle

Its billing cycles are monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual, and biennial. Payments can be made using BPAY, credit/debit cards, and PayPal.

The prices of its paid plans are slightly expensive, but still affordable with the Business plans being more expensive than the Economy plans. These paid plans come with free cPanel migration from another provider to Exigent’s servers.

Control panel

The company provides cPanel control panel, which helps you manage databases, setup emails, and carry out any other management or administrative function of your hosting account. Through the control panel, you can use an automatic installer – Softaculous -for applications such as WordPress, Joomla, OpenCart, and other scripts. It handles the installation in just a few minutes.

Exigent’s hosting plans are designed in such a way that from a range of figures, you can pick the exact amount of disk space, bandwidth, IP addresses, and parked domains that you require. Its features include:

• 99.9% uptime guarantee;
• Free SSL certificates;
• Daily automatic backups;
• From 1GB to 100GB disk space;
• From 100GB to 1000GB bandwidth.

Limits

Exigent has three sets of shared hosting plans: Community, Business, and Economy hosting. While the Business and Economy hosting are paid plans, the Community hosting plans are completely free hosting services for non-profit groups, charities, and local communities.

Its shared plan is built on RAID 10 SSD storage. SSD provides better performance than hard disks, which along with RAID 10, provides a better hosting experience. Your website data isn’t lost in case of the failure of a drive because it is stored in more than one drive. So, in case of failure of one drive, the other will come in handy. As you can set your own hosting server features and limits by dragging the bar feature.

Security

An SSL certificate protects the private information you collect from your customers such as credit card details, passwords, and logins. It is an easy and cost-effective way to legitimise your website whilst protecting your site against phishing, and boosting your search engine ranking.

PositiveSSL offers basic protection, but for those of you needing better protection, you can take a look at our SSL certificate comparison chart and choose one to suit your business and your customers.

OS

Exigent’s hosting resources are set up on servers that use CloudLinux OS, which is very efficient and stable for shared servers. It helps to confine each user on a shared plan to their own environment such that the resource usage of one user doesn’t affect another user’s account.

Support

Exigent offers a comprehensive support system comprising live chat, phone, email, ticketing system, and a help center with frequently asked questions and tutorials. When I emailed customer support, I received a response within just a few minutes.

Conclusion

Exigent Australia’s shared plans come with great features that anyone looking to host a website will love. It even offers free hosting plans for non-profit groups, organizations, charities, and local communities. Although its plans are slightly expensive, its services are worth trying out.