Utho (Microhost) Review: Better than AWS, ORACLE and GCP

Hey Guys, We are here to review utho a Virtual Cloud provider. In this utho Review, we will try to explore every possible aspect of this unmanaged cloud hosting Provider like “What is utho?”, “How to Setup In utho?”, “Pricing Offered by utho?”, and many more. Let’s Begin the review with a comparison with the best alternative to utho:

What is utho?

utho is the First company India based company that has its own platform for the cloud computing services founded in 2010. It uses to offer Virtual Private Server for small as big Companies around the globe. utho has 5 Data centres in the three-continent(India, US, and Germany).

Currently, it has more than 160K Clients around the globe. Some of the utho Clients are from fortune 500 companies like Yatra.com, Honeywell, Airtel, Saurya, National Board of Exam and many others.

How to set up an account in utho?

In this section of utho Review, We will try to find the ways through which you can set up an account in the utho Cloud Hosting provider. These steps are easy and listed below:

• Go to its official website – Link
• Click on the Signup button
• Fill out the form or log in through a social channel
• Now You have to pay 1 rupee, You can the amount through a credit card or another channel like UPI, Payment Wallet, Debit cards and many more.
• Now you have to add a minimum of 500 hundred if you want to set up your server Or You can add This 500 Rupees through coupon “GIFTTOINDIA”.
• Thus, you are ready to go with the best Servers around the globe.

DataCenter Offered by utho:

There is 6 Datacenter offered by utho on three continent Namely US, Germany, and India. The location of these 6 data centres are listed below:

• Mumbai, India (Datacenter of AWS and utho are in the Same Building.) – 2 Datacenter
• Bangalore, India
• Noida, India
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Dallas, USA

The Internet Connection Provider for these datacenters of utho is JIO, AIRTEL, and BSNL in INDIA. all Together these three DATA providers make a bandwidth of more than 10GBPS.

The product offered by utho:

There are almost three types of products being offered by utho. These Products are listed below:

• Window-based Cloud VPS Server,
• Linux Based Cloud VPS Server,
• Kubernetes Server

Pricing Offered by utho:

In this section of the utho review, We will try to find out the pricing upon which the server is offered by utho.

Currently, utho comes with three plans like Typical Server Providers DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS lightSail and Others. These three plans are

• Standard Cloud Plans
• High Memory Cloud Plans
• Dedicated CPU cloud plans

Let’s discuss three plans in detail:

Standard Cloud Plans:

The Standard Cloud Plans comes with Balanced Power and Performance. The Pricing of cloud under standard plans starts from 280/month (3.5$) for 1GB Ram, 1 cores CPU, 25GB SSD storage and 1000GB bandwidth while the cost goes up to Rs.57400/Monthly (787.87$) for 192GB Ram, 32 Cores, 3840GB SSD, and 9000 Gb bandwidth.

The pricing offered by other VPS hosting Providers as LIKE LINODE, Vultr, Oracle, GCP, and others are very costlier in comparison utho. Under this Plan the severs are 85% less costly in comparison of GCP, and AWS while 25% less costly in comparison of Linode, Vultr and other sever Provider.

High Memory Cloud Plans:

The High memory Cloud Plans comes with Optimized Ram for Memory Intensive Applications. The Pricing of cloud under standard plans starts from 2660/month (36.5$) for 8GB Ram, 1 cores CPU, 25GB SSD storage and 1000GB bandwidth while the cost goes up to Rs.61600/Monthly (845.5$) for 384GB Ram, 32 Cores, 640GB SSD, and 9000 Gb bandwidth.

The pricing offered by other VPS hosting Providers as LIKE LINODE, Vultr, Oracle, GCP, and others are very costlier in comparison utho. Under this Plan the severs are 85% less costly in comparison of GCP, and AWS while 25% less costly in comparison of Linode, Vultr and other sever Provider.

Dedicated CPU cloud plans:

The High memory Cloud Plans comes with Optimized Ram for Memory Intensive Applications. The Pricing of cloud under standard plans starts from RS.1890/month (26$) for 4GB Ram, 2 cores CPU, 80GB SSD storage and 1000GB bandwidth while the cost goes up to Rs.30900/Monthly (424$) for 64GB Ram, 32 Cores, 960GB SSD, and 5000 Gb bandwidth.

The pricing offered by other VPS hosting Providers as LIKE LINODE, Vultr, Oracle, GCP, and others are very costlier in comparison utho. Under this Plan the severs are 85% less costly in comparison of GCP, and AWS while 25% less costly in comparison of Linode, Vultr and other sever Provider.

How to Setup Server in utho?

After a successful Transaction of 1 rupee. You are ready to Setup Your Server in utho Unmanaged Cloud Servers.

In this section, we are going to learn the methods through which we can setup our servers in the utho platform. Let’s Begin the setup tour in utho:

• Login to utho
• Go to the Compute Section, Click on cloud Server
• Click on create New Server Button
• Select your Datacenter location From Available Data Center Location
• Select the Operating system (Centos, Ubuntu, fedora or any other) (For WordPress you have two option: the first one is WordPress with Centos while the second one is WordPress powered by Plesk.)
• Select Your Server size
• Select the Backup
• Add SSH key for your Server
• Enter Server Name Or Hostname
• Click on Deploy Your Server
• Thus, Your Unmanaged utho Cloud Server has deployed.

If you required more information regarding server setup, comment below.

Features offered by utho

During our utho review, we have divided whole utho Cloud hosting into two parts namely networking and Server Management. We are going to review the features offered under Server Management and Networking segments of the hosting. Let’s begin the discussion of Features:

Networking features: utho Review

There are almost four type features that are offered networking. These Features use to be made available by almost every cloud hosting provider around the Globe. These features are listed below:

• Load Balancers: The Load Balancer offered by utho is Typical One with some extra features as You can set up the algorithm through which you can route your traffic. Basically, they use to offer two algorithms for load balancing i.e Round Robin, and Least Connections.
• VPN: The VPN offered by it is Enterprise Vpm. It is available for free for first 2 users in VPN while after 2 users, you have to pay Rs. 650/user/month.
• Cloud firewall: You can create a firewall for free as typical cloud VPS providers around the globe. you and create rules for every type of traffic access.
• Managed DNS: Under this section of the server management console, you can connect your domain with your server.

Server Management Features: utho Review

In this section, we are going to explore the Server Management features of utho cloud server. Some of the Server Management features of utho are listed below:

Analysis:

In this section, you can get a detailed analysis of your server as like CPU usage, storage read and write speed, Bandwidth, and Memory usage. These features are good as other but i didn’t like its UI.

Access:

In this section, you can connect with your server through SSH. There is a button in this section through which you can change your Root Password which is a unique feature anyone can’t get from other unmanaged server Provider.

Power:

You will three button in the Power section of utho cloud, “POWER OFF, Restart, and Hard Reboot.”

Networking:

In this section, you can manage IP address of your server.

Resize:

You can resize your utho cloud under this section of the utho cloud with other cloud plans. You can even change your RAM, ROM, or Storage.

Rebuild:

Users of utho can rebuild their servers through this section of Server management.

Storage:

A webmaster who uses utho is able to add storage into there servers. The webmasters have to pay INR 9/Per GB every month.

Backup:

Cloud Server Backup can be done through this section. The webmaster has to 20% of the total hosting charge to utho for server-level Backup.

How fast is utho Cloud?

The servers offered by utho Cloud is really fast. When we tested the Mumbai sever of Google and AWS Indian server for US customers, We get a response time of 400ms. While when we tested utho cloud for three times, we get a response time of 60ms. Here a detailed report “Report 1 from Pingdom tools” and “Report 2 From Gtmatrix“.

How to manage utho Unmaged Cloud?

We all know, when we buy a server from utho, then, utho will offer you a completely unmanaged server. You can use Plesk, Cpanel or Runcloud like Platform for complete and easy management of your servers. Personally, I use Runcloud for management of our servers.

utho vs Competitors:

In this section, we are going to find the best alternative to utho. These are as good as utho cloud. Some of the best alternatives to utho are listed below:

AWS:

The AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. This hosting server power approximately 15% of the total cloud server around the globe. For Big Enterprise, the Aws offers EC2 instances while for Small publisher it uses to offer AWS Lightsail. Here a best alternative to AWS.

AWS vs utho:

The Comparison of utho and AWS is full of excitement as AWS has a market share of 15 while utho is a very company in this business. If we compare the Pricing of servers of both could hosting providers, then we will find the pricing of utho is approximately 15% of the AWS EC2 server while it is 85% less costly in comparison with AWS Lightsail, that’s great. Both have 100% uptime. The Perfect AWS is Perfect alternative to utho.

Linode:

Linode is a USA based Cloud Vps provider. It has data center across every Continent. The Pricing stars from $5 per month. It is one of the fastest growing cloud server provider.

Linode Vs utho

The Service or Pricing offered by both hosting provider are approximately the same but the pricing of utho is approximately 20% less cheap. Thus, Linode becomes one of the greatest alternative toutho.

GCP:

The Full form of GCP is Google Cloud paltform. This hosting server provider power almost 8% of website hosted in VPS around the Globe.

GCP Vs utho:

The Comparison of utho and AWS is full of excitement as GCP has a market share of 8% while utho is a very new company in this business. If we compare Pricing of servers of both could hosting provider, then we will find the pricing of utho is approximately 15% of the GCP server that’s great. Both have 100% uptime. The Perfect AWS is Perfect alternative to utho.

DigitalOcean:

Digitalocean is a USA based company, offers server from $5 per month. Servers are really fast. It offers almost every type of apps a cloud hosting company offers.

DigitalOcean Vs utho

The Service or Pricing offered by both hosting provider are approximately the same but the pricing of utho is approximately 20% less cheap. Thus, DigitalOcean becomes one of the greatest utho alternative.

Oracle:

Oracle is a leading Cloud hosting platform around the globe. Sonner, it will have highest market share of the cloud computing. It is based in USA.

Oracle vs utho:

The Pricing, Server speed of both cloud hosting provider is almost same. one uper hand is with Oracle cloud is number of data center. Thus, For s Oracle is the best alternative of cloud hosting provider.

Vultr:

Vultr is a USA based company, offers server from $5 per month. Servers are really fast. It offers almost every type of apps a cloud hosting company offers. It has its data centre around every part of the globe.

Vultr Vs utho

The Service or Pricing offered by both hosting provider are approximately the same but the pricing of utho is approximately 20% less cheap. Thus, Linode becomes one of the greatest alternatives to utho.

Azure

Azure use to be backed by Mighty Microsoft. The server is not so fast. It ahs data centre across every part of the globe.

AZure vs utho

The Comparison of utho and AZure is full of excitement as AZure has a market share of 6% while utho is a very small company in this business. If we compare Pricing of servers of both could hosting provider, then we will find the pricing of utho is approximately 15% of the AWS EC2 server, that’s great. Both have 100% uptime. The Perfect AZure is Perfect alternative to utho.