Sered is a company born in La Rúa de Valdeorras (Galicia) in 2009. A small company that is giving a lot to talk about. It has numerous outsourced data centers located in Madrid, Barcelona, Sao Paulo and Santiago de Chile.
This Galician provider provides a very extensive range of services. Domain registration, shared hosting (general and specialized), virtual servers, applied servers, in addition to the typical complementary services of dedicated IP and SSL certificates.
The costs of your shared hosting range from €59,40 to €151,20 each year, that is, between €4,95 and €12,60 per month. The value is the same every year. Payments have the possibility of being per month (more expensive), every year, biennial (they give you 1 domain) and triennial (domain plus discount). Very competitive costs.
His website is interesting and minimalist. Navigation is made simple and usable. The link to the blog leads to the base of understandings (tutorials). The links to communities are in the top bar, although they are very abandoned. The client sector uses the WHMCS program, which also has a customized work platform by Sered set to make it more interesting.
Shared hosting plans
sered da 3 shared hosting projects. We have analyzed the WP Basic, which is more than enough for most web projects.
Sered has established anel, the leading program in the market in web hosting management, which makes it easy to carry out all the configuration and care in a light and practical way. It comes with PHP 7.0 edition by default, beyond that you can choose the one you want from the selector.
Shared hosting has transfer per month without limits, in this way as free SSL certificates Let's Encrypt y SSD hard drives. Databases, FTP s and email s are also unlimited.
The basic plan it has great properties for all web projects. The exclusive limitation can be found in that it only facilitates hosting a web domain. Nevertheless, subdomains are unlimited, so we will be able to have independent WordPress installations on different subdomains. Comes with Whois privacy included.
The hosting comes with the Cloudflare CDN that comes inside to implement it in a few simple procedures.
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Features of the Basic WP Plan
The domain is free (biennial or triennial payment) throughout at all times that the web hosting service is contracted. Sered does not have aggressive discounts or a price for one year and another for the rest. The greater the labor stipulation time, the cheaper the value.
Lately it became very popular at the suggestion of notable bloggers. The excellence of its servers is beyond doubt. propose hosting specialized in WordPress, Prestashop and Magento. What has caught our attention is that they have a hosting for SEO which has 70 IPs.
The client sector is WHMCS, a level that is ed by minimalism and occupation. The same used by other renowned companies such as Raiola Networks and Webempresa. Hosting is controlled with anel. That is why we have the recurring and highly suggested duo in this world: WHMCS + anel.
El WP Basic plan has an aptitude 6 GB of hosting. We must take into that 1 GB is enough to host a level page, so we have plenty of space. It should be noted that the transfer per month is unlimited, so we will not have traffic problems.
Sered shared hosting has the popular app installer installatron, which is possibly the most common. comes with it SSL certificate installed, for which the only thing to do is turn on the HTTPS protocol so that it works. In WordPress it is enough to have a plugin.
Since it tends to be recurring, it has a default FTP enabled. You can do as many as you want. A very attractive tool if you work with other experts and want to provide them access to a specific folder on the server.
It has two datacenters in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) and many others located in São Paulo and Santiago de Chile. If you're targeting an audience outside of these locations, keep in mind that you can turn on the Cloudflare CDN from your own dashboard.
Sered runs daily backups automatically. They are incremental, which means that a finished backup is made and then every 7 days the files that changed are copied.
The PHP edition that is installed by default is 7.0 and we have the possibility to choose the one we want directly from the PHP Selector that is built into anel. Uses the MariaDB database server.
To close this chapter, we must mention that this shared hosting has the technologies LiteSpeed y CloudLinux, which increase the agility and security of the server, respectively.
You have a 30 day money back guarantee.
Sered
In addition to having an excellent server, it is important that there is a human group behind it that knows how to solve your concerns, help you modify your hosting and manage to restore your website in the event of a total disaster (infection, attack, etc.).
Sered has via email address, telephone and tickets. In addition, they are doing a job to improve their instant messaging client, which will soon be usable again. They attend during office hours, from 8 in the morning to 9 in the afternoon.
The phone numbers have Ourense and Barcelona prefixes, so calls made from Spain are very cheap. If you are in another country, it may be worth using another channel.
We have tested the technical with quite a few issues via the ticket system. Issues such as the SSL certificate, private Whois or backups are some of them. The response time was more than good, ranging between 10 and 20 minutes in most opportunities.
Regarding the content of the answers, the reality is that they were direct and to the point. Us They have resolved all our concerns in a friendly and accurate manner.. And that we usually get a little heavy to emulate a real circumstance.
Sered Technical Analysis
Once the technical properties and have been seen, it is time to focus on the performance of the server, which is the nerve center of a hosting.
We have intensively analyzed the Sered Basic WP plan and these are the results.
I remind you that you can make them yourself with the following utilities.
Load Impact
It makes it easy to emulate the simultaneous visit of a group of individuals to a website. We have chosen the parameters that are predetermined, 25 individuals enter the web for 5 minutes.
The server is truly permanent. It is enough to look at the green line, which is very flat. The variants are very light and range between 550 and 700 ms. So the loading time is really good.
Web Page Test
It's time to investigate the performance of the server, an elementary point in a server.
The results of this test are excellent. Get the highest score for page availability, transfer and static content. Image compression gets the second best score, while the first byte is third. The CDN does not have a score because we have not enabled it.
byte check
Although we already saw it in the previous test, this utility measures the first byte, that is, the time elapsed since the server receives a request until it executes it. Here we will have a more exact point.
The result is very good. Less than 0,7 seconds. Below 1 second is already good, that's why a remarkable for Sered in this aspect.
GTMetrix
The most special web performance measurement utility. The only 'but' is that their servers are in Canada, so not enough load time should be done, although it's useful to compare against the rivalry.
Let's look at the PageSpeed and YSlow, two parameters that determine the performance of a page, as well as the loading time. The first gets 98% (A), while the second gets the score of 84% (B).
The load time is 2 seconds, and it decreases to 1,7 seconds when turning on temporary files.
Pingdom
Another 'celebrity' of web performance utilities. It is used to measure load time and provides data on each specific ingredient, which makes it easy to improve a page quite a bit as soon as we look at the results.
The scores are very good. Without temporary files activated, the web loads in 777 ms, a figure that drops to 601 ms when activated.
PageSpeed Insights
Google always has a lot to say about web pages. He is very excited that the pages load fast and are well optimized for mobile phones.
Some time ago it made some changes, so it only shows agility to websites that have some traffic. Since we have used a test page that has no traffic, we only have the update prompt.
We have obtained a score of 72 points in the update of mobile phones. With temporary files enabled, it goes up to 74 points.
The PC edition gets 91 points (92 with cache).
Excellent results for Sered.
server availability
At this time we are going to see how long the server is usable, that is, how long everything was accurate and the website was fully operational.
The server was up 100% of the time throughout the 24 hours and throughout the most recent week. In the last 30 days it suffered a small fall of 2 minutes that lowers the percentage to 99,99%. Chapo.
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Pros and cons
: effective that responds to what is being asked and in a short time.
Performance: in some value it could do better but it is too permanent, agile and reliable. What requires optimal hosting.
Location of the servers: as Spaniards we highly value having a data center in Madrid and another in Barcelona. In addition, it has one in Brazil and another in Chile.[/asap_pros][asap_cons]Domain limitation: we are a bit disappointed that we can only host one domain per hosting. It is true that the subdomains are unlimited, but we like to have the option of being able to start a second project on the same hosting.
hours: the is very good and attends you right away. Now, being limited to business hours is a bit frustrating. You never know when you might need help.
Blog: we know that it is not the main thing in a hosting company, but we miss that space that teaches us to function in the world of digital marketing.
We would have the opportunity to comment on other things, such as the program they use, which we love. WHMCS for the client sector and anel for hosting istration.
Final evaluation of the Sered Basic WP Plan
We are truly satisfied with this test. Powerful servers in Spanish territory. Add to this an optimal and a competitive price. The result is reliable hosting for your website.
We always insist on this issue. is a basic aspect and not having a 24-hour service can be a handicap for many. The customer is impatient by nature.
El Sered Basic WP plan It is among the most used options on the market to host your business. This company has spent time doing things well and is beginning to gain a foothold in the market.
It is difficult to find such a strong and balanced hosting in this cost range. We are convinced that if they continue in this way, they will become one of the special hostings on the market.
For now, it is not the most popular or the one with the most employees, but it is a spectacular alternative to host your website.