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HostGator Review

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Hostgator is one of the largest web hosting solution providers in the world. The company boasts of 2,500,000 registered domains which are very impressive compared to other webhosting companies out there. The company has servers based in Houston, Texas and has been providing excellent quality services for the past 8 years. It was founded in 2002 and has gained a much larger customer ratio than several companies much older than itself. The company currently has around 7000 servers and has a total share of a high 1% of the world internet traffic. For a single company to host such high levels of internet traffic is pretty amazing.

Price & Features
The company offers various packages with varying features and every package has varying prices based on the number of years of minimum subscription. The basic plan called hatchling, starts at $6.95 per month and offers unlimited web space and bandwidth. Users can host only one domain on this package plan but the number of subdomains is unlimited. Ftp accounts are also unlimited on this basic package.

The middle class package plan is called Baby and provides unlimited amount of everything. The package starts from only $9.95 per month and also varies on the number of years of subscription. Users are provided with unlimited bandwidth, web space, number of hosted domains, add-on domains, parked domains, and ftp and email accounts. One can also obtain a dedicated IP for the account with only $2 per month additional fee.

The supreme package plan called Business starts from $14.95 per month and like all other packages also varies on the number of years of subscription. The more years of subscription a user purchases, the lower the rate will be. The lowest for this package is at $12.95 and is available for 3 years and onwards subscriptions. The best thing about this package is that every user gets a dedicated toll free number as well as a dedicated IP totally free of charge. The package also provides unlimited of everything like the baby package however, it also provides an anonymous FTP account which allows access to FTP services anonymously without registration.

The company provides $100 worth of Google Ads credit on all of the packages and also provides support for latest and greatest developmental technologies being used these days. Developers are more than pleased to work with Hostgator due to their high quality service and response time. The servers are fast and stable thus making development easy. A free website builder with professional templates is also provided with each account to allow customers to get their website up and running in no time.

Support & UP Time
The company is proud of its services and boldly offers a 45 day unconditional money back guarantee if the customer is not satisfied with their service. Customers can get technical assistance via live chat or a 24 hour toll free number. The company claims a 99.9% uptime and a majority of customers have positive reviews about the company.

Conclusion
In a nutshell, Hostgater is a company that provides professional hosting solutions and definitely keeps customer satisfaction at the top of their priority list. The company is ranked among the top 10 website hosting companies and aims to be the best among the lot. The packages provided are offered at very competitive prices thereby giving their competitors a very tough time.

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HostMonster Review

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HostMonster is one of the best providers of website hosting solutions in the world. The company was founded by Matt Heaton, the founder of another legendary company, BlueHost. Both companies have shown remarkable ability to provide customers with exactly what they need. HostMonster provides even lower rates than BlueHost and offers the same great quality of service. The company has won the “Best Web Hosting Award” twice and is considered as a very prestigious and outstanding service provider.

The company was founded in 1996 and has been providing great quality services ever since. Over the years, HostMonster has gained the trust of many of its customers who are now afraid to try out any other service provider.

Price & Features
The company offers only one concise and well-designed webhosting package. The package is usually offered at $6.95 but is being offered at $5.95 at the moment in a special promotion offer. Key features include unlimited web space for hosting website content, unlimited data transfer bandwidth and support to host unlimited domains. Add-on, parked and subdomains are also unlimited.

However, one downside to this hosting package is the limitation of number of MySQL databases. Users can only create up to 100 MySQL databases which is a slight turn down since the company provides hosting unlimited domains on one account.

One innovative feature of HostMonster is the drag and drop website builder which can be used to create high quality websites; even a beginner can build a website through this. The users only have to select one template from thousands of professionally designed templates, drag and drop objects on the template from the rich featured website editor and Walla! The website is ready.

The company provides support for a number of development platforms and content management systems such as Joomla!, WordPress, Durpal, PHP 5, Perl 5, Python, Ruby and many more. The package also includes some ecommerce tools which can be used to create websites with a shopping cart system or online order system. The package provides rich content support for various multimedia file types including Flash content. On top of all that, the company provides $50 worth of Google Ad credits so customers can start earning from their website as quickly as possible.

Support & UP Time
Support and Uptime are the main areas where HostMosnter truly shines. The company guarantees 99.9% uptime and its ever growing number of hosted domains suggests that customers are satisfied with the service provided by the company. The company has always put customer needs as their first priority and takes every possible step to make sure it stays that way. 24 hour help line and live chat facility is provided to all clients and other users who wish to seek information about the company. Technical support staff is highly qualified and adequate to deal with any kind of technical issue that customers might encounter.

Conclusion
The company is one of the best website hosts in the world and is clearly very popular among web developers. The limited number of MySQL databases might be a turndown for some customers, but most would simply ignore it and prefer good quality of service over this minor issue.

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LunarPages Review

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Founded in 1998, Lunar pages is a prominent figure in the industry of web hosting. It aims to provide affordable web hosting solutions to small and medium sized enterprises, personal websites, ecommerce businesses, Fortune 100 corporations, private label resellers and many other more platforms. Since the time of its inception till now, Lunarpages has been highly successful in its entire web hosting solutions, and has developed three data centers in California, Las Vegas and Nevada, thus catering to the need of thousands of websites.

It has satellite locations in various cities of the US and serves around 160,000 customers, providing them with latest technologies in web hosting, and has 100 staff members worldwide. Not only does the company provide web hosting solutions, but it also designs, markets and launches businesses of clients, thus making it one of the most in demand web hosting company.

Price & Features
Lunarpages offers hosting solutions as well as website solutions. These are two different programs with their own unique plans and prices. There are twelve hosting plans. The three initial plans are Starter, Basic, Windows, under the price of $2.95, $4.95 and 9.95 respectively. Then there is a Build a Quicksite plan which allows users to build their site at the rate of $9.95. The Business Hosting plan, under the price of $18.95 is for hosting the client’s business and it offers unlimited storage/transfer facilities. The Linux VPS plan is for virtual private servers with the ability for the client to host unlimited sites. The price plan is $4.95.

For people preferring the Windows VPS system, there is the Windows VPS plan, with the price of $64.95 and offers the same facilities as that of Linux. The Dedicated Hosting feature is at the cost of $99 and provides clients with multiple servers. There is a Reseller Hosting plan at the rate of $5.00. Finally for domains and emails too, there are three plans namely the Domains, Mini Mail and the Mega Mail plan, each with the price tag of $19.95, $1 and $2 respectively.

Besides web hosting, there is website solutions that include SEO keywords, website design, webmaster tools, payment processing, tutorials and gift cards. Every process and tool of website solution is provided here, so a client can take the benefit of creating a website, hosting it and also picking up a business plan to have it successfully launched. All are provided under the one roof of Lunarpages.

Support & UP Time
Lunarpages has 120 professionals who are dedicated to assisting customers in their problems. Other than that, they even have a community and a forum where users can log on and share their views, opinions and ask for help. Moreover, there is a 24/7 call center service available. Users can also interact with the company through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Conclusion
Lunarpages is one comprehensive web hosting solution provider that offers everything that a website needs. From basic web tools to complex hosting software and hardware, everything is provided here under a good price. Best for large scale multinational companies as well for as for starters who want to have the entire business of a website designing and hosting handled professionally.

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PowWeb Review

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Powweb is a web hosting company that has been around since 1999 and was the pioneer of effective web solutions, with low cost packages. It is a private business that develops their own web hosting software and automation. Being a winner of multiple prestigious awards in the web hosting world, the company aims to provide its clients with security software programs such as spam filters, easy to use control panels and many more effective features.

There are however some contradictory stories for Powweb considering its initial hiccups as a hosting company, however through the passage of time, the company has in some way resolved its issues and is now providing clients with satisfactory results. It still has a long way to go though before becoming market leaders.

Price & Features
Powweb uses BGP4 technology and Tier 1 backbone services that aims to provide users with excellent routing services and redundancy. Powweb hosted websites always load very quickly as compared to other websites, due to their multiple Gigabit fiber-optic connections. The routers have OSPF protocols which makes them effectively redundant. They obtain hardware from names like Foudry, Cisco and Juniper Networks. The company provides an infrastructure to all businesses; complex or startup; all are given the best services and total reliability.

Powweb has one plan, one price package of $4.88/month, $34.68/year that offers the complete set of hosting solutions along with disk space, bandwidth and many other features.

Support & UP Time
Powweb has a very effective technical support just like other web hosting companies. It has a knowledge base, FAQs, different sections for help, suggestions, submission of request and also a live call and chat center. They also have a forum where users can communicate with each other and share strategies. The average uptime for Powweb for year 2010 has been recorded as 100%.

Conclusion
Powweb is economically suitable for starters in the field of web hosting, but for professionals and large firms, better options should be considered.

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IX Web Hosting Review

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IX web hosting service has been one of the pioneer web hosting service providers in the world. They have been providing excellent webhosting services for more than a decade and continue to expand and improve their data centers to provide new features. The company started providing its services in 1999 and has maintained superb reputation by providing perfect web hosting solutions. At present, the company has 750 dedicated servers located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky which act as data center for the company. The company currently has 200,000 members, and are growing tremendously each year indicating the high performance of the company and customer satisfaction.

Price & Features
IX web hosting service offers three basic plans which are named as expert hosing, business plus hosting and unlimited pro hosting. All of these plans offer unlimited free space and also unlimited bandwidth which is perhaps the most attractive feature being offered by the company. The company offers the activation of any package plan instantly and payment can be made online through a credit card.

The basic plan, expert hosting, is being offered at $3.95 per month. The package includes all basic features and 1 free domain name registration. Also 2 dedicated IPs are provided with this package plan to ensure smooth operation of the website. The two other plans i.e. the business plus and unlimited pro both offer similar features and are available at the same price of $7.95 per month.

However, the business plus program offers only 3 dedicated IPs and 2 free domain name registrations while the unlimited pro package offers 15 dedicated IPs and 3 free domain name registrations. Moreover, the Unlimited Pro package offers unlimited email addresses compared to the 2500 addresses offered by the other two plans.

The company offers a complete and unconditional 30 day money back guarantee to all the customers. At the moment, the company is also offering a special promo offer which allows potential customers to test their service, completely free of charge, for 21 days. This promo offers complete freedom to leave the service anytime a customer wants and it includes all the features offered by the company on every package.

All package plans include essential features such as setup utility and website builder and are offered free of charge. These hosting plans have support for most popular developmental tools such as Joomla!, WordPress, osCommerce, Yahoo and Google search and MIVA advertisement system.

Support & UP Time
IX web hosting offers 24 hour assistance either via live chat or phone call. The company also provides technical support via email so that customers can file a detailed description of their problem without any rush. The response time against any complaint is very impressive and the company offers free credit for any downtime that might occur due to any uncontrollable factor. There is a guarantee of 99.9% uptime which can be easily observed during the initial trial period also. If customers have any problem, the company’s technical officers are always available to provide complete technical assistance.

Conclusion
On overall bases, the company has quite impressive features to offer at very reasonable rates. The 21 day free evaluation period is particularly very helpful in testing the service. So all in all, the company is worth giving a shot.

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MyHosting Review

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Myhosting.com is considered as one of the top most leaders in the web hosting industry, travelling a long way from January 1997, the year of its inception. Located in Toronto, Canada, the company is a registered trademark of SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc and has 50,000 web hosting clients in more than 170 countries worldwide.

The company aims to provide the best services for its customers and promises high quality services that are bound to keep their customers satisfied and successful in achieving their own business goals. The company believes in giving success to its customers for achieving their own success and this is the objective that motivates them to create improved and innovative products. The company is partnered with industry giants such as Dell, Cisco Systems, NetApp, Equinix and Arin. Using the reliable and effective technologies of these giants, the company provides its customers with ground breaking services and technical advantages.

Price & Features
Myhosting endows users with state of the art technologies of web hosting, email hosting, VPS hosting, managed web applications, even online marketing and design. Each of the service provided have their unique features and related plans. For web hosting services, there are three plans, Basic, Premium and Professional, which suits the need of small, beginners, medium and large sized business corporations. The price of the three plans ranges from $4.84/month to $18.71/month respectively.

Features include unlimited hosting space, unlimited file transfer, unlimited domain hosting, free domain name and free outlook email. The Premium plan has platforms for Windows or Linux based websites, IP for SEO and everything else available in Basic. Finally, the Professional is a combination of the other two plans, plus tools for business planning, SSL key for eCommerce and 5FTP users.

Email hosting in Myhosting goes a step beyond other web hosting sites, as it offers mobile (Smartphone) email and mobile outlook features. Basic email is provided at the price of $3.55/month, Mobile Email is provided at the price of $5.95/month and Mobile email plus outlook is provided at $9.95/month. For the mobile email there is a 30-day free trial offer.

Domain hosting is also available and the company also helps you to check the availability of a domain name, and also provides you with any suitable name in case you can’t find any. The domain names offered at Myhosting have a chance to get into search engines better, as they provide nearly all the domain extension in the world. With each extension, there is a different price tag along with WHOIS privacy for global extensions such as .com, .net, .org.

For clients interested in having a virtual server hosting, there is Virtual Private Server Hosting service that authorizes SMB business, development environment and reseller business with all the required tools and services. With each of the category, there is a plan attached that will generate benefit for the various types of businesses.

Support & UP Time
There is a forum, webmail, 24/7 customer support, a blog and wiki services where customers can read the latest news and share their comments. This has allowed for better customer relations. The uptime has been a persistent 100%.

Conclusion
Myhosting is a sophisticated web hosting company that focuses on bringing benefit to businesses of clients through the innovative use of technology and strategic business plans; best for experienced and professional users.

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NetHosting Review

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NetHosting has been providing excellent services for the past 16 years and has become one of the top most companies in the web hosting business. The company provides virtual hosting services as well as dedicated servers to be used by customers as they want. The overall rating of the company fluctuates from time to time, but the average rating for the company is 7-8 out of 10 which is pretty impressive.

Price & Features
The company offers 3 packages for virtual hosting and 4 packages for dedicated server hosting. For virtual hosting, the packages are named as Core, Premium and Reseller. The core Package is being offered at $7.95 per month and offers 10 GB of web space and 100 GB of data transfer. Only 10 MySQL databases are allowed in this package but customers are allowed to create unlimited FTP accounts and host unlimited domains.

The Premium package is available at $13.95 per month and offers 50GB of storage space and 500 GB of data transfer bandwidth. Domain hosting and FTP account creation is unlimited but MySQL databases are restricted to 100 only. The Reseller package is offered as $89.95 per month and offers 150 GB of web space and 1500 GB of data transfer. As with all packages, this package also allows hosting of unlimited domains and unlimited creation of FTP accounts.

The company provides 4 packages for dedicated private hosting and are termed as Mark I to IV. The servers use Linux based operating systems to provide reliability and high stability. The packages are being offered as Mark I for $99.95, Mark II for $109.95, Mark III for $159.95 and Mark IV for $289.95. Mark I to Mart III offer servers with 1 GB of RAM whereas Mark IV offers 2 GB of RAM. All packages offer 160 GB of data storage space and Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos or Windows based operating system.

Data transfer for Mark I is restricted at 1000 GB, for Mark II at 1500 GB and for Mark III and IV at 2500 GB. Mark I and II use Core2Duo processors whereas Mark III and IV offer Xenon Dual core and Quad core processors respectively. Except for Mark I, all other packages offer RAID technology support for data safety and protection.

Support & UP Time
The company guarantees 100% uptime for all its dedicated servers and also offers 24 hour technical support 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This is perhaps the best feature of the company as many people only choose hosting packages based on uptime. The company also guarantees replacement of parts on all its dedicated severs.

Conclusion
Over all the company provides good quality hosting services, but the prices are a bit high for many customers especially for the virtual hosting services. Many companies provide almost same packages at very cheap rates and reasonable quality of service. The company needs to lower its rates to provide even more competitive packages. This will greatly help the company increase its customer count as people look for less expensive hosting solutions in this era of economic crisis.

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StartLogic Review

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StartLogic is one of the most prominent names when it comes to website hosting services providers. The company has a current record of proudly hosting 100,000 websites and providing them with excellent services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The website is has servers based in Boston, Massachusetts and provides top quality services every second of the day. Thomas Gorny is the founder of the company and also owns two other sister companies i.e. iPowerWeb and Blue Domino. Although, iPowerWeb has had some complaints registered against it due to lack of technical support and unanswered complaints, the company has promised to improve its service very soon.

Price & Features
StartLogic offers a number of hosting plans to suit the needs of different people. StartLogic offers three basic packages i.e. PersonalLogic, ProLogic and WindowsLogic. PersonalLogic is the most basic program offered by the company and is also the cheapest of them all. The package is being offered at $3.95 per month and offers 60 GB of storage capacity and 600 GB of data transfer bandwidth.

ProLogic, as the name suggest is for professional companies. The package is being offered at $5.95 per month and offers virtually unlimited storage capacity and data transfer bandwidth. The third plan, WindowsLogic, offers 100 GB of Web space and 1000 GB of bandwidth. This package is being offered at $8.95 per month and offers support for windows based developmental tools such as AJAX, ASP.NET and MS-SQL. This package also provides the facility to host unlimited domains on the server.

All packages offer free setup utility and fully integrated Google webmasters tools to help customers get started on their website. However, premium plans like ProLogic and WindowsLogic also offer one free domain, $50 worth of Google Adwords credit and $25 worth of yahoo search credit. One prominent feature on all plans is the RatePoint Customer Feedback Platform.

Support & UP Time
Even though one of its sister companies has had a few issues in the area of customer support, StartLogic continues to offer high quality service and support. There is also the facility for 24 hour online live chat assistance which actually works and 99% of the time you wouldn’t have to wait for an operator to talk to you. If you are in a hurry, you can get technical assistance via their toll free number which is provided on their website. The response time to most technical problems is very impressive. Even though they might seem a bit slow on highly technical problems, but they aren’t exactly to blame as anything can go wrong in the world of computers without any notice. What really matters is that they get the job done and within a reasonable period of time.

Conclusion
So, over all it can be said that the StartLogic is a very reasonable company for hosting your website. The prices and features are highly competitive and the company has a good reputation. The current customer stats of 100,000 speak in favour of the company as 100,000 people cannot be wrong. In a nutshell, the company offers competitive packages and customer support to suffice the needs of most website owners.

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SuperGreen Hosting Review

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Super green web hosting gets its name from their ideology which is to make use of technology which is friendly to the environment. The modern world poses a serious threat to the environment and super green webhosting seeks to set an example by using technology that is environmentally friendly. The features offered by the company and attractive prices along with an ideology to save the environment makes them worthy company to consider when buying hosting packages.

The company has it’s headquarter located in the United Kingdom and has the data center located in California. Super green webhosting solution is probably the best hosting solution out these with almost zero bad reviews. Even the critics like the company for its efforts to save the environment and create a better future for our children. The best thing about the company is that they plant a tree after every 100 customers and that tree would be protected for 100 years thus making a true step forward to save the environment.

Price & Features
The company offers only one webhosting package which includes everything that any customer would desire and more. The package was originally available at £5.95 per month. However, at the moment the company is offering a special promotion offer in which they offer the same package for just £2.95. The package includes unlimited web storage as well as unlimited data transfer bandwidth so customers don’t have to worry about shifting hosting solutions if the website keeps on growing and growing. The package also includes a life time free domain which is something only a few companies offer and at this price, the offer is just irresistible.
Other features include unlimited subdomains, email boxes, ftp accounts, parked domains, email forwarders and SQL databases.

The package also includes a number of commerce tools and shopping applications and scripts to help customers set up their business without much difficulty. The package also offers $50 worth Google Ad credits, $25 worth Yahoo Ad credits and $50 worth of MSN Ad credits. The servers are based on Linux system which provides high security, data reliability and system stability. The facility to install various scripts such as Joomla, WordPress and b2evolutions is also included in the package.

A wide variety of developmental platforms are supported by the hosting plan which makes web development very easy. The company provides the most popular and widely used control panel, cPanel. The professional web templates provided are nicely designed and are easy to use with the website builder to allow even a layman to setup his website.

Support & UP Time
The company guarantees 99.9% uptime and assures customer satisfaction. To back their claim of providing the best service, they also offer anytime money back guarantee. There are various help and support options which include 24 hour online live chat and phone support. To make things easy, the company also provides training videos and help tutorials which are designed to help laymen get started on web development.

Conclusion
In a nutshell, the company offers attractive features at a very reasonable price and all that with an environmental friendly infrastructure. The company has made the first move towards a healthier and technologically advanced future, many others will surely follow suit.

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IPowerWeb Review

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Though IPowerweb has just been in the web hosting industry since 2001, it has turned out to be one of the giant of this industry, hosting around 700,000 sites, and has grown to become one of the largest and most popular web hosting companies in the world of internet. The company states its mission as, “The goal of IPOWERWEB is to innovate and provide advanced, quality products and solutions, along with industry-leading customer service and support, at affordable prices.”

This statement by the company has proved itself true. Winning multiple awards such as the 2006 Editor’s Pick Award and the 2006 Gold Award, the company aims to provide more excellent services to its clients. Located in Boston, they have two data centers; each has a building of 2400 sq feet equipped with the latest servers and state of the art technology.

Price & Features
The company provides domain registration, where clients will get their own domain name, under the rate of $10.95/year. Then they provide windows hosting for active server and Access database support, at the cost of $9.95/month. Web hosting and a dedicated server are given at the price of $7.95/month and $129/month respectively.

Besides this basic web hosting solutions there are features where you can launch your own site at the price of $4.95/month. If a user wants to launch the business online, then tools and services are provided for that too at the reduced cost of $3.95/month. And, finally if a user wants to sell products online, then online inventories, promotions, checkouts etc are all provided to the user at the rate of $14.95/month.

Support & UP Time
The company’s site has a help center where all basic tutorials are given along with respective pages on website, domain or email help. Other than that they also have call and chat facility, the number of which is located on the home page of the site. Support is provided 24/7 along with live chat. The up time of Ipowerweb has been recorded as 99.96% since 2005 and this record has brought it in excellent rankings.

Conclusion
Ipowerweb is now one of the most competent web hosting companies of the world and people who are relatively new to this field should opt for this company, for their economical packages. Considering their different packages many small firms have benefited from this web hosting company.

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