Web Hosting Reviews

Web Hosting Review: Hostgator

About HostGator Website:hostgator.com
Based in Boca Raton, Florida (USA), HostGator has been providing unrivaled web hosting services since 2002. HostGator is committed to providing reliable service, superior support and affordable pricing to buisnesses and individuals seeking quality shared, reseller, or dedicated web hosting solutions. Operating out of The Planet datacenter in Dallas Texas (USA), HostGator will place your website behind a fully redundant Cisco Network boasting 10 backbone providers including: UUNet, Sprint, Level(3) and Global Crossing just to name a few. HostGator has at least GigE connections to these backbones to ensure your website is available 99.9% of the time. If not, they will provide a full refund for that month.

Unique Hosting Options
HostGator provides access to industry leading SiteStudio website designer which is so easy to use an eight year old could create a complete website in less than thirty minutes. SiteStudio includes over 500 templates and color schemes allowing you to create a unique, yet professional website.

All shared hosting accounts also come complete with Fantastico access (which can be utilized through the control panel) which will allow you to install various web-related scripts to your website with ease, by simply pointing and clicking your mouse a few times.

Benefits of Hosting with HostGator
Pricing is about average at HostGator with shared hosting packages starting at $6.95 per month. However, disk space and monthly transfer should not be an issue here; you will recieve 5GB of disk space and 75GB of bandwidth per month, not only do you recieve generous amounts of diskspace and bandwidth you will be able to host unlimited websites and domains so long as you do not exceed your account limits.
Daily backups combined with a 99.9% uptime guarantee provides the reliability needed to keep your website online at all times. If not, you will recieve a refund for that month. SpamAssasin software will help reduce the amount of junk email you recieve in your inbox through several advanced detection methods, you'll also have access to a multitude of other website scripts and programs through an easy to use interface (cPanel).

What others are saying about Hostgator
"I found hostgator on Google while searching for reseller hosting and reseller hosting programs. They are both affordable and reliable. The uptime I have had on my reseller web hosting is simply amazing!" - Shawn Appleton, HostGator Customer.

"Although hostgator may seem expensive compared to startlogic and inmotionhosting, however, the service and quality they provide is unmatchable." - John Mike (me)

Support Options
HostGator has excellent methods of support. 24/7 support is provided by all popular instant messaging programs and also, live telephone support is available for sales and support inquiries. Email support is also provided as an alternative method of direct contact, however if you are just seeking answers to basic questions you should visit the FAQ or Online hosting community that HostGator places at your disposal.

If you prefer a visual demonstration of how to do things, there is also a wide variety of cPanel flash movies (approx. 80) available to help you learn how to perform tasks with your hosting account.

Money back Guarantee
HostGator offers a 30-day money back guarantee which states that within the first month with hostgator you decide to cancel, they will issue a full refund within 24 hours, no questions asked.

HostGator Website
This website is very informative and provides lots of details that are useful to novice web users and advanced web users alike. Lots of links are provided to their support section which I like, it makes their support department stand out, which sometimes makes the difference, who wants to get stuck with an unresponsive web host? The overall site design and color scheme definately suits the company, based out of Florida where the crocodiles roam, I think HostGator is an excellent name for this buisness.

Conclusion
If you're tired of bouncing from host to host then I would suggest you give HostGator a try. They have support options which are second to none, including live telephone support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I submitted a phony sales inquiry to the sales department just to check out how their response time was, and I recieved a response within 10 minutes, which I would say is tremendous.

Although the pricing is not exactly bargain pricing, the cost isn't that bad considering the bandwidth and diskspace allocations you are provided with, the service and quality you get, and also the amount of features that are included with the packages, I think it is still an ideal solution for personal web sites or small buisness websites.

For more information, please visit hostgator.com.

BONUS: Get first month for $0.01 using the coupon "cheaphosting".

posted by richdadmoney @ 9:47 PM 6 comments

Web Hosting Review: Hostony

Website: Hostony.com

About Hostony:
Monthly Price: $6.85 - $35.85
Diskspace: 10000 Mb - 30000 Mb
Bandwidth: 100 - 400 GB
Number of shared packages: 6
Setup: Free

Overview
Hostony offer industry leading infrastructure built with the best equipment and provides the highest level of security, safety, redundancy, reliability, scalability, technology a nd customer service and support.
Established in 2001, Hostony become a leading provider of small business hosting by offering solutions for all levels of experience, from beginners to web designers.
Continued commitment to providing the most powerful Web Hosting tools & the best customer support is key to their ongoing success.

Features
They offer 6 different web hosting plans with 2 plans under $10/month - the $7.85 PROFI plan and the $9.85 SPECIAL plan (pricing for 2 years prepay, $11.85 for 1 year prepay). While other web hosts offer plans with storage half as great to it, they also might restrict your daily or weekly limit. That means if your website has exceeded a given daily or weekly limit but still within your monthly limit, they will still charge you for overusing.
With Hostony, you can assure they do not have such restrictions with your disk space and bandwidth usage. If your have a big surge in your website traffic or you consume the bandwidth by uploading a very big files on a particular day, you won't be penalized so long as it's still within your month limit.
One of the many reasons that we like about Hostony is that all their plans includes most of the important features needed for small business. Apart from the huge disk space, bandwidth, unlimited MySQL databases, Frontpage Extension and Anonymous FTP Access, you'll also get built-in shopping cart, SSL, Cron Job editor, Web Based File Manager, support for .htaccess and other advanced tools to jump start your internet business.
You can choose wich operating system (Unix or Windows) in each plan, with no difference price. In addition Hostony's windows plans includes advanced features such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and ASP.net that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications.
Huge size, a great number of features, platform options and great customer support make Hostony's packages unbeatable.

Cpanel
Cpanel - the control panel used by Hostony, is the most widely used platform on the internet. cPanel preferred over most of other control panels because it's feature-packed, user-friendly and require shorter loading time.
Another popular control panel is Plesk. But from our experience, CPanel is far more powerful then Plesk. It allows you to control a lot of things, including email accounts, MySQL databases, custom error messages, password protected directories, setting up forum, shopping cart, chat room, cron jobs, sub domains, MIME types, apache handlers, search engine submission, free CGI scripts and many more. You can even upload and manage your files with its powerful file manager. What we really want you to know is that you can do a lot with CPanel and have a lot of fun with it. There are no such things as setting up forum or cron jobs in Plesk. Plesk control panel is also very slow to load even with a broadband Internet connection.

Customer Support
Customer support at Hostony is superior and they are very responsive to your questions. E-mail support requests always get answered in a timely manner. We tested their response time by sending them both general and technical questions and were very satisfied that all questions get answered in a professional manner within hour. This is very different from any other web hosting company out there.
Accounts are usually setup the same day after they verify the order with you over the phone within thirty minutes to one hour. It is essential that a working phone number be inputted into the system in order for your account to be setup immediately. They also offer a live chat system that enables you to chat with Hostony's stuff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Their employees average over 4 years of hosting experience and have broken and fixed just about everything web site hosting related that can be broken and fixed. Combining this knowledge with friendly staff and responsive management yields their tech support team.
To help you further in addressing your problem, Hostony has established a very comprehensive forum for everyone to participate. There are over 11,267 published topics and we are sure that you can find most of your answers there.
Although they do not offer phone support at this time, they use a very easy Support Ticket System, and we recommend that you open a trouble ticket yourself to save time.

Conclusion
Hostony provide their customers with outstanding service and unparallel reliability and performance that no hosting company has match. You may want to read other review site for comparison.

For more details, please visit Hostony.com

Also, please post your comments on what web hosting sites you want me to review next time.

posted by richdadmoney @ 9:27 PM 2 comments