Out of the 546 major web hosting companies around the world, our carefully selected Webmasters has meticulously weed out the bad from the good, and came up with these top 10 Excelent hosting companies, all chosen based on their support service, pricing, reliability and technological advancements.
General Impression Since 1997 HostRocket.com has been a stable, profitable, debt-free, corporation. They have 2 data centers which are staffed by more than 60 employees. One of their data centers is located in Newark, DE. They currently host more than 25,000 web sites.
Their service have always been reliable; never had any downtime since we start hosting our test web site with them. They don't give to much traffic or disk space though, but the uptime was worth it. Also, they give out unlimited FTP users and unlimited email accounts. Need to start a free email or hosting service?
Price & Cost Effectiveness HostRocket.com offers decent pricing on their web-hosting plans. From $8.95 a month, you receive 2GB of space and 120GB of traffic. In addition, you also can opt for wordpress 2.0 blogging plans at only $45 yearly. For business users, they can subscribe for their VPS and Ecommerce plans which is quite affordable; only $29.95 monthly.
They offer free new domain name when you prepaid for an annual plan.
Technology and Reliability Basic standard applications and scripts will work with most of the basic plans. However, if you require higher end solutions, we suggest you to get their dedicated hosting services instead.
They have very reliable servers with the occasional downtimes that may occur to every hosting company. Even then, they usually resolve the downtimes very quickly.
Customer Service Solid 24/7/365 support, we tried to reach them on holidays and their response times are still excellent! They have Toll Free Phone support as well as online help desk. We commend them for their prompt and reliable support!
Control Panel Through testing, the control panel has been very fast and very reliable. It is very user-friendly and easy to operate. Included is an extensive customer guide which can quickly guide even the most reluctant novice.
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