One.com Hosting Review

One.com was previously known as B-One. They started with a great vision, a vision to provide simplest, most flexible and the most convenient web hosting service for its customers. The idea was to attract both type of customers; the beginners and the experts. One.com is strictly following their beliefs, and it just not ends only here. They also promise to offer competitive prices and superb reliability. And bet us, they have everything a customer is looking for. Although they are a new name in the world of European web hosting services, but they have developed a great customer database. Since 2002, the number of customers of One.com has gone beyond 700,000.

One.com is offering a great plan that starts at €6.57 per month. That has a lot of hard disk, bandwidth is unlimited, number of email accounts is unlimited, and backups are taken daily and much more. You get a number of tools to play with to make and maintain your website quickly and simply. Yes! It means a free website builder.

And what makes a big difference and makes One.com stand tall in its competitors is the customer support service. It runs its customer support service 24×7. You can contact the customer service via online chat, email and fax. There is no phone line and that is what lets them keep their prices down as well. The best thing is that you can get support in multi languages like French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

If you closely look at the hosting plans offered by One.com, it seems that they are offering lesser features than the other competitors of the European market. But a strong analysis explains this reason. The features and offers given by One.com are more than enough for most of the customers looking for an outstanding web hosting service. Another great thing about them is, if you are unsure to choose from the hosting plans and take the cheapest plan, you can at any time upgrade to any package and by only paying the difference. And believe us, this much flexibility is something you hardly can find in web hosting services.

One.com guarantees a 99.9% network up time and is professionals are committed to provide a high end service. The lower prices of One.com have never been a reason for network downtimes. All servers are powered by Hewlett- Packard with redundant power supplies.

The control panel on One.com is not cPanel. But wait, it has got its own control panel that is their property. Unlike other custom built control panels, the One.com’s control panel is an icon based, easily readable and easy to use panel. It proves great in managing every single action related to website management.

 

One.com Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

One.com Pros

Custom Built, easy to use control panel

Cheapest packages as compared to competitors

Multi-Language support

Unlimited bandwidth and email accounts

Daily scheduled backups

24×7 email and live chat support

 

One.com Cons

No phone line available

 

KnownHost Hosting Review

KnownHost is one of the hosting that has a strong vision of quality of service and not quantity of service. And with their available hosting plans they prove what they say. So the lower prices are one thing that you would never find available with KnownHost. The only hosting option available with KnownHost is the Virtual Private Servers and for this they have an excellent reputation for a great customer support.

KnownHost does not have an option for shared web hosting services. Virtual Private Servers and the only option the customers can opt for. This set them a bit side as they do not target the new customers. Many of the new customers coming up are looking for cheap hosting services to start a web business and with VPS only available, KnownHost is definitely not an option. But this makes a positive point for KnownHost as well. With only virtual private servers and not overloading their servers with thousands of customers on one server, KnownHost provides an excellent hardware support and customer support as well.

The price value is quite high when compared to the web hosting services provider competing the market. And this is the only issue we find with KnownHost. KnownHost is strictly for those who are looking for premium services with a dedicated server or a virtual private server. KnownHost is the best fit in this case.

When it comes to comparing Virtual Private Servers based hosting plans of competitors with the KnownHost packages, the prices a great and very competitive. There are a total of 5 Virtual Private Server plans available. The plans start from 192B of RAM, hard disk space of 10GB and 200GB of plentiful bandwidth, and the last package available is the one having 2GB of RAM, hard disk space of 70GB and bandwidth of 1500GB. There are 3 packages available between these two packages. The pricing is just great and one these packages would surely meet your needs if you are looking for VPS.

There is no doubt about the fact that with such high end and quality service, KnownHost provides a network up time of 99.9%. The top notch hardware along with the dedicated and hard working professionals there is no chance that the servers experience a major down time. If at any time they need to perform scheduled maintenance, they would notify you with a proper email so that you can take necessary action for the specific period of down time.

When it comes to control panel, believe us you won’t have ever seen an option like this before. While selecting your hosting plan during the purchase, you can select from a number of control panel options available. KnownHost offers Direct Admin, Plesk and cPanel for administration purposes. And all of these are available at the same monthly cost.

The customer is just terrific. Although you hardly face a problem, but if in any case you face a problem, the customer support can shoot down the trouble in moments.  You can contact via 24×7 available live chat and email. Although they are highly priced but still no telephone line is available. There is a community forum which is helpful in a lot of ways.

 

KnownHost Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

KnownHost Pros

Excellent control panel cPanel, Plesk, Direct Admin

Excellent Customer Support

 

KnownHost Cons

High Priced

Only VPS Hosting

 

CoolHandle Hosting Review

The CoolHandle might not seem a professional one but they are doing a real and serious job. CoolHandle started working in 2001 with a mindset to achieve and set new standards in the web hosting services. With this great vision, they have done a magic. CoolHandle presents services that are the most feature rich as compared to its competitors, a large product range and reliability that cannot be questioned at any point of time. And due to this very reason, it has been able to attract a large number of loyal customers, who in no way think to change their hosting partner.

CoolHandle is a United Stated based company and works from Los Angeles, California. It provides web hosting solutions on both types of servers, i-e; Windows based servers and Linux based servers. They are highly committed to provide a high end professional web service and with this they can handle even the most demanding clients with all their requirements. In addition to this, CoolHandle also offers other great services like dedicated servers, virtual private servers and reseller hosting services.

It further makes its mark by providing a bundle of other features and proudly makes functional the latest software and the oldies as well. The list includes Perl, Ruby, PHP5, Front Page, etc. The control panel services of CoolHandle are provided on cPanel, and we all know that it the industries’ most famous for the job. More over cPanel comes with Fantastico that lets you install and work with 52 free scripts. All the web hosting plans of CoolHandle have fully enabled multi-media support and e-commerce capabilities. You name an option and it would have it for your website.

The most basic web hosting package plan fits all customer needs. Believe us, it only names as starter, it comes with unlimited hard disk storage space and an unlimited bandwidth. And if you still think that you require more power and extra for your websites, then there is an option for Business Pro web hosting plan. And even this plan is not expensive rather is quite affordable. We highly recommend CoolHandle as it has a comprehensive list of services, is reliable and yet affordable hosting service.

Reliability is one thing that CoolHandle never compromises on. It has a high end top notch data center in the United States. These data centers are placed in partnership with the US’ 12th largest Internet Service Providers. All servers and high end Intel powered that and being monitored and maintained 24×7. This guarantees absolute customer satisfaction.  CoolHandle also provides elite data security services that take proactive measures and hackers and viruses.

The customer support of CoolHandle is available round the clock 24×7. You can contact them cia email, support ticket and a free toll free telephone line as well. It does not have live chat services but all other support services available are more than enough. The website of CoolHandle has a large knowledge base with also has Flash tutorials.

 

CoolHadle Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   4/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

CoolHandle Pros

  • Excellent control panel
  • Unlimited bandwidth and hard disk
  • Large number of plans
  • Excellent reliability

 

CoolHandle Cons

  • We yet to find any bad

 

LunarPages Hosting Review

It has been more than a decade that LunarPages is providing quality services to its customers. It formed back in year 2000 when the hosting provide, Add2Net Corporation, expanded its services to cater for the shared web hosting as well. Before this Add2Net was working since 1997 and provided large scaled managed and unmanaged web hosting services. This says itself that LunarPages has a vast experience in the field have developed a lot to meet any challenge they face.

LunarPages is now counted in the premier hosting service providers because of their outstanding performance.  They have had great expansions and this has never been a hurdle in the quality of services they are providing when compared to the other players of the market.

The prices offered for web hosting plans by LunarPages are really good. The cheapest plan known as the Basic Plan starts at $4.95 per month and has 1500GB of hard disk space and a bandwidth of 15000 GB. This package has been designed to cover most of the customer needs. This plan also includes feature of ecommerce. LunarPages also gives a wonderful deal of a life time free domain till the time you use their web hosting service.

If you are still looking for more performance, then the Business package is a solution for you. It comes with an unlimited hard disk storage space and a bandwidth of 3Terabytes. The cost of this web hosting plans is $21.95 per month.

This might seem strange that we are rating LunarPages so high whereas in comparison it does not provide the unlimited hard disk space or bandwidth in any of its webhosting plans and the competitors do so. Well the reason is quite simple. There are many hidden restriction which a customer never gets to know about when purchasing the plan. These include maximum file size limits, daily bandwidth limit, binary files limit that include pics, audio and flash, etc. With LunarPages you do not face any such restrictions.

LunarPages have a good number of quality professional looking after their hardware.  And this provides the best reliability currently available in the hosting world. They use their own system known as the Active Response Control. This system proves helpful while monitoring the servers for attacks and outages and also benchmarks the system for top notch performance all around the year.

LunarPages uses cPanel for web site management. And it is the most powerful yet simplest tool available for the purpose. With a few clicks you can setup email accounts, forwardings, MySQL databases, etc. If has also got Fantastico with it, with which installing forums, blogs, shopping carts, etc. is just a piece of cake.

Customer support is one thing that LunarPages has really to brag about. Available 24×7, event the email get there response in moments. Currently the live support is available via email and telephone line only. Live Chat is yet to come.

 

LunarPages Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

LunarPages Pros

  • Excellent control panel
  • Plenty of disk space & bandwidth
  • Hosting available in Linux & Windows
  • Competitive prices
  • Outstanding customer support

 

LunarPages Cons

  • No live chat

 

HostMonster

When it comes to kings of web hosting services, HostMonster definitely comes in to takes it crown. It is there in the business since 1996. This sets that HostMonster is in the business for the last 14 years which is in any case a long long time. It caters for every to customer, from business owners to the individuals. HostMonster would have a fully functional and low priced solution for you. So be, rest assured that this service provider has a solution for you as well. HostMonster boasts large of its less priced and excellent features in its web hosting plan services to meet all the incoming needs.

The price value delivered by HostMonster is just awesome. The package plan starts at $5.95 per month and delivers unlimited hard disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains, unlimited email accounts, free domain, $75 Google Adword Credits and Free Site Builder and Online Store.  There are no long term contracts; you can just cancel your subscription with them at any point of time with paying any cancelation fee. All hosting plans offered by HostMonster support the multimedia features of Flash, Shockwave, Real Media and all other audio and video streaming.

HostMonster is not just another service. They guarantee a server uptime of 99.9% and this is not just what they say it is what they do. It has an OC- 48 backbone, an Apache service that has been perfectly customized and Quad core servers. Their data center is looked over by excellent professionals 24×7 who monitor all data at all time. There are back servers that always keep the data safe and you should remain tension free for all your web data.

Customer support it really what should be talked about. They make their customer feel very very special. The customer service officers are the most professional and considerate that you can ever find. The best thing about their customer support is that they have not outsourced their services. This proves that they take their customers very seriously and are willing to help them themselves. At the call center no customer is kept on hold for more than 2 minutes. Yes! Your call is answered in less than 2 minutes time.  The toll free number is available 24×7 and is US based. You can also contact them via email ticketing system. The knowledge base available at HostMonster is immense and would solve most of your problem in minutes.

Control panel option is cPanel which is the most widely accepted control panel in the world. It has an excellent GUI and you can navigate through things with ease. With a few clicks you can setup email accounts, forwardings, MySQL databases, etc. If has also got Fantastico with it, with which installing forums, blogs, shopping carts, etc. is just a piece of cake.

HostMonster Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

HostMonster Pros

  • Unlimited bandwidth and Disk space
  • Unlimited Email Accounts and Domains/ Sub-Domains
  • Free Domains and Adwords Credits
  • Free site builder and online store

 

HostMonster Cons

  • Only one hosting package

 

Nexx Hosting Review

When it comes to the oldest players of the game, Nexx.com definitely comes in. They started this business back in 1996 and its 15 years now that they have slowly risen up to a level where they have entered the leading web hosting service providers list at an international level. Located at the north side of USA in Buffalo, New York, Nexx.com targets Canadian customers who might be individuals or businesses. For such customers it is definitely a reliable and secure network that has a central location. Nexx.com’s biggest plus is that it does not believe in out sourcing of anything. The customer support, technical staff, servers or data centers, nothing has been ever out sourced.

The technology used by Nexx.com is clustered based. This means that you website would never experience down times or slowdowns ever. This technology has been especially developed for the shared web hosting services. It makes sure that site do not interfere the performance of each other and use resources independently. This Nexx.com is able to store your data in individual clusters and every time you can access it through the fastest available server. And all this is offered at a great cheap price.

The value delivered for the money you pay is excellent. Nexx.com gives you outstanding service with unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts and a free domain name to all shared clients. The site hosted at Nexx.com are also ecommerce enabled. The hosting plans also include free Google Adwords credits and Facebook ads credits which would definitely boost your marketing.

Reliability is a thing that no hosting review website has ever challenged when it comes to Nexx.com.  And this is all due to the above mentioned technology which helps to allocate the amount of resources as per the needs of your website’s traffic.

The control panel offered by Nexx.com is custom built. The best thing is that it has been developed by their own technical staff that is highly qualified in the field of web hosting. This control panel’s home screen has graphical web stats that are very important for any web based business. You can also enjoy the service of one click application/ scripts install and much more.

Nexx.com offers 24×7 customer support via an email. This internal team, based in North America, is professionally qualified and can shoot the biggest trouble in less than 4 hours. There is also an online reference guide than can help you in a number of things when if want to choose self-help as an option. Unfortunately there are no telephone lines of live chat available with Nexx.com’s customer service at the moment.

 

Nexx.com Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 4/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      4/5

 

Nexx.com Pros

  • Unlimited disk space and band width
  • Unlimited email accounts
  • Free domain name
  • Cluster Technology
  • Custom built control panel with web stats

 

Nexx.com Cons

  • Slow customer service
  • No phone lines
  • No live chats

 

NetHosting Review

NetHosting.com is one of the pioneers of the web hosting business. Believe it or not they started it back in 1995 when it was a very very rare thing. They promise to bring you an experience which no other can deliver. And reliability, you can trust without giving a second thought. They provide only dedicated server hosting and take your business very seriously.

Dedicated servers are for those who want excellent hardware support, zero technical glitches, reliability and security. And if this is you requirement, you should take no time to opt for NetHosting.com. The data centers at NetHosting are just great. It starts from their own Tier 1 data center, A Smart Building of Class A, Intel/ AMD Micro Processors and a lot more. This comes with hard disk space and the bandwidth to fit all your needs and 24×7 available technical support that can be contacted via, telephone, live chat or email.

NetHosting has made a great investment and has totally shifted to dedicated web hosting services. The prices are still great. The dedicated server web hosting starts less than $100. This is a price which most of the businesses requiring this type of service can afford easily.

The network up time of NetHosting would definitely surprise you. Yes! It is 100% and guaranteed. And moreover, the satisfaction guaranteed is also 100%. And for a company like this, who lead the web hosting market, they ought to do this. The principles on which the NetHosting works are service, quality, reliability and value. And this surely a thing one can count on.

If you are looking for powerful dedicated servers and an excellent customer service then definitely NetHosting is a go. The customer support can be contact 24×7 via a telephone line, live chat or email. They call their technical support as “Remote Hands”. It means that whenever you make a contact with NetHosting there is a physical person working at your server and directly coordinating with you. So you can imagine the quality of service and the amount of technical support you can get through them.

 

NetHosting Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

Pros of NetHosting

  • Guaranteed uptime of 100%
  • Control panel has the option of cPanel and Direct Admin
  • Server is setup in less than 10 minutes
  • You can choose from a number of operating systems for your servers that include CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows
  • Any faulty hardware is replaced with in 1 hour and that is guaranteed
  • It has a Tier 4 data center
  • Remote Hands option gives you a physical technician who handles your server

 

Key Features

  • Customer support service can be contacted 24×7 via live chat, telephone and email
  • Satisfaction is 100% guaranteed
  • 100% Network Uptime with Cisco Network Solution
  • 5 static IP addresses are included in the package
  • Additional IPs is available at only $1 per month
  • Upgrades are easy and are available at any time point of time

 

Cons of NetHosting

  • Only dedicated servers
  • Only for website that require high end performance and security

BlueHost Hosting Review

BlueHost is an other oldie when it comes the the web hosting service providers. BlueHost started in 1996 and since then its not been a single day that their servers have gone down. It os not easy to survive such a necl to neck compitetion for so long in the web hosting business. And this speaks of their quality services that they have been providing since day one. Many other companies have come and gone in this period and BlueHost stands firm in its place.

As one can think about a company that is in the market for so long as BlueHost, their network and infrastructire is way too perfect. BlueHost have equipped their data center with the latest quad core processor based servers, mirrored storage backups, Diesel generator and UPS for power back ups. BlueHost is connected to the internet by OC-48 backbone connection that goes as fast as 2GigaBit per second.

Since long there has been a new trend in web hosting plans by the providers. The providers have simplified their hosting plan range and tried to compensate the requirements of many packages in one single package. BlueHost has also introduced one such package known as “Platinum Pak” plan. This strategy makes it easy for the prospect customers to choose the hosting plans as they do not confused in a number of hosting plans available. But here a problem also arises, that such unified plans sometimes do not have enough features that certian customers might look for when choosing from a large number of available plans. In this case the BlueHost has bundled their package in a very good way. The Platinum Pak has 1500 GigaBytes of hard disk storage space, 15000 GB badnwidth per month and a complete set of feature in $6.95 per month. An other plus of this package is that it come with unlimited domains and sub-domains.

Out of many advantages of BlueHost, one is its control panel administration. Package Plans of BlueHost comes with cPanel control panel administration which is an industry standard. cPanel is very popular with the customers all around the world as it is easy to use and making configuration is a piece of cake even for w rookie. Moreover the cPanel of BluHosting is equipped with Fantastico. And who does not know about this great scrpit installer. In a single click you can install and mange a number of useful software packages, blogs, forums, content management systems, polls, picture galleries, online surveys, etc. And for those with a sound technical background can go for mannual installations as well on an apache server.

As others do, BlueHost also guarantees a 99.9% uptime. And this not just a claim, they fulfuill the promise as well. And this promised is backed by a 24×7 customer support that is available via email, live chats, forums and also a phone line. BlueHost also provides seperate number for customers residing outside the US.

 

BlueHost Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

BlueHost Pros

  • Excellent control panel (cPanel)
  • Mannual installer as well
  • Plenty of bandwidth and hard disk space
  • OUtstanding customer support
  • Fair pricing

 

BlueHost Cons

  • Minimum 3 month minimum contract
  • Pricing is relatively hard to find

 

JustHost Hosting Review

JustHost is relatively a new player in web hosting services that started working in 2008. Comparing to many others it is a new company, but their zeal to provide a quality service is always at the top. It has been many times that they have proven their professionalism and reliability. JustHost has become a daily trust for many professionals and business owners, as they are powering their business at the best of quality available in the market. JustHost has also its name in providing cheaper solution for shared hosting packages and also for their reseller plan that is “Unlimited”.

JustHost has enjoyed the top position on many review websites. And their number to stay top as compared to any other market player is the highest.

JustHost is another most reliable company providing web hosting service. Their servers and up and running all the time. The company guarantees a 99.9% percent uptime. It is not just a claim, they also fulfill their promise. This all comes with a 30 days full money back guarantee. It means that you get back every buck you have paid for if any part of the service dissatisfied. It is not good that everyday your website experiences a down time every day and that too for few hours; with JustHost you would never experience this problem. Though the support team of JustHost is small but is dedicated towards their work. They monitor all of their servers 24×7 and you don’t have to worry about checking for your website all the time, if it’s up or not. They do all the tough work for you and will fix any occurring problem in minutes.

There are number of packages available with JustHost hosting service. The best deal available with them is their JustPlan package. The other one, JustPlan Premium Package, is not recommended in the first instance. It is simply not worth its price and gets too expensive. This package comes with 3 domain names but does not deliver its value. If you are looking forward to host multiple website with them, you can select their basic package and register your domains with some other domain hosting service provider. After this you can just point your domains to JustHost Hosting server.

With their small and dedicated small support team that is available to address the issues 24×7, you can choose to contact them via email ticket, live chat support and also call their too free phone lines. Do not go on the small size of their team, they are capable to shoot down any problem with in minutes.

The best part if their hosting that we would say is that they use cPanel as their control panel for all their hosting plans. cPanel is easy to use and even a newbie can do things like domain management, database management, setting up email addresses and forwarders in minutes. Even file management is a child’s play. In a click you can install WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Mamboo and others.

 

JustHost Rating

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   5/5

User Friendly        5/5

Overall Rating      5/5

 

JustHost Pros

  • Excellent hosting service and yet affordable
  • $3.45 per month (on 3 years plan)
  • Unlimited space
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Unlimited MySQL databases
  • Unlimited email addresses
  • Free domain on signup

 

JustHost Cons

  • No windows hosting
  • No support for ASP.net or any other windows based software on their servers
  • No dedicated IP addresses

WebHostingHub Hosting Review

WebHostingHub is a service that was initially launched in 2001. They started with their business by providing online hosting management. This makes sets them as one of the oldest player of the industry. At that time even though they offered great services to the customers they could not the market leaders due to their business model and complicate site design. But now WebHostingHub, abbreviated as Hub has gone through a complete rebranding and have come up with a complete new face by re-launching their hosting plans. And this time they have come with green hosting at unbelievable rate.

Like many others if you are the one looking for quality service with cheaper rates, you are in the right place. WebHostingHub is just great when it comes to providing cheap services.  They have bundle hosting plans of 12, 34 and 36 months hosting plans. An unlimited hosting plan can the purchased at only $4.95 per month if you register for 3 years. This definitely cheaper than other hosting services available around.

And this not only ends here. Unlike many other hosting services, where you have to buy a domain name, here you get it for Free. This free domain is available for life-time, till the time you keep you hosting with WebHostingHub. And in free domains you can get any top level domains like .com, .us, info, .org, .biz, etc.

With this, WebHostingHub comes with a lot of reliability. As the company is new and there is not much stats available but the company guarantees and uptime of 99.9%. And since their start there has not been a single major down time in their history. They also provide a 90 days money back guarantee as compared to even top players of the market who provide 30 or 45 days money back guarantee.

Support is another best feature of WebHostingHub. Regardless of their cheap hosting plans, it does not step back in caring for its customer. The support is available 24×7. They have a strong grip on their support skills are readily available all the time. You can contact them by live chats, emails or telephones, whatever suits you the best.

The control panel of WebHostingHub is based on cPanel. A front end that, we all love to use and feel comfortable with, the most. With cPanel you can easily manage you website, create emails addresses and ftp accounts and set email forwarders. Content Management Systems, Blogs, ecommerce software are also just a click away to install and even a starter can handle it in the most professional manner. And if you still think you need more, well you got it! WebHostingHub has a section which is dedicated to provide guidelines for the users. This contains a large database of tech guides and video based tutorials which would help you figure out a lot of things on your own.

 

WebHostingPad Ratings

Reliability             5/5

Support                 5/5

Price & Features   4/5

User Friendly       5/5

Overall Rating      4/5

 

WebHostingHub Pros

  • Unlimited Disk Space
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • 90 Day Money Back Guarantee
  • Advanced Security w/suPHP
  • Green Hosting and unbelievable price
  • Premium Web Site Builder

 

WebHostingHub Cons

  • No support for PayPal
  • No access from Shell
  • No affiliate program
  • Only Linux based hosting