Gate.com Hosting Review
By on Aug 27, 2008 with Comments 0
Gate.com
Gate.com
Gate.com has been in the business of web hosting for a very long time almost from the beginning of World Wide Web. Affinity Internet is the company that owns Gate.Com. Gate.com are experienced professionals who understand the importance of web presence of a business.
Functionality:
Gate.com is the first web hosting company that presented clustering technology for the first time. Even now Gate.com offers this technology at a minimal cost. Gate.com charges just one dollar for registering domain name for the first year.
In Gate.com, no web site relies on just a single server. Instead each site is supported by an array of servers. This improves reliability and performance greatly.
Gate.com also updates its platform from time to time to support the new technologies like ASP.net and PHP. They incorporate any advancement in compilers and other software tools immediately in their hosting architecture.
To manage your web site efficiently, Gate.com provides you a simple to use but an effective control panel. As you have access to PHP and Pearl your site can be interactive with control facility to restrict access.
Packages:
Gate.com offers all the major kinds of hosting like Windows, Linux and Dedicated server hosting.
For Windows and Linux hosting Gate.com offers 5 GB space and a bandwidth of 200 GB. With dedicated servers you can have Bandwidth up to 1000GB. In the WHL listed web hosting companies Gate.com is comparatively expensive. But this is quite understandable with the expertise and experience of Gate.com. In fact no other web host provider gives you a whopping 99.99% up time guarantee.
Network Performance:
The network speed of Gate.com is so high that it sports traffic of 2 Gigabits every second. With many Class B IP blocks and its own antonymous system numbers, Gate.com gives its customers better control over traffic engineering and peering. Gate.com offers better data protection against adversities like power failure, fire, flood and even personal intrusion.
A server in a cluster is connected to two redundant Cisco switches. Each switch is connected to two Ethernet links and two different routers. A sudden failure in a switch or an Ethernet link or a router will not have result in server getting shutdown completely.
Gate Specialties
For big businesses, Gate.com is a good choice as its highly reliable with high speed. They provide sufficient space, bandwidth, and Email accounts packed with ASP functionality. Their Web hosting service comes with attractive 30 days money back guarantee. Gate.com has a tie-up with Google to provide its customers free AdWords credit worth $25.
Customer Support System
Gate.com has an online information base for customer support. But for this information collection, Gate.com does not have a FAQ feature to help the customers. But this is compensated by the email and forums support available. Round the clock Telephone support is available. If Live Chat facility is there Gate.com’s customer support will greatly be enhanced.
The Gate Advantage
Gate.com is a certified winner of Top 10 Web Hosting Gold Award-2007. Thus they are one of the 10 elite companies, which have this award under their belt. Gate.com is hosting websites since 1996 and still remain a popular and sought after service provider in this industry by offering highly reliable networks of high speed and high performance.
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