GoDaddy.com is an integral part
of Go Daddy Group Inc. GoDaddy.com has the reputation
of being the largest domain name registrar across
the globe.

GoDaddy.com, founded in 1997 currently has more than
10 million domains under its belt. Go Daddy is not
just a web-hosting firm. It offers comprehensive web
hosting solutions with impressive product line up
which includes Web site creation tools, E-commerce
tools, Secure SSL certificates and personalized email
with spam filtering.

Go Daddy has many worldwide recognitions and awards
for its performance in this industry. In 2001 Go Daddy
won the CNET Editor’s choice award. Go Daddy
is well known for its competitively priced products
and unparallel support and service.

GoDaddy Flavors

Go Daddy offers different kinds of hosting plans to
suit the unique requirements of varieties of customers.
There are three plans offered by Go Daddy, Economy
plan, Deluxe plan and premium plan. Each of these
is different from the other both in features and the
price.

Economy plan offers 5GB storage space and 250GB bandwidth
at a price of $3.59 per month. The price of Deluxe
plan is $6.29 per month. In this you get 100GB storage
space and 100GB bandwidth. For even more storage space
you can go for Premium plan that offers 200GB storage
space and 2000GB bandwidth at a price of $13.49 per
month.

Go Daddy offers Virtual Dedicated Servers hosting
plans also. These services are provided with many
positive features like rapid setup, solid data centers
with high security.

GoDaddy: Worth It?

The very special feature of Go Daddy is that it provides
its products at a price, which is nearly 70% less
than the industry counterparts. This sole fact clearly
points that Go Daddy’s products are very much
cost effective.

GoDaddy is Reliable

Go Daddy has high quality back up facility and effective
restoration technology making recovery of data possible
in almost all adversities. Go Daddy not only provides
weekly full back ups, they also do incremental backups
on a daily basis. To ensure system security 24X7 continuous
monitoring is carried out.

The Heart of GoDaddy

Go Daddy does not outsource their technical requirements.
They own and operate the hosting solutions they provide.
This ensures a high degree of control over the quality
and hence, the GoDaddy excellence.

Go Daddy’s Data centers have OC-48, OC-3 and
OC-12 connections together with a high speed Ethernet
backbone. All the providers have full BGP peering.
Data centers are well protected against physical intrusion
and natural disasters. Closed circuit cameras, biometric
scanners, Mantraps, locked cages enclosing the equipments-all
of these help saving data centers from physical intrusion.
Advanced Fire detection and suppression systems guard
the data centers against natural calamities.

Deployment of highly advanced routers, servers and
firewalls protect the data from hardware and software
failures.

In the hands of Go Daddy, every bit of data is highly
safe and secure.

GoDaddy Cares

Go Daddy presents several telephones for support to
deal with the different kind of support that a customer
may need. Go Daddy offers individual telephone numbers
for Technical support, Domain support, billing and
Expert Hands support. Go Daddy charges you nothing
to renew your account with them.

Visit GoDaddy.com

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Gate.com

http://www.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.

http://www.startlogic.com

Overall Feel:

Now with over 50,000 customers StartLogic is fast becoming one of the biggest upcoming players in the hosting industry. They offer a variety of hosting packages for both general website hosting to ecommerce packages.

One thing I really like is their 100% money back guarantee with a “No Questions Asked” policy. The look and feel of the website is colorful and friendly and is easy to navigate. I would have liked to see a side by side comparison chart between packages, but they do show the most important details of each package in a side by side format.

Price of Plans:

StartLogic is as competitive with price as most others in its class. By far the most popular package is “ProLogic” plan which has many great features including 5GB disk space, 100 GB transfer and Free Setup and Domain.

They also have specials for buying by the year as do most companies. Google Adwords Credits and Overture Credit specials for signing up.

StartLogic also offers a “WindowsLogic” plan which has slightly less disk space and transfer rates. This plan is a little more expensive than the ProLogic plan because it is for ASP.NET developers, which offers .NET support.

Data Center

The StartLogic data center is located in Phoenix, Ariz., provides the technology necessary to keep your website or server fully operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The custom designed facility provides redundant optical fiber connections through Cox, Qwest, and ELI, in addition to multiple Internet back-bone providers, including UUNET, Broadwing, and Global Crossing, making scaling bandwidth faster and much more affordable.

Customer Service:

StartLogic’s has overall good customer support from the current customers we have spoken to. They provide both phone and email support. Email questions are usual answered within an hour.

Control Panel:

StartLogic currently uses the vDeck control panel, which is one of the most functional and versatile web site managers on the Internet today. Without going to much into it, lets just say this is one of the easiest control panels for all levels of expertise. Many hosts use the trusted Cpanel, but Vdeck although slightly different is a quality control panel.

Overall:

Overall Startlogic is a great host that has quality plans and great prices. They are professionals and they do a great job with website uptime and meet all our criteria to be listed as a top webhost in the industry. “Remember – Go with a quality host withgood reputation over a host that offers great prices but will leave you high and dry.”

Ipower Review
Http://www.ipower.com

OVERALL

Ipower with 250 full time dedicated employees has made a major impact on the hosting industry. With over 700,000 members worldwide and boasting the most popular plan for hosting on the internet “IPOWER Pro Plan” they are well deserving of there 2006 status of INC 500 fast growing companies.

Price Value

With Quality Plans starting from as little as $3.95 you know that you are going to get the most for your money. Each plan comes with a full range of features and their full services “All the Bells & Whistles” plan starts at just $12.95 a month and features unlimited bandwidth and 3 free domains.

Although the starter plan is the only plan offered that does not come with a free domain, don’t let that stop you. Domains are only $6.95 and with the plan starting at $3.95 you can’t beat the price.

For those of you who want to develop your website on a Windows platform you prices start at only $9.95 a month and can range up to $129 a month for a dedicated server.

Overall the Ipower Hosting Packages might not give you as many or as much of certain features, but you can’t beat the price.

Reliability

Our four world-class quality Tier 1 Internet Data Centers are optimized to provide an industry-leading web, data, and applications hosting environment IPOWER’s Internet Data Centers are strategically located on AT&T’s, Global Crossing and Cable & Wireless’ OC48 / OC192 Global IP backbones. These locations, together with the extensive public / private peering arrangements, are designed to maximize your Internet reach, bandwidth capacity and to optimize performance.

To ensure your data’s security, our facilities are staffed 24 hours a day with on-site guards and equipped with both interior and exterior closed circuit television.

Control Panel
Former iPower Hosting clients and reviewers may recall that iPower used to use cPanel 5, but now they utilize their own vDeck control panel, which has received such acclaim for its versatility and ease of use that competing web hosts now rely on it as well. In fact, vDeck is often referred to as “revolutionary” and “the best of both worlds” by former cPanel and Plesk users.

Customer Support

iPower has a great series of topic-specific tutorials searchable FAQs for quickly finding your own answers to your questions, but if you require additional help, they’re certainly there for you, with email query ticket support and a rapid response time.

Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plans
Starter Plan: 3 GB disk space, 50 GB bandwidth @ $3.95/month

Pro Plan: 200 GB disk space, 2000 GB bandwidth @ $6.95*/month
(up to 6 domains)

Pro Plus Plan: 400 GB disk space, unlimited bandwidth
@ $12.95/month (up to 10 domains)
Windows Hosting Plans
Windows Pro: 100 GB disk space, 1000 GB bandwidth
@ $8.95/month
Windows Pro Plus: 200 GB disk space, 2000 GB bandwidth
@ $14.95/month
Dedicated Server Hosting Plans

iPower CPS 100: 400000 MB disk space, 500 GB bandwidth

@ $79.00/month

iPower CPS 200: 80000 MB disk space, 1000 GB bandwidth
@ $99.00/month
iPower CPS 300: 120000 MB disk space, 1500 GB bandwidth
@ $129.00/month
Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting Plans

20 Gigabyte VPS: 20 GB disk space, 1 TB bandwidth
@ $26.95/month
40 Gigabyte VPS: 40 GB disk space, 1.5 TB bandwidth
@ $35.95/month
60 Gigabyte VPS: 60 GB disk space, 2 TB bandwidth
@ $44.95/month

http://www.hostmonster.com

Hostmonster

Hostmonster has more than a decade of experience in hosting web sites. It is in this industry since 1996
as an economical solution provider to both business and individuals alike.

Single Plan – Killer Plan

Hostmonster offers a one-plan package with a whopping 50GB space and a high bandwidth of 999GB. For a one-year sign up, the charge is $5.95 per month. The special features of this package are unlimited domains and sub domains along with an unlimited Email accounts. All these features with an uptime time guarantee of 99.9%. Hostmonster offers this package with a tempting 30 days money back guarantee.

Control the Monster

Hostmonster provides a feature rich Web Site Control Console. The control panel has Site Menu, Mail Menu,
Advanced Menu and separate sections for Account & Domain management, Scripts & Stats and Monster
Tools.

Site Menu contains File Manager, FTP manager, FTP tools, Apache handlers, Redirects and Password protect
directories. Mail Menu helps you Add/Remove accounts, set up Email forwarders, Auto responders and the like. Account and Management section has functionalities such as Domain Manager, Add on domains, sub domains and parked domains, Renew Account and Update BillingInformation options. Control panel offered by Hostmonster, Cpanel XP Revolution is surely more advanced than the Cpanel type provided by other Web Hosting companies.

Multiple Monsters in One

With Hostmonster, you can have many web sites with just one account. For a very low price Hostmonster
offers unlimited Auto responders, 100 MySQL Databases and 100 PostgerSQL databases.

Monster Performance

Hostmonster network is highly reliable as they ensure the availability of data by operating high quality
redundant systems. Being in the business for more than 10 years Hostmonster is highly reliable. You
will never lose your critical data with Hostmonster as all the Data are locally backed up safely in the
data center. In any case of disaster like fire or flood, with Hostmonster the data is always recoverable.

Monster Features

Hostmonster offers free website scripts for its customers to help site automation. Hostmonster offers some of the popular web scripts Bulletin Board, Form Mail Script

Overall Feel:

One of the friendlest hosting companies I have had the privledge in getting to know. They are helpful and really love what they are doing. They provide outstanding support and are very easy to use. You will be up and running in minutes. They also feature an easy to use Site Builder and tons of great tools and scripts that will help you build the site of your dreams.

Price of Plans:

AN hosting provides basically 3 different options for plans. They have a windows package that starts at $9.95 a month. The Linux package which is the most popular starting at $6.95 a month and the Virtual Private Server starting at $39.95 a month.

Data Center:

AN Hosting, Inc. was born in early 2001. Within the next four years it would grow from a no-name company based out of a small Chicago suburb to a multi-million dollar web hosting company. Now, even with three offices in two countries, roughly 30 employees and thousands of customers (in over a hundred countries,) AN Hosting has never forgotten its roots as a startup. Your web site will be stored in an award winning, multi-million dollar datacenters known as the Equinix IBX Center. Based in the heart of Chicago, IL, the datacenter is designed to withstand just about anything that mother nature can throw at it. It can continue to serve your website for months even if electricity is disconnected. We are hooked to several network providers and backbones in order to insure redundant connections to the Internet. Below are some photographs of The facilities. (Source, ANhosting Site)

Customer Service:

Nothing short of amazing customer support.

Control Panel:

Using CPANEL – They have all sorts of cool tools including a Site Builder.

Overall:

AN hosting has moved up two the number #1 ranking hosting company. I keep getting amazing reviews from many of there customers. This is a great host that is turning into a big time player in the hosting world.