Web Hosting Review

Globat Hosting Review : Summary

Globat is a leader in top of the line web hosting. They are renowned for their affordable web hosting options, absolutely free domain name, and high performance web hosting solutions.

Founded almost ten years ago in 2001, Globat was formed with the idea to offer affordable hosting plans for personal and small business use. Today they have grown significantly to serve over 100,000 clients across the globe, and to become a well known, widely respected hosting company. Their rock solid infrastructure and long standing history of excellent customer support make Globat a clear cut choice for any individual or business owner looking to get started with their own web site. 100,000 people don’t use them because they have to. They use them because they are amongst the best at what they do.

Globa Hosting Review : Advantages

As with any hosting company that wants to focus on business users, Globat offers 24 / 7, 365 technical support for their customers. While they do monitor their network and servers from their side to prevent problems before you as a customer would even see them, they do offer the option for those who have difficulty navigating their control panel or have problems accessing their websites. Their easy to access, quick responding customer support makes them an excellent option for people just starting out with their own website.

Their hosting plans offer copious amounts of space and bandwidth, more than the vast majority of website owners will ever need. This will give your new site plenty of room to grow as your business grows, and enough bandwidth to cover spikes in traffic from your marketing campaigns. If you are exceeding their space and bandwidth allocations I promise you’ll be making enough money from your website to cover the costs of upgrading.

Globat Hosting Review : Disadvantages

As great a company as Globat is, there is no such thing as a perfect host. The disadvantages are few, but you should be aware of them before making any purchasing decision. While Globat does try to accommodate everyone, they do limit some of their PHP features to ensure their shared server environment is secure for everyone using it. These limitations have been known to cause issues with some of the more common free software choices out there (such as forums and blogs). Be sure to consult with the user manual of your software of choice as well as the Globat options to ensure compatibility.

Globat Hosting Review : Final Review

With their long history of serving business and personal clients alike, Globat makes a great choice for anyone new to web hosting. They are very user friendly, offering an easy to navigate control panel as well as customer support that is ready anytime day or night to answer your questions. As long as you do your homework to ensure your software is compatible with Globat’s hosting plans, there is absolutely no reason why you should consider using Globat for your hosting needs.

WebHostingPad Web Hosting Review: Summary

One of the newcomers to the hosting industry founded in 2005, WebHostingPad has risen to become a major player in the hosting industry since its founding just a few years ago. Offering extremely competitive rate and packages in the ever evolving hosting industry, WebHostingPad has kept up with the changes. A division of the much larger Omnis networks, they consist of a proven team of industry veterans who know what customers are looking for in a web hosting package. Combining their industry knowledge with cutting edge hardware and a fantastic support system put them in a league of their own.

WebHostingPad Web Hosting Review: Advantages

With a great selection of packages and pricing to meet almost any budget, WebHostingPad offers what just about every other host offers in regards to pre-packaged solutions. Where they come out ahead is with tier industry knowledge and support. Offering cutting edge software updates in PHP and other scripting languages allows them to keep current with the times when other hosts are still scrambling to get updates that were released months ago. All this while maintaining pricing levels that are slightly below the industry average make them a great choice for the webmaster looking to keep his website pushing the envolope of technology.

Combine this with fantastic support that provides practical answers to your problems and you’ve got a great combination for success. Nothing feels better then having everything at your fingertips that you need to push the edge of what technology can do. WebHostingPad fills the void left by other hosting companies when you want to take on a new project (such as launching a new site) and find you are limited by the technology they make available. Everything is right there for you, ready to take your business online today, with today’s technology.

WebHostingPad Web Hosting Review: Disadvantages

Being as new as WebHostingPad is, they have had some bumps in the road. Their support was a little technical when they were first founded, but provided their background and aim as a hosting company that was hardly surprise. What was surprising was how quickly they adapted to what the market needed and started providing practical solutions that business owners and tech savvy personal alike could apply to real world problems.

WebHostingPad Web Hosting Review: Conclusion

WebHostingPad is a great choice for the inventors and innovators of our time. Even if you do not consider yourself one, you might find that you need the latest and greatest at some point down the road. I have found it’s always better to have something and not need it than to need it and not have it, and that is exactly what WebHostingPad provides. It is not just ability, but the knowledge that the ability is there in case you need it that makes them such a spectacular hosting choice for almost any application. Considering and purchasing WebHostingPad was one of the best decisions I could make for my online business.

ePowHost Web Hosting Review: Summary

ePowHost offers every web site owners dream – unlimited space, emails, bandwidth, and domains. Feeling restricted by your current host? ePowHost is for you. This is truly a hosting account that is ready for a webmaster that has plans to grow an empire of websites, or just one large website that might be too expensive to host other places that will limit your sites growth.

Along with unlimited (just about) everything, ePowHost also offers all of the standard web hosting features – PHP, MySQL, CGI, Perl, and free advertising credits to get your new creation off the ground. Everything you would expect from a shared hosting provider ePowHost delivers on.

ePowHost Web Hosting Review: Advantages

Unlike most hosts who limit what you to a single domain name or a certain amount of bandwidth, ePowHost doesn’t restrict you to any of these limitations. Instead they take a different approach and let you grow your business by taking advantage of their economics of scale. They also allow you to take advantage of the most popular control panel online today – cPanel. Add in their 24/7 customer support and FrontPage extensions for use with your Microsoft programs; they truly have one of the best offerings on the web today. They also supply you with all of the documentation to use all of their features in a very easy to find format.

ePowHost Web Hosting Review: Disadvantages

While on paper ePowHost seems like a dream come true, there are a few drawbacks to what they offer. Giving everyone as much as possible restricts their ability to spend money on a whole lot other then servers to hold your armada of websites. The only support that is offer is via a helpdesk – they do not offer phone support. There also is not any live chat support system (as the website might lead you to believe) If you are more of an internet person (and I’m guessing you are if you are looking for hosting!) then this is not such a big deal. They do respond to support tickets in a timely fashion even if you cannot actually get someone live to talk to.

ePowHost Web Hosting Review: Conclusion

If you are more familiar with the hosting world and fairly comfortable taking care of things without someone holding your hand, then ePowHost is definitely a great choice for you. What they lack in the hand holding that other hosts offer they more than make up for in their hosting options. If you have plans of expanding and are on a budget, then these are definitely the guys to look to. They will give you plenty of room to grow – just as long as you are able to grow on your own for the most part. Their hosting is rock solid, and an excellent choice for the intermediate to advanced user. If you are just starting out, you will want to check out our reviews on some of the more ‘beginner’ friendly hosting service providers.

eBoundHost.com Web Hosting Review: Summary

eBoundHost.com was started right when the internet really boomed in 2000. Basing themselves in the Northern United States, they have positioned themselves to be a market leader by providing something very rare in the online world – real follow through. As a hosting company, they do in fact look out for your best interests reducing the work you have to do by supplying superior service and reliability. They focus on the individual, and their hosting plans in turn cater to the lone webmaster, all though they do offer plans to allow you and your business to expand.

eBoundHost.com Web Hosting Review: Advantages

A very economical solution with real world class support is exactly what you’ll get at eBoundHost.com. They offer an astonishing 90 day money back guarantee. You read right; a 90 day, no questions asked, complete refund if you aren’t completely and utterly satisfied with the services that they provide. Add in their SSL compatibility for shopping cart and e-commerce websites, spam and virus filters for their email, and compatibility with your Blackberry or Treo and you can see why they are the obvious choice for the serious web site owner.

They also offer a great selection of dedicated servers if a shared hosting environment isn’t enough for your needs. A dedicated server just means that your website won’t be sharing the same server as other websites, giving you more flexibility and power to run your own site.

eBoundHost.com Web Hosting Review: Disadvantages

Honestly, there are not a lot of hosting services that this can be said about, but you’ll have to look extremely hard to find a down side to this spectacular company. I have had to wait just over an hour for a more complicated support ticket to be answered, but in a world where sometimes I’m put on hold for an hour just to fix my cell phone or have someone explain my electric bill I consider this more of an advantage then a disadvantage. Sometimes a service just works, and eBoundHost is one of those services.

eBoundHost.com Web Hosting Review: Conclusion

The best of all worlds; economical enough to get started, plenty of space and options to expand your business, as well as top notch support places eBoundHost in the top one percent of all web hosts. I wouldn’t consider hosting with anyone else unless I just wanted the extra assurance of a backup far, far away from any natural disaster that might strike (and in the Northern United States, even that seems like a far fetched idea). For the last ten years, these guys have been providing a service that this industry desperately needs – true support and a product that is exactly as described. If you are not hosting with eBoundHost you should really rethink how well you want your online business to run. Moving my web sites over to eBoundHost was the best decision I could have made. My frustrations are non-existent and I know that all my online properties are working for me day in and day out. The peace of mind is priceless.

DreamHost Hosting Review: Summary

Founded in 1997 out in California, DreamHost is one of the oldest and largest hosting companies today. While most other companies have come and gone, like a rock DreamHost has not only remained, but continued to grow and improve their business from day one. DreamHost is well known for their extremely loyal customer base and complete transparency about running their business. They work through problems with customers instead of ignoring them or placing the blame where it doesn’t belong. This tactic has helped them grow their hosting company to well over half a million domain names and counting.

DreamHost Hosting Review: Advantages

In the spirit of their customer loyalty, DreamHost operates very differently from all other shared hosting companies. Instead of having set hosting plans for you to pick from, DreamHost instead rewards user loyalty. Space and bandwidth for each hosting plan starts at a set amount (and a very generous set amount at that) and grows larger and larger the longer you remain a customer.

This is the absolute perfect model for a website just getting started. It gives you more than enough room to start out your website and then as time goes on and your site grows in popularity your hosting plan grows with it – all without increasing in price. This model is truly revolutionary in the hosting industry.

DreamHost also uses their own custom control panel. While most other hosting companies use an off the shelf product such as Helm or cPanel, Dreamhost has programmed their own completely unique panel from feedback they regularly get from their customer base. This panel is extraordinarily easy to navigate and is a great way to help you get started with your first site, or take your existing site to a new level.

DreamHost Hosting Review: Disadvantages

DreamHost has had a few problems with reliability in the past, but their utter transparency during each ordeal makes them worth considering. They more often than not will give you advance warning of problems and upgrades so you can plan accordingly, whereas most hosts tend to just do without asking you first, leaving you wondering what happened to your website and your steady stream of customers.

They also don’t provide any kind of site creation software to help you in your journey. If you are an experienced website builder or programmer chances are this won’t mean much to you anyways. But if you are just getting started you’ll need to invest in additional software or learning materials to get your first site from the drawing board out onto the web.

DreamHost Hosting Review: Conclusion

Overall DreamHost is a great option that will grow as your business grows. They have a great customer base that is fiercely loyal for a reason, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. They offer more than most hosting companies in terms of ease of use and scripting support, and have customer support that rivals top hosting companies in the shared hosting industry. They make an excellent choice for a beginner to intermediate webmaster.