Establishment: 1997

Number of Customers: 65,000+ hosted websites

Data Center

• Multi-home network
• A redundant routing architecture, including hardware failover and Cisco HSRP (Hot Spare Router Protocol)
• Equipped with an environmental control system complete with air handlers, condensing units, and raised flooring to promote proper air flow and temperature.
• Fully N+1 redundant systems
• A UPS (uninterruptible power supply), battery backups, and diesel generators.

Services Offered

• Small Business Hosting
• Microsoft ASP.NET Hosting
• High-Availability Hosting
• Adobe ColdFusion Hosting
• Linux Web Hosting

Hosting Features: Gigabit Ethernet connections

What for Customers?

Uptime: 100%

Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY

Data Center

• Bandwidth routed through powerful Cisco equipment with a mixture of Tier1 transit, and Gigabit Ethernet
• High-Tech security with 24/7 live monitoring: Digital surveillance with biometric palm scanners and pass card access
• Multiple connections to significant internet backbone carriers
• HVAC environmental systems
• Conditioned uninterruptible power
• Controlled temperature and humidity with 24/7 monitoring

Services Offered

• Dedicated, collocation, and shared web services

What for Customers?

• Affordable, competitive industry prices
• High-availability, sufficient bandwidth from redundant providers and multiple peering arrangements
• High-quality network performance

Support: 24.7.365

Key Selling Points

• Leader in managed cloud infrastructure and application hosting solutions
• First and largest Microsoft Certified Gold Partners

Parent Company: Hostway Services, Inc.

Services Provided

• Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Web Hosting and Email and Applications
• Specific focus on Azure-based cloud computing resources
• Option to deploy Core dna on a dedicated private cloud for enterprise customers requiring high levels of security for compliance with regulations.
• Dedicated Servers

Support: high levels of knowledge and support

Target Customers: asset-lite, mid-market, and e-commerce focused organizations

No. of Customers: 600,000+ Customers Worldwide

What for Customers?

• deliver reliable, secure and scalable private cloud, managed server, and hybrid cloud hosting solutions
• Reliable, scalable and feature-rich hosting services

Support: 24.7.365

Latest News

Hostway Selected to Provide Computing Infrastructure for Core dna software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform used to build marketing, e-commerce, intranets and community portal solutions. The service would suffice the majority of enterprises in a private cloud with dedicated infrastructure, security and managed support.
Core dna software is an all-in-one web application platform that enables enterprises to manage web content better and e-commerce presence.

Hostway is a truly international company with its datacenters in and around Europe and North America . They also have Asian and Australian offices. Till now Hostway has registered over 400,000 domains and hosted around 600,000 customers. Hostway has been winning accolades since its formation. It won Find My Host’s Editor’s Choice award for 5 months of 2008 and was judged Best Unix Web Hosting Provider by Web Host Directory in 2008. Business giants like Coca-Cola, Sony Music, Disney and McGraw-Hill have been its clients but this does not mean that individuals and small businesses are overlooked. For Hostways customer satisfaction is top priority. It custom makes plans for novices and expert site developers alike. The company’s hosting packages covers shared and dedicated server hosting, website design, e-commerce services and website marketing solutions.

Hostway Plans

Managed hosting solutions consist of many add-ons backed by SLAs, uptime guarantee and expert support. Managed Servers is ideal for controlling performance and security and it comes with computing-intensive applications and configured customizations. Managed Private Cloud is made for instantly installing resources in a cluster and features scalability. Hybrid Hosting is done by integrating multiple platforms for optimization.

Multiple cloud solutions come with Virtual Private Cloud – VPC, Dedicated Private Cloud and Hybrid Cloud. It features: dedicated resources, high compliance, optimized database, disaster recovery, fast provisioning and is hybrid capable.

E-Commerce Services :- Recently introduced professional-grade cloud-based Managed Magento e-commerce solutions at affordable cost.

Managed Magento Starter
Price: $99.95 per month
Stores : 1

Managed Magento Advanced
Price: $199.95 per month
Stores: Multiple

Hostway Price

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Hostway: Features and Control Panel

1. 404 Custom Tool
2. Analog, CleanMail Filter — Spam & Virus Filter
3. Email Alias, Email Autoresponder, Email Forwarding, Exchange Hybrid Enabled, GigaMail
4. Hosted Exchange Accounts, POP/SMTP Accounts, SiteMail, Website Builder
5. Daily Backup facilities, CUP Protection
6. Free Applications
7. Cron Jobs and Free SSL
8. Site Stats, SSH and Dedicated IP
9. Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Diskspace

Hostway Support

For Hostway technical support is their main priority. 24/7 phone, live chat and email support is provided to clients along with technical teams that assist customers with minor problems and troubleshooting. Other modes include: Hostway Blog, Case Studies, Videos, Webinars and Virtual Data Center Tours. The Company is social media active with Twitter and Facebook pages where any queries can be given and resolved.

Support : 24x7x365 which includes managing and running e-commerce service operations like software and infrastructure updates, maintaining backups, patching, 24×7 monitoring, resource scaling, and performance optimizations Hostway Uptime Report

Hostway provides a 100% uptime guarantee excluding scheduled maintenance. The Company also credits customer’s account with Day Credit in case of irregularities.

Pros

1. Multiple offices around the world ensure site uptime.
2. Free SiteBuilder tools along with optional premium tools.
3. Automatic data backups are provided.
4. Phone and live chat support enhance the user experience.

Cons

1. Prices are above average as compared to other providers.
2. Complaints from former customers about cancellation difficulties.
3. Shared hosting plan has ample limitations.

Cancellation Policy

Hostways plans automatically renew until cancelled. The cancellation request must be received a minimum 30 days prior to the end of billing cycle. Cancellation becomes active on the day the Company starts the processing. Processing starts with the company confirming the request. No refund is offered after 30 days.

Conclusion

Hostway is a great hosting provider that provides high quality hosting to a large range of customers: individuals, small to medium enterprises. Being one of the global leaders in web hosting it provides top technical support and feature-rich plans for domain name registration, web hosting, web designing, collocation, disaster recovery, application hosting, ecommerce website hosting, dedicated servers, email and online marketing.

Establishment: 2002

Customers: Individuals, SME’s Mission-critical Enterprises

What for Customers?

• Affordable tailored hosting plans

GlowHost achieves 100% uptime last week. The Analysis graph shows that 0 existing domains were deleted from GlowHost and 0 domains were transferred away from GlowHost. The graph also shows that 0 new domains were registered with GlowHost and 0 domains were transferred to GlowHost from other web hosts. Based on social media content and conversations, GlowHost has 100% positive user sentiment.

Hostforweb has been providing reliable hosting solutions from the past 12 years. Now, the company has more than 2 million websites and well-experienced staff for providing excellent solutions and services. For customer’s issues, the company hires only efficient and passionate executives that ensure clients satisfaction. Their solutions include Apache updates, server hardening, firewall configuration, PHP assistance and more. Also, they provide fully managed hosting solutions, 200+ pre-installed apps, user-friendly control panel, and website builder for the customers. Therefore, customers need to worry about only content for their website. On top of this, it is a risk-free company as they provide 30-day full refund guarantee.

Data Center: Located in the carrier-neutral Equinix Chicago Data Center

Services Offered

• Shared web hosting
• VPS and dedicated hosting

What for Customers?

• Scalable, reliable and affordable hosting solutions

Support: 24.7.365

Uptime: 99.5%

HostForWeb Overview

HostForWeb is a leading web hosting provider and is known for its reliable and scalable plans. Their data center is located in Chicago from which they have access to all important carters with no loop circuit requirements. Their impressive client list includes Service Providers, Content Companies and international ventures: Aleron, Accenture, Google, Hotwire, IBM, Micron Technology, PayPal and WebUseNet, to name a few. HostForWeb got its working on 2001 and provide Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servere, Colocation and Domains.

HostForWeb Uptime Report

The Company provides its users with 99.9% network uptime. This calculation is done monthly. The company also provides credits in case of downtime. This credit is provided to the customer after there is a request on behalf of the customer. Maximum a month’s credit is provided to the customer.

HostForWeb Plans

Shared hosting consists of two plans: Smart Plan and Business Pro. The features provided are: unlimited Web Space and Bandwidth and comes with 1-year Domain Registration, Sitelock Vulnerability Scan, Private SSL, Dedicated Ip Address and Java/Tomcat Support.

There are five reseller plans : HFW-0, HFW-1, HFW-2, HFW-3 and HFW-4. Disk space of 100 – 400 GB, 1000 – 4000 GB bandwidth and features like WHMCS Billing Panel, RVSiteBuilder and SoftaCulous is provided.

Cloud Website Hosting, Cloud Server and Managed Cloud Server are three plans provided for Managed cloud hosting. It includes: Full Support, redundant hosting, 189 OS templates, CentOS 6.x + Cpanel/WHM and Storage Tolerance.

Fully Managed SSD VPS Hosting comprises of four plans: SSDVPS-1, SSDVPS-2, SSDVPS-3 and SSDVPS-4. Features provided are: 100 – 200 GB Disk Space, 2000 – 8000 GB bandwidth, 2 – 8 CoresCPU and 2048 -8192 MB RAM.

Dedicated servers provide users with Managed Support, Optimized and Hardened Setup, Direct Reboot Port Access, Free Migration Assistance, Hardware Replacement SLA and Easy Upgradable option from VPS.

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HostForWeb: Features and Control Panel

• Panel 11x.CentOS and c
• Free WebSite Builder, Domain Statistics and Web Mail interfaces
• 32+ GB of RAM with redundant storage
• Installing options of 125+ Scripts
• Unlimited domains, E-mails, FTP accounts
• Intel Xeon E5-2620 CPUs hardware
• Panel WHMCS billing

HostForWeb Support

Users are provided with various options of accessing support via live chat, phone and email. Customers can gain access to expert professionals by ticket system along with support case tracking. Company Forum and Knowledgebase provides users have information about upcoming products and discounts. User manuals guide the users through troubleshooting of basic issues and flash tutorials enable self-help by pictorial representation.

Pros

• Their prices are competitive.
• They provide users with feature rich plans.

Cons

• Long duration uptime irks users.
• Customer support is not up to the mark.

Cancellation Policy

For cancellation purpose, the user is required to submit a written request to the Company. Users are required to fill the cancellation form. All users are provided with a 30 day money back guarantee and any requests received within this period entitles for a full refund. Cancellation process is initiated by the company after 60 minutes of receiving the request to do so.

Conclusion

HostForWeb is not a large enterprise but it provides services that are at par with experienced and established ones. Their packages are feature rich and convincingly low priced. 24/7 support, fantastic uptime, custom cPanel and free script installer make a pleasant hosting experience. Their hosting plans are suitable for all types of businesses and their attractive pricing are affordable to even the smallest businesses..

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Parent Company: wholly owned subsidiary of Liquid Web Inc

Data Center: Servers deployed within Liquid Web`s 90,000 square foot state-of-the-art Cloud Data Center in the mid-western United States

Support: 24.7.365 backed by the engineering and support services of the Liquid Web Heroic Support team

Key Selling Points

• specializes in delivering managed hosting experience
• Built on highest-performing technologies, including LiteSpeed web server, MariaDB, memcached, SSD-driven hardware, and an in-house management system called Grove.

Data Center

• Located in Chicago
• Two logically separated networks public and private with the modern “network-within-a-network” design.
• The latest technology servers which include dual-core processors, SATA II, IPMI 2.0, SA-SCSI, fully buffered memory and 1000Mbps Ethernet ports

Services Offered: virtual, hybrid, and dedicated web hosting

• Managed dedicated
• VPS hosting

No. of Customers: 5,000+

What for Customers?

• Managed-hosting environment on latest technology and innovative network design
• Wide range of services to meet the growing hosting industry needs for today and into the future
• High-performance and reliable
• Advance service monitoring and server performance metrics

Customer Support: 24.7.365 by in-house experienced technical staff, which resolves issues fast. Less than 15 minutes average ticket response time.

Latest News

• The company advised eCommerce Retailers to Be Vigilant for Card Swiping Malware in response to the discovery by security researchers that thousands of eCommerce stores are infected with malware capable of transmitting users’ confidential information like credit card data to criminals reported in Network World on October 16, 2016.

Data Center

• The servers stored at Infomart telecom hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas
• High-speed Internet-based servers with minimal latency worldwide
• HVAC meeting N+1 cooling requirements
• Access monitored using Proximity Security Badge Access and Digital Security Video Surveillance
• Power redundant, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security

Services Offered

• Domain Names, Redundant Hosted DNS
• Shared Hosting, AspDotNetStorefront
• Virtual Dedicated Servers, Private Servers
• SSL Certificates
• Fully configured server solutions
• Server management services
• Enterprise shared server hosting
• Dedicated servers

What for Customers?

• Fulfill the hosting needs of companies of all sizes

Data Center

• Two data centers located in Nottingham, UK
• Data center facilities in US and Canada

Services Offered: Dedicated servers, VPS, cloud servers, hosted private and hybrid cloud solutions plus server colocation services

What for Customers?

• Fast, reliable and secure enterprise-class hosting services on enterprise-grade infrastructure for high-performance and high-availability

Support: 24.7.365 technical support by experienced technical engineers. Quick response and fully resolves the issues to satisfy the customer.

Uptime: 100% network uptime service level agreement (SLA)

Services Offered: Mission-critical cloud hosting

Customers: SME`s

What for Customers?

• A secured fully managed-hosting environment for websites, applications, and stored data.