HostForWeb is a web hosting company which provides a number of hosting plans for individuals and businesses alike. They also provide customers with the opportunity to use their infrastructure to start their own hosting business.
A clean and professional website encourages visitors to learn more about the company. Well laid out navigation enables visitors to easily find the desired information.
Hosting Plans
Website builder
There is no setup fee associated with any of the accounts and customers can sign up either on a monthly basis which is higher in costs or can sign up for a term of 1 to 2 years.
HostForWeb also offers 5 reseller packages. The base package is called HFW-0 and has 50GB of disk space, 500GB of data transfer and the ability to host unlimited domains. Access to the WebHost Manager lets you create your own custom packages. These can be labeled with your company's branding and be sold as your own product.
Your end customers have access to all the features that HostForWeb provides included MySQL, PHP and cPanel. In order to better run your business HostForWeb also provides you with critical applications such as billing, control panel and scripts.
Customers can also sign up for the Virtual Private server or dedicated server hosting option. The VPS servers start at $39.95 per month and if you sign up for 2 years, HostForWeb gives you two months for free. The plan offers 20GB of RAID storage, 500GB of data transfer and 512MB of RAM which is burstable to 1GB. Customers get complete remote access to the server via the installed cPanel.
The cost for the dedicated servers starts at $119.95 per month. The server specifications are:
Intel E2140 Dual-Core 1.66 GHz 1MB Cache 800MHz
2000GB of data transfer is included in the plan. Remote reboot facilities are provided. A unique service is the Co-location service offered by HostForWeb. Companies that were to have their servers located in HostForWeb's data center can do so. The cost for a 1U server is $40 per month.
Customer Service and Reviews
The company features a long list of testimonials on its site which are all positive. Reviews posted on external sites are both positive and negative.
Company Information
IBM
While there are a number of awards listed on the website it is important to note that they are a few years old with the last award won in 2006. This does make a potential client doubt the quality of the company since then.
It is important to understand that reviews such as this are meant for information only. Before any decision can be made about which web hosting company to be used, personal research needs to be done.
While they provide all the standard features and services at competitive prices, the lack of awards in recent years makes one think twice about signing up with them. However the impressive client list does weigh in the company's favor.
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