HostICan.com is a web hosting company that provides a variety of plans and options to cater to each customer's need. Offering money back service guarantees and multiple awards HostICan looks to be a promising option for customers looking for a place to host their sites.

Hosting Plans
HostICan has a number of plans to choose from shared to virtual private servers and even dedicated servers. There are two shared server plans to choose from, Base-Host and Tera-Host. Both plans offer similar features. The Tera-Host plan also provides unlimited MySQL databases while the Base-Host offers 100.

The plans also include the following:

Unlimited storage and data transfer
Multiple domains under a single account
E-commerce support
cPanel access
Daily Backups
Anti-spam and Anti-virus systems
Support for multiple programming languages including PHP 5, Perl and GCI
Site statistics

The Base-Host plan costs $3.96 per month while the Tera-Host plan costs $6.24 per month. Support for popular applications such as WordPress and Joomla is also provided. HostICan also provides a 99.9% uptime guarantee and will credit you one month's payment if the uptime for your site falls below this. New customers also have a 30 day no questions asked money back guarantee, however any costs incurred for domain registration, domain transfer or setup will be deducted from the refund.

For customers that are looking for more computing power HostICan also provides Virtual Private Servers. They offer two plans, VPS-Rage for $44.95 per month and VPS-Extreme for $84.95 per month. The VPS-Rage plan offers 50GB of disk space, 1024MB of dedicated memory and 2000GB of monthly data transfer. The VPS-Extreme plan offers 100GB of disk space, 2048MB of dedicated memory and unlimited data transfer. Both plans also offer:

Free Domain
cPanel access
Dual Xeon Quad core processors
PHP 4/5 and MySQL 4/5
CentOS

If you want to have a server all to yourself HostICan also provides dedicated server plans. The Basic Server NS01 package features 1.86GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 250GB of SATA2 storage, 3TB of data transfer and costs $199.95 per month. The Basic Server NS02 package offers a 2.13Ghz Intel Core Duo processor, 320GB of SATA2 storage, unlimited data transfer and costs $239.95 per month. The Basic Server NS01 package has a setup fee of $59.95 per month while the Basic Server NS02 package has a setup fee of $79.95 per month.

HostICan also provides a credit card procession solution in partnership with Payamerica.

Customer Support and Service
HostICan provides a number of resources to help customers that are either setting up a new website or maintaining an existing one. They offer over 50 flash based video tutorials covering all topics such as updating DNS records to FrontPage tutorials. The tutorials guide customers through each process with instructions at every step. A user based community is also available for users looking for a personal touch. Additionally a knowledgebase of articles is available for self help.

A toll free number, email address and live chat option are also available for customers that would like to talk to HostICan directly. A number of customer testimonials are displayed on the site which as expected is all positive. One thing to note is that reviews posted on external sites are also quite positive in nature. This positive praise seems well deserving as HostICan has won a number of awards such as:

Ethical Hosting Verified 2010 - Web Hosting Stuff
CNET Certified Service Provider
Best Business Class Hosting Provider May 2010 - FindMyHost.com

Affiliate Program
HostICan offers customers the chance to earn extra cash with its affiliate program. Any customer referred to HostICan through your website will earn you $90. They even offer custom coupons to help you convert your traffic into cold hard cash. As per industry standards they also offer 2nd tier referrals.

Company Information
Founded in 2003 HostICan has grown from a home based business to a full fledged web hosting company. They do not own their own data center but use the facilities of the Equinix data center in Northern Virginia. They pride themselves on their uptime, 99.9%, which they have monitored by independent companies.

It is important to understand that this review is not a referral and is meant for educational purposes only. Before deciding which company to work with it is necessary to personally talk to and evaluate the company.

With a variety of plans at affordable prices HostICan is a good fit for most people. Even though it does not own and operate its own data center, its numerous awards make it a worthwhile company to evaluate.

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