Established in 1996, Bluehost has been offering hosting solutions to clients such as businesses and individuals. Its clientele is spread all over the globe and it is rated among the top 10 web hosting firms.

Hosting Plans

Bluehost offers a single hosting plan with numerous features making it ideal for all sorts of businesses, be it small or large corporations. Its hosting plan comes with unlimited disk storage, domain hosting, file transfer, email accounts and a free domain. The hosting plan also comes with spam assassin protection, MySQL databases, Ruby/Ruby on Rails support along with features such as Joomla, Moodle, Agora Shopping Cart and Drupal. Its prices start at $6.95 per month and it has a proven track record.

Reliability

The company guarantees a 99.9% network uptime rather than server uptime depicting the guarantee might only hold if all the servers fail resulting in the failure of the internet connection. Some also reported to have increased website down time due to server failures. However, the website boasts of building own servers, nationwide fiber network and Linux kernel. Bluehost also operates two data centers with UPS power and diesel generators to avoid power outages.

Pricing

The pricing of Bluehost hosting plans are considered to be more expensive than other hosting plans offered by different companies with better features. Also, when kept into consideration the reliability and performance of the hosting plan, the extra costs are not justified.

Features

Bluehost has received positive reviews regarding its site builder tool; however, it is no match to DreamWeaver. The site builder is suitable and just the right solution for small businesses which do not require sophisticated websites. Its hosting plan also comes with the latest version of cPanel allowing users to compress files on the server.

Customer Support

Bluehost also offers 24/7 customer support via issuing tickets, live chat and telephone. The customer support center is based in Utah and contains completely capable and friendly support team. The website also boasts of less than 30 seconds holding time on average with proven track record. It also allows clients to check the server status, get video tutorials and share opinions with other customers via Bluehost forums.

With more than 1 million hosting websites and 20,000 new customers every month, clients think the hosting services are declining because of overselling. The website has gained positive reviews regarding other features offered in the hosting plan; however, before opting for the service, keep in mind the increasing downtime.

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CaroNet Review: CaroNet offers efficient Co-location, Dedicated, VPS and Managed solutions. The have the pakcages lined up with the yearly pricing with each of the specifications. Xeon, Opteron, Conroe and Woodcrest are the different kinds of processors that run your dedicated accounts.

CaroNet Blurb:

CaroNet specializes in co-location and hosting in its private facilities. CaroNet owns and operates three state-of-the-art datacenters in Charlotte, North Carolina, offering complete redundancy in power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity, and security. With over 25,000 sq ft between the three centers, CaroNet has an offering to fit any need. Our product offerings include private cages, cabinets, half-cabinets and/or rackspace by the Unit. The datacenter has UPS battery backup power and multiple diesel generators onsite. Transit includes several Tier-1 backbone providers which are directly accessed using multiple dedicated fiber routes. With 22gbps of dedicated bandwidth, CaroNet is one of the largest data centers in Southeastern United States.
We also supply Internet bandwidth to corporations featuring the following speeds: T1, 10 mbps LAN, T3, 100 mbps LAN, OC-3, OC-12, 1 gbps LAN and OC-48.

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NameCheap Review: Name Cheap is a serious host to provide domain names and world class quality customer service at cheap prices. One of their key attricutes is the Whois Guard privacy protection which guarantees a 100% protection of your data free with every domain registration.

About NameCheap:

Our Hosting Infrastructure:

Namecheap Web Hosting Infrastruture Diagram. Click to enlargeWe’ve worked hard over the years to establish our brand as that of a leading domain registrar, but more so a registrar you can trust and rely on. We pride ourselves on our level of customer service and we have applied this way of thinking to our hosting infrastructure.

We have selected only the best components for use in our hosting infrastructure. Supermicro servers with Quad Core Xeon processors, a minimum of 4GB of RAM per server and RAID10 SATA2 hard drives guarantee extreme performance. Our attention to detail doesn’t stop here; our multi-tiered and fully redundant network our state-of-the-art data center in Clifton, New Jersey features multiple gigabit Ethernet connections to nLayer, Telia, Savvis and Cogent, delivered over a redundant SONET ring. The result? High performance hosting that offers supremely fast speeds no matter where in the globe you are based.

Redundancy is important too; our N+1 electrical system features a dual bank UPS, backed up by Caterpillar diesel generators which are tested weekly. Our HVAC system is also N+1, using Liebert directional HVAC units with under floor cooling. Our raised floor with high ceilings result in the optimal server running environment. We are able to run our hosting infrastructure indefinitely in the event of an extended power outage.

Our Software:
We use the cPanel control panel as the basis of our hosting systems. Renowned for it’s ease of use and intuity, cPanel gives complete account management through your web browser. For a demo, click here
Cpanel is a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) based system.
Beneath cPanel, we run hardened CentOS Linux servers. Finely tuned by our system administration team, CentOS offers the best balance of performance and enterprise features and is backed by the hugely powerful open source development community.

Our team has years of expertise in running Linux based web servers and our ability to run these well is second-to-none.

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