Website Host Reviews

Crazy domains has been in operation since 2000 and offer domain names, web hosting and other business services. Their robust, reliable network features Dell high speed server farms, Cisco network hardware, and multiple fibre optic connections to the Internet backbone. They have a strong focus on price and frequently offer very cheap deals on hosting and domains.

Features:

Crazy Domains offer cloud hosting which results in a highly flexible and scaleable hosting offer. All their plans include unlimited bandwidth and email accounts and the starter plan includes 25GB of disk space which should be plenty for any small website. Other features include PHP, MySQL, Frontpage, ASP, .net, Access.

An easy to use control panel ensures that even beginnners can be up and running with a new website fast. They also offer one click installation of all the popular apps such as WordPress, Joomla and ZenCart.

Reliability:

Crazy Domains promote themselves as offering state of the art servers and data centres. With multiple data centres, located throughout, Australia, Europe and America the data centres are powered by the latest in Cisco routers, N+1 UPS redundant power, and a building-scaled diesel generators with enough fuel on site to last in-excess of a week, capable of keeping the entire building up during any length power outage by way of on-the-fly refuelling. They also use a load balancing cloud network which offers many benefits including increased performance and security.

Crazy Domains offer a 99% uptime network guarantee.

Support:

Crazy Domains offer 24/7 sales and support by phone and email. They also provide a comprehensive knowledgebase with every conceivable question related to web hosting.

Overall:

Crazy Domains offer reliable hosting with plenty of features for a very competitive price. Whether you are just starting out with a small website, or require gosting for a large complex website with large databases, Crazy Domains have a hosting plan that is sure to please. They also offer some great specials so keep an eye out for those.

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JustHost was founded in 2008 and is a relative newcomer in the hosting space compared to longer serving hosts such as GoDaddy. They market themselves as being affordable website hosts however, they have features that will keep even an advanced user happy. One issue we have found is that they don’t provide Windows hosting, only Linux; however, this shouldn’t be a problem for most.

Features:

JustHost provides all the features most would need in a web host. They offer a fantastic, easy to use interface that allows users to create a website quickly and easily with very limited website knowledge. They offer one-click installation which enables you to add website components or even a website platform (such as WordPress) with one click. There is also the ability to create eCommerce websites and install SSL certificates.

For more advanced users there are a massive selection of features. For example, you can create custom cron jobs, video integration, use javascipt and flash and also take advantage of the hosts script library.

JustHost allows you to host unlimited domains with unlimited space and bandwidth.

Reliablilty:

JustHost promises 99.9% uptime and have also set up their own company to monitor peoples uptime for them. This is called Just Uptime. They guarantee their uptime due to advanced load bearing services and superfast backbone connections.

Support:

JustHost offer 24/7 technical support through phone, email and livechat. They also offer a knowledgebase, forums and some very helpful video tutorials.

Overall:

JustHost offer a fantastic range of features with very reliable servers. When you combine that with their excellent customer support, you have a very impressive hosting company.

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GoDaddy is a US based website host with a large range of hosting services. We think this is what sets GoDaddy apart from its competitors. If there is a service you need, the chances are that GoDoaddy will have it. With GoDaddy, you can be confident that they will be with you for the long haul as they are by far the biggest domain registrar and have been hosting websites since 1997. In internet years… that is a lot of years!

Features

GoDaddy have a staggering array of features to offer website owners. However, it should be pointed out that getting access to all these features will cost you. Basic entry level packages do not include a lot of features. GoDaddy suports several programming languages including CGI (Ruby and Python), PHP, Perl, ASP, MySQLColdFusion and FrontPage extensions.

GoDaddy is extremely easy to use and their file manager, domain manager and database manager make it easy for an absolute beginner to understand.

Reliability:

GoDaddy offer state of the art serves in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific with full network redundancy and 99.9% uptime. They offer enterprise-class backup and restore technologies as well as 24/7 on-site security staff.

Support:

GoDaddy offer 24/7 support through a wide range of contact points. In addition to phone support, live chat and a ticketing system, there is also an extensive knowledgebase which answers almost every question conceivable in easy to follow language.

Overall:

Overall we rate GoDaddy very highly for its range of services, high performance and excellent customer support. One small problem we found was that at times the GoDaddy website can be difficult to navigate purely because it is so big. But that wouldn’t be enough to stop us recomending this website hosting service.

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Web City offers website hosting from very basic personal websites starting from $5.95 a month through to dedicated private servers ideal for very high traffic enterprise organisations for $49.95 a month. They claim to have served over 140,000 customers since 1997 and a leader in web hosting for small business.

Features:

Web City offer a comprehensive range of features; however, you will need to upgrade to a more advanced plan to take advantage of a lot of them. Some of their features include: webmail, site statistics, FTP access or file manager, CGI, Perl access, PHP5 enabled, SSH access, cron jobs.

Web City offer an easy to use control panel and Fantastico self-install scripts. So you’ll be able to install all the popular blogs, CMS, and ecommerce platforms quickly and simply.

Reliability:

Webcity web hosting accounts are housed on the latest spec blade servers, data is stored on high speed SANs with live replication and off-site backups. All accounts are run on high speed multi core Dell blade servers on massive uncongested links. Web City offer a 99% uptime guarantee and a 90 day unconditional 110% money back guarantee.

Support:

Web City offer email and phone support. However, in order to use phone support you will need to first use their email ticketing support to try to solve the issue. You can only call their support if you have the ticket number from their email ticketing system.

Overall:

Web City offer a solid hosting service with plenty of features and reliable servers. The pricing appears quite reasonable; however, keep in mind you’ll probably need to go for a higher plan to access a lot of the features.

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