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Hostpapa is a privately held shared web hosting company with offices in both the United States and Canada. Hostpapa was founded in 1995 and their world class customer service is based around their motto “Let Papa take care of you”. Hostpapa is also notable because of its dedication to being environmentally friendly and is considered a green energy technology company by participating in some form of carbon credits program.

Insane about their support and customer service.

Hostpapa built up its excellent reputation as a web hosting provider through the simple formula of having first rate customer service that is not only technically competent, but personal in their interaction with their customers. Hostpapa uses the best server technology available and has a 99.9% guaranteed uptime and has a thirty-day money back guarantee for new clients. Hostpapa has a massive online support database as well as live support online and free 24-hour telephone support with access numbers both in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Technologically speaking Hostpapa is considered a leader in the shared hosting field because of their great security features and early adaptation to MySQL 5, PHP 5.2 & private .htaccess. The web application Fantastico makes it easy for you to install a variety of web 2.0 applications ranging from WordPress & WordPress MU, Forums, Auctions, Image Galleries, Soho Launch, and much more.

I picked Hostpapa as my shared web hosting company for five reasons:

1. I was impressed with their customer service and customer satisfaction index. 99% of Hostpapa’s customers are happy with their service and stay with the company year after year with many who have been with them as far back as 1995. I have never had a question that their customer service team could not answer.
2. Their hosting services are reliable. With 99.9%+ uptime and tech support who are constantly monitoring Hostpapa’s server farms I can rest easy at night knowing my website is available 24/7 365 days a year gathering customers for me.
3. Hostpapa uses modern technology so my website is responsive and loads fast. Once I properly optimized my site I was amazed at the speed I was receiving from a shared web hosting solution.
4. I like going with winners and Hostpapa is an award winning company who is regularly ranked as one of the top ten hosting providers.
5. Hostpapa makes it easy to be a website administrator with the industry standard cPanel web 2.0 web application.

You can visit them at their website here.

WebsiteSource Web Hosting Reviews. 2009 reviews by current and prior customers.

Hello All,

Welcome back to my web hosting company review blog. Today, I am going to review WebsiteSource. This is one company that I am writing a review about that I actually like.

Right off the bat, you will notice this company is not your typical ‘blind you with thousands of gigs of disk space and bandwidth for a few dollars a month’ hosting provider. WebsiteSource is a serious company and it is reflected in their hosting plans and prices.

If you want a high quality web hosting provider, Website Source is probably one of the best options hands down.

Founded in 1998, these guys have been a powerful played in the hosting industry. They offer a whole boat load of services inlcuding:

• Shared Web Hosting – Starting at $6.97 for 25GB of disk space and 50GB of bandwidth. As you can tell, they aren’t your typical unlimited everything host.
• VPS/Private Servers – WebsiteSource has a whole line of VPS services. These mini servers start at $30/m and provide 10GB of disk space and 300GB of transfer. They guarantee 2GB burstable bandwidth to your server as well as dedicated 512MB of server RAM to your account.
• Dedicated Servers – They offer your typical line of dedicated servers at about average industry standard prices. The one thing I don’t like about their dedicated servers is you have to complete a credit card authorization form before they activate it. This can be a pain in the butt sometimes.
• Reseller Plans - They are some real top of the line Plesk reseller hosting plans. They are more expensive than the competition, but just remember, you get what you pay for.

Overall, WebsiteSource is a company I am glad to write a review on. In fact, this is one of the few companies I refer people to that need a specific hosting solution. Definitely a good host is you need high availability, high quality web hosting space.

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A HostGator Review

HostGator is a big player in the web hosting industry today. HostGator is also one of the handful of web hosts that actually own their datacenter and offices. Most web hosting providers own servers in another companies datacenter while HostGator has their own setup.

Since it’s startup in 2002 by Brent Oxley, HostGator has grown to be one of the biggest web hosting providers on the internet. Today they host over 1 million domain names. It takes a company with a lot of organization and care to handle such a large amount of customers. It becomes challenging to maintain a solid hosting business at around 2,000 customers. HostGator is able to do it with 1 million so that should be a testament to how their customers feel about their service.

Service Overview

Shared Web Hosting – Currently HostGator only supports Linux shared web hosting however they have plans for Windows shared hosting coming shortly.

For $8.95/m or $4.95/m at 2 year pre-pay you will get everything you need to operate your website. They offer a free Site Builder and a script auto-installation system. They offer a 45 day money back guarantee on all their plans.

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Reseller Web Hosting

HostGator has an extensive reseller program run on Cpanel servers. Their reseller program offers enough resources for up to hundreds of clients. Their reseller program is an easy, and most of all cheap, way to getting extra cash flow from your clients.

For only $24.95/m you will get everything you need to appear as a professional web hosting customer. They even include a free enom domain name reseller system with signup. If you don’t know how or feel like building your website, you can simply select one of their pre-made hosting templates and go from there.

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Dedicated Servers

Most web hosts have the resources to offer shared and reseller hosting, but there are only a few that can offer their own dedicated servers. These are real dedicated servers from HostGator and not a dedicated server they are reselling through another datacenter. They own and operate everything in the DC so there are no delays from going through the middle man.

While their servers are a little bit more expensive than some of their competitors, starting at $174.95/m, they definitely offer more as far as technical support and features are concerned.

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Included with all of HG’s web hosting services are some nice features:

• 24/7 technical support
• 24/7 Phone and Live Chat
• Free Control Panel Access
• Free SiteBuilder Access
• Thousands of free web design templates

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