midPhase holds an excellent reputation
for excellent hosting reliability at low hosting
prices. This company utilizes the Equinix datacenter
facilities in Chicago, IL and each server is connected
to a line burstable up to 100 MBPS. The reliability
of this company is excellent if you are looking
to host a small- to mid-size website.
Their new website package also offer 3,000 GB
of bandwidth, although they assure us you can
use as much as you want without incurring additional
fees.
Best Budget Hosting 2005
midPhase Hosting is a perfect example of why excellent web hosting doesn't have to cost a fortune. For $7.95/month you get 200 GB of diskspace, a free domain and top notch reliability. When you add in knowledgeable 24/7 phone support and good response times, that's just great value!
Price Value
midPhase offers one of the lowest-priced hosting solutions on the Internet today: 200 GB of disk space and 3,000 GB data transfer can be had for as little as $95.40/year ($7.95/month). They also throw in a free domain name and a 99.98% uptime guarantee, which makes this a great deal. Also included is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Reliability
midPhase hosting offers excellent information on reliability of its servers, including making current uptime statistics available on-site to potential and current customers. Uptime records are very good to excellent.
Control Panel
This company has a modified version of CPanel that is much easier to use for the average beginner customer. They call it the "midPhase Control Center" and it offers a unique design that is graphically appealing. The panel allows you to manage your web site; you can add, remove, and modify e-mail accounts on the fly, view your account quota and see how much space you have used, and you can install and set up message boards, chat forums, and a number of other free third-party scripts. This hosting provider also offers a "SimpleSite Wizard" that allows you to create a simple web site without knowing HTML at all.
Customer Support
midPhase support is great: They offer a thorough FAQ system, toll-free support line, emergency paging services, live animated tutorials, a customer support forum, and a help desk open 24/7. A server status report on-site is also a unique benefit that is offered to customers.
The customer service team at this online hosting provider is above average in terms of response times to e-mails and support tickets. midPhase is not one of those companies that will reply to your help questions out of a "wizard" or FAQ guide.
Hosting Plans
Linux/UNIX Hosting Plans MegaPhase Hosting Plan: 200 GB disk space, 3,000 GB bandwidth, free domain for life @ $7.95/month (host 1 site only)
Pro-Phase Hosting Plan: 250 GB disk space, unmetered* bandwidth, free domain for life @ $11.95/month (host unlimited sites)
Windows Hosting Plans
Windows: 5000 MB disk space, 400 GB bandwidth, free domain for life @ $9.95/month (host 1 site only)
Windows PRO: 7000 MB disk space, unmetered* bandwidth, free domain for life @ $14.95/month (host unlimited sites)
Simple Server NS01: 80000 MB disk space, 750 GB bandwidth @ $179.95/month Simple Server NS02: 80000 MB disk space, 1250 GB bandwidth @ $219.95/month
*No images or download file sites (they will be capped)
Price Value
StartLogic's budget package has one of the lowest prices
around for the value. For $4.95 you get 300 GB disk
space and 3000 GB bandwidth for not 1 but 10 domains.
Free bonuses like $50 Google AdWords credit and $50
Yahoo! Search Marketing credit pump up the value even
more.
This basic package (and all subsequent packages) come
feature-packed. You'll get unlimited email accounts,
a choice of secure shopping carts (including PayPal's),
Frontpage extensions, browser-based email and a web
hosting control panel, plus log files, site stats, and
MySQL, PHP, PerlScripts and CGI-BIN support.
Your account comes with free multimedia features included,
like real audio and video, streaming audio, Macromedia
Shockwave, MIDI File Support and MIME types. You'll
get a complete FTP manager with backup and password
protection, a website builder loaded with templates,
plus a publisher and a logo and slogan editor. You'll
get unlimited POP3 emails, forwards and autoresponders.
The promotional tools that come with StartLogic's hosting
packages are among its greatest features. Get a 500+
page marketing manual, a search engine positioner and
submitter, Meta Tags and Keywords Generators, a Link
Checker, and $50 matching credit for advertising. In
a way, it seems like StartLogic gives you everything
but the computer.
Reliability
StartLogic has a no-questions-asked 30 day money back
guarantee and stands behind a solid 99.9% uptime guarantee
all the time. Their Los Angeles-based datacenter is
a custom-designed facility that uses redundant optical
fiber connections and multiple internet backbone providers.
Careful attention was paid to environmental controls,
with HVAC temperature control systems, raised floors,
redundant power, UPS backup and power conditioning systems
and generators. They use state of the art video surveillance,
motion sensors, biometric access controls, security
breach alarms, and smoke detection and fire suppression
methods.
Control Panel
Users will enjoy StartLogic's easy to use VDECK 2.0
control panel that, with large icon-based buttons, gives
you versatility and control over all aspects of your
account, from administrative to creative. All from its
one crisp, clean, and powerful interface you can build,
publish, and market your websites, set up shopping carts,
install scripts, and manage your email account. Help
information on all VDECK features are accessible directly
from the control panel itself.
Customer Support
StartLogic has live web chat support, which is our hands-down
favorite way to get help. Choose from 24/7 x 365 award-winning
live chat, toll-free telephone, and email tech support.
They run a comprehensive Support Center with a troubleshooting
tour, an email query ticket system, a Getting Started
guide, a Community Forum, an Announcement Board, and
a categorized and searchable Knowledgebase/FAQ. They
also run a convenient Additional Services page from
where you can change your account domain name, add sub
domain names, order SSL certificates, add disk space,
databases and/or bandwidth, park domains and otherwise
manage your account.
Hosting Plans
Linux/UNIX Hosting Plans
Prologic: 300 GB disk space, 3000 GB
bandwidth @ $4.95/month (up to 10 domains) Virtual Server: 20000 MB disk space,
1 TB bandwidth @ $29.95/month (multi-domain hosting) Dedicated Server: 40000 MB disk space,
500 GB bandwidth @ $99.00/month
Windows Hosting Plan Windows Hosting: 2000 MB disk space,
60 GB bandwidth, ASP, .net CGI-BIN Support, ACCESS database
@ $8.95/month
