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Gossimer.com

Gossimer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:34:28 +0000

Summary

Gossimer Web Hosting Company offers a wide variety of reliable and affordable services. They support both Linux and Windows hosting and some great programming languages such as PHP5, Perl, Python, Ruby, .NET and ASP. Each web hosting plan comes with unlimited features like unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer and unlimited e-mail accounts with 1000MB of storage. These unlimited features eliminates the need for upgrading into another plan which enables you to save money. They also did a fantastic job protecting their server and their clients by performing different kinds of security processes. What I like the most about Gossimer is their 24/7 Server Monitoring Service that is really important since websites need to be up and running 24/7.

Gossimer also offers Domain Services, E-mail Hosting Plan, Digital Certificates, Site Builder Hosting Plan, Reseller Plan, and more, with an affordable and reasonable price. Although Gossimer offers a lot of standout features, there are still few glitches that are in need for improvement such as Live Chat Service – which is Offline most of the time and Links for Customer Support- which needs more visibility. All in all, Gossimer is a one of the best Web Hosting Company with outstanding features.If you’re an individual looking for a fantastic web hosting company with lots of free and reliable services, then Gossimer is the best one for you!

Best Features :

Lots of Free Features and Services
24/7 Server Monitoring
Unlimited Features
Free Privacy Protection and Domain Theft Protection
No Pop-ups and annoying advertisements
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Review According to Categories

Legend : *** – needs improvement

Hosting Features

– Gossimer offers two different kinds of hosting plans : Windows Hosting and Linux Hosting. Both of these plans comes with a FREE $50 Yahoo Ad Credit, Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Data Transfer,Unlimited E-mail accounts and no Set-up Free with an affordable and reasonable price. With this kind of plans being offered, upgrading isn’t necessary anymore because you now have unlimited features where you will be able to host all of your files perfectly. Nothing gets more unstoppable than that! Their server is also equipped with different kinds of security to ensure the safety of their clients and products. Each Hosting Plan comes also with Domain Aliases, Private Folder for Storing Sensitive Data, and a Web Traffic Reporting all for free. Gossimer’s Linux plan is capable of supporting programming languages such as PHP5, Perl, Python and Ruby, while their Windows Hosting supports .NET and ASP. Each plan also comes with a 1-Click Install Scripts that you can use to easily set-up your website with no programming experience needed. Gossimer offers a 30-day money back guarantee.

Pricing

– The pricing for Web Hosting is based on annual charging with a duration of 1 to 10 years. The price itself for each plan is very affordable compared to other Web Hosting Companies.

Linux Hosting Plan for 1 Year – USD 63.87
Windows Hosting Plan for 1 Year – USD 63.87

Space

– Gossimer offers Unlimited Disk Space only. This is very helpful because it eliminates the need for upgrading again into another plan in case you are out of space.

***It would also be great if there are other plans with limited Disk Space for customers who doesn’t need that much space and to those who only wants to use their server for small websites like blogs, writing, and much more.

Software / Scripts

– Gossimer offers 1-click Install Scripts that can be easily installed into your server for free such as Image Gallery Management System, Content Management Systems, Shopping cart Solution, Bulletin board System, News Publishing System, Blog Tools, and Website Management Tools.

***Site scripts (1-Click Scripts) offers only 7 different kinds of scripts for Linux Hosting and only 1 for Windows Hosting. It will be better if customers has a wide variety of scripts & 1-Click Scripts to choose from.

Domains

– Gossimer has a wide variety of Domain tools and services. Services are : New Domain Registration, Domain transfer, Bulk Registration , Bulk Transfer and a free DNS Service. Tools that you can use for free to help you for your needs are : WHOis Lookup and Name Suggestion Tool which is really helpful especially when you are having a hard time thinking for that perfect domain name that will fits you perfectly. What I personally love about Gossimer is that each Domain comes with an outstanding Free Services such as Privacy Protection, Domain Theft Protection, Bulk tools and a Control Panel. In some hosting sites, you need to pay additional fees in order to have those services attached into your domains.**Privacy Protection is not available on some domain extensions.

Ecommerce Hosting

– If you’re an individual who would like to start his own business online and looking for a great E-Commerce Hosting Company that will meet all of your needs, then you came into the right place! Gossimer offers a wide variety of services to help you build your own business.

Email

Gossimer offers unlimited E-mail Accounts, provides SMTP/POP3/IMAP email, webmail, and 1000MB of space for each account. Additional features include forwarding, auto responders, calendar and advanced Spam/Virus Protection for free.

Support

– Gossimer has a Support Knowledge Base and a Support Center. The support they’re providing for everyone is fantastic! They provided a complete and detailed information regarding all of their services and products being offered as well as Step-by-Step instructions for logging in to your control panel and more. There is also a Demo page which enables visitors to try all of the products and services on their own. While the Support Knowledge Base provides you detailed information about the services and products, the Support Center enables customers to interact with Gossimer’s Support Team. Customers will be able to send any inquiries or report any issues they are experiencing by submitting a through the Support Center. There are also Live Chat Support, Announcements, and some articles that are available for download.

***Live Chat Service is offline most of the time.

Services

– Besides of Domain Registration and Web Hosting Plans, Gossimer offers also a wide variety of services that you will surely find reliable and affordable, whether it is for personal use or even for starting your own – business. Some of these services are :

Email Hosting Plan – This plan allows you to host Unlimited E-mail accounts for a very affordable price. Features included are : Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Protection, Mailing Lists, DNS Manager and much more.This is great for those who wants to start their own online business.
Live Chat Services Plan – Allows you to interact and monitor with your visitors in real-time. Gossimer divided the Live Chat Services Plans into 4 different categories (Basic, Small Business, Corporate, Enterprise) that will perfectly fit your needs.
SSL Certificates – Gossimer also offers SSL Certificates to help you secure your website.

These are just some of their great products.

Content and Appearance

– The neat and professional look of the site itself gives the customers the confidence and ease to browse around. Their products and services being offered were supplied with complete information that can be easily read and find. And unlike any other Web Hosting sites, Gossimer has no pop-ups and annoying advertisements all around which makes it safer and more appealing to the public.

*** Links for Support Knowledge Base (Documentation), Support Center (Main Support), and Contact Page are not well emphasized which makes them a little hard to find, especially for new visitors. There is also no Feedback page where customers can tell something about the service that has been given to them which will be helpful for the new customers.

JustHost.com

Gossimer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:45:58 +0000

Overview: JustHost is among the top web hosting providers in the industry and they provide a wide variety of unlimited hosting features and tools including, unlimited disk space, bandwidth, email accounts, ability to host unlimited domains, as well as free domains. They offer hosting products and services with prompt, quality customer support to a range of customers, from webmasters to small businesses.

Specials: JustHost.com currently has a special offer where you can pay as little as $3.95/month for their web hosting plan, with no hidden fees.

Reliability: JustHost’s reliability is guaranteed, partly because of their unique load balancing technology and super fast backbone connections. With load balancing, each site is available from multiple servers, so if one server goes down, your site continues to stay live and uninterrupted, virtually eliminating website downtime. JustHost promises their customers 99.9% network uptime and they even have their own company to monitor website uptimes for them (called Just Uptime). All JustHost’s servers are monitored by Just Uptime.

Customer Support: JustHost offers various methods of contacting them for customer support. You can get help from skilled staff; toll free via the phone, or through chat or email. They also have a comprehensive searchable knowledgebase in their online help center and an internal ticket system.

Control Panel: JustHost customers utilize the highly user-friendly cPanel. Through the control panel interface (cPanel) you can manage and control various aspects of your hosting account. You can efficiently manage your domains, quickly configure email accounts, perform database administration and monitor website statistics, among other things. An additional feature included with every JustHost account is completely free access to an entire script library.

What Sets Them Apart: JustHost offers a ‘No Questions Asked’ anytime money back guarantee with all their hosting plans. They also have their own company specifically for monitoring uptimes.

Summary: With affordable price plans, secure servers, first class 24/7 technical support and a wide range of features, JustHost offers a plan that can satisfy your budget and other online business needs. Their web hosting solutions are attractive to both webmasters and small businesses alike.

What is the catch: We are not sure as of yet, they charge a setup fee, but only if you elect to pay monthly. Seems like they have pretty good plans, we will need to wait to see what their customers post here as comments to see how good they are. They also offer a free domain name if you pay for 6 months upfront.

Gossimer.Biz

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:08:30 +0000

Overview: Gossimer.biz offers a variety of professional web hosting solutions for individual, personal, and small business websites. They have reliable, high-quality servers, experienced and skilled staff, valuable complimentary tools, and a hosting plan that is packed with features. All of this is available at an unbeatably low price.

Specials: Gossimer.biz currently has an exclusive promotion for .biz domain name registrations.

Reliability: Gossimer.biz promises 99.9% of network uptime and a 30 day money-back guarantee. Their security platform and processes tackle security at 7 various levels to ensure unbeatable security for all their services. The levels include security for datacenter, network, hosting, software, application, personnel, and audit processes. Additionally, the servers are professionally monitored 24/7 to ensure superior security.

Customer Support: Gossimer.biz has a professional customer support team to answer all your questions 24/7. The customer support team is experienced, patient, and always courteous. Best of all, they can be reached toll-free.

Control Panel: Gossimer.biz users have a control panel that enables smooth navigation and powerful capabilities to manage your website. Some tools include an FTP manager, powerful web traffic reporting, a web statistics manager, directory protection, a log files manager, an SSL manager, and a database manager.

What Sets Them Apart: They offer flexible hosting plans in India, suitable for every scale of business. They also have a variety of plans (depending on what services and features you want) rather than just one to choose from. You can select from the Basic, Small Business, Corporate, and Enterprise plan – whichever is optimal for your specific needs and budget.

Summary: Gossimer.biz offers various professional and flexible web hosting plans. Users work with a control panel that is easy to navigate. They also have access to free content management tools, a free image gallery, and multimedia streaming. You can confidently choose any plan since they promise a 30-day money back guarantee. They have the latest technology, with several servers located in different countries, and they promise 99.9% server up-time. They have reputable customer service and very low, affordable prices.

What is the catch: Surprisingly we actually found one without a catch, all their products and services are exactly as advertised. They don’t even charge a setup fee for their shorter terms.

HostGator.com

Gossimer — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:28:08 +0000

Overview: HostGator.com provides shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting solutions. Their services are designed for a wide range of users – from beginners to professionals. All of their shared plans include guaranteed 99.9% uptime, 24/7 support and a 45-day money back guarantee.

Specials: HostGator.com currently has a St. Patrick’s special that offers 20% off your initial order of professional web hosting packages.

Reliability: All HostGator.com hosting sites are promised a 45 day money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime, and a devoted customer support team. HostGator.com houses their datacenter in a facility that has state-of-the-art security, safety, and cooling systems. The facility is accompanied with multiple electrical grids, high volts of input power, and monitoring applications for the whole data center infrastructure. It also boasts a fully meshed and redundant network featuring 10 backbone providers. With all these features you can have confidence regarding their security and reliability.

Customer Support: HostGator.com offers 24/7/365 skilled phone support agents, online chat, peer support forums, a ticket system, and a wide assortment of online CPanel movies in flash format.

Control Panel: HostGator.com employs the industry standard control panel, CPanel. This control panel is one of the best in the industry and is easy to use and learn. It enables end users the ability to install valuable open source accompanied with flash movies for instant tutorials. The control panel is icon-based and allows for comfortable, intuitive interface navigation.

What Sets Them Apart: HostGator.com is committed to providing greener solutions for their shared and reseller servers. Their certified renewable energy credits in wind power do not just neutralize their environmental impact, but even reverse it. They aim to be a leader in the next generation of ecological web hosting.

Summary: HostGator.com is one of the top 10 largest web hosting companies with over 175 employees to provide around-the-clock support. They offer hosting solutions that are suitable for business, personal, or even Fortune 500 hosting. Each web hosting plan comes with a 45 day money back guarantee and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Their industry standard control panel enables easy site management and their hosting solutions are available at low, competitive prices.

What’s the catch: With HostGator if you do not already have a domain name and you decide to register it through them, they charge $15.00 per year. Customers can find domain registration cheaper at other places on the web, like http://www.gossimer.com for only $9.95 per year. Additionally, to get their lowest price, as they advertise all over the internet you have to pay for 3 years upfront for the web hosting, if you decide to pay their minimum term of one year upfront then your price is almost doubled. Plus they charge a setup fee if you would like to pay monthly.

HostMonster.com

Gossimer — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:09:45 +0000

Overview: HostMonster.com offers all-encompassing hosting plans that are full of features you need to achieve the goals of your website. They have skilled, expert support for technical and customer service issues and they offer the same (yet lower priced) amenities that their competitors sell. HostMonster.com is a one stop shop for all your web hosting necessities.

Specials: HostMonster.com currently has a special promotion that offers Professional Web Hosting for just $5.95/month.

Reliability: HostMonster.com is confident in their service and guarantees 99.9% of network uptime. Each account comes with an OC-48 backbone connection, a customized Apache web server, powerful Quad processor performance servers, UPS power backups, and backup generators. Additionally, the datacenter is professionally monitored 24/7 to ensure top-notch security.

Customer Support: Whether it is technical, sales, or billing support you need, HostMonster.com has a professional team to answer all your questions 24 hours a day, everyday. The customer support team is knowledgeable, skilled, and always courteous. Best of all, they can be reached toll-free, with average hold times of less than 2 minutes. There is also a complete, up-to-date online help center that is extremely user-friendly, with a searchable knowledgebase and a convenient ticket system that reaches their support team directly.

Control Panel: HostMonster.com users have an icon-based control panel (called cPanel) that is very simple to use and navigate; there is virtually no learning curve. The interface functions are categorized so that you can easily, quickly, and instinctively complete tasks and comfortably manage your website.

What Sets Them Apart: They have local agents 24/7 for customer service and support, with very low hold times on the phone. They do not require long term contracts and there are no cancellation fees. They have a free 1 click installer (called SimpleScripts) for easy access to the best blogs, forums, shopping carts, photo galleries, and much more.

Summary: HostMonster.com offers a complete web hosting solution for a wide array of online businesses and websites. Whether you are a business owner or an individual looking for a ton of functionality, you’ll get high-powered solutions for a fraction of the cost. They have excellent customer service staff that works around the clock, a handy online help center, protective security measures, a user-friendly control panel, competitive services, and very low prices. Go to HostMonster.com to get big features and benefits, without the big prices.

BlueHost.com

Gossimer — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:25:27 +0000

Overview: BlueHost.com provides internet hosting to help businesses and individuals get high powered service at a fraction of the cost. With BlueHost you can depend on high-quality customer service, quality equipment, maximum guaranteed uptime, and extremely functional tools. They also offer the leading features and secure, reliable backups.

Specials: BlueHost.com currently is offering a special promotion for professional web hosting at a low price of $4.95/month.

Reliability: BlueHost.com has a data center that boasts high performance servers, an OC-48 backbone connection, a UPS power back-up, a diesel back-up generator, 24/7 network monitoring, and mirrored storage backups.

Customer Support: BlueHost offers superb support with a veteran hosting team. You can send questions through their sophisticated support ticket tracking system, visit the extensive FAQ section located on their website, use the chat function, or call their toll-free phone support 24/7. BlueHost also offers an online comprehensive help section. The help section includes FAQ pages and a knowledgebase where you can search to find answers to common questions.

Control Panel: BlueHost uses the Cpanel control panel, which is full of numerous, excellent features. The navigation menus are easy to use and understand. There are icons for each feature in the control panel and help information is easily accessible next to each feature. They have also integrated a number of billing features to make management of your account very simple and easily configurable. Cpanel features around 35 different functions that are quickly and easily accessible. These functions include file management, email management, disk usage, forums, web statistics, domain management, search engine submission, system security, and many other options.

What Sets Them Apart: BlueHost.com has a very comprehensive website that is easy to understand and navigate. You will quickly find all the information you need without much searching or confusion.

Summary: With a strong reputation in the industry, BlueHost offers excellent customer service that can be reached via several convenient methods 24/7. They offer reliable hosting with excellent disk space and bandwidth. From the business owner to the individual who desires loaded functionality with a small budget, BlueHost provides an all-encompassing web hosting solution. With their infrastructure, customer support and reliability, they give you what you need to run your online business Their one-plan strategy seems to integrate nicely for small, medium and large sized web sites.

What’s the catch:: BlueHost offers free domain registration, but to get the free domain registration you have to pay for 12 months upfront and if you do not pay for at least 12 months in advance, you have to pay a $30 for their setup fee and $10 for the domain registration and of course $9.95 per month if you choose any term less than 12 months. To get their advertised price, you have to pay for at least 24 months and then you get the free domain and no setup fee. They do have a moneyback guarentee within 30 days, you can get a full refund on your hosting fees, and after 30 days, you get a pro-rated refund.

Yahoo! Small Business

Gossimer — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:14:49 +0000

Overview: Yahoo Web Hosting has a variety of plans to match your business needs, no matter what stage your business is in and no matter how much or how little web experience you have. They offer 24 hour toll-free phone support and a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. The have user-friendly tools for customizing designs and a new feature that helps with customer conversion.

Specials: Yahoo! Web Hosting currently has two special offers. The first special is for a 1 year term priced at $7.46/month for the first 3 months. The second special is for a 3 month term priced at $8.96/month for the first 3 months. You can also get your one-time setup fee of $25 waived.

Reliability: Yahoo Web Hosting has excellent uptime with top-notch servers and hardware. They are connected via redundant connections, this giving your site more redundancy with virtually no downtime. Their data center is secured and located in a state-of-the-art facility and they have constant monitoring 24 hours a day. As a protective measure, Yahoo is private regarding their security infrastructure and network locations for the purpose of preventing intrusion attempts and enhancing security.

Customer Support: Yahoo Web Hosting offers 24-hour toll-free phone support, as well as online ‘Getting Started’ guides, video tutorials, 24-hour email support, and a comprehensive help center

Control Panel: Yahoo Web Hosting features an excellent web-based control panel that gives users access to an online management interface, where they can utilize all the tools and helpful resources needed for building and maintaining a website. The control panel offers extensive features and functionality that integrate directly into Yahoo’s other applications and services.

What Sets Them Apart: A unique advantage when using Yahoo Web Hosting is that they have a substantial assortment of elaborate ecommerce features that can be used to compliment your website. You can use these comprehensive add-on features to take your business to the next level. They are easy to implement onto your site and enable you to market your business to the millions who surf Yahoo everyday.

Summary: Overall, Yahoo’s web hosting service is up to par with top industry web hosting companies. They offer simple web hosting solutions that slightly cater towards people who are new to web hosting with less web experience rather than to the advanced web hosting crowd. They have good technical and customer support, great reliability, and a brand name people know and trust.

PowWeb.com

Gossimer — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:24:07 +0000

Overview: PowWeb.com has the latest web hosting technology, with a low price for their feature-rich web hosting plan. They ensure virtually no down time, and offer excellent customer support 24/7. They are confident in their service and reliability, as they offer a risk free 30 day guarantee, or you money back.

Specials: PowWeb.com currently has a special offer where you can save 50% on the PowWeb OnePlan. It is $3.88 per month, but this promotional price is for the first year only.

Reliability: PowWeb.com utilizes a load balanced hosting technology, where downtime is virtually impossible since the load of each website is distributed across multiple servers. They invest in the infrastructure of their datacenters to ensure unquestionable reliability and support. They employ redundant networks, dependable Dell servers, and the latest BGP and technology. They employ multiple bandwidth providers for fast network speed and network switching, which is why they have a 99.9% network uptime guarantee.

Customer Support: PowWeb’s technical support is available 24/7 via toll free phone, email, or live chat. They also provide a vBulletin message board that enables you to get help from other users regarding presale questions and support questions. They also employ online community forums and provide PowWeb tutorials.

Control Panel: PowWeb developed their own custom control panel software, which is called the Member Operations Center (or OPS). It is very powerful with 24/7 FTP access and a web based FTP file manager and site manger tool. It also gives users the ability to protect directories with passwords and to customize error pages.

What Sets Them Apart: They have a “one size fits all” PowWeb OnePlan to satisfy all their customers, as well as their own custom-developed, powerful control panel.

Summary: PowWeb has become one of the top hosting providers of this age. They provide superb service, great features, a dedicated support team, and reliable hosting. They are a one stop shop for hosting businesses; they provide technical expertise, 650 email addresses, and an online shopping cart. You will have peace of mind and satisfaction with their reliable load balanced server platform and low priced comprehensive plan.

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