Blue Gem Host is a U.S. web hosting company offering web hosting packages as well as bespoke website design services targeting locally based businesses.
The Latin dummy text available on most sections of its website makes one think that the vendor is still in development stages. Its website, however, is integrated with a language selection icon with multiple languages to choose from, such as English, Dutch, Italian, and French, among others.
Features and Ease of Use
Blue Gem Host website offerings incorporate the following standard features:
- Free domain names
- Free and automatic SSL certificates (https)
- Programming languages: Fast CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, and Python
- One-click app installer with 370+ open-source scripts
- SSH access
- OS: Windows and Linux distributions
- Cron jobs for scheduled tasks
The four Blue Gem Host web hosting services are Starter, Basic, Premium, and Platinum. Starter is ideal for hosting just one website and it only has 1GB disk space.
On the other end, Platinum can host unlimited sites and has a disk capacity of up to 40GB. At all account levels, the plans come with “everything unlimited”: unlimited monthly traffic, unlimited databases, unlimited FTP accounts, and unlimited email accounts.
As soon as your payment process is complete, your account is set up immediately, and you get access to the latest cPanel control panel with lots of tools and features for easier management of your website resources. Users can also purchase other control panels, including SolusVM and Parallels Plesk control panel.
With Blue Gem Host, servers are designed with LiteSpeed technologies and served with pure SSD RAID 10 storage systems. The servers also include Cloudflare with Railgun that not only boosts the loading speed of your website but helps protect your hosting services against DDoS attacks, as well.
Snapshot backups are available, but are exclusive to dedicated servers.
Pricing and Support
Blue Gem Host has introduced new price points, making its hosting services among the most affordable in the hosting market. You won’t encounter any setup fees, and you have the flexibility to select a billing cycle that suits your requirements, ranging from one month to a 36-month payment term. All prices are denominated in U.S. dollars.
The vendor provides users with an anytime money-back guarantee policy and the apparent 99.999% uptime guarantee policy is quite higher than the industry-standard uptime of 99.9%.
If you need any assistance, you contact the vendor’s support desk via email or support ticket. Unfortunately, there is no online or telephone support.
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