Hosting Now is a New Zealand subsidiary of MikiPro Ltd, which was founded in 2010. It offers shared hosting, e-commerce hosting, reseller solutions, virtual servers, and dedicated servers, all sitting on enterprise-grade equipment in an Auckland (New Zealand) data center. Its web-related services include web design, data center colocation, and more.
Hosting Now’s elegant, informative website is in English, and it displays prices in New Zealand dollars.
Features and Ease of Use
Hosting Now’s three tiers of web hosting include these features:
- 10 GB to unlimited bandwidth
- 3 GB to 10 GB disk space
- Up to unlimited FTP accounts
- Up to five hosted domains
- cPanel control panel
The resource allocations are suitable for casual bloggers or small businesses that don’t expect heavy traffic. And whichever category you fall into, the cPanel control panel provides a highly intuitive interface for managing your hosting account. The impressive 99.99% uptime stems from the company’s solid infrastructure.
If shared hosting isn’t sufficient, you can scale up to a VPS or dedicated server. The VPS plans provide 20 GB to 100 GB disk space, unmetered bandwidth, 1 GB to 6 GB RAM, and 1 to 4 CPUs. The Linux or Windows dedicated servers come with 4 GB to 128 GB RAM, 74 GB to 8 x 2 TB HDD disk space, and unlimited bandwidth. In all cases, you get free setup.
Pricing and Support
Hosting Now offers a free setup policy, but its hosting prices for the ordinary packages on offer remain high. You have the option to pay through PayPal on monthly or annual terms (with a discount). However, as far as I can see, there is no money-back guarantee to rely on.
While the website contains a lot of information about the available services, I couldn’t see any publicly available self-support resources such as a knowledge base. On the plus side, I received a response to my pre-sales questions within 11 hours (but it didn’t answer all my questions).
