Reviews and expert opinion HostWeb

Introduction

Since the beginning of its journey in 2002, HostWeb has been providing different types of hosting solutions to its clients with varied requirements. This Israel-based company uses IBM’s most advanced servers for its storage purposes to provide reliable and quality services to its clients. Its bouquet of services includes Linux hosting packages, reseller hosting packages, dedicated server packages, colocation services, management and maintenance of dedicated servers together with SSL licenses and domain name registration solutions. The website of HostWeb supports Hebrew.

Features and Ease of Use

HostWeb offers 6 Linux hosting plans, 2 dedicated server plans, and 6 reseller hosting plans. All the Linux hosting plans offered by HostWeb come with,

• 99.9% server availability
• CentOS operating system
• Storage (10MB-2000MB)
• Monthly data traffic (2GB-100GB)
• cPanel
• Unlimited FTP accounts
• Website (1-Unlimited)
• Unlimited subdomains
• MySQL
• PHP4/PHP5
• Perl5/CGI
• Mailboxes POP3/SMTP (1-Unlimited)
• Antivirus and Anti-spam

HostWeb offers site statistics systems that would help you get a detailed understanding of your website traffic.

By using the self-site backup feature, you would be able to back up your website regularly without depending on your web hosting provider.

With the help of the RAID system offered by HostWeb, you would be able to gain improved resiliency and superior performance.

HostWeb offers KVM that would help boost the security of your websites as it uses the advanced SE Linux security system.

The company offers RapidSSL licenses from GeoTrust, which is an internationally recognized and highly trusted certificate authority. With the help of strong encryption offered by SSL, you’ll be able to protect your transactions and sensitive information in transmission.

Pricing and Support

Linux hosting plans offered by HostWeb are priced competitively. You can pay for them monthly, annually, and biennially. However, all billing cycles aren’t applicable for each plan, so you would have to check that out during the purchase process. Payment can be made through credit card and check/bank transfer, and USD is only accepted as the payment currency. You wouldn’t be able to purchase a web hosting package directly from the website. You would have to leave details about your order or call the telephone reservation center and a company representative will be in touch with you.

HostWeb doesn’t offer any money-back guarantee/trial period.

You can contact the customer support helpdesk of HostWeb via phone, email, and an online contact form. However, the technical support team is available 24/7. I tried their online form but failed to receive any reply, which was a downer for me.