Site5 is an American web hosting provider with more than 19 years of experience in the online hosting industry. It provides its broad customer base with a variety of hosting options from servers located in Dallas, U.SA.
Site5’s website is available in English.
Features and Ease of Use
Site5 offers web hosting, reseller hosting, and fully managed VPS solutions. With the web hosting solutions, you will benefit from:
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Unmetered disk space
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Free website migration
- Nightly backups
- SSL certificate included when you purchase a dedicated IP
MySQL databases are supported, plus several programming languages including multiple PHP versions, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL.
Depending on the kind of hosting you choose, you will be able to manage it via various control panels including cPanel/WHM, Backstage, SiteAdmin, and MultiAdmin. Hosting also includes the Softaculous one-click script installer that makes it easy for you to install popular applications including e-commerce shopping carts such as CubeCart, osCommerce, and Zen Cart.
Hosting plans operate on a dependable server infrastructure that features servers equipped with (at least) Dual E5-2630 Sandy Bridge processors, eight cores, 64 GB RAM, and RAID-10 protected hard disks.
Pricing and Support
Site5’s hosting plans don’t come at pocket-friendly prices, but the three hosting plans do come with unlimited storage space and unmetered bandwidth, and the entry-level plan allows 10000 visits.
The advertised monthly prices are based on a biennial billing cycle, so you’ll either end up paying more than advertised or will have to rely on the 45-day money-back guarantee to get you out of your commitment to a two-year term. You can pay for plans via PayPal or credit/debit card.
Site5 will migrate your existing website for free, and you can get a free SSL certificate when you purchase a dedicated IP address. You can also buy SSL certificates on the billing page.
For self-support, Site5 provides a comprehensive knowledge base containing 560+ articles. Site5 also advertises 24/7 support that you can access via telephone, email, or live chat. I was pleased with my interaction via the live chat support system on a Saturday.
