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Review written by Jakob R. Dabrowski
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Webmaster and PHP Coder since 2001. Specialist in Content Management Systems and Blogging. Any Questions? Drop me an email.

Latest update of this content was: Monday, Apr 4, 2011

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Editorial Ratings

Total rating:

91%

Price Value:

95%

Reliability:

95%

Performance:

95%

Control panel:

90%

Support:

95%

Feedback:

80%

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Myhosting.com Company Overview

myhosting.com is a web hosting service, owned by SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc. - a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. MyHosting.com was founded in 1997 and provides web hosting to more than 50,000 customers in 170 countries. The company grew all these years in the cut-throat hosting market and is profitable, financially stable and thus secure.

myhosting.com offers a business class hosting plan, starting at $4.84 /month (as a one-year-plan), that provides a free domain, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited add-on-domains. They also provide shared Windows Hosting plans, VPS Hosting starting at $15.76 /month and email hosting (outlook exchange) starting at $9.95 /month.

my Hosting promises outstanding 24/7 customer support, taking phone calls in less than 2 minutes and answering to email requests in less than 1 hour. Furthermore, they offer a 30-day-money-back guarantee and a 100% uptime guarantee.

Price Value

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Currently, myhosting.com provides a business class shared hosting plan for $4.84 /month (as a one-year-plan). With unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, a free domain and many more professional features, this is a good price value at first glance.

Because myhosting.com is a specialist in email hosting as well, this package includes 10 Basic Exchange Email mailboxes (each with 1 GB of storage, POP3/IMAP4 support and Outlook Web Access). A web-based site builder application, a free eCommerce add-on and a web-based file manager add to the value of the hosting plan, as do many easy to install applications like forums, online shops, Wikis, Content Management Systems and Galleries.

The plan includes only 1 FTP-user, wich we find doesn't really fit to the rest of the powerfull and feature-rich package. At least 5 FTP users would be usual, other providers with similar plans allow for an unlimited number of FTP user accounts. Geeks will be happy to hear, that PHP 5, mySQL 5 (3 databases allowed) and PostgreSQL 8 (3 databases allowed) is provided by the hosting package. Linux servers run on CentOS Linux and Apache 2.0.

Windows Premium Hosting is offered as well, running on Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.0 and providing support for SQL Server 2005, DOT.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX applications. Premium hosting services start at $9.34 /month and can be either Linux or Windows hosting packages, including a dedicated IP address.

We see myhosting.com's hosting packages as a very professional package with an very high money value. Especially the windows packages are of high value, compared to other web hosting providers.

Reliability and Performance

myhosting.com provides their services through the state-of-the-art Equinix Data Center, located in Toronto, Canada. They are connected to the internet by mulitple level 1 providers through optical fiber cables, making their network able to create alternate routes for data transmission. This maximizes the throughput speed and capacity and provides a fast and reliable network connection.

myhosting.com deploys Dell web servers, running Dual Quad Core Processors with 16 GB RAM. Files are located at the backening NetApp Storage arrays. This setup guarantees for very high speed, reliability and performance. Security is high at myhosting.com's data center, having 24/7 uniformed guards and cameras for physical security, as well as extensive network security: through virus protection, layered-architecture-enterprise-class firewalls, real-time security alerting using intrusion detection scanners, and 24/7 monitoring by network security professionals.

myhosting.com is very confident in their own performance and security and so they give a 30-day-money-back-guarantee, as well as a 100% uptime guarantee.

This setup is up-do-date, completely professional and provides extraordinary high performance and reliability.

Control Panel

myhosting.com deploys a self-developed control panel, including the specific features of their own hosting plans. We checked out that control panel and are quiet content with it. It's well organized and allows the customer to manage all aspects of his web hosting account. Billing can be managed with it, as can email features or domain name registration be adjusted. Support can be contacted through it as well. One feature we like especially is, that it can be controlled where domain names point to: by adding, editing or deleting MX-records, A-records and more.

myhosting.com's control panel is easy to understand and use. We think it's a complete and neat software with strong functionality.

Support

Support standards are high at myhosting.com. They promise to take phone calls in less than 2 minutes and answer to emails in less than 1 hour. We tested both and it was true.

myhosting.com offers 24/7 support by phone, email and live chat. Additionally, they provide their customers with an extensive array of information to help themselves: a large FAQ section, user forums and a status blog.

Support levels are as professional as the rest of myhosting.com's high quality levels.

Conclusion

myhosting.com is a high quality web hosting provider, located in Toronto, Canada. Offering not only shared Linux hosting, but also professional Windows hosting, VPS hosting and eMail hosting packages, they know what they are doing.

Being convinced of their quality, they offer a 30 day money-back guarantee and 100% uptime guarantee.

Their hosting plans are of high money value, very professional and feature-rich.

With high security, the latest in server technology and a state-of-the-art internet connection, they provide both, high performance and high reliability. myhosting.com's self developed control panel is intuitive, orderly and complete in its functionality. Their 24/7 support is at the high-end in the industry with 2 minutes to take a phone call.

Their business-class hosting plan offers only 1 FTP-user, wich we find too few. We don't really understand that, because the rest of the package is 100% professional. If one doesn't care about the number of FTP users though, myhosting.com is a highly recommendable, professional web hosting provider.

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