Easy CGI Web Hosting Review

Easy CGI Company Background

Easy CGI has its roots as a regional Internet Service Provider in the early 1990's. It eventually spun off from its main company and officially became Easy CGI in 1998. Since then, it has grown to become one of the top 10 major web hosting providers in the world and currently provides hosting for over 20,000 web sites worldwide. In addition to its main business of providing affordable shared hosting plans, the company also offers virtual/dedicated hosting, server co-location, domain registration, email only hosting, web forwarding and secure certificates services.

Key Features of The Easy CGI Hosting Plans and Services

Easy CGI offers a competitive set of shared hosting plans. Its most popular hosting package is the Advanced Web Hosting Plan which features a windows 2003 hosting environment, 3500GBytes monthly data transfer allocation, 350GBytes of disk space, 500 email accounts, free website building software, spam and virus blocking, and 50 MySQL databases for a monthly fee of $7.96.

For individuals or small businesses who are more interested in the virtual or dedicated hosting environment, Easy CGI offers 3 different hosting packages starting at $43.96 per month. The most popular dedicated hosting plan offers the following features: Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Plesk Control Panel (10 Domain License), 250GBytes of monthly data transfer, 15GBytes of disk space, 384MBytes of dedicated RAM space, 2 IP addresses, housing support for an unlimited quantity of web sites and firewall protection. The company also offers a 30 day money back guarantee on its web hosting packages.

As part of its portfolio of services, Easy CGI offers domain registration and domain transfer for $10/year. The key feature in its domain services is that Easy CGI offers the domain theft prevention system and provides free domain privacy activation. Most domain registrar will charge a fee to enable domain privacy. However, this feature is free when domains are registered through Easy CGI. With the domain privacy feature, personal information will not be accessible on the internet and will not be readily available to the public WHOIS databases. This privacy feature helps to prevent spam, unwanted phone calls and other unnecessary aggravation. The customer will retain full ownership and control of their domain. In essence, domain registration information are masked with generic contact information within public WHOIS databases and any attempts to obtain personal information about the domain owner are filtered and forwarded to the customer.

Support and Reliability

Unlike many other web hosting providers, Easy CGI maintains its own datacenter and infrastructure. Its datacenter is housed in a 1.2 million square foot facility that is monitored and supported by technicians 24 hours per day. The datacenter is protected by redundant 500KW generators in case of power failures and is also protected from unauthorized access with a state of the art security system. Its system data is backed up on an automated schedule to fault tolerant Network Access Storage systems to prevent data loss in case of a system failures. As a result, Easy CGI is able to provide a 99.9% up time guarantee for all of its customers.

Easy CGI also maintains a technical support staff around the clock to answer technical related questions either by email or by phone.

Awards and Certifications

Easy CGI is a member of Hacker Safe. Hacker Safe certification is achieved by passing rigorous daily network security audits.

www.easycgi.com meets all BBBOnLine Reliability participation and Better Business Bureau membership standards and is authorized to display the BBBOnLine Reliability seal. This BBBOnLine Reliability seal signifies Easycgi's commitments to those standards (http://www.bbbonline.org).