Webhostingpad Web Hosting Review

WebHostingPad Company Background

Webhostingpad.com is a relatively new provider to the web hosting space. It is a small provider that caters to personal websites or small businesses that are not technically savvy in terms of web design and maintenance. As its name suggests, Webhostingpad.com is focused on utilizing leading-edge technology and prides itself on its knowledge and technical expertise in the field of web hosting. The company was formed by a group of engineers, web developers and programming experts. The company's motto is simplicity and it tries to deliver web hosting to the masses in ways that are easy to understand and operate. It succeeds at creating a web hosting environment that allows a non-technical client to quickly come up to speed on the various aspects of webmastership and provides around the clock support to ensure that its clients are never going at-it alone. The staff at Webhostingpad can be characterized as energetic fun-loving individuals who go out of their way to help their clients with technical issues.

Key Features of The Hosting Plan

Webhostingpad.com offers a single simplified shared hosting plan for all of its customers that is both competitive in price and features. For a fixed price of $1.99/month, Webhostingpad provides unlimited amount of disk space, unlimited amount of transfer bandwidth per month, an unlimited number of email accounts, unlimited FTP accounts, Site Builders software, and WebCalendar. In addition, Webhostingpad offers 1 free domain with the hosting plan and allows the user to add an unlimited number of domains to be hosted. It provides domain privacy for all domains that are hosted on its servers and it allows unlimited additional subdomains to be created. It also allows an unlimited number of MySQL databases, provides a cPanel control panel, just about all of the popular scripts and scripting applications, such as Fantastico, Ruby On Rails, Shell Access (SSH) and SSL, Cron, Perl, and CGI support, PHP support, phpMyAdmin access and Microsoft FrontPage extensions. A more detailed list of features offered by this hosting plan can be found at the company's website, and at a cost of $3.95 per month, the price to feature ratio is among the best in the industry.

Support and Reliability

Webhostingpad.com prides itself on its technical support staff, and offers free around-the-clock technical support to answer technical related questions via phone support, online chat support, email support, online tutorials, and online knowledge base.

To ensure maximum reliability and performance from its servers, Webhostingpad maintains its ventilated servers in a guarded state-of-the-art facility to host all of its websites. The servers are protected by state-of-the-art firewall systems and the NetZentry DDOS Attack Protection system to ensure that data is free from hackers and other external sources of intrusion. It also maintains a UPS backup system to ensure that stored data is not lost during catastrophic power failures; and even when a power failure occurs, the servers are immediately switched to the standby diesel-powered generator system to ensure that hosting servers are fully operational. It guarantees a 99.9% uptime rate for all of the websites that are on its servers.