Micfo Review

Host Website: http://www.micfo.com

About Micfo

Micfo.com is a Micfo group company and the group has been into a number of IT businesses since 1999. Micfo.com has been offering web hosting services since 2001. So, the background of the company is quite strong. It has a number of shared/ reseller hosting divisions and provides Linux based hosting. High-performance and high bandwidth allowance seem to be the main focus areas for Micfo. However, there doesn’t seem a much difference between what Micfo provides (in terms of bandwidth) and what others provide (for the same price). But reliability promise is really very strong.

Micfo Hosting Services

One of the best things with Micfo web hosting services is the fact that you can avail a 30 day free trial account. This is something that you don’t generally find with other web hosts. You can use this period to test their hosting services, speed, reliability etc. This also enhances one’s confidence in the abilities of Micfo’s web hosting service. The account activation is instantaneous, which helps especially when you are in a hurry to get your website up and running.

Another important characteristic is the “Anytime money-back guarantee”. This means that, if you are not happy with the hosting services at Micfo.com, you can ask for your money at any point in time (even if you have prepaid for a long term). However, this refund will be for the unused part of your contract (full refund is available if you ask for it within first 30 days of starting your contract).

There are 3 hosting plans that Micfo offers to its customers. These plans are priced at $9.95, $14.95 and $19.95. Accordingly, the disk space varies from 5- 15 GB and the bandwidth from 250-750 GB. Also, if you pre-pay for 2 years, you get the next 2 years free (there is no other discount in terms of price; which calculates to the same monthly rate throughout the 2 year period). A number of scripts, support for multimedia, and other features are available too.

Reliability

There would be very few companies (if any) that would make such a strong reliability statement as Micfo.com does. They guarantee 99.9 % uptime in any calendar month. This doesn’t seem unusual but what is unusual is the fact that they also promise to give back your money (for that month) if this promise is not met in any month. This is part of their service level agreement with their customers. Moreover, they also use the best quality hardware/ servers in order to ensure that they are able to fulfill their promise. All those are pretty impressive reliability statements and are hard to find elsewhere.

Customer support

24x7 toll-free customer support is promised by Micfo.com. This makes it suitable for customers across the globe. Moreover, they promise to respond to technical support requests within 15-25 minutes (on 95% requests) of you submitting the ticket. For contingency management, they provide free daily and weekly backups.

Micfo promises a lot on the reliability front. Their confidence is reflected in their uptime statement which includes money back guarantee for less than 99.9% uptime. The price looks a bit on the higher side but if reliability is what matters then Micfo does seem like a good choice.