Site5 Review

Host Website: http://www.site5.com

About Site5

Site5 is a reseller of web hosting that is based out of California. They have been providing these web hosting services since 1998. So, they do have a lot of experience under their belt (and if they have been around for that long, there must be something good about them). They provide web hosting services and solutions that are economical. This is what they focus on - “Affordability”. Business web hosting, reseller hosting, shared hosting and blog hosting, all are offered by Site5. Email hosting service is also provided by Site5. They operate all their servers on their own network, which is quite impressive.

Site5 Hosting packages

The hosting packages offered by Site5 are really cool and easy to understand. There are 3 hosting packages on offer – hostBasic, hostPro and hostPro+Turbo. The disk space on all on all the plans is Unlimited. The price starts at $4.95/mo for hostBasic to $10.95 for hostPro Turbo. The bandwidth on all the plans is Unlimited. Most of the small business should go for mid range plan ie hostPro which provides a good value for money @ $7.95 per month.

What’s different with Site5 hosting packages?

One typical feature is that you can host unlimited number of full websites on the hostPro and hostPro+Turbo packages. So, you buy one hosting package and host several websites through it. This is both convenient and economical (especially if you don’t have very large size websites). Some other attractions are unlimited FTP/email accounts and unlimited subdomains too. You also get unlimited MYSQL databases.This is something that you would not find easily. Also included are 50 pre-installed CGI scripts and free shopping cart and e-commerce features. This is a big plus for people who are looking to implement such features on their website. Anti-virus protection and blog auto-installers (including WordPress) are two other features that are offered by Site5.

Reliability

Like most good web hosts, Site5 too provides 99.9 % uptime guarantee. In fact, in today’s ultra competitive world, no one would go for a web host that gives an uptime guarantee of less than 99.9% (or maybe 99.5%). So, that would be very much expected from Site5. Moreover, they provide a 60-day money back guarantee too. Server uptime reports are made available from a third party monitoring service. In all, reliability doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Support

Sales/pre-sales

Live sales chat is the most useful feature here. You can also use Pre-sales forum to get your queries answered. If you prefer, you can email the sales staff at Site5 and get your apprehensions addressed.

Customer support

24/7 customer support is given by Site5. Site5 has community forums and a knowledgebase in order to help customers in getting their questions answered quickly. The concern for customers is also exhibited in making several additional resources available to the customers. These additional resources are in the form of software, scripts and useful websites.

Overall speaking, Site5 seems to offer a good proposition especially for people who are running several small businesses and looking to host them with one good host that is reliable and cost effective at the same time.

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