Website Source Review

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

About Website Source

Website source has been into web hosting business since 1998 and has received many awards for their web hosting services. They take pride in the fact that they are a 100% US based company (located in Austin, Texas) and have all the customer support in-house (not out-sourced).

Website source has various hosting divisions each based on different types of web hosting e.g. shared web hosting, business hosting, dedicated hosting etc. The company doubled it’s staff in 2005, which is a clear indication that they are doing good business (which, in turn, indicates that the company must be good). Website source also gives a lot of importance to defending their networks against DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and uses Cisco technology to achieve the same.

Hosting plans from Website Source

Like most web hosts, Website Source too offers three different web hosting plans. The cheapest one starts at $6.85 and offers 5 GB of disk space, 50 GB bandwidth. The other 2 plans are for $10.35 and $14.55 but the disk space and bandwidth is more too (upto 7 GB disk space and upto 90 GB bandwidth). Though the disk space and bandwidth are sufficient for most websites, they are a bit lesser than what some other hosts offer. But again, here you don’t pay any setup fee and you get free domain name/transfer. All the other things like website builder, content marketing solution, e-commerce support etc are included too. Also note that you can host upto 4 websites on the entry level plan itself. This is an economical option, especially if you run 3-4 small businesses/websites. Moreover, it also makes things much simpler for you. Redundant backbone connections is another thing that Website source offers; and this means higher loading speed for your website.

Support

Website source provides support through all ways and means. The first in line are the video tutorials. Video tutorials are, in fact, the best way of tutoring or providing help to people. And this is very true in the world of web hosting where you need to click and/or enter information at several places; in order to setup your hosting account or manage it. Besides that there are help guides and web hosting manuals too. The 24/7 support ensures that anyone across the globe can use the website source hosting with the same convenience. Live chat is even more helpful since you can get immediate answers to your questions (and if you are on a dial-up internet connection, you don’t need to disconnect).

Reliability

99.9 % uptime rate is what ‘Website source’ offers to its web hosting customers. And you can trust them on this because they have been into this business since 1998 and have infact doubled their staff in 2005. They have also been voted as the "Most Popular Web Host" by CNET.

Website source backs their claims with a 30 day money-back guarantee and their shared web hosting offers certainly look attractive (especially for small businesses).