Site5 Review

Site5 Reviews

Site5 provides web hosting services and solutions at very affordable price structures. The company offers business web hosting, reseller hosting, shared hosting and blog hosting and operate all their servers on their own network. They started these services in the year 1998 and the company is based out of California.

The company claims to have a 99.9% uptime and also offers a 60 day money back guarantee. Server uptime reports are made available from a third party monitoring service. In all, reliability doesn’t seem to be an issue.

Their web hosting pricing structures include the $5 deal, the silver, gold and diamond plan. The $5 deal plan is priced at $5 per month and the entire monthly fee listed for all plans are valid with 24 month pre-paid contract. The $5 deal plan offers 5 TB bandwidth, 110 GB disk space, 110 domain pointers, ruby on rails, free set up, a private IP address, 24/7 support and much more. The silver plan includes 10 GB disk space, 200 GB bandwidth, ruby on rails, free set up, a private IP address, 24/7 support and much more. This plan is priced at $6.97 per month. The Gold plan is priced at $9.97 per month and includes 15 GB disk space, 500 GB bandwidth, ruby on rails, free set up, a private IP address, 24/7 support and much more. Then comes the diamond plan which is priced at $16.97 per month and includes 27 GB disk space, 750 GB bandwidth, , ruby on rails, free set up, a private IP address, 24/7 support and much more.

Site5 installs personal SSL Certificates (purchased separately from a third party) for a one time fee of $15. The $15 fee is for installation only and does not include the price of the certificate itself. Other enticing features also include unlimited FTP/email accounts and unlimited sub domains too. Customers also get unlimited MYSQL databases. If that’s not enough, it also offers pre-installed CGI scripts and free shopping cart and e-commerce features. This is quite a bonus for customers 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.

The company offers a 24 hour customer support to its valued customers. Besides that Site5 also has community forums and a knowledge base in order to help customers in getting their questions answered without much delay.

In totality, Site5 is an ideal choice for people who are running various small businesses and looking to host them with one good and reliable host and at the same time offers extremely cost effective solutions in today’s competitive web hosting arena.