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Price Value
Besides the unlimited disk space (which we simply can't get enough of) SimpleHost is a feature-filled service with a barrage of site management tools (site builder, Microsoft FrontPage extensions, web-based file manager, webmail, custom error pages, and hot link protection), email services (unlimited forwarding, email aliases), all the programming scripts under the sun (Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, SSI, HTML, Flash), plugins (guestbooks, blogs, forms, photo galleries, hit counters), and complete e-commerce support (shopping carts, SSL certificates, a private CGI-BIN, and detailed web stats). You'll get a free domain name plus unlimited parked domains and sub-domains.
Reliability
SimpleHost gives you a 99.9% uptime guarantee, backed by a Linux/Unix-based Apache SSL server, Cisco routers and switches, password protected directories, multiple OC-3 connections, and a 30 day money-back guarantee. Uninterrupted power at the SimpleHost datacenter is assured with UPS battery backups and diesel backup generators. Environmental controls are constantly monitored and supported by a redundant HVAC system. Onsite security personnel monitor the network and servers 24/7 365 with the aid of video surveillance equipment. Weekly and monthly backups are conducted to ensure that no data is ever lost.
Control Panel
The cPanel 10 control panel is among the best out there (with vDeck its top competitor). Both are icon-based and laid out in a logical format. From cPanel you can create subdomains, custom error pages, MySQL databases, and FTP accounts. You can password-protect your directories, manage your databases, manage your files and indexes, protect your HotLinks, redirect URLs, and more.
The main cPanel windows tells you all the current information on your site that you could possibly want to know - your hosting package, shared IP address, number of subdomains, number of parked domains, number of add-on domains, number of MySQL databases, disk usage, SQL disk usage, disk space available, bandwidth usage in the current month, number of email accounts, forwarders, autoresponders, mailing lists, filters, and FTP accounts. It also tells you your operating system, service status, Kernel version, machine type, Apache version, PERL version, path to PERL, path to sendmail, installed Perl modules, PHP version, MySQL version, cPanel build, and theme.
Customer Support
Although contacting customer support is restricted to an email support ticket system (they promise to get back to you within 12 to 24 hours, aiming for within 3 hours during regular business hours), SimpleHost provides an FAQ with no less than 100 questions answered, from the most common to the most obscure, and approximately 75 tutorials on subjects ranging from getting started to managing email accounts to configuring email software to uploading your website to using the SohoLaunch website builder to building a website to using Microsoft FrontPage to utilizing the various cPanel control panel functions. In a nutshell, as far as customer support goes, SimpleHost is stronger on the do-it-yourself aspect than the personal contact aspect.
Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plan:
Unlimited disk space, 3000 GB bandwidth @ $7.50/month (host unlimited domains on one account)
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