Overall Editor's Rating
90%		Overall Rating
92%		Price
86%		Features
90%		Support
96%		Reliability
86%		Speed

Business Operation
since 2001
 

Number of Websites Hosted
45000
 

Overview & Company Description
For HostForWeb, the customers and resellers have been at the center of everything the company does. The disconnect in business today lies between what a customer experiences when they interact with a company and what the company wants the customer to experience during those interactions. HostForWeb provides scalable reseller hosting solutions that address this disconnect and bridge the gap to help companies drive better customer interactions and increase revenue.

HostForWeb.com was incorporated in Illinois in 2001. As one of the early entrants into the Internet Services industry, HostForWeb has 3 years' experience providing Internet services. In December 2003, HostForWeb started to offer VPS to meet the needs of our customers who wants the power of dedicated servers at half the cost. Its clients range from government agencies to universities to political candidates and to small and medium-size corporations

Recognizing the importance of customer relationships, HostForWeb provides many touch points to allow customers to get the support and information they require to run their website smoothly.

HostForWeb was also our winner of the Best Reseller Hosting Plan in 2003. By implementing and offering Reseller Hosting Services, HostForWeb has improved its revenue and gained a better insight into each customer interaction across all channels due to the company's real-time analytics solution. The company believes better customer intelligence and new marketing channels result in better customer loyalty and increased revenue.
 

Why we like this company
The company made it into our list because of its dedication for reliability, support, and continuous improvement. Besides, it offers, value-for-money reseller hosting plans which provide element of flexibility and usefulness that are rare amongst other contenders.
 

Customer Support & Rating  90%  
The ability to resolve technical issues via online support systems such as e-mail, live chat and Web-based forms is another key component of assistance. Particularly for cases involving technical depth or complexity, online support works best because it offers the end user an easy format to transcribe error messages and related data, while giving the support technician time for a more considered response.

HostForWeb can identify, design, and optimize information technology capabilities that support customer requests responsively and adaptively. The number of support channels at http://hostforweb.com/support.html proves HostForWeb's dedication to offer better support.

Similar to telephone support, customers should expect a timely response to their requests - ideally, that same business day. Along the same lines, HosForWeb also provides extensive product documentation, proactive product updates and software patches, technical briefs and white papers.
 

Hosting Plan & Price that stands out  92%  
HostForWeb.com has demonstrated its commitment in providing a satisfactory and flexible reseller hosting plan at a low price. The HFW-0 reseller hosting plan is the stands out among the rest. For only US$24.95 per month, you can have a hosting account of 5GB disk space and 100GB bandwidth allowance

While many big companies can offer a lot of features, bandwidth and integrated software systems that promise quantifiable reselling benefits, it can be more trouble than its worth for web designers and developers who want to initiate a reseller business with little investment.

The average reseller hosting plan costs $50 per month with 200GB bandwidth transfer and 5GB of disk space. HostForWeb.com can offer web users about the same features for less than US$25 per month. That's why HostForWeb.com is continuously working to improve its reseller plans to include more hosting flexibility and, more hosting features but sell it at a very low cost..
 

Network Connection and Infrastructure
Located in the carrier-neutral Equinix Chicago Data Center, HostForWeb has access to carriers in Chicago without the need for local loop circuits.

Web Server Type
HostForWeb currently uses the following web server specifications.

• DUAL 3.06Ghz XEON Procs
• RAID Hard Drives
• 4GB RAM
• VPS: Dual XEON 2.4 GHZ 533FSB HT (4CPU)
• 8GB RAM
• (6)73GB SCSI 10K RPM Ultra 320 Hot-Swap Drives in a RAID5 format
• Daily tape backup is running on VPS servers
   

Reliability Rating  96%  
The reliability and flexibility of HostForWeb innovative network solutions enable customers to easily consolidate their hosting and storage infrastructures in a mixed server environment.

If you looking for reliable web hosting in the U.K, please read user reviews and compare hosting plans.
 

Other Services, Marketing and Design
None. HostForWeb.com is specialized deeply in Linux webhosting.
 

Hosting Features & Rating  86%  

• Anonymous Cpanel™ for your clients / WebHostManager™
• Over 20 Pre-installed Scripts With Fantastico
• 12 Languages Supported
• Brand Your Control Panel And Restrict Features To Specific Plans Via Manager
• Personalized Nameservers
• Account Setup Time
• Tomcat/JSP Support
• Detailed Online Statistics
• Cron Jobs
• MS FrontPage Support
• Custom Error Pages
• Password-Protected Directories
• Mailing List Server
   

Website Speed  86%  

Ping HostForWeb.com [66.225.229.175] with 32 bytes of data:

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Ping statistics for 66.225.229.175:
Packets: Sent = 6,Received = 6, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 32ms, Average = 31ms

Testimonials

• Live Help!!! They always help me fast when I need it, 24/7! Sorry to exclaim, but these guys really do know their stuff.
  
  www.BestRingers.com
   
• Very good uptime, excellent tech support. Best price. Good performance. I've been with many ISPs but last 2 yrs with HFW was unbelievably good.
  
  www.pixelab.com
   
• Superb hosting. They are absolutely what they say they are. The features are great and the control panel is very easy to use. The support is the best!
  
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Traffic Magnetism
Many web users who are interested to build a website are attracted to HostForWeb's simple reseller plans. The plans comes with unlimited domain hosting. In addition to that, the reseller hosting plans come with useful features that improve the utilization of customers hosting, simplify and automate the management of their web pages, ensure business continuity and compliance, and deliver maximum value from their web pages at the lowest overall cost.
 

Accomplishments
HostForWeb has won many awards. Some of the awards are Reseller July Award and December Shared Hosting Award from WebHostDir.com . The company also won the Best Reseller Hosting Plan at www.resellerplanaward.com
 

Success Factors
Over the past 3 years, HostForWeb's journey has been marked by great opportunities and giant leaps in progress. With a motivated, energetic employees and executives commited to high standards of customer service, the company quickly branched out to become one of the fastest-growing reseller hosting companies on the Web. Through an aggressive growth strategy, HostForWeb expanded its position in North America and now services customers through a network of more than 100 countries.

Today, HostForWeb.com is widely known as a global provider of reseller hosting services to small businesses, web developers, and web designers. HostForWeb's dedication to provide customers with reliable, fast and affordable hosting services are the company's cornerstones.