Overall Editor's Rating
79%		Overall Rating
81%		Price
78%		Features
89%		Support
76%		Reliability
71%		Speed

Business Operation
since 2001

Number of Websites Hosted
2500

Overview & Company Description
Whatever the situation, whoever the opponent, today, success in basketball or online business is almost impossible without support. Web users need to work with someone who knows and understands the current internet technologies, someone who listens to what web users really need and, with web users, defines reasonable needs and the ways to reach them. Someone who will share with you web hosting knowledge, programming skills, domain management. And Results. Nevidia.com is such a company that addresses these simple issues. Even after 4 years of operating in the web hosting industry, Bryan Jaskolka, the founder of Nevidia.com, is still striving to improve its web hosting services continually and technical support year on year.

Founded in early 2001, Ontario, Canada based Nevidia.com, started its business with the objectives to help online users get a reliable Windows hosting plan at a price below US$10 per month. The company has secured more than 2500 customers but is not resting on its laurels. Nevidia.com is consistently bringing together the technical support and sales capabilities to lead with innovative Windows and Linux hosting solutions that transform online websites and make hosting integration technology more accessible and practical to a wider range of web users.
 

Why we like this company

• Excellent hosting plans on both platforms, Windows and Linux, starting at the price of US$5.00 per month.
• The Starter plan offers generous hosting space of 250MB disk space. The company specializes in offering shared and reseller hosting plan only.
• The company has made continuous hosting improvement to server upgrades for customer satisfaction. Since May 2004, the company has been using Version 3 of its hosting management software Version 1 was launched in June 2002. An adaptive and dynamic company capable of reacting quickly to various technology changes.
   

Customer Support & Rating  89%  
"Not only are we proactively identifying website problems that could lead to unplanned downtime, but we also are calling and emailing our web customers immediately to let them know that we are already working to correct it,” said Bryan Jaskolka, founder of Nevidia.com

The foundation of good customer support relies on more than just the services a hosting company can provide. It relies on the quality and availability of hosting solutions they offer. It is the kind of hosting support and service available that help web users to make their final buying decisions.

HostPulse.com took some time to investigate Nevidia.com's customer support and concluded the following;

• The company provides fast response. The technical support staff connects us to the staff directly in charge of our hosting account in less than 4 minutes. We repeated this a few times. The average waiting time is less than 5 minutes.
   
• The company has immediate access to the hardware and software the company supports. Nearly 70 percent of the customer requests received by Nevidia.com are resolved on the first call or email because of the effective client helpdesk system and live support chat available. The technical support staff also have very organized technical resources available either to help them troubleshoot or reply support requests efficiently. The support contact information is available at http://www.nevidia.com/v3/contact_support.asp
   
• We asked a few of its customers and found out that Nevidia.com conduct regular surveys to measure customer satisfaction and identify areas of hosting improvement. Version 3 of Nevidia.com's hosting management system has been developed with dozens of feedback and input from its customers.
   

Hosting Plan & Price that stand out  81%  
The US$10.00 per month Standard plan has 500mb disk space with 10GB of bandwidth allowance. Web users can purchase the Microsoft SQL Server hosting option as well with this plan.
 

Network Connection and Infrastructure
The company is using two redundant connectivity with bandwidth up to 45MBPS .
 

Reliability Rating  76%  
HostPulse.com believes the goal for reliable hosting is to provide maximum redundancy in every facet of the datacenter environment to facilitate 100% uptime for your entire hosting infrastructure. Nevidia.com is such a company that addresses this issue critically.

• Merak Mail Server
  The company is using the same technology the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mail systems use.
   
• HostingController
  The company has partnered with Hosting Controller as the engine behind its integrated ControlPanel system.
   
• Development Support
  All of its server platforms support the latest scripting software, programming and tools, including such well-known names as Microsoft’s .NET framework, MS Frontpage, ASP, PHP, mySQL. If you looking for reliable UK hosting services, please read user reviews.

Web Server Type
All Dell Hardware
Brand names only
Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ+ boxes
1GIG + RAM
SCSI hard drives
 

Other Services, Marketing and Design
The company is also specializing in turnkey solutions. Nevidia is offering total ecommerce hosting solutions from, ecommerce shopping cart to activating a merchant account with security and anti-fraud system.
 

Website Speed  71%  
Ping nevidia.com [198.247.173.63] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=63ms
Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=47ms
Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=62ms
Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=63ms
Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=47ms
Reply from 198.247.173.63: bytes=32 time=62ms

Ping statistics for 198.247.173.63:
Packets: Sent = 6,Received = 6, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 47ms, Maximum = 63ms, Average = 57ms

Hosting Features & Rating  78%  

• SQL Server 2000 Services
• Unlimited POP3/IMAP Email Boxes
• Custom Built Control Panel
• Web Based Email
• Microsoft FrontPage Extensions Support
• ASP 3.0 and ASP.Net support
• MS Access
• Perl/CGI
• Mysql and PHP
• ASPEmail CDONTS
• ASPUpload MSXML Parser/Core Services
• ASPJpeg JMail
• ASPSmart Upload Dundas Upload
• Dundas Mailer
• Personalized Log File Rotation
• Access to Raw Log Files
   

Traffic Magnetism
Web users are attracted by state-of-the-art technical solutions from Nevidia.com, which has always emphasized data availability, affordability and scalability.

"We view our hosting services as the solution to a problem the web users are facing or the resolution of an uncertainty,” Bryan says. “We are working to be more accurate about the most important hosting problem our solutions will solve. We believe by doing this it is easier for us to both attract more web users and sell our hosting to them".

Most of Nevidia.com's customers are those looking to deploy and develop ASP and ASP.net applications. The company is able to reliably support these customers for years through its extensive Micfosoft related features and good technical support.

At the end of the day, Nevidia.com gives customers the confidence to trust their data to Microsoft by reducing the risks and removing the obstacles associated with deploying ASP.net on their website.
 

Accomplishments

• Best Shared Hosting Plan Year 2003
• Best Windows Host July 2004
   

Success Factors
Nevidia.com continues to make Windows and Linux hosting services pervasive, bringing this hosting to more new companies, new webmasters and new geographics. Its Version 3 hosting management software allows the company to effectively connect to a wide variety of customers on a global scale in 65 countries while maintaining the benefits of local and regional support.