Overall Editor's Rating
87%		Overall Rating
96%		Price
85%		Features
83%		Support
92%		Reliability
80%		Speed

Business Operation
since 1999

Number of Websites Hosted
1000

Overview & Company Description
Although ASP.NET and PHP are populating over the web with its top-notch programming functions, there are also other useful programming language that are capable of performing similar functions. For instance, Java has traditionally been known for providing great Web client-side application support. Java is also a great platform for writing the server side of your Web-based applications. With the introduction of Java Server Pages (JSP) scripting language in the last few years, the technology has become more and more popular with web developers. Because of the many tools available on the web these days, many web developers seek to find hosting companies that provide them options to choose and switch hosting plans.

Webraided.com is answering the needs of these web developers. Hosting with Webraided.com allows web developers to synergistically harness the power of JSP with PHP or ASP.NET with PHP to create online applications and user-needs-driven web sites through all the programming language available. If web users are not satisfied with using JSP and PHP in an Linux hosting environment, they can choose Windows hosting that utilizes ASP.NET tools.

Founded in 1999, Toronto-based Webraided.com wins our vote as one of the 100 most dynamic companies for offering 5000MB of disk space at an affordable fee. Despite the increasing number of hosting providers, WebRaid is fast growing on smart IT and network management solutions to stay relevant in a maturing industry and the company has prospered by providing customers with innovative hosting solutions and superior hosting flexibility through its simple Linux and Windows hosting services. All of Webraided's efforts can be understood in one word: competitive.
 

Why we like this company
Any host can focus solely on hosting. But Webraided.com goes much further. The company join forces with web customers to understand and share their website objectives. By continually deepening its knowledge of the online marketing and hosting requirements, WebRaided gains valuable insights into what customers do, insights that gives web customers a genuine edge. For instance, if the web customer wants to a host a site for a pet site, WebRaided will identify the use of the hosting functions available to advise the customer on which platform suits him most, the amount of disk space required, the suitability of the programming language provided, and opportunities in ecommerce integration. Advice and simple knowledge from a host can help power web users to innovation.
 

Customer Support & Rating  83%  
Building a good customer support team is essential in today's competitive hosting environment. According to Wayne, founder of Webraided.com, the company has learned from experience to always keep clients informed. "Even a simple message to inform the customer that the problem is being investigated or a fix that will be released in the future helps customers feel sorted, secure and covered, so they can worry less. Sometimes the information you have to give them is not what they want to hear, but they appreciate being kept updated with progression of a situation". says Wayne.

The company offers support ticket system for customer service, which enables our clients to be kept up to date with the progress of a support ticket. The company also offers telephone support.

Webraided.com claims that the company offers multi level technical support help to assist with various hosting inquiries and mentioned that all tickets are escalated to the appropriate technicians to respond and resolve all inquiries. HostPulse.com investigated this through hosting account anonymously and found support is fast and support staff escalate one of our issues that cannot be solved to another support staff that handles the problem thoroughly. HostPulse.com is happy with that. Indeed, a good and responsive host.
 

Hosting Plan & Price that stand out  96%  
The $4.99 per month plan is one of the most affordable hosting plans on the web at the moment. There are cheaper ones on the web, but in terms of stability, reliability and good hosting features, this plan rocks. The hosting plan comes with 2500 Megs of web space and 50 Gb of Traffic. For more information, please point your browser to http://www.webraided.com/unix_hosting.htm
 

Network Connection and Infrastructure
The company uses intelligent route-control technology that brings reliability, performance and security to the network.Network is built on Juniper M20 for its core network routers and switches are Dual Cisco 6500 from the distribution layer. There is another layer of Cisco 6500 switches for traffic aggregation internally. The company is connected to fully meshed networks with Backbone providers such as: AT&T, Verio, Level3, Sprint, and UUnet. The company also from time to time perform advance site monitoring per domain to ensure reliability and stability of network. For some web application websites, the company implements continuous, comprehensive testing for new website after deployment. The technical support staff will from time to time review sites and use Advanced Site Monitoring (ASM) software. The software acts like a quality assurance engineer, testing and reporting failures from an end-user's perspective in real time.
 

Reliability Rating  92%  

• The company uses Routers and Switches as the standard equipment for its network.
• Servers have dual processors, redundant Error Checking and Correcting RAM, redundant hard drives, redundant hot swap power supplies.
• Webraided.com also uses redundant firewalls which will stopp high end DOS (Denial Of Service) and DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attacks.
• Equipment is constantly being monitored for irregularity and failure, for both the computers and the network. The company claims that proactive maintenance is done regularly as needed for all equipment.
• Other redundant measures include UPS Battery backup and full diesel generator backup for all equipment.
• If you looking for reliable UK hosting, please read user reviews.
   

Web Server Type
Windows 2003 Servers and Red Hat Linux Servers .
Dual 2.4 Ghz XEON
2 x 80GB Hard Drives
1024MB of RAM
Plesk 7 Control panel for Windows, and Cpanel for Linux
 

Other Services, Marketing and Design
On site professional services.
Domain name registration, Secure Socket Layer Certificates (SSL).
 

Hosting Feature & Rating  85%  

• Control Panel
• Free Domain Registration with annual and 2 year plans
• Web Based Email
• Email Auto Responders
• SMTP Mail server
• MX Record Changes
• Spam Filter
• CGI, Perl, PHP, Java
• PhpMyAdmin Support
• Web Based Statistics
• Cron Jobs
• Tomcat JSP & Java Servlets
• MS Frontpage™ Extensions
• Password Protected Files
• Custom Error Pages
• SSH Shell Access
• Shopping Cart

Website Speed  80%  
Ping Webraided.com [66.227.117.70] with 32 bytes of data:

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Reply from 66.227.117.70: bytes=32 time=0ms
Reply from 66.227.117.70: bytes=32 time=15ms
Reply from 66.227.117.70: bytes=32 time=16ms
Reply from 66.227.117.70: bytes=32 time=0ms
Reply from 66.227.117.70: bytes=32 time=16ms

Ping statistics for 66.227.117.70:
Packets: Sent = 6,Received = 6, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 10ms

 

Testimonials

• "I currently host five websites with WebRaided. They are prompt to
  answer service calls and have very reliable technical support. They
  even watch out for my websites.... Thank you WebRaided.com."
  
  Temi Agboola
  GoodBooks Publishing
  www.goodbooks.ca
   
• "Hey Wayne, thanks for assisting me with your services. Since I came on board, you've always been there when I need you......"
  
  Chris Rollox
  Gemini K9 Obedience
  www.geminik9.com
   
• "BMW Promo would like to thank you guys for helping me with my CGI scripts and the other technical problems we had. I know you guys went above and beyond your duty. Thanks again..."
  
  Chris J. BMW Promo.
  www.bmwpromo.com
   
• "I have had the opportunity, and the pleasure, to be a client of WebRaided Inc. for approximately 5 years now, and have nothing but the utmost admiration for their staff and their service.
  
  When our company was founded 5 years ago, we recognized the importance of having an internet presence to be competitive in our industry and to maximize the services we offered to our customer. We quickly introduced an internet site, and started using WebRaided’s web hosting services. Since then, I’ve found the staff at WebRaided to be friendly and knowledgeable, but above all else patient.
  
  It has been comforting to know that a web hosting company such as WebRaided has been there to help our company adapt to serve my organization’s changing needs. WebRaided has played an integral role in my Company’s day to day operations, and their services can be seen in many aspects of our business.
  
  Regards,
  
  Mike Cindric
  Business Development
  Dynamic Functional Solutions Inc.
  www.dynamicfunc.com
   

Traffic Magnetism
Customers are attracted by WebRaided.com's ability to supply a variety of hosting platforms which eliminate hosting lock-in and its ability to reliably support network and server loads. In addition, as WebRaided.com starts to offer more programming language to use, customers are starting to see that they can get the same levels of flexibility that they have on their own remote computer.

In short, WebRaided.com gives customers the confidence to trust their hosting data by reducing the risks and removing the obstacles associated with deploying a web hosting server across the enterprise.


Success Factors
Since 1999, WebRaided.com has provided an interface for webmasters and leading companies in all industries to accomplish virtually every imaginable website integration challenge from connecting applications and people and squeezing new life from existing assets to sweeping transformations of core business processes to make companies more efficient, more competitive, more profitable and better connected to their partners and customers.

What started as a basic idea has become one of today's most important information technology initiatives ­ web hosting. WebRaided.com continues to lead with innovative web hosting solutions that allow businesses and webmasters make hosting and programming integration technology more accessible and practical.

HostPulse is proud to honour WebRaided.com with a place in our list of the 100 Most Dynamic Web Hosting Companies, 2004. We hope to see more of WebRaided.com moving forward — whether it's an announcement like this or a growth in building successful customer relationship.