Overall Editor's Rating
85%		Overall Rating
96%		Price
82%		Features
74%		Support
93%		Reliability
80%		Speed

Business Operation
since 1997

Number of Websites Hosted
30,000
 

Overview & Company Description
The web hosting business is a web space business strategy that is designed to provide web space, reliable hosting services and keep the most profitable customers. A true hosting solution can be summed up as follows: an integrated system of both hardware and software, encompassing network and servers systems through to a customized, web-based front-end environment focusing on delivering web pages efficiently and enabling improved data transfer interactions, increased hosting flexibility and ultimately increased customer satisfaction.
While much advancement has been made since web hosting services emerged 10 years ago, the philosophy behind web hosting has remained true to its roots. Web hosting is about uptime availability. The way to maintain and sustain data availability is through good network service. Good network service is the key to building long-lasting, profitable web hosting services and uplinkearth.com is responding by supplying the technology to make it possible.

Founded in 1997, New Jersey-based uplinkearth.com is in the business of offering Windows and ASP.net web hosting services. The starting price of a shared ASP.net web hosting is US$4.95 per month. Its Primary and Starter hosting plan has the features of using Asp, Aspx, Cfmx, Php, Perl, integrated shopping cart and merchant account systems.

As one of the market hosting leaders in offering multiple scripting language options and one of most trusted hosting providers of multi domain solutions, Uplinkearth listens intently to its customers' business challenges and needs to bring true innovation and value to its hosting services. Its customers are not only seeking greater performing data availability and hosting solutions, they are also requesting greater manageability to help them remove the complexity of today's networked hosting accounts.
 

Why we like this company

• Customers have the options to use most of the predominant web programming languages available on the web today. The Asp, Aspx, Cfmx, Php, Perl language are installed on its web servers.
   
• Users can host multiple domains with MX mail functions
   
• Affordable Windows and ASP hosting account at only US$50.40 per year
   
• Uplinkearth's Advanced Plan is comprehensive. Take a look at it at http://www.uplinkearth.com/virtualHosting.cfm?view=advanced
   

Customer Support & Rating  74%  

• Chatting with Michael Yablonowitz, CEO and founder of uplinkearth.com, HostPulse found out its customer and network information systems are optimized for real-time, ad hoc business inquiry and support. This enables the company to bolster their IT infrastructures in support of effective customer service and network information management. HostPulse.com also found out the company is taking the complex work of achieving effective hosting intelligence and information management as a one of their goals in 2005 for absolute imperative of its hosting business, which is essential for effective decision support and information sharing.
   
• The company is offering two ways for customers to get support for their hosting accounts. Customers may contact via ticketing system at https://cpanel.uplinkearth.com/ and via telephone at 800.745.3043 for customers in the U.S. and 732-627-0007 for customers outside the U.S.
   
• Several testing processes were implemented to find out its ticket support credibility. Indeed, there are problems that were escalated for rapid access to experienced technical support staff. HostPulse.com found that they provide responsive assistance to help customers maximize usage availability.
   

Hosting Plan & Price that stand out  96%  
If you are seriously looking for a hosting plan and at the same time, reselling is the option, the Quantum Plan suits you most. The cost is US$35 per month.

HostPulse.com has conducted numerous server testing on the package above and finds that this is the best shared hosting plan in terms of flexibility and value.
 

Network Connection and Infrastructure
The uplinkearth datacenter has 2 DS3 connections to the upstream provider's backbone and one DS3 which is used for redundancy. The datacenter is directly connected to the backbone which means it takes only one "hop" for uplinkearth to access the internet. Furthermore the upstream datacenter is a OC192 network which promotes growth and technological stability for uplinkearth.
 

Reliability Rating  93%  
To help ensure website continuity for its customers, its technical staff has bi-weekly training to focus on improving the security and reliability of its network processes. This includes hands on training on enabling the recovering from disaster and hazard mitigation planning which are both necessary to protect customer's website investment.

Reliability problems arise with increasing frequency as network systems of web servers, information transmission, firewalls and interconnection become more and more complex. The company also conducts bi-weekly analysis and investigation to find out problems and to survey potential practical applications with an emphasis on solving issues immediately to improve network uptime.

The company has also programmed its system so it can be updated when required in a manner that continues to provide for network availability, security and integrity. Manuals, software patches, anti-virus resources are available to maintain and upgrade the system. Procedures are in place to manage, schedule, and document all planned changes and modifications to the hosting system. There are some procedures existing to allow for and control emergency changes and only authorized, tested and documented hosting changes are made to the system. If you looking for reliable UK hosting, please read user reviews and compare hosting plans.

Web Server Type

• Hardware Standards
• Pentium 2.8 GHZ
• 2 GB of RAM
• 200 GB RAID 0 Hard Drives, SATA 133
• Redundant N.I.C.
• Redundant Power
• Windows 2003 Server (Web Edition)
   

Other Services, Marketing and Design
Although the company is hosting more than 12,000 domains, the company is not resting on its laurels. The company continues to expand beyond this market by creating a direct relationship with the small and medium-sized businesses through packaged services that remove the middleman. With assistance from uplinkearth, a new business can register its own domain (abccompany.com), set up its own email, create/program its own website, direct market, and track response all within one company. In the coming year, this effort will be expanded to include even more value added services that will further strengthen the offer. By providing the SME these tools, customers save money and time.

The company also has a whole suite of services designed to help small to medium sized business maximize their web presence. These include:

• Uleexpress – a shopping cart service
• Merchant Link – a full-service credit card processing system
• Ulewebtrax – a web tracking tool based on Urchin technology
• Uleblast – for search engine distribution
• Web Design – including brand strategy, database design and website creation
   

Hosting Features & Rating  82%  

• CM4all Website Creator
• ULeexpress
• Merchant Link
• Ulewebtrax
• Uleblast
• Spam Filter
• ASP.Net
• SQL Server 2000 Database
• PHP
• MySQL Database
• Cold Fusion
• Perl
• Custom Error Pages
• Frontpage 2000 extension
• Active Server Page support
   

Website Speed  80%  

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Traffic Magnetism
The central tenet of Uplinkearth's business philosophy has always been to provide optimum value for its customers. Uplinkearth goes beyond just pioneering and establishing hosting processes to marketing optimization – the company ties its hosting solutions and marketing services directly to the value that its customers will receive in savings and efficiency in running their websites.

Customers are attracted by commitment of Uplinkearth's technical staff. A primary value of Uplinkearth is the personal commitment exhibited by its staff. "At other hosting companies, too many customers were, and still are, disappointed by their hosting performance," says Michael Yablonowitz. "It was obvious that we at Uplinkearth had to differentiate ourselves by meeting promises. First and foremost, we uphold our standards for network uptime and support responsiveness. This formula for success may not sound novel, but the hosting industry has apparently forgotten, or never learned, many basic business principles."
 

Accomplishments
The company received more than 30 awards in the past few years, including top awards from Host Review, WebhostDirectory, HostPulse and Hosting Catalog.
 

Success Factors
Customers choose uplinkearth.com for its best-of-the-breed Windows and ASP hosting technology, deep vertical-industry experience, proven hosting and marketing solutions, strategic partnerships and outstanding services. The results: improved return on investment and increased efficiency in managing websites.

"Our sales are built entirely on referrals and affiliates" says Michael Yablonowitz. "Once customers sign up with us, we want to satisfy their hosting needs. In other words, we are in the business of selling web space and retaining these customers. We then get feedbacks from them about our hosting plans, features and network uptime. Based on their inputs, we then evaluate the hosting services and customer support to ensure that it meets critical standards necessary for commercial success concerning usability, maintainability, reliability, availability and scalability."

The company is now at the challenge in this business is grow at a steady rate without compromising the service to its existing customers. Uplinkearth has demonstrated its stability and credibility to customers, while leading them through the complex evolution of hosting technologies and processes.

"We are a customer-driven company. Our goal is to help clients achieve better economics and confidence in meeting their business challenges. This is how we create shareholder value for our customers and for ourselves," continued the CEO of Uplinkearth. With the goal to help web users achieve better website management and meeting website objectives, and its dedication and single-minded vision of its staff, the company is poised for greater success. The dedication and single-minded vision of its experienced staff with further ensure this.