DuVash Top 10's

Founded in California in 1997 StartLogic slowly grew, and today they are hosting over 100,000
domains, offering more diversity in their plans than most hosting providers (All but DreamHost and
GoDaddy actually) you’ll find.

StartLogic plans are targeted at the common beginner as well as the advanced developer.
In addition to the conventional means of customer support, StartLogic also offers a number of
other useful tools to help you overcome any problems you are experiencing.

Plans And Pricing:
StartLogic most popular plan is the  “ProLogic” plan which is very cost effective.
For $4.95 a month, this plan comes with unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited e-mail
accounts, CGI, PHP, MySQL, and more. This plan also comes with a free domain name.
For the amount of features that you get, including software support, multimedia, host manager,
web builder, pre-configured scripts, e-commerce and promotions, this plan is actually quite a steal.

Another unique plan at StartLogic is “WindowsLogic”.
It comes with 2GB of disk space and 60 GB of bandwidth for $9.95 a month, in addition
to the features mentioned in the ProLogic plan.
This plan is slightly more expensive than the ProLogic plan because it is for ASP.NET developers,
offering .NET support.

Data Center:
StartLogic’s data center is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and provides redundant optical fiber
connections through such companies as Cox, Qwest, and ELI, in addition to multiple Internet
backbone providers, including UUNET, Broadwing, and Global Crossing.
Like most data centers, the facility is equipped with raised floors, temperature control systems,
redundant power, physical security, and surveillance systems. Servers up-time with this company
has also been excellent, and StartLogic was praised a-lot for it.
StartLogic has strategically located their data center in Phoenix, Arizona, due mainly to the city’s
protection from extreme climates and being home of the world’s largest power plant.

Customer Service:
StartLogic’s customer service team is actually almost identical to that of LunarPages.
The thing that stands out about StartLogic is the amount of self-help resources they have
on their web site. Customers can use a troubleshooter in which a step-by-step approach
is taken until the problem is resolved, in case something went wrong using the Getting-Started-Guide.
The site also features FAQ sheets and a Knowledge-Base,  categorized for easy searching.
Of course, if you cannot find your answer in their self-help, or simply choose not to use it,
you can rest assured that you will receive quality responses in a timely manner.
You may also use StartLogic’s Toll-Free no., or the live chat right on their web site.

Control Panel:
StartLogic uses the vDeck control panel, which is one of the most functional and versatile
web site managers on the Internet today. The vDeck is of course slightly different than cPanel,
but still (and maybe even more) very easy to use for almost any user.
The panel allows you to manage every aspect of your web site and it is complete with tutorials,
walk-thrus, and a help center. The vDecks best feature is that it makes complex procedures
such as building a web site or installing comprehensive CGI, PHP, or Java scripts simple.

Conclusion:
StartLogic has proven they are capable of serving web sites with maximum server uptime and
efficient customer service. Although StartLogic itself is a fairly new web host, the people behind
StartLogic have actually been in the hosting industry for many years, and will be an excellent choice
in quality web hosting.
Visit the official StartLogic website.

Total Score: 5 Stars

BlueHost was founded at 1996 in the already growing market of hosting providers.
13 years later they are one of the major hosts for business as well as personal websites.
They are both affordable and reliable and have won many awards including Support Award
in 2004 and the Best New Host award from 100BestWebHosting in the year 2003

BlueHost Features:
Bluehost’s hosting cPanel is easy to use with a friendly user interface, rich with features,
which are easily accessible, and include file & mail management, web & disk usage statistics,
forums, fine domain tuning (DNS, Sub-domains etc), search engine submission, security settings
and many more

BlueHost Support:
BlueHost provides quick and responsive support, at the highest level. BlueHost , as many other
web hosts offers several methods of customers support – email, telephone and chat customer support.
They also post a comprehensive help section, which includes FAQ, live chat, and a knowledge base
where customers can search previously asked questions to find quick answers.

BlueHost Hosting center:
BloeHost data center consists of High Performance Xeon Servers, OC-48 backbone connection,
UPS power back-up, diesel back-up generator, 24/7 network monitoring, and mirrored storage backups.
They also guarantee 99.9% network and server up-time, as expected.

Conclusion:
BlueHost offers a great value for your buck.
With award winning customer support , reliability,  and infrastructure, you have another great
choice for a personal website/own business hosting solution.

Total Score – 4.5 Stars

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If you’re shopping for website and domain hosting, you cannot afford to make your move
without taking a look at all that GoDaddy.com has to offer. If you seek a reliable company,
an easy handle on things, and all in one place service – check GoDaddy.com out.

GoDaddy.com offers three plans:

1. Economy Plan – $4.99/month
2. Deluxe Plan – $6.99/month
3. Unlimited Plan – $14.99/month

• The 12-, 24-, and 36-month plans all offer 5%, 10%, and 15% savings, respectively.

GoDaddy.com Hosting Features:
With GoDaddy.com you’ll have the added benefit of domain registration and hosting for only
$1.99/month more. There are more features and services such as SQL databases, Ruby, FTP,
Installers, Mail and even a built-in SEO and search engine submitter that make GoDaddy.com
a very compelling hosting service.

GoDaddy.com Support:
GoDaddy.com has direct control and responsibility for the data center operation and performance
as they owns, operates, and support their entire hosting data centers  “down to the very last disk
and cable”.
This lets them offer a 99.9% up-time commitment.
They also offer 24×7 monitoring, FTP access, physical security, along with email-, phone-,
and web-based technical support.

GoDaddy.com Conclusion:
GoDaddy.com makes it extremely simple for first-time hosting clients with their
Product Advisor/ Q&A Wizard that will assemble the services and features that
according to the clients input answers.Their competitive pricing and wealth of features
makes GoDaddy.com a must-see hosting choice. Its actually hard for us to imagine
you’ve never heard of them, or seen their offers.

Total Score – 5 Stars

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LunarPages started back in year 2000 when Add2Net Cooperation expanded its business
on to a shared hosting services. They currently are serving more than 150,000 users worldwide.

LunarPages offer various hosting packages:
Basic Hosting for standard Linux shared hosting;
Business Hosting for advance e-commerce web hosting,
LPQuicksite Hosting for ready-made website hosting;
Mini-Mail Hosting for e-mail hosting… etc.

LunarPages Web host also offer extremely low down time. Some web hosts might limit
your file upload size, daily bandwidth limit, have slow server load time, or worse, poor server up-time.
You, as a customer, should be aware of these issues.

LunarPages have no hidden rules. What you buy IS what you get. The full specs of it.
You can even upload a single 1,500 GB file 10 times to their server (just to finish off your bandwidth limit).
To conclude the subject – LunarPages hosting server uptime is very respectable.

Installers:
Very efficient software updating platform is in place at LunarPages.
They remain on the cutting edge of provided software, such as WordPress, Joomla, and other
typical (and less typical) installers.

Customer Support
Lunarpages has most positive feedbacks on their customer support.
Lunarpages spends a great deal of money hiring a support staff, no out-sourcing,
to take care of their customers.
Need help? Reach Lunarpages CS via email, help desk, toll free call, or the forums.

Conclusion:
If you’re looking for an affordable and reliable web host, an easy to handle cPanel, highly remarked
Customer Support Center, plus many good attributes – then Lunarpages is your choice

Total Score: 4 Stars

HostGator was founded in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida. Host Gator is composed to take the lead
in the highly competitive and closely compacted world of web hosting providers.
HostGator is about three years old, but their reputation for service and support is growing
by leaps and bounds. It’s claimed to provide reliable service, superior support and affordable
pricing to businesses and individuals seeking quality shared hosting, reseller, or dedicated web hosting
solutions.

Features:
HostGator chooses CPanel as user control panel.
CPanel is very user friendly, extremely feature rich and it includes an easy-to-use web based interface.
Other features included in the control panel are Hotlink Protection, Ip deny manager, Custom Error pages,Instant
Blogs, Instant Portals, Instant php nuke, Instant Chatroom, Instant Forums, Instant Guestbook, InstantCounter,
Instant Formmail, Redirect URL, web based ftp, PW Protected Directrories and phpMyAdmin.

Support:
* 3 way contact support, via telephone, email and by live chat.
* Ticket System, to view your ticket history
* Automated Billing System
* Knowledgebase – Find answers to your pre-sales, billing, and support needs.
* Flash Tutorials
* Online Hosting Community, to communicate with other users to solve your problem.

Data center:
The Planet’s Data Center boasts over 35,000 square feet of raised floor space featuring state-of-the-art
security, safety, and cooling systems and is second-to-none in the industry.
* (21) 26-ton Data Air AC units
* Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system
* Over 500 smoke detectors in an integrated system
* Simplex security badge entry/exit on all doors to facility
* Multiple TXU electrical grids
* 4800 volts of input power
* 3 main transfer switches
* 1-megawatt generator (2000-gallon tank)
* 1.5-megawatt generator (2200-gallon tank)

DataTrax monitoring software for all data center infrastructure.

Reliability/speed:
Choosing Host Gator means that your sites will be accessible via a fully meshed and redundant Certified
Cisco Network featuring 10 backbone providers.
These providers include: UUNet, Sprint, Level 3, Global Crossing, Verio, AT&T, Time Warner, Allegiance
Telecom, Broadwing, AboveNet.

HostGator with in 3 years of time it has won several awards (5-star host by webhostmagazine.com) gaining
a high reputation in the market. They haven’t experienced any traffic down turn in past 2 years.
Their Alexa ranking is also high which proves that the traffic level is increasing instantly.

Conclusion:
HostGator are extremely affordable, have extremely reliable servers and friendly support.
Recommended highly as a dedicated server host for the cPanel lovers.

Total Score: 4.5 Stars

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How Velocity Marketer Hosting was born:
The idea behind Velocity Marketer Hosting came about In a search for affordable hosting solutions
to offer affiliates and members that provided both low cost and high function.
With the opinion that their competitors sites had some major drawbacks to any so called budget host.

Things to look for and watch out from in the budget hosting industry:

• Hidden fees that make a budget host cost more than a traditional host when you try to install a script based site. From low limits on MYSQL databases to lack of Cron support or having to buy add-ons for video, low disk space
  usage allowed, and more by the time you purchased the add-on on hosting services a $4.99 account could
  run you $30 a month or more.
• Poor Support: Imagine your site being on hold for days on end while the support ticket system is ignored or not manned at all. You decide to spend the cash on the long  distance phone call to get an answering machine
  and a call back 2-3 days later from a tech that can’t do anything and has to refer your problem to someone else.
  These are days you lose money.
• Down Time: imagine most of these hosts had at least some degree of downtime above the promised 98%
  up time,some hosts have servers in bad weather areas and no back up generators, they have slow connections
  and too many accounts per server. Some of them (like our last low cost server host) could go out for 24-48 hours
  at a time which would hurt our business as much or more than theirs.

Velocity Marketer Hosting is a different view in that market.

VM Hosting operates on some of the most reliable servers in the world hosted on the backbone of
one of North America’s largest hubs. They are fast, reliable, and well maintained.  Their servers have
back ups and options that most hosts can not support. A team of dedicated professionals handling support
desk duties. Even in the event that the first person can not address your issues there is someone in house
that will provide a rapid response to take care of your needs 24/7.
PDF downloads and on site FAQ sections that are constantly updated to keep you online and get you out of snags
even before you submit a ticket.

“If there is even one script our servers will not support we have not found it yet!”

The programs offered include search engines, online gaming sites, dating and community sites,
advertising programs, and sites that offer download of files and videos with no service issues and blazing speeds.
Velocity Marketer Hosting is definitely a big thumbs up for the DuVash crew!