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In terms of price, the HostWay web hosting service provider is a tad expensive than many other web hosting companies. Further, it also charges extra for additional features, some of which are offered free by other web hosting providers. But, then HostWay offers an assortment of hosting plans such as ecommerce hosting and enterprise hosting, to name a couple of them, alongside professional website design. So, for a client, who wishes to start from the scratch by building a website for his/her business, the HostWay will be just the one-stop destination that he/she might be looking for, not withstanding the higher prices.

HostWay’s web hosting plans starts from around $13.95 and goes up to near $200 for the highly sophisticated ones. In the case of ecommerce and enterprise web hosting plans, the company virtually handles everything from site design – if the client wishes so – to networking aspects, security, and server maintenance (since most business prefer their websites/applications to be hosted on a dedicated server). The HostWay server choices include TruFlex servers, coloaction servers, and multiple server plans, which the clients can choose depending upon their requirements. HostWay’s other hosting plans include Microsoft Exchange hosting – for small and medium sized businesses – that facilitates mobile email access and wireless synchronization, Private Label web hosting, SharePoint – the internal only website for small enterprises – and Mobile Business Site Builder (a mobile site builder tool) plans. HostWay offers Windows and Linux hosting.

Regarding software support, the HostWay web hosting plans supports Python, Ruby On Rails, PHP4 & 5, Perl, Image Magick, Curl, XML, Real Audio/Video, MySQL, GD etc, meaning that virtually all types of websites can be reliably hosted on its powerful servers. HostWay’s other offers include 30 days money back guarantee, automated online backup for crucial data such as email archive and financial records, 24/7 customer support – through ticketing, email, and telephone (the tutorials available in the website are useful) – HostWay branded reseller affiliate plans, and comprehensive security in terms of spam, virus protection, and firewall. Other features that come with the hosting plans include web based control panel, traffic statistics, free scripts (even though there are only few of them), blog, site chat, search engine power pack – the SEO tool – and podcasting tools.

Overall, the HostWay web hosting plans are good, if not excellent. From a client perspective, it would have been far better, had the company offered more features with no additional cost. But, then HostWay has 99.99% up time and the customer care is also good. To learn more about the hosting plans and other features, visit www.hostway.com

Founded in 1992 in California, APlus.net has, over these years, built a reputation that of being a reliable and trustworthy web hosting service provider. It offers a variety of services and hosting plans to meet the requirement of almost all business websites. This include website design, dedicated servers for high traffic websites and larger businesses, shared hosting plans, domain name search, resellers, firewall services, and website marketing. The shared hosting plans cover Linux, Windows, and Ecommerce plans. 

The web hosting solutions offered by APlus.net are affordable. In other words, it has some of the lowest rates for web hosting in the industry. For example, the Linux hosting plans starts at $5.95 monthly, while the basic Windows hosting plans charge as low as $9.95 per month. During promotional offers, these rates for a year may still go down by a couple of dollars. The basic Ecommerce plans are also relatively cheaper, at $19.95 per month. APlus.net’s unique Web-A-Business solutions could cost $95 a month and above. 

All hosting plans provide plenty of bandwidth and disk space; no issues on that.

Regarding general software support, all of the APlus.net web hosting plans supports Python, Ruby On Rails, PHP4 & 5, Perl, Image Magick, Curl, XML, Real Audio/Video, MySQL, GD etc, meaning that virtually all types of websites can be reliably hosted on its dynamic servers. APlus.net’s other offers/features include Instant Backups for selected plans, 99.99% uptime for all plans, money back guarantee, POP3 Accounts, web mail, spam assassin, domain reseller, search engine booster – the SEO tool - and individual control panels that not only serves as a tool for managing the client account, but also lets the user manage mail and mail options and marketing features such as eTraffic / add-ons.

On the customer service front, APlus.net scores above average. It offers 24×7 email, telephone, and online chat customer support. Their sales support is also available 24/7.

Further, the knowledge base provides answer to common questions/doubts regarding APlus.net’s web hosting plans, web design, and domain name services. The users can also type in their query in the given text box if their question is not already addressed in the knowledge base.

To sum it up, APlus.net offers an array of hosting plans that could meet a wide range of hosting needs. Up time is topnotch so are the customer service, security, and other features. Overall, APlus.net can easily claim to be one of the top web hosting providers in the business today. For more info, see APlus.net’s website - www.aplus.net.