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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