Monday, June 2, 2008

WebHostingPad


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UNLIMITED* Hosting Space
UNLIMITED* Bandwidth
Host UNLIMITED Domains
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Databases
Unlimited FTP Accounts
Free Site Builder
Get up to 6 months FREE (WOW)



CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL
Anti Virus and SPAM Protection
Free Domain Name for life
Ecommerce Enabled w/ Secure Server
$50 ™ Ad credit* (HOT)
$25 ™ Ad credit*
$30 ™ Ad credit*
Free Professional Consulting (WOW)


WebHostingPad was formed in 2005 as a divison of Omnis Networks which has been in the web hosting industry since 1999 and currently manages more than 200,000 accounts.

CEO: Gary Chon
Offices: Chicago, IL
Data center: Chicago, IL
User experience
Our Web Hosting Pad test site showed good response and uptimes.

Follow up:

WebHostingPad is a standard cPanel 11 host. There is a little bit of wasted white space in the panel skin, but that is definitely not any major issue.

Only a single concurrent FTP connection is possible. This is annoying if you want to update your site often with large amounts of files. You will not be able to parallelize uploads.

Customer satisfaction
WebHostingPad is a fairly recent hosting company growing very fast due to word of mouth by their satisfied customers.

Technical specs
WebHostingPad custom build their own servers. Each web server is a dual Xeon server with 8GB of system RAM. Furthermore, the shared web hosting service is delivered from a load-balanced cluster of servers and files are served from a Netapp network attached storage device. This ensures high availability and consistent performance for all user accounts.

MySQL 5.0.45 - Up to date
PHP 5.2.45 - Up to date
UTF-8 and mbstring: supported
Overall, the platform is state of the art.

Section updated April 30th, 2008.

Security
Web Hosting Pad is running suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans
WebHostingPad offers a single hosting plan:

WHP Plan
Monthly fee (× 6 mo) $7.95
Monthly fee (× 12 mo) $5.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo) $4.95
Disk space Unlimited
Transfer Unlimited
Included domain name free
Domains per account Unlimited
b2evo auto install yes

Options
SSH: $25

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