
MidPhase
Hosting Review
Based
in Chicago, MidPhase
provides many different types of hosting services to a
diverse range of clients, both individuals and
businesses.
This
is one of the few companies that offer incomparable
value for money by a good combination of services and
competitive costs.
The unique factor is
they offer several value-added products and services in
addition to the basic packages including:
Combined with the
excellent uptime guarantee offered, midPhase has
rapidly emerged as one of the best choices for
people seeking a good and reliable web hosting service
provider.
We all know how
competitive the Internet has become and this makes
downtime a very bad thing. A website that does not work
even for five minutes is a matter of great concern.
While it is not possible for any service provide to
guarantee a full 100% uptime, midPhase does come quite
close with its 99.98% guaranteed uptime per month.
Uptime is displayed in real time to all their customers
to avoid ambiguity.
Like any other
product, one way to determine the reliability and
effectiveness is the number of people using it. midPhase
is impressive as it serves as the host for thousands of
web sites with a global customer base.
Most Internet service providers will set limits on the
number and volume of emails based on the package
purchased. It is a common practice to offer maybe 2-4
email identities for free and charge for additional
mailboxes. MidPhase does away with this limitation, at
least for practical purposes, by allowing each customer
to have 500 email accounts with unlimited email volume
(on most packages). It will be a long time before anyone
is going to need more than 500 accounts. In case,
through some inexplicable reason, you do end up wanting
more services and space, then upgrades are easy. The
more than 200 hosting options are more than sufficient.
Different websites
have different requirements based on the technologies
used to develop them. There is no point in listing all
the encyclopedia of acronyms that signify these
technologies, let us just say that midPhase can handle
anything out there from a simple static website to
the most complicated web application using any
programming language or database.
Nearly every business
likes to have an Internet presence today but there are
few people who know anything about Internet security.
This is probably the most under-appreciated feature
related to any web host provider. midPhase has a good
team of network administrators that maintain a constant
vigil of the entire hosting network to make sure that
all data is safe from malicious damage.
After security, the
next most important thing which - when it is needed is
needed right now - is technical support. midPhase offers
round-the-clock technical support. You can always get in
touch with a human being than some automated system.
Similar to other
service providers today, controlling your account and
settings is accomplished through a web-based control
panel, called Cpanel. Through the Cpanel, users can log
in and manage their files, e-mail settings, monitor disk
usage, view web statistics, and so on. Web statistics
are provided through Webalizer, a very
professional tracking tool.
Customer service is another
admirable factor with connection to midPhase. The
company is clearly focused on making sure that all
customers are completely happy. MidPhase uses its own
technical staff and owns all its equipment, nothing is
outsourced and hence everything is more reliable.