Gate.com Reviewer's Comments

Gate.com is a good web hosting company that's been serving customers since 1998. Their customer service staff is knowledgeable, friendly and willing to find answers for your hosting questions. Gate.com is an affordable hosting company at $9.95 monthly.

Feature Set:  

Gate.com offers a variety of tools to build your ecommerce system, including: 200 GB of data transfer, 5000 MB of disk space, web based control panel, and FrontPage support. Your Gate.com account will come with 100 MB of MYSQL database access and 500 mailboxes. Your email features will include unlimited aliases, unlimited forwards, and 1 auto responder. Your email access can be POP3 access, IMAP access, SMTP access, or Web Mail access.

Some of the advanced features include PERL v5, PHP 4, SSI (Server Side Includes: Server side commands allow you to perform functions not available through HTML), log access, and password protected directories.

Customer Service:  

Gate.com offers two types of customer support: telephone support and an online support form. Their technical support number is available Monday thru Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm EST. It is not a 24/7-support line, but technical support is available 24/7 online. After completing a support form, Gate.com promises to route your completed support request to the correct department for a quick response.

Control Panel:  

Gate.com uses a basic control panel that provides an assortment of tools to help you in with your web hosting, such as viewing account settings information, setting up and managing email accounts, managing password protection and adding or deleting user accounts. The panel also includes FrontPage setup and website statistics. The website statistics will give you simple explanation of the activity taking place on your web site. This is one area in which Gate.com is weak compared to its competitors. If you are concerned with statistics that are more precise, we recommend our #1 ranked product, iPowerWeb.

Overall, gate.com is a good hosting company for small-sized business. They offer an adequate amount of storage space and monthly data transfer capabilities for the price. They offer reliability with an uptime rating of 99.9% and they have good customer support backed by a 30-day money back guarantee.