It's nearly impossible to find a bad review for HostRocket out there. They provide solid features for a reasonable monthly fee ($5.99 per month if you sign up for a 24-month plan, $7.99 for a 12-month plan). Their customer service gets solid reviews and they are reliable and proven.
Standout Features
Hosting Package:
For $5.99 (24-month plan) or $7.99 (12-month plan), you can get 1,000+ GB storage space and unlimited monthly bandwidth, domains, subdomains, databases, additional FTP accounts, autoresponders, forwards, aliases, POP3/IMAP email accounts and mailing lists. Email users get webmail access and integrated spam filtering. HostRocket also offers streaming audio/video capabilities, SSL certificate reseller abilities, free Perl module installations, URL redirection, a web-based file manager, custom error page and hotlink protection. Their plan is compatible with Server Side Includes (SSI), phpMyAdmin, PHP 5 with suPHP and eAccelerator, MySQL 5, Perl 5, SSH access, Cron Jobs, Microsoft Expression Web Support and GD/ImageMagick.
Ease of Use:
Ease of use is an area where HostRocket suffered. Their customer service is excellent. They tried their best to help us solve the problems we had with our services. However, we found there was a big learning curve in picking up how to use their features than on any other site we reviewed.
Support and Service:
The customer service with HostRocket is fantastic. They did their best to solve all our problems in a timely manner and were friendly when doing so.
Site Creation Tools:
HostRocket offers site creation tools, but they're way out of the price range of most beginning aspiring web entrepreneurs. The lowest price you would have to pay for them to design your website is $350. It would be helpful if they gave users the option to create their own website rather than having to rely on the company to do the work for them.
Server Access:
HostRocket allows you to create unlimited FTP accounts and is compatible with Cron Jobs, but they don't include .htaccess support and anonymous FTP in their package.
Marketing Tools:
HostRocket has nothing for marketing tools.
Reporting and Statistics:
With HostRocket, you can use AWStats and Webalizer to analyze your traffic. It's unclear whether or not you can access your log files.
Summary:
Overall, HostRocket is a good web hosting service. If you don't mind a two-year commitment, this is an affordable choice for webmasters who anticipate heavy or irregular bandwidth usage on their sites. You won't be disappointed if you decide to go with them. They are reliable and will take good care of your website.
Website: HostRocket
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$5.99
