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Netfirms Web Hosting Plans
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Plus |
Advantage |
Business |
| Cost
/ Month |
$4.95 |
$9.95 |
$14.95 |
| Domain |
$25 |
FREE |
FREE |
| Setup
Cost |
FREE |
FREE |
FREE |
| Diskspace |
250MB |
1000MB |
2000MB
(2GB) |
| Monthly
Transfer |
2GB |
50GB |
100GB |
| WebMail
Email |
5
Accounts |
100
Accounts |
200
Accounts |
| Domain
Forwarding |
2 |
25 |
50 |
| MySQL
Database |
- |
10
Databases |
20
Databases |
|
Plus |
Advantage |
Business |
| Money
Back Guarantee |
30
Days |
30
Days |
30
Days |
| 24/7
Customer Service |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Catch
All Email Forwarding * |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Highly
Scaleable Hosting Platform |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Instant
Activation |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| 24/7
FTP Access |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| FrontPageŽ
Server Exts. |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Perl
/ CGI-BIN Scripts |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| SSI |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Flash |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Website
Traffic Stats |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| FREE
Hit Counters |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Friendly
Support |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| No
Banners Ads |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Multimedia
Files Allowed (MP3, AVI, MPEG, etc) |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| PHPBB
Board |
NO |
YES |
YES |
| PHP
Scripting |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| POP
Mail * |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| SSL |
|
YES |
YES |
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About
the Company:
In less than five years, Netfirms has become one of
the fastest growing Web Hosting companies in the world.
They currently host over 1,200,000 Websites and that
number increases every minute. Started in 1998, Netfirms
is committed to providing feature heavy hosting packages
for the lowest prices.
Netfirms
Best Features:
1. Free Domain Name For Life:
Netfirms offers anyone who signs up with the Advantage
or Business plan, a Free Domain name ($25 value per
year), for as long as they hold the plan. This offer
works with all top-level domain names including .com,
.net, .org, .info, and .biz.
2.
Free Shopping Cart:
Netfirms recently added Commerce Pro to their Advantage
and Business plan for free. This e-commerce solution
is both shopping cart and store manager in one. Major
features include instant - one click - activation, sell
1-10,000 items securely, easy web-based control panel
to manage your store, Amazon-like shopping experience
and special discount rates with Authorize.net. No programming
skills are required to use this feature. To learn more
visit: www.netfirms.com/commercepro
3.
Free Web Design Software:
All Netfirms customers have access to free web design
software - NetObjects Fusion 7 ($149 value). This award-winning
software was designed to make professional Website building
easy and fast. To learn more visit: http://www.netfirms.com/startercd.
4.
Control Panel:
Customers at Netfirms have access to their Website account
tools and billing through a customized control panel.
Password protected, the Netfirms control panel gives
you access to Advanced Website Statistics, Billing History
and upgrading, E-mail account manager, domain name manager
as well as tools like bulletin board, Commerce Pro,
MySQL databases and NetObjects Fusion 7.
Netfirms
Technology:
Netfirms
uses a cluster of servers to handle the needs of
their Websites. This kind of advanced technology is
the same used by Fortune 500 corporations because it
eliminates dependency on any one server. The multi-server
method improves response time, site availability and
concurrency. If ever one server goes down, the others
pick up the extra work load, thus providing 99.9% uptime.
Netfirms
Customer Review:
The support staff at Netfirms works very hard to keep
response time low and valuable feedback high. On average
they only take 1-2 hours to respond to a customer request
E-mail.
Money
Back Guarantee:
Netfirms is so confident in the quality of their products
and services that plans include an unconditional 30
day money back guarantee. Whatever the reason, you can
cancel your account within 30 days of activation and
receive a refund.
Netfirms
Website:
Netfirms Website (visit
Website) can be navigated easily and every feature
is explained in layman's terms. Everything is straight
forward and there are no hidden fees. Hundreds of questions
are answered in the Support FAQ pages, complete with
demos and step-by-step instructions of the most complicated
task. You can access your control panel from the homepage
and manage every aspect of your site account.
Conclusion:
Netfirms hosting service is a great deal at a great
price. Not only does Netfirms provide good value for
money, but they continue to improve all their services.
For example, they have recently dramatically increased
their monthly bandwidth and storage for the Advantage
and Business plan, added Free Web design software, a
Free Domain Name and an easy to use Shopping cart tool.
Recommendation:
Launched in 1998, Netfirms specializes in both free
and low-cost hosting. Their free service includes FREE
Website design software, 25MB of web space, subdomain
(www.yourname.netfirms.com),
advanced CGI scripts capability, MS Frontpage support,
fast OC-12 backbone and easy setup. For a plan as low
as $4.95/mo you get eliminate banner ads, and for $9.95/mo
you get a FREE domain name, PHP support,10 MySQL databases,
100 e-mail accounts and 500MB of web space.
Strengths of Netfirm Web Hosting:
Well established company and growing rapidly, Netfirms
hosts over 1,000,000 small business Websites. They offer
every customer Free Website design software (award-winning
NetObjects), 24/7 LIVE customer service (phone, e-mail,
chat) and services are always improving.
Netfirm Weaknesses:
Free domain Name is only for Advantage ($9.95) plan
or higher. Basic (free) plan is limited with only 1
E-mail account (domain name required), and it doesn't
include MySQL databases or Multimedia and PHP support.
Statement from the Host:
In less than five years, Netfirms has become the
fastest growing Web Hosting company in the world. We
currently host over 1,000,000 Websites.
Our success is built on trust. Each person hosting a
site with Netfirms has 24/7 access via phone or e-mail
to our friendly, highly trained staff. Every Website
is put on our clustered server platform to ensure speed,
security and dependability. And with hosting plans as
low as $4.95/mo, customers know they are getting the
best deal on the net.
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