websitecities Review

Overview

Under $7.95 plan, people need to signup for 1 year in order to waive the setup fee.

Websitecities was founded in the summer of 2001 and is quickly becoming the leader in web hosting services as we expand to meet the needs of the customers. They come into existence because they wish to offer clients a peaceful and trouble-free solution. After searching for the perfect web hosting company, they realize that each company has its flaws and we have taken the liberty of avoiding those flaws to create Website Cities, a community of websites with minimal downtime, and high software availability.

Plan Size and Features

450 MB of disk space and 35 GB of bandwidth is consider large storage and large disk space. Check out expensive host like HostWay.com to see how much you will need to pay to get the same (answer: $49.95/mo + $39.95 setup). Plan details are listed in the chart on your left.

Customer Support

They provide 4 different kinds of customer support. They have many support staffs (Max, Lee, Chris, Chad, Stephan ...) and all of them are very friendly and most important, they have very good knowledge in assisting you.

1. Email support - no matter you are a current customer or you just need to ask some presale questions. Useful reply means they will give you the exact answer you need.

2. AIM Support AIM support means that you can can get instant message support from them. you can go to the site websitecities.com (under client support) to see this special support method.

3. Toll Free Support - Support is free through phone.

Highlights

1. Up to Date Software - websitecities is the most effective host in keeping their software up to date. Software that we are referring include PHP, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL, Perl, Linux Kernel and others. It is very frustrated when you realize that your host is not updating their software. And by that time you realize it, you have already paid for the hosting.

2. AIM Support - You can get instant support after you download the messager.

3. Full Web Statistics Referrals - They configure the Webalizer web stats to show all your site referrals even if you have more than 1000 referrals. Almost all other web hosts configure their stats program to list only the top 30 referrals!

4. CPanel Control Panel - websitecities uses CPanel as the web site control panel. Another popular control panel is Plesk. But from our experience, CPanel is far more user friendly and powerful then Plesk. It allow you to control a lot of things including email accounts, MySQL databases, custom error messages, password protected directories, setting up forum, shopping cart, chat room, cron jobs, subdomains, MIME types, apache handlers, search engine submission, free CGI scripts and many more. Plesk are designed to control basic things only such as email and MySQL databases (no such thing as setting up forum or cron jobs in Plesk).

5. Mailing List - You can create 1 mailing list. Web hosts today seldom support mailing list.

6. 24/7 Network Monitoring - This can ensure high site up time at 99.9%.

7. SSL/shopping card support - Web hosting solutions in websitecities accommodate all of your needs whether it is business or personal.

Order Process

They usually set up your site in the same day of your order (except Sunday).

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