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HostRocket – Shared Web Hosting Review

HostRocket Company Background

HostRocket Is a privately held, shared web hosting company that was started in 1999, It is headquartered in Upstate New York with its data center (the place where all the shared web hosting magic takes place)in Clifton Park, New York. HostRocket hosts close to 50,000 websites, giving them a serious foothold in the shared web hosting market, they know what makes a client happy and they have proven they provide the hosting services and customer service for an affordable price that keeps clients with them.

While they specialize in shared web hosting, HostRocket uses their vast knowledge to provide additional services to clients such as dedicated server hosting and collocation (where the client provides their own equipment).

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Financially HostRocket has grown consistently since 1999 and achieved its growth without financing from banks, outside investors or venture capital firms, this makes HostRocket a company that does not need to bow under pressure to profit hungry investors.

Pricing and Value

HostRocket ‘s shared website hosting is offered in the form of a Reseller Web Hosting package and is named appropriately. But don’t let the name scare you off if you are not intending on selling hosting to other people this package is an excellent value for anyone who wants to host just one website to someone who has fifty or more, and yes if you ever want to sell webhosting this package is suited well for it.
What you get for your $4.99 monthly fee:
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Host unlimited domains
unlimited sub-domains
unlimited databases
unlimited FTP accounts
Free site backups

Web-mail (access your mail while traveling)
Unlimited email accounts & Auto responders
Web statistics
PHP 5, MySQL 5, Perl 5
Server side include ability, SSH access

cPanel and WHM Control panel
phpMyAdmin (manage and backup your MySQL databases easily)
Free perl module installations

Free software for your website(s) and super easy software installation
When we spoke with the technical department at HostRocket they also mentioned that you get WordPress (blog software), phpBB (bulletin/forum), Drupal (content management), OS Commerce (E-Commerce), Image gallery programs, Mailing list software, Polls & survey plugins and over 40 other Free Software tools that are easily installed with the Fantastico Deluxe installer

Reliability

HostRocket customers are given a 99.5% uptime guarantee, They are also one of the few webhosting companies to offer RAID 1 protected storage on their shared web hosting plans, using Name Brand network equipment such as Cisco switches and routers helps to make sure your website will not be down because of second-rate hardware. Add redundant cooling units for the server room, electrical circuits that are run at only 75% of their maximum, full UPS battery backup provided by APC with a powerful Kohler diesel generator that starts up within 4 seconds of a power outage, virtually eliminating the need for their battery backups this data center is built to keep your website up and running smoothly.
Full time staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year are on site to make sure everything runs smoothly at all times. With the right technicians in place they are able to handle software, hardware or network issues right away.

Control Panel – (the tool used in administration of your hosting account)

As a client of Hostrocket’s shared web hosting plan you get the use of the award winning cPanel and WHM control panel. cPanel is one of the most widely used commercial control panels, using large icon buttons and easy to read menus, so chances are once you have learned how to use it (it is very easy with its intuitive point and click interface) you will be able to control your websites even if you want to change web hosts years down the road.

Data Center:

The building housing your shared web hosting account (or dedicated server hosting account if you want the freedom of an entire server) is located at 21 Corporate Dr., in Clifton Park, New York. With ten thousand of the building’s fifty two thousand square feet the Data Center can hold thousands of web servers and has the ability to double in size if need be providing years of additional growth.

Data center connection – They have a redundant (meaning they have a backup) OC-12 fiber loops that run straight from Hostrocket to the Time Warner Telecommunications network, a network of fiber that connects your website so the data can go out on any number of carriers.

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Sample view of a typical cPanel shared web hosting control panel

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