You may not know the name, but New York-based HostRocket has been providing hosting services since 1999, runs its own data centres, and currently manages around 50,000 websites.
The company’s own website doesn’t inspire much enthusiasm, unfortunately, being a dated-looking list of HostRocket’s various products: shared hosting, VPS, reseller, dedicated servers and so on. These aren’t presented well, and it’s not always easy to compare what the various products have to offer.
HostRocket’s starter Website Hosting product offers unlimited everything – storage, bandwidth, websites, email accounts – for $5.99 (£4.28) a month. That sounds good, especially with a free website builder thrown in (RVSiteBuilder), but there are some concerns. You must pay for two years’ service up-front to get the advertised price, and if you choose a monthly or six-monthly cycle you’re hit with a $29.99 (£21.43) setup fee.
An SSD Shared Hosting plan gives you speedy SSD RAID storage, but limits storage space, bandwidth, and the number of sites you can host, while also costing notably more. For instance, the baseline SSD Premium plan gives you 5GB SSD storage, 200GB of monthly bandwidth and one free domain name, but is …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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