Canadian web host Netfirms was founded in 1998 and went on to host 1.2 million domains, before being acquired by tech giant Endurance International Group back in 2011. Some Endurance companies keep their profile – HostGator, Bluehost – but Netfirms is different, and seems to have been left to drift since the acquisition.
The website has barely changed since 2012, for instance. The Site Builder page has the headline: ‘In 2013, build your website in just 11 minutes’. The Press Releases page has nothing created after 2010. The Twitter account has three tweets in the past two years, and the Facebook page posts endless ‘special deals’ rather than any useful content or news on company activity. None of this proves anything, but it doesn’t indicate a company that’s pressing forward, making changes, or even trying to maintain what it has already.
Our corporate concerns aside, the base Plus plan seems to offer reasonable value. Spending from $3.49 (£4.35) a month gets you a free domain, unlimited web space, bandwidth, websites and email accounts, along with a drag-and-drop website builder and one-click installs for WordPress and others.
The downside is a significant limit of 5 MySQL databases, and a maximum of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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