PacificHost began offering web hosting services in 1999 for a small crowd of clients, but within thirteen years, they have managed to grow their client base by over a hundred fold. PacificHost provides award winning hosting services for both personal and business professionals around the world. The company provides services in the web hosting and domain fields. As part of their web hosting services, you’ll find basic shared hosting, reseller hosting, virtual private server hosting and dedicated server hosting.
Features
As part of the basic shared hosting service from PacificHost, you will have a choice of three types of accounts: The Basic, Advanced and Ultra account. The Basic shared hosting plan gives you unmetered bandwidth, unlimited storage, shared SSL certificate, 25 email accounts, 25 databases and the ability to host up to five websites on one account. With the basic account, you will not be able to host more than five websites, regardless of how much space it takes. If you want to host an unlimited number of websites, you would need to choose the advanced shared hosting plan. Lastly, the ultra hosting plan is aimed towards businesses as it provides a free private SSL with a fully dedicated IP address.
Additionally, your hosting account will be powered by an easy to use control panel that includes a website builder, over two hundred popular one-click install scripts, and a bunch of extra perks offered by PacificHost.
Reliability
PacificHost has kept a total uptime of 99.6% for the year 2011, which considered to be quite appropriate for the average server. Servers need to go through regular upgrades and reboots and this will surely cause some sort of downtime. It used to be the case where 100% uptime was not even possible, but that is no longer true. With cloud computing technology taking over some hosting companies, it is now possible to achieve 100% uptime. There are talks of PacificHost using better technology in the upcoming months, so let’s hope for the best.
Support
In an effort to reduce the actual use of live support agents, PacificHost tried to push most of their clients towards the online knowledgebase they have built over the years. The PacificHost FAQ section holds a lot of questions and answers to basic problems that you may experience with your account. However, in the case that there is an issue about your hosting account, you can give them a call at their toll free number. Alternatively, they have a 24/7 live chat system where you can instantly connect with a support agent at PacificHost. For questions or concerns that are of lesser priority, you could submit a ticket, as they get answered fairly quickly.
Value
As PacificHost is still growing, they are constantly trying to grow their client base and in that sense, they are offering their signature unlimited web hosting plan for only $2.49/month. This price is very competitive, since most web hosting companies charge way more for the same level of features and service. Knowing that you will be on a reliable network, you know for a fact that this price is just out of this world. Reseller hosting plans begin at $11.99, while the virtual private servers start at $39.99 per month.
