General Impression
In just a few short years from when it was founded in 2003 in a small home office, HostICan has today grown into a company that is able to handle and service thousands of happy customers from all over the world. Located just outside Richmond, Virginia, HostICan pledges excellent quality and guaranteed satisfaction at an unbeatable price, 24 hours a day and seven days a week to all its customers. The basic motto of this fast growing company is “How can we give more to our customers?” and herein lies their USP.
Price & Cost Effectiveness
These are some of the features that HostICan offers. For starters, you can choose from two special options: either host one domain, or choose unlimited domain names. With both the options, you can avail of a free domain for life. While with the base-host option you are offered 200,000 MB (200GB) disk space, and a bandwidth of 250,000 MB (250GB), at the price of $6.95 a month, with the tera-host option you are offered 500,000 MB (500GB) space and unmetered bandwidth at an unbeatable $10.95 a month. The setup for both options is completely free, thus saving you a tidy amount of & 29.95 on setup charges.
Both the shared domain packages are replete with other special and unusual offers like FTP and SFTP access, Dreamweaver support, Spam and virus filtering mechanisms, free unlimited email, nightly backup, and, most importantly, a 99.99% uptime guarantee. Support for Perl and Python are also offered with both the packages, as are additional features like streaming audio and video support. Both the packages are completely e-commerce enabled, and boast of PayPal support and Merchant Account support. The setup is as easy as ABC, and you can start using your brand new domain name within minutes after you have paid the fee.
Reliability
Online customer support is an interesting feature of HostICan, and the unique guarantee states that your site will be up and running about 99.99% of the time, and that if it does not, the company will credit your account with one month of free hosting. Technical support is offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a thirty day money back guarantee is also provided to all its customers.
Awards
HostICan has caught the attention of industry and customer watchdogs, and the company has managed to snag innumerable awards over a very short period of time. For example, HostICan was one of the first domain providers who won acclaim for ethical business conduct by the ‘Web Hosting Stuff’. The company was the recipient of the CNET Award for the best-certified service and support, and the ‘Approved Host Award’ from ‘FindMyHost’. HostICan is also a proud member of the ‘Better Business Bureau’ of Richmond, Virginia, and has been named by the HostIndex, one of the toughest domain reviewing sites, as the top web hosting company today.
Conclusion
HostICan, a smart young and fast growing company, rated by Review Arena with a total of 5/5, offers some very impressive features indeed. Very cost effective and user friendly,they also boast 24 hour customer service, in which you can either post your questions, or log in to chat live with an efficient customer support person, at any time of the day or night. With the added benefits of e-commerce support and streaming audio and video support, you as a customer would be able to walk away completely satisfied with the product. I would definitely choose this site for my domain hosting, and I would recommend it to others as well.