General Impression
Web Hosting Pad is an experienced web hosting firm that has been in business for several years that has grown to over 75,000 clients. Besides offering 24 hour support, we notice that this web host has one of the lowest customers turnover in the industry. We wanted to see why so we called the support and we knew immediately that it was because the wait time before getting connected to a representative was instant. This is pretty rare in the web hosting industry especially during peak hours when we called.
Price & Cost Effectiveness
Currently as of mid December, Web Hosting Pad is offering a discount on their web hosting package of $4.95 per month if you subscribe bi-annually and $5.95 per month if you subscribe annually. We thought this price was very competitive in the industry considering that you are not only getting hosting, but domain registration for the price. They probably offer one of the most competitive package in the industry since.
Reliability
WebHostingPad offers 99.9% Uptime. After several weeks of our testing, we feel that Web Hosting Pad offers superb uptime. We haven't had any interruptions on the test sites and we feel that the websites hosted on the servers always seem to run optimally even during peak hours. They also do not overload their servers with excessive users causing the servers to go down.
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Control Panel
WebHostingPad uses the latest version of Cpanel. Their Cpanel has a lot of great add-ons including a website builder tool. This tool is called RVSiteBuilder. It includes a lot of wonderful Royalty Free Images - more than the average site building software. They also include Fantastico Control Panel software suite which includes numerous scripts and software for web hosting
Conclusion
Overall, Web Hosting Pad is an excellent choice for web hosting. It offers fantastic 24 hour support everyday based in America for a low price. The control panel is easy to use and the reliability is superb. For $4.95 per month with a two year plan, we feel that you will not find a better web host especially for the low price they are offering for a limited time.