Aplus.Net Hosting Review
http://www.Aplus.Net
Our Rating = 9 out of 10About Aplus.Net
In business since mid 1998, Aplus.Net operates their own data center in San Diego, California which has excellent connectivity to the internet using OC-12 and OC-96 connections to major internet backbones WorldCom/UUnet and Sprint. Aplus.Net must be doing something right, they are the recipient of many well deserved awards, such as being rated one of the Top 3 ISPs in San Diego, listed as a TopHosts Top 5 Hosting Company and catching the eye of CNET to win their Editor's Choice Award for good product design, performance, quality and value. All unix hosting plans come with a free domain and a 30 day money back guarantee. Read our detailed Aplus.Net review below for more information.
Unique Hosting Options
One of the things that I like about Aplus.Net is the fact that they offer inexpensive Windows and Unix hosting services. This provides an excellent opportunity for hosting resellers and clients who operate multiple websites. Instant account activation, a 30 day money back guarantee and an unbeatable uptime guarantee which promises that your website will be accessible to the world 99.9% of the time should make you feel a bit more comfortable hosting with Aplus.Net. The most unique feature that I noticed is that they provide unlimited online photo and file storage via private websites so you can easily store and manage your files, create multiple photo albums and upload pictures from your camera ready phone! Definately a neat bonus.
Benefits of Hosting with Aplus.Net
The most economical shared hosting package that Aplus.Net offers is the Solo XR plan, providing 2000 MB of disc storage and 50 GB/mo of data transfer for only $9.95 per month, plenty of room is available for large or expanding websites. Not only do you recieve generous bandwidth and storage amounts, Aplus.Net provides free domain name (yourname.com) registration, as well as the ability to host multiple domains through the use of the control panel and access to online file and photo storage. Many other attractive features are included, like: virus protection, off-site tape backup storage, your own secure server certificate (SSL), SSH Access, search engine submission, search engine optimization and access to over 200 software tools and libraries including front page extensions, php4, perl, java, etc. All of this is included in UNIX shared hosting plans from Aplus.Net.
Shared windows hosting is also available. Starting at $9.95 per month Aplus.Net' Primo plan allows 500MB of storage and 40GB of data transfer per month. Free domain name (yourname.com) is also provided with shared windows hosting accounts. The Primo Plan is an ideal entry-level Windows hosting account. Very reasonable in cost, the account boasts generous email and disk space. The Primo Plan includes support for the Microsoft Access Database. Customers requiring more advanced hosting solutions such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and Real Audio/Video G2 Servers should look into subscribing to the Proxima hosting plan which features a whopping 1GB of diskspace for power users.
Starting at $34.95 a month, the ePro eCommerce soultion will give you 4000 MB of storage and 1000 GB/month of data transfer. Free domain name registration access to online photo and file storage and loads of useful software are bundled in with this package. To get you started, Aplus.Net provides a MIVA merchant online storefront, credit card payment gateway, merchant account and an amazon.com store connector. To increase your income a banner rotation tool and solution for selling domains on your website are available in conjunction with an affiliate program.
Aplus.Net offers Virtual Private Servers for clients who have the desire to start their own buisness or host multiple websites or domains and can't afford the cost to upgrade to a completely dedicated server. For $35 a month they provide you with a free internet domain name, 500MB of disk space and 5GB of data transfer.
Excellent deals on dedicated servers. Starting at only $99/month Aplus.Net offers a standard dedicated server boasting an Intel Celeron 2.2GHz processor and 512MB RAM (upgrades up to 2GB available), a 80GB hard drive (upgrades up to 250GB available) and a whopping 1000GB/month of non-cogent bandwidth is included. These servers are capable of handling day to day tasks with ease and host multiple or very large websites. An excellent solution for individuals or small buisnesses, or a great machine to start your own webhosting company.
What others are saying about Aplus.Net
CNET says: "In recent months, Aplus.Net has revamped its look and packed on a considerable number of features, such as graphical site-building tools and wizards, full support for FrontPage extensions, and high-end utilities such as cross-platform HTML-validation and code-optimization tools. All that for less than 10 bucks a month? Aplus.Net gets our nod!" - Editor's Choice Award, April 2003.
Aplus.Net Hosting Support
Aplus.Net operates public forums to allow customers to share their experiences with others, share tips and other information and seek assistance if necessary. Highly skilled technical support engineers are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide telephone support or answer any pre-sales questions you may have. Support is also provided by qualified support personnel via email and live online chat around the clock. If you are a do it yourselfer, Aplus.Net offers an online knowledge base containing ansers to over 1,000 questions which are frequently asked by customers. This knowledge base answers questions regarding web hosting, web design, internet domain names and much more, you are likely to find the information you are seeking with this tool.
Money Back Guarantee
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with the service Aplus.Net offers, you can simply cancel your account within 30 days of sign up and you will be refunded all the fees you paid except any charges incurred for domain registration or transfer.
Aplus.Net Website
A clean, professional and easy to navigate website will greet you when you visit http://www.Aplus.Net/. Videos of the Aplus.Net Data Center are available so you can take a virtual tour of where your website may be potentially hosted. Lots of detailed information is available on the website, and contact links are provided in many areas of the site.
Conclusion
Aplus.Net will offer top notch hosting services for buisness or personal clients. The basic shared hosting packages doesn't offer much features, but a more advanced package (which costs $9.95) is definately worth the extra cash. Generous amounts of disk space and data transfer are provided with shared hosting solutions and dedicated servers, however for the cost of a virtual private server, not much bandwidth is provided. Overall, I would recommend Aplus.Net for shared UNIX or Windows webhosting and dedicated servers, however for Virtual Private Servers I think the packages could be improved a bit. I am impressed by the support options, and unique web hosting services they provide, and believe that Aplus.Net will continue to be a successful hosting provider in the future.
Aplus.Net Site Screenshot (http://www.Aplus.Net)
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