http://www.interland.com
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Performance |
7 | | Reliability |
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Customer Relations |
3 | | Features |
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Control Panel | 2 |
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General Impression
Interland
has been in the web hosting industry for
quite some time specializing in premium
business class web hosting. Their
pricing has always been grossly high,
but their company continues to lack in
customer service and uptime of its
servers. In addition, we have receive
quite a number of complaints from
existing clients who soon realize the
expensive fees they were paying and the
lack of features they were receiving
with their web hosting package.
Unfortunately, at the time of this
writing, Interland still have one of the
weakest control panels out there and
many of the requests require us to email
customer support. Another important
thing is note is that Interland is a
publicly traded company that is not
financially stable. Quarter after
quarter they continue to lose money. We
have reason to believe that they might
go bust in the future. When your
business is at stake, it is important
not to trust financially unstable
companies. On the other hand, our other
nine companies on the chart are
financially stable.
Price and
Cost Effectiveness
Interland web hosting is definitely not
price effective. However, they do offer
options that are price effective such as
their VPS (Virtual Private Server)
option for about fifty dollars per month
allowing you to host unlimited web
sites. Managing it in a pain because the
interface they provide is not intuitive
and difficult to use. Their web hosting
is not much different. Also, Interland
has outrageous over usage fees and fees
for their hosting. For $9.95 per month,
you only get 10 GB of data transfer and
250 MB of space. This is much less
compared to what other web hosting
companies are giving. Also, Shared SSL
is included free for other web hosting
companies, but Interland charges a grip
for adding it to your web hosting
package.
Reliability
Reliability is something one would
expect for paying excessive prices for
hosting. Interland somewhat delivers
that, but they are no more reliable than
our other nine rated web hosting
companies. They do go down from time to
time and they do have schedule
maintenance. On our test site, Interland
went down several times every quarter of
the year, which is average compared to
other web hosting companies. Worst yet,
when you call them about downtime, they
often time won’t admit and when they do
see that your site is down they escalate
the matter to a high support
representative which sometimes may take
up to a whole day just to resolve the
matter. In the internet world, one whole
day means thousands of dollars in lost
business.
Control
Panel
Interland does not even offer a
competent control panel. Their control
panel is one of the most basic control
panels out there. You can only add MySQL
databases and POP3 emails and that
pretty much sums up all of the features
in the control panel.
Overall
There
are better options out there if you are
seeking for a web hosting company. Do
not make the wrong choice and go with
Interland. Not only are they expensive,
they are no different than our other
highly rated web hosting companies.
Their prices only attract customers who
think paying more will get your better
service and reliability. Well this is
not true in the hosting industry. Our
other ranked web hosting providers
provide better or equal service and they
all have a much better control panel.
Save the money and shop elsewhere for a
better web hosting company
Other
Web Hosting Companies
Infinology | Lunarpages | Ipowerweb | Midphase | Jumpline | Your-Site | Powweb | Websitesource | Apollo Web Hosting
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http://www.interland.com
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