HostRocket Review

Posted by admin in Web Hosting Reviews on 04 27th, 2009 | no responses

HostRocket review facts.

HostRocket was founded in 1999, headquartered in Clifton Park, NY. It delivers shared web hosting services to over 50,000 websites across the globe. Besides shared web hosting service, HostRocket also provides dedicated hosting, e-commerce hosting, collocation, and application hosting to critical clients. Over th past 10 years, HostRocket has experienced enormous growth while maintained debt-free. HostRocket doesn’t have as many clients as other industry leaders, but with less than one thousand users on each server, each website will perform more stable and less vulnerable to attacks.

HostRocket built their own impressive data center in New York’s Tech Valley, a region not prone to major disasters. It gives HostRocket advantages of not being dependant on servers from other companies. Along with strategically chosen location, this data center also carries outstanding features including OC-192 connection with Qwest, redundant firewalls for high end DOS and DDOS attacks prevention, Full UPS Battery Backup and more.

HostRocket Reseller hosting starts at 4.95/month with 24 month plan. It offers a money back guarantee and boasts more features and power than any other reseller web hosting package available on the market. This plan includes:

99.5% uptime guarantee
cPanel and WHM, Free site backups
Unlimited domains, sub-domains, databases, FTP accounts
PHP 5 with suPHP and eAccelerator
MySQL 5, Perl 5, SSH access, CRON Abilities
Microsoft Expression Web Support and GD/ImageMagick
AwStats and Webalizer web statistics
Unlimited POP3/IMAP E-mail accounts
Unlimited autoresponders, forwards, aliases, and mailing lists
Streaming audio/video capabilities
SSL certificate reseller abilities
Free Perl module installations

Here is our HostRocket review opinion base on past experience:

Pros: No Contracts, Instant Account Activation, competitive price value for reseller hosting plan, reliable data center and servers.

Cons: HostRocket is weak on customer support. you have to deal with a lot of issues through support tickets.

Verdict: Overall HostRocket delivers above average web hosting performance, and it is recommended for experienced webmasters for business websites. Beginner need to avoid it and choose other proper service provider.