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Our
Rating = 9
out of 10
About
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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