HostRocket Review

HostRocket, founded in 1999, offers a variety of web hosting options for both small and large businesses. HostRocket offers shared and dedicated hosting services with an excellent control panel, stellar customer support, and great features.

Quality customer service, low start up fees, and unlimited bandwidth for shared hosting are just some of the features that Hostrocket is able to offer its customers. By providing testimonials on their website, you can see what others have to say about the service.

Price Value

HostRocket has excellent value. For a lowest price in the industry of just $4.95, the web hosting features provided by this web hosting company is just unusual. The package includes unlimited sub domains, 10 website parking, Unlimited POP3/IMAP Email Accounts carrying 1000mb POP3/IMAP Mail Storage. With this asking price, you cannot just ask for anything else!

Reliability

HostRocket technology backbone consists of 4400MHz Server Speed, 2000MB Server RAM just ensuring upmost reliability and 99.95 % uptime guarantee. Their operating system is installed with CentOS Linux 4.2 which is undoubtedly widely acceptable system.

HostRocket Redundant OC-3 / OC-12 Lines and Redundant Power Backup ensures guranteed uptime incase of power outages by proving alternate sources of backup. So you know that you are not protected by single entity but multiple redundant backup entities.

Control Panel

HostRocket control panel is widely accepted in the industry. It provides a clear, user friendly, easily manageable interface.

For a single interface you have control over all the facets of your website including email checking, domain add/renew, check domain/sub domain statistics, check out the setup guides for setting up various aspects of your website including Email setup with outlook etc.

Surely, The interface is quite intuitive and user friendly as easy for a child to get going with controlling and managing a website.

Customer Support

HostRocket customer care is terrific and their support staff is very graceful and helpful in provinding quickest response to their customer queries.

On top of everything that they can help and support your queries, they have a 24x7 Phone & Email Support. The Help and Support section of the Control Panel provides you with extremely helpful full tutorials that has a help on every feature in the Control Panel along with many guides for configuring programs such as Outlook Express to check your email and CuteFTP to upload files to your Web Site. These tutorials are available in text format with full size screen shots and in Flash Videos.

Summary

Overall, HostRocket is a good web hosting service. If you don't mind a two-year commitment, this is an affordable choice for webmasters who anticipate heavy or irregular bandwidth usage on their sites. Many competitors offer more web space and bandwidth, however.