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EarthLink Web HostingWho is EarthLink?EarthLink offers products ranging from consumer cellphone and Internet connectivity bundles to full business connectivity solutions with a claimed industry-leading uptime. Web hosting is offered for all sizes of online presence, including an online store facility that makes an Internet shop front readily accessible for even the private home user. Prices are very competitive, with discounts offered over the initial stages of a contract. EarthLink transfers web site look-and-feel requests to professional graphic designers, maintaining continuity for consumers. The web-hosting products are for both Windows and UNIX, and come in three flavors. EarthLink has received plaudits for their simplicity, insulating the user from unnecessary coding and, once deployed, there are no paid advertisements interfering with the new site’s appearance. The flavors are graded primarily by storage space and data transfer. For business users, search engine registration, local directory listings and a free marketing guide with some very useful tips are some of the value-added services offered. Products are provided with a supporting suite of data and privacy protection applications like spam blockers and anti-virus software, available to all types of customer. For the larger organizations, there is also Blackberry Enterprise, most useful for serving mobile email to employees. EarthLink also integrates enterprise-grade Internet with the corporate network, opening up Virtual Private Network functionality that allows businesses to connect multiple geographic locations. The wired workers for such an organization would be able to browse common data stores, connecting from outside the corporate infrastructure via wireless on the road or home Internet access. EarthLink seems to offer everything required by any size of organization, and backs up its offerings with a customer experience more flexible than other providers, impressive for a very, very large ISP (second only to AOL in size). This very broad spectrum of product offerings is what one would expect of a mature and pervasive ISP, and EarthLink has kept focus on the online experiences of their subscriber base throughout their very rapid growth and expansion. While simultaneously servicing both individual accounts and the largest enterprises, it is telling for EarthLink that their growth has not detracted from their customer focus. EarthLink Review: Earthlink Web Hosting DetailsEarthLink Web Hosting is offered for small and medium enterprises via the Starter, Pro, and Premium Site packages. Key features are:
In order to upload files to the subscriber’s web site to configure it, you need secure FTP access to the storage space for the hosted environment and this is supplied, along with traffic limitations in the amount of data that can be transferred free with a subscription – the data transfer options. Every customer visiting the site and surfing through it will be also be using up data transfer MB. Extra bandwidth (data transferred to or from the site) is charged at for, at 1 MB for $0.02 per month. The three hosting options available cover most web sites and their usage patterns for successful wired business. These are the basics. How does EarthLink Web Hosting go the extra mile to bring my business the details that offer the outstanding value that would really boost my site? It would seem that access to an online site builder tool places EarthLink ahead. (See the article on the EarthLink Trellix service offering). EarthLink also targets its offering at medium-sized businesses – this also places them ahead of the game. Small business users can be happy knowing that the tools and services they use are also working well for larger businesses. Add more to this service: the dynamic web site technologies offered, like CGI, PHP and ASP, and the service is clearly ahead. EarthLink then hits the ball out of the park with the Web Gems and web services capabilities built in to their site builder toolset. EarthLink clearly has expanded customer options beyond their competitors. EarthLink therefore offers the web hosting technology required for business web sites, but do they back it up with solid uptime, reliable support and a track record that inspires confidence in their service? The answer is a resounding “Yes.” Although this web hosting review does not go into specific metrics, EarthLink uptime is said to be among the best in the business. As this is difficult to verify independently, the various customer service satisfaction ratings give the next best perspective, and EarthLink has scored top ratings since 2000. We can assume that happy customers are not customers who have been experiencing hosting service downtime at all. EarthLink offers free 24 by 7 live internet chat, email or telephonic support to their subscribers, also boosting confidence in their offering. Finally, their track record is impressive – the second largest ISP in the USA and a subscriber base of over 5 million individual accounts. Success it would seem, breeds success, and EarthLink web hosting is serving their large and growing subscriber base with confidence-inspiring competence. Latest EarthLink Web Hosting News
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