August 21, 2008

midPhase Web Hosting Review

midPhase is not an unheard of name in the web hosting industry. This provider has been serving customer files since 2003. The company has won a plethora of awards from places like WebHostMagazine and CNET. This midPhase review takes a look at the hosting service offerings.

midPhase offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, a 30 day money back guarantee, and a service quality guarantee. midPhase provides phone support over email and the telephone – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are large and reputable enough where you can feel fairly confident that they will be around when your web site goes down at 2 AM one night. In addition to that level of human powered support, midPhase offers a comprehensive tutorial center, a large knowledge base, and community forums.

midPhase’s inexpensive plans offer more than enough space and bandwidth for any web site. For the administrative web hosting control panel, they use the industry standard cPanel (a demo is available on the midPhase.com web site), which offers:

Email (mail accounts, forwarders, auto responders, etc.)
FTP (accounts for individual directories, etc.)
Easily installable scripts such as web blogs, forums, etc.
Statistics to track the amount of visitors your site gets and other information.

midPhase only offers two Linux web hosting plans:

Mega-Phase, which starts at $7.95 per month.
Pro-Phase, which starts at $11.95 per month.

As a customer, you can also add and upgrade features right from your control panel. midPhase’s basic plans only comes with one MySQL database, so if you foresee yourself needing more than that, be prepared to pay extra.

Our review of midPhase shows they offer a series of web site marketing extras including search engine submission and up to $300 in free ads. The company, which sports a very sleek web site, also offers web design services.

midPhase is an industry leader that has obviously been doing things right since 2003. The company is a good choice for any prospective webmaster who wants a pretty good web host at a pretty good price.