Look nowhere else

Over the last few months so, it has been increasingly difficult to make contact with my previous hosting company support team. Most wait times on the phone or chat have been in excess of 45 minutes and if I opened a ticket online, it could take 10 - 24 hours before getting a response much less a answer. There have been times when PHP/MySQL board/DB was working incorrectly-not on my errors or any changes I had done. At the end they were not even able to provide me with the transfer info of my domain name so I had to register a new one.

I filed for a divorce with my previous provider just a few weeks before my renewal with them! Hitched up with host-ed.net in a flash. Transferred all files to host-ed.net server and reset the DNS name servers.

Host-ed control panel is basic on the front end but has good depth as you move into the needed functions. The support emailed me in 5 minutes after I signed up with all the needed DNS name servers and a login.

Had a issue with PHP to the new site and need to change config.php file. Emailed support and in 10 minutes they were back with the correct link and in fact went in and did the edit of the file for me. Everything was up and running. Took no more than an hour for the domain name to resolve and show on Host-ed. Great support! Good server speed and a fair price for the product.

Biggest Pro: Good server speed and a fair price for the product.
Biggest Con: None

Beautiful, but hard to login

I have been using the free hosting with host-ed for my homepage for half an hour. Thus, my impressions are very fresh, even if naive.

It was very easy to set up an account and the site management is easy, rich, friendly, and convenient. Unlike many other free hostings, it worked straight away. It was Firefox on a Linux computer.

Then I went home and tried to login from another computer (using MS IE 6.0). The host-ed login form did not react anyhow on the button presses. It did not work. It is really a hateful part that such basic things don't work out of box.

Now, I am using my chance to test how good their customer support is.

That's how you walk away from a service, even a good one, when the problem of the last inch is not solved: you click once, twice and then you leave for something with fewer features, but working.

Biggest Pro: easy to set up and manage
Biggest Con: login seems to be unstable

Great for VPS

I find them through a google search I thought that a VPS at $17 per month is a pretty low price for a good quality solution. After a thorough research on the internet I called them and spoke to a sales representative and he gave me the information I need, so I decided to try them. I signed up. My account was setup within less than 1 working day which made a good impression on me. For the few months I have been with them I am really surprised that such a low price solution could give such high performance! The server is fast and table the there has been absolutely no downtime! The support team answers my questions with in 30 minutes every time I send them a request.

With the time I saw that my customers sites (I am a web designer and host my customers on that VPS) google page rank has improved and this must definitely be due to the high speed server I am currently hosted at.

The only thing is that if you with to have major development (to set up MySQL) they charge a certain fee, that is their only disadvantage I've found so far.

Otherwise all I can say is - Great service, great performance.

Biggest Pro: Good investment
Biggest Con: Unmanaged service - some support is paid

Great Start

I have been in need of another web hosting account and went back and forth between adding more resources at one host that I like and where I have 2 accounts already or to diversify and get an account at an additional host. The latter won and I finally settled for a new web host that is around for quite a while already: host-ed

I signed up late in the evening and just missed the cutoff for new accounts to be activated by a few minutes. No problem.

This morning things worked its way and my account was approved and setup very quickly. I also got a detailed welcome email with information about their environment and my new main account. At first I could not log into their helpdesk, but a quick ticket solved that issue in 15 minutes after submitting my ticket.

My next ticket was about moving my accounts. I asked them if they would be able to assist by moving my account (which really makes a site move a breeze). This ticket, low in priority was answered within 45. The bad thing is they do not want to offer moving of all my emails, but at least they are willing move my site and database which puts a little more work and time usage onto me, but overall that is fine.

So, so far I got very fast ticket response times combined with cheap pricing. I also browsed their knowledge base to read about problems and I get the feeling that host-ed web hosting is a great choice to host websites with.

Biggest Pro: Fast support
Biggest Con: No cons so far

Good for both personal and professional use

Good for both personal and professional use

At first I found Host-ed.net in a forum where one person was recommending it to another. Since they have free hosting and I am working in the field of web design I started using it to test my customers' web sites, before I do the final upload and present the site to them.

With the time I realized that their service is quite reliable and I decided to try a paid account. The things there were even better. It had all the scripting for am experience web master and at the same time it was not at all hard to use. I happened to contact the support once or twice and they are good too.

That is why I started recommending them to my customers as well. Now they are happy that their sites are up and running and I am happy that I get what I need.

Apart from the minor issues that I some times have with the speed of the servers they are one of the best I hosting solution providers I have ever used, so the next time you are looking for reliable provider consider them. Anyway you will not loose anything if you start with a free account and upgrade later-the same as I did some time back.

Biggest Pro: Good for web designers
Biggest Con: it is a bit slow some times

My experience with Host-ed

I was never ready to experiment with my website when I am hosting it for the first time. This is why I preferred to host it with host-ed.net, since it was recommended by a friend of mine. He told me that I would not see much of adverts about it but the technical quality was very good. I went ahead and signed up. So here their main advantages:

Their customer support is the courage and force that drives me forward in hosting. I felt free to contact them whenever I was in need of that.

They have always kept secure backups on a routine basis so that we can rely upon, whenever we are in need of it. Their load balancing technology also ensures reliability for us.

The website was hosted at the cheapest rate available in the industry.

Setting up domains and accounts was never a tough job using Host-ed.net. This is how managed to get the site hosted.

It has been 6 months that I am hosting the site with Host-ed.net. I never had any bad experience with them.

Biggest Pro: Reliable hosting solution
Biggest Con: have not find any yet

Superior service at a reasonable price

I was a little skeptical about singing up for a hosting provider so... well, so cheap. I had been used to paying about $15 - $20 / month for my hosting service. However, host-ed.net has proven to be quite stable, offers a lot of features that many of my local providers weren't even thinking of adding. They also have excellent support team who has always managed to help me out with any problems that I would have to admit were caused by my mistake. Great service in comparison to the number of providers I have dealt with since I first started creating websites about 5 years ago.

I have no intention of being their reseller, but I have been recommending them to my clients. Everyone who has moved to them has been pleased so far. The only thing that was hard for me to get used to with was their control panel. They use their own one and since I was used to cPanel it took me a few weeks. Once I figured that one out, things have gone quite smoothly with them.

Biggest Pro: Superb service at affordable price
Biggest Con: Custom control panel

Quality Professional Service

My experience with Host-ed.net has been 100% positive. Brilliant service and features with incredible dedication to providing a truly wonderful web hosting facility.

It has everything you could possibly want, stable service, amazing prices, good support - they show they care with free users as well.

Probably the only downsides it has are the few problems I had with MySQL database connection and the upload file size limit of the free accounts.

I have a few websites hosted with them for a while and upgraded to their personal plan, because I started to have 700-800 unique visitors per day and since I had a few bigger pictures I was getting short on traffic. After the upgrade it was getting even better-all features increased their capacity ten-times, all free account limitations were removed and my sites are now loading even faster.

In the end I can only come to the following conclusion: A+ Web Host, a must-have for any web developer willing to have a successful online presence.

Biggest Pro: A high quality professional service
Biggest Con: Slight problems with MySQL connection on a free server