StartLogic Hosting Review

Over 100,000 customers enjoy the benefits of hosting unlimited domains with one web hosting account from StartLogic web hosting solutions. Start Logic has won numerous awards in recognition of their quality of service, customer support and security systems. All Start Logic packages include free set up, free domain names and unlimited bandwidth, website space and email accounts. StartLogic hosting emphasized more than just the streamlined set up of your account – they offer an extensive array of marketing tool and advice that could prove indispensable for any start up business.

StartLogic offers Google Webmaster Tools, with their web hosting plans, something that very few web hosting companies do. A robust set of features to analyze and diagnose your website for Google indexing, Google Webmaster Tools is a free and easy way to make your website Google-friendly. Google's suite of Webmaster Tools can show you Google's view of your site, help you diagnose issues, and let you share info with Google to help improve your site's visibility.

Start Logic’s Web Concierge Program provides direct access (phone, tickets and e-mail) to a dedicated support person who will assist you with managing your account, expediting any support requests, and making the most of your account. iYogi Computer Support Services gives you unlimited desktop tech support for your PC - everything from removing viruses, troubleshooting Windows, setting up your printer, and more. Note that a small fee applies for both services.

Price Value

StartLogic’s budget package has one of the lowest prices around for the value. For $4.95 you get unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth and you can park or point unlimited domains. Free bonuses like $50 Google AdWords credit and $25 Yahoo! Search Marketing credit pump up the value even more.

Even this basic package comes feature-packed. You'll get unlimited email accounts, a choice of secure shopping carts (including PayPal's), Frontpage extensions, browser-based email and a web hosting control panel, plus log files, site stats, and MySQL, PHP, PerlScripts and CGI-BIN support.

Your account comes with free multimedia features, including real audio and video, streaming audio, Macromedia Shockwave, MIDI File Support and MIME types. You'll get a complete FTP manager with backup and password protection, a website builder loaded with templates, plus a publisher and a logo and slogan editor. You'll get unlimited POP3 emails, forwards and autoresponders.

The promotional tools that come with Start Logic’s hosting packages are among its greatest features. Get a 500+ page marketing manual, a search engine positioner and submitter, Meta Tags and Keywords Generators, a Link Checker, and $50 matching credit for advertising. In a way, it seems like StartLogic gives you everything but the computer.

Reliability

StartLogic has a no-questions-asked 30 day money back guarantee and stands behind a solid 99.9% uptime guarantee all the time. Their Boston-based data centers are custom-designed facilities that use redundant optical fiber connections and multiple internet backbone providers.

Each data center is equipped with 24/7 security. The pooled server environment and network-attached storage enables any machine to access a customer's data. Every machine is clustered with another identical machine that will seamlessly take over if the primary unit crashes. These units are also backed up to another set of storage units that have a mirror copy of the data in case of disk failure in the primary units. With all of that redundancy in place, customers can rest assured their data is safe and secure – and their website will prove a stable player.

Control Panel

Users will enjoy Start Logic’s easy to use VDECK 3.0 control panel that, with large icon-based buttons, gives you versatility and control over all aspects of your account, from administrative to creative. It's a marked improvement from VDECK 2.0 (the newest version has 200 features, compared to the 75 in the previous incarnation). It also has increased spam and virus protection and online access to support tickets.

From its one crisp, clean, and powerful interface you can build, publish, and market your websites, set up shopping carts, install scripts, and manage your email account. Help information on all VDECK features are accessible directly from the control panel itself.

VDECK also makes it easy for customers to manage their account information simply and efficiently.

Customer Support

StartLogic has live web chat support, which is our hands-down favorite way to get help. Choose from 24/7 x 365 award-winning live chat, toll-free telephone, and email tech support. Start Logic web hosting also runs a comprehensive support center with a troubleshooting tour, an email query ticket system, a getting started guide, a community forum, an announcement board, and a categorized and searchable knowledgebase/FAQ.

They also run a convenient additional services page from where you can change your account domain name, add sub domain names, order SSL certificates, add disk space, databases and/or bandwidth, park domains and otherwise manage your account.