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80% Overall Score
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WebHostingCanada web hosting – the name says it all! Web Hosting Canada is proudly Canadian, employing fast servers based in Montreal, Quebec and Canadian technical support – in both official languages. Web Hosting Canada offers three shared hosting plans, from an extremely budget-friendly starter package to a business-friendly enterprise plan.
All Web Hosting Canada hosting plans are priced competitively and feature an excellent list of site creation and management tools (including Fantastico and cPanel control panel); as well as top-notch security and service features. From automatic daily backups to advanced anti-malware systems, Web Hosting Canada has your long-term web hosting need in its sites.
Web Hosting Canada offers a number of excellent guarantees and stated commitments that should give new clients extra confidence in the company: a 99.9% uptime guarantee; a support guarantee that all service questions will be answered within 24 hours; and a 30-day money back guarantee. Web Hosting Canada also has a published commitment to the environment: the company works to lower its carbon footprint through the use of eco-friendly server components, strict energy-conservation policies in the workplace, recycling, the use of renewable energy, and public transport incentives for its employees. It all comes together into a very complete, very Canadian, web hosting package.
Price Value
Canadians looking for Canadian IPs, servers stored in Canadian data centres and 100% Canadian service need look no further than WebHostingCanada and their budget-friendly shared web hosting options. The Web Hosting Canada “Starter” hosting plan rings in at under $4 a month and offers a truly affordable solution for individuals looking to get started on the web. The Starter plan, like all Web Hosting Canada plans, includes a sitebuilder with 900+ templates, statistics, 200+ free apps, Fantastico script library, MySQL databases, cPanel control panel, webmail, anti-spam and anti-virus protection, and much more.
For just a few dollars more a month, shared hosting customers can try the Pro or Enterprise plans. These come with a free domain for life, toll-free telephone support, SSH access, automated nightly backups and considerable disk space and bandwidth allocations. Whatever your needs, Web Hosting Canada has likely designed an affordable, robust, and localized web hosting plan for you.
Reliability
Web Hosting Canada offers 99.9% network and server uptime guarantee. They are able to consistently meet this – or do better – by employing high availability multi-core servers for top performance. By keeping the number of sites hosted per server low, shared web hosting clients can count on high reliability; multi-tier bandwidths ensure faster downloads.
Web Hosting Canada's servers are located in a fully redundant data centre in Montreal, Quebec. Pro and Enterprise shared hosting plans come with separate backup storage.
Control Panel
WebHostingCanada web hosting offers all shared hosting clients cPanel control panel, the industry's leading control panel. Through cPanel, customers can access dozens of powerful tools – not to mention 1-click auto-installer for more than 200 applications – to make site creation and management an unbelievably smooth and streamlined process. Whether you're new to web hosting or an old hand, you'll appreciate the simplicity and style of cPanel.
Customer Support
All WebHostingCanada shared hosting plans include 24/7 access to the online help desk, searchable knowledgebase, community forum and library of flash tutorials. All support requests are guaranteed fulfilled within 24 hours, with an average response time of just 1 hour.
Pro and Enterprise level plans include toll-free phone support (note: the Starter plan offers email support only).