Netfirms Hosting is one of the largest hosting companies in the world. This Canadian-based web hosting company has a very large customer foundation both Canada and the United States. Netfirms owns one of the largest Internet infrastructures in the United

States and has grown significantly in the past few years to become one of the largest internet hosting companies.
Netfirms Inc. was founded in 1998 and has been a highly successful and profitable hosting company with over 1,000,000 websites hosted.

Price Value
Netfirms offers several competitive hosting plans, including the Plus Plan at a very competitive $4.95 per month. The Advantage Plan is also a great deal and contains many of the features necessary for a small- to mid-sized business, including not only 2 free domains but also free Google Adwords credits. If you are new to website development, the Netfirms Starter CD is a good tool to help you create your own templates, build photo galleries and upload your information to your website. All plans are available in one year terms only - despite no savings for puchasing multiple years, their prices still provide great value.

Reliability
Netfirms operates one of the largest Internet infrastructures around. Their centralized system checks system health and helps keep their infrastructure available when problems occur in the network. In fact, the reliability of their network is definitely above average compared to other web hosting companies.
Control Panel

With Netfirms you get access to a state-of-the-art custom Control Panel. The control panel is easy to navigate and is divided into categories: contact information, billing management, domain forwarding, e-mail accounts, site tools, and database. Although these features are necessary to have at your fingertips, this Control Panel is slightly below average compared to preferred standard hosting panels like CPanel and Plesk.
Customer Support


Netfirms provides customer service via online chat (not open 24 hours as they claim), e-mail, or through an extensive knowledge database on their support site. They also provide telephone support during normal business hours. Probably due to the fact that they have such a huge customer base, we have found that the response time of Netfirms could use a wee bit of improvement.

Hosting Plans

Linux/Unix Hosting Plans - UNITED STATES (all prices in $US)
Netfirms Plus: 6 GB disk space, 300 GB bandwidth @ $4.95/month
Netfirms Advantage: 100 GB disk space, 750 GB bandwidth @ $9.95/month
Netfirms Big Business: 150 GB disk space, 1500 GB bandwidth @ $14.95/month
Linux/Unix Hosting Plans - CANADA (all prices in $Cdn)
Netfirms Plus: 6 GB disk space, 300 GB bandwidth @ $6.95/month
Netfirms Advantage: 100 GB disk space, 750 GB bandwidth @ $12.95/month
Netfirms Big Business: 150 GB disk space, 1500 GB bandwidth @ $19.95/month