General Impression
WIZ WEB HOST, Inc. is a privately owned,
multi-million dollar corporation located in SchaumburgIL
was founded in 1999. Today, the company
provides shared web hosting services to approximately
80,000 top websites. By focusing on service while
maintaining affordability, the company provides
service that meets the unique needs of each client
and exceeds their wildest performance expectations.
Customers and vendors across the globe can agree
that WIZ WEB HOST is truly the
future of managed hosting.
Facts & Figures
Customer Base: Over 85,000
Registered Domains: 275,459 Market Share: 0.6856
%
Servers: 532
Location: USA
*** The figures are as of September 2006.
Price & Cost Effectiveness
WIZ WEB HOST offers decent pricing on
their web hosting plans. For a mere $4.99 a month,
you receive 1000 MB of space and 50 GB of traffic,
this is the basic plan but then it is so rich
with features that it will suite the needs of
even a small business enterprise. They also have
linux based plans that cost $6.99 a month and
$19.99 a month.
We suggest you look into the plan details so that
you get to know more about what the plans have
to offer. We think it is simply awesome. For someone
who is looking to get a windows based web hosting
plans so that they may use ASP, ASP.NET, MS Access,
MSSQL... they should go with the Business Plan
that costs about $24.99 a month.
Note: If you sign up for 3 or 6 months you need
to pay a $20.00 setup fee but if you sign up for
12 or 24 months the one time setup fee of $20.00
is waived off..
Let's quickly look at what the other 2 top web
hosts have to offer with respective to what WIZ
WEB HOST is offering.
Company |
Price |
Disk
Space |
Data
Transfer |
Domains |
Mailboxes |
Free
Domain |
Databases |
Support
24/7 |
Setup
fee |
WIZ
WEB HOST |
$6.99 |
10 GB |
100 GB |
6 |
2500 |
1 |
10 |
Yes |
No |
LunarPages |
$6.95 |
5 GB |
400 GB |
4 |
500 |
Nil |
1 |
No |
No |
HostGator |
$6.95 |
3.5 GB |
50 GB |
1 |
20 |
Nil |
1 |
Yes |
No |
Ok if you have compared the plans you will notice
that WIZ WEB HOST's $6.99 / month package is in
competition with what LunarPages gives for $6.95
/ month. If you are looking to host more domains
and also use a database then you should simply
go with the Wiz Web Host Optimum Plan which cost
$6.99 / month that comes with loads of features.
Take a quick look at the table below to see what
WIZ WEB HOST offers with the $19.99 / month package.
Company |
Price |
Disk
Space |
Data
Transfer |
Domains |
Mailboxes |
Free
Domain |
Databases |
Support
24/7 |
Setup
fee |
WIZ
WEB HOST |
$19.99 |
Unlimited |
250 GB |
12 |
Unlimited |
3 |
25 |
Yes |
No |
FYI, if you get the Premium plan for 6 months
you pay $19.99 / month plus a one time setup fee
$20.00. Signing up for 12 or 24 months results
in the setup fee being waived off totally.
DataCenter
WIZ WEB HOST uses Dell Power Edge 2650
servers, with their data center located in Schaumburg,
IL. Their latest servers are quad Xeon
2.4 GHz Xeon processors, with 6 GB of memory and
three 70 GB Raid Disk Drive. Compared to other
web hosting companies, they dominate over any
other server offered by any Web Hosting company.
They currently use state of the art net infrastructure
equipment and plan to offer many new features
in the future such as load balancing.
Furthermore, they are connected to premium Redundant
OC-12 Loops through TW Telecom. As a result, you
will get above average web hosting performance
and reliability that other providers normally
charge a premium for.
Customer Service
Personally, customer support is always
my first criteria for picking a web host, it comes
before price, size and everything else.
This is because I have had very bad experiences
with some hosts that offer a lot in terms of price
and size but were unable to solve simple issues.
The first thing I always do to test a web host
is actually to mass-mail them with a lot of questions
even before I buy! The host which deserves my
money would be the host that will patiently reply
to all my questions in a prompt and detailed manner.
The most disgusting hosts are those which are
unable to resolve simple issues for days, or are
unable to keep track of the client’s history
and repeatedly request you to describe the same
issue. Some even keep bouncing your requests between
different departments.
So far, the best customer support staff that I
have met is the one from WIZ WEB HOST. Honestly
I haven't seen a host that is as dedicated as
WIZ WEB HOST when it comes to customer support.
They have a very well trained support staff and
I believe WIZ WEB HOST invests a lot on customer
support. Other web hosts which can provide me
with good customer support are HostGator, Globat
and iPowerWeb. All the other hosts that I am recommending
in this top 10 chart have also been very satisfactory
in terms of customer support.
Control Panel
WIZ WEB HOST currently utilizes the latest
version of the Hsphere control panel .
The features are pretty much similiar to other
control panels like CPanel. The Hsphere control
panel has a main menu on the left side from where
you can navigate to the sub menus. On the main
screen of the control panel you will see icons
from where you can manage your accounts like adding
of domains, configuring the domains, adding emails,
FTP accounts, a file manager which is a kind of
a graphical user shell access or to be precise
something like a file manager.
We could say the control panel is full of features
and it is been heard that WIZ WEB HOST is in a
process of launching its own powerful control
panel in the near future.
View Screenshots of the Hosting Control Panel
Overall
WIZ WEB HOST is definitely a choice of
web hosting for many users. Not only
does it score tops with best features for the
price, but it is also great because you can call
toll-free when you are in need of assistance.
Other companies offering plans this low normally
require that you e-mail them for support inquires,
and even if they did provide support over the
phone, there would be long distance charges.
Give WIZ WEB HOST a shot and you will
not regret it.
Comparision of the Web Hosting Plans
The following plans are available at WIZ
WEB HOST
Linux / Unix Platform
Mini Plan: 50 MB Disk Space,
1 GB Traffic, 50 Emails, @ $2.99/ month
Budget Plan: 1,000 MB Disk Space,
50 GB Traffic, 2 Sub domains, 1 Free domain, 2
Databases. @ $4.99/ month
Optimum Plan: 1 GB Disk Space,
100 GB Traffic, 30 Sub domains, 2 Free domain,
10 Databases. @ $6.99/ month
Premium Plan: Unlimited Disk
Space, 250 GB Traffic, 200 Sub domains, 3 Free
domain, 12 Databases. @ $19.99/ month
Windows Platform
Starter Plan: 750 MB Disk Space,
150 GB Traffic, 20 Sub domains, 3 Free domain,
5 Databases. @ $24.99/ month
Professional Plan: 4 GB Disk
Space, 300 GB Traffic, 40 Sub domains, 5 Free
domain, 15 Databases. @ $44.99/ month
Contact Information
Head Office:
WIZ WEB HOST
ADST Hosting Services Inc
1348 Ridge Ave
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
United States of America
(within the USA): 1888-260-7447
(Outside the USA): +1847-619-2340
Email: [email protected] |