HostICan Review
HostICan was founded in 2003 with a mission to offer cheap webhosting and provide first rate customer support at the same time. The company has seen tremendous growth thanks in part to its unmetered bandwidth offer under the tera-host plan. Today HostIcan has more than 55,000 customers worldwide.
Hosting features at HostIcan.com
A nice free feature at HostICan is their free domain including free domain privacy with each hosting account. HostICan is a CPanel host so if you are familiar with that interface you will settle in easily. In case you want to transfer your site to HostICan they will buy out your previous contract up to $40 and help you with the transfer process. HostICan provides 200 GB storage and 2500 GB bandwidth on their base plan and this increases to 250 GB storage and unlimited bandwidth on the tera-host plan. On this host you get all the CPanel goodies such as hotlink protection, Fantastico scripts, webmail, 50 MySQL and 50 Postgre databases, e-commerce support and many more handy features.
On HostICan´s Tera-Host plan you get all the aforementioned features plus a few of the important ones are unlimited. The Tera hosting plan offers to host unlimited domains, unlimited databases, unlimited subdomains, and unlimited parked domains. HostICan is one of the few hosting firms that really offers a shared hosting solution for high bandwidth consuming sites at a very affordable price. It´s risk free to try HostICan as they offer a 30 days money back guarantee to new customers. HostICan supports K-12 public schools in the United States by giving them free hosting space.
HostICan customer service
Saving time in finding the right answer often improves the customer service experience so HostICan´s motto is "Save Time, help yourself first!". To accomplish this task they provide a collection of flash movie tutorials, a knowledge base, a server status check page, and a mail order form. In addition to that HostICan has different online forms for domain transfer, account upgrade/downgrade, and cancellation to make your life easier. HostICan takes pride in having the shortest support ticket reply times at under 10 minutes!
HostICan technical information
HostICan is currently using 33 servers but is going to upgrade to 35 soon. Their backbone carriers are Tiscali, Global Crossing, XO, Cogent and Sprint. HostICan has a connection of 1GBps with each which makes 5GBps altogether. The HostICan servers are housed in one of Equinix´s data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. Complying with all building codes and guidelines the Equinox data center is built to withstand fire, floods, earthquakes and natural disasters. Electricity is guaranteed by an N1 redundancy model. The facility has four turbo charged diesel generators with multiple refuelling contracts. Security guards and high resolution security cameras protect the data center 24x7x365. Anyone who wants to enter the collocation area to must go by six checkpoint hand geometry readers. Optimum performace conditions are achieved by constantly monitoring the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning. Fire is prevented with a VESDA, sprinkler, and dry pipe system.
Hosting plans:
HostICan Linux and Unix plans:
Base host: 200 GB storage and 2500 GB transfer, $6.95/month
Tera host: 250 GB storage and unlimited transfer, $10.95/month
HostICan Virtual Private Servers (VPS):
VPS Rage: 30 GB storage and 2000 GB transfer, $44.95/month
VPS Extreme: 60 GB storage and unlimited transfer, $89.95/month
HostICan Dedicated Servers:
Basic servers NS01: 80 GB storage and 2000 GB, $199.95/month plus $59.95 setup
Basic servers NS02: 80 GB storage and 2500 GB, $239.95/month plus $79.95 setup
