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Apollo Hosting has been my web host since mid 2003. I decided to subscribe to them due to my friends’ advice, who are also subscribers of Apollo Hosting. My friends are impressed of Apollo Hosting’s services and they swear by the quality and reliability of Apollo Hosting’s services, so I decided to try them out. Try them out, I did, and was amazed at how they take care of my needs as their client. I also checked out Apollo Hosting’s credibility through the power of Google and found both rave reviews and rant reviews about them. I found the rant reviews fine but the rave reviews were very helpful. I am reviewing Apollo Hosting’s services so that people out there who are looking for a web host or switching to a new one will gain insight of Apollo Hosting’s services. Reviews really helped a great deal during my search of a web host and I am sincerely hoping that this review will help you out, too.
Apollo has been hosting 165,000 domains up to date since they started offering web hosting services in 1999. Apollo Hosting is a privately owned company and their offices are situated in Austin, Texas. They have an abundance of web hosting plans to suit every type of customer. They have the Linux Shared Hosting with three web hosting plans; The Value Plan, The Business Plan and The Ecommerce Plan. Their Windows Shared Hosting with two web hosting plans; The Windows Plus Plan and the Windows Pro Plan and their Business Hosting or Virtual Private Server or VPS Plans with three web hosting plans; The Lite VPS plan, The Standard VPS plan and the Advanced VPS plan.
They have been recognized for their topnotch services by prominent web hosting reviewers namely: TopHosts Top 5 Web Host Award for August and September 2006, Hosting-Review.com’s Editor’s pick for 2006, HostReview.com’s Top 10 Hosting company for March 2006 and 2007, and Top 10 Budget Hosting and Dedicated Hosting for January 2007, Editor’s Choice Award - Ecommerce by FindMyHost.com for October 2006 and Guaranteed Host Award among many other recognitions from other reputable web hosting reviewers.
Apollo Hosting’s elaborate web hosting plans offer prospective clients numerous choices to fit the clients’ needs. Whether you are seasoned or new in web hosting, their web hosting plans are designed in such a way that new clients will not be intimidated and seasoned clients will see the ingenuity in Apollo Hosting’s web hosting packages.
The Linux Shared Hosting plan is categorized into three web hosting plans: The Value Plan priced at $6.96 for 24 months, The Business Plan priced at $13.96 for 24 months and the Ecommerce Plan priced at $20.96. These three plans differ in cost, due to the fact that they add extra features of the packages as the cost goes up. The general features of the Linux Shared Hosting plans are as follows: Resources, Domains and IP Addresses, Email services, Spam / Virus Filtering, Ecommerce features, Database support, Programming and Scripting, Access Features, Website tools and features, Multimedia Options, Marketing tools, Technical Support, Guarantees and other Optional Add-on features.
These are the specific features you can benefit from when you subscribe to the Linux Shared Hosting plan: 3,000 up to 10,000 MB of storage, 100 to 200 GB Bandwidth, 1 to 10 websites included, Dedicated IP Address, 1 to 10 sub domains, 50 t o500 POP Email accounts, Unlimited Email aliases, Webmail, 1 t o10 mailing lists, Auto responders, Email Forwarding, Form mail which is free upon request, Fax through Email $3.41 a month, Spam Assassin with $20 setup fee, Shared SSL Certificate, Personal SSL Certificate $99 per year with one time installation fee of $30, Free Merchant Account setup, Free Payment Gateway setup, PCI Compliance scans free for a year, Compatible with PayPal Shopping cart, osCommerce Shopping cart, Miva Merchant 5 Shopping cart $9.95 a month with one time installation fee of $25, Unlimited MySQL4.1.10a Database and MySQL Database Quota, Plesk Application Vault, ColdFusion 6.1 for $10 a month, Sun Java System ASP 4.0 for $10 a month, PHP MyAdmin, CGI Bin, PHP 4.3.10, Perl 5.8.0, Python 2.2.2, C and C++, CRON Management Tools, Control Panel, SSH limited, Unlimited FTP Accounts, Anonymous FTP, Site Symphony 3 pack, Mambo Site Builder, FrontPage Support, Dreamweaver & MS Publisher Support, Custom Error Pages, Password Protect Directories, Free Web Content, Website Chat, b2Evolution Blog Software, Content Management System, Server Slide Includes or SSI, Guestbook, Bulletin Board, Photo Gallery, Real Audio/Video, Microsoft Media, Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Get Traffic Toolbox, Submit Site to search engines, Site statistics, Urchin 5 Web Analytics, Urchin Ecommerce Module, Google Adwords $25 worth coupon, Free $50 Credit at Yahoo Search marketing, Affiliate Manager, Keyword Verification tool, Link Popularity Checker, Search Engine Saturation Tool, Meta Tag Generator, Miva Marketplace, Internet Marketing Course, Access to Raw Log Files, Amazon.com Merchant Interface, Extensive Online Documentation, Video tutorials, 24/7/365 Live Chat, Toll Free Phone Support, 30 day Money Back Guarantee, 99.9 % Uptime Guarantee and No Risk guarantee.
Some options and features are not available in the Value Plan because of its low price that’s why Apollo Hosting offer what they call Optional Add-ons to Linux Shared Hosting Plans that are devoid of the other features you get with either the Business Plan or the Ecommerce Pro Plan. Of course additional payment is required. This way, you can get all the general tools and services that you need to get started with your site and as you go along and need more resources and tools, you can simply add additional options that you see fit to your needs.
I will not elaborate on the other plans Apollo Hosting offers e.g. their Windows Shared Hosting Plans and the VPS / Virtual Private Server Plan or Business Hosting Plan because I personally am not familiar of how it works as I only have the Ecommerce Pro Plan which is under the Linux Shared Hosting Plans. If you want more information for their other Web Hosting Plans, you can visit their site at www.apollohosting.com.
I got my first website up and running on July of 2003 and have been with Apollo Hosting since then. As a newbie to the website industry, I wanted to find a perfect web host that will help me in my new endeavor. I was an absolute web hosting amateur if you may and I was considering Apollo Hosting because it came highly recommended by friends and web hosting reviewers alike. I first availed of Apollo Hosting’s Value Plan because I didn’t know the ropes yet and I was at first intimidated by the other packages; it was as if I was reading a different language, web hosting language if you will, and I was naturally overwhelmed. My colleagues and I used the FrontPage 2002 edition to build our site as most of my friends told me that it functions really well with Apollo Hosting’s services. As our site attracted more attention, more and more customers and members alike logged on daily, we decided to upgrade our account with Apollo to the pricier but more efficient Ecommerce Pro Plan.
I personally consider Apollo Hosting’s features especially its Ecommerce software and their customer service to be their greatest advantages over other web hosting companies. Apollo Hosting offers the Miva Merchant 5 shopping cart which is valued at $995 but with the Ecommerce Plan you can avail of it at $9.95 a month with only a one time installation fee of $25. They always offer the latest version of the Miva shopping cart because it keeps getting better and more efficient with every new edition. Apart from the very reliable customer support of Apollo Hosting, the Miva shopping cart also comes with the Silver Support directly from the Miva team at a reasonable discount. Instead of calling the customer support of Apollo with regards to the Miva shopping cart, you can directly call Silver Support as they are the experts on the Miva software. Another convenient thing about Miva is that it supports PayPal so you can use PayPal as your merchant account rather than getting your own business account. Also with the Ecommerce Plan are tools to help you with building your site and your online store. These are tax and shipping calculations, a point and click storefront tool from Miva Merchant, credit card processing and automatic customer receipts among others. Their Control Panel is simple to use for updating and managing your site. They also have a Get Traffic Tool box to help your site get traffic or get noticed on the internet by using online marketing techniques like forwarding your site to search engines. Customer support is friendly and knowledgeable both on the Live Chat and the Phone Support. I haven’t really had the chance to talk to the customer reps of Apollo Hosting that much as I don’t get many problems with my site and when I do, it is not because of Apollo Hosting.
If you’re looking for a web host with manageable and sufficient tools for your site, effective ecommerce tools and knowledgeable customer service, in short, complete value for your money; try Apollo Hosting’s web hosting plans.
constant-content.com | March 26th, 2008
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