Thursday, August 26, 2010

hosting WebHostingPad

General

WebHostingPad was formed in 2005 as a divison of Omnis Networks which has been in the web hosting industry since 1999 and currently manages more than 200,000 accounts.

  • CEO: Gary Chon
  • Offices: Chicago, IL
  • Data center: Chicago, IL

User experience

Our Web Hosting Pad test site showed good response and uptimes.

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WebHostingPad is a standard cPanel 11 host. There is a little bit of wasted white space in the panel skin, but that is definitely not any major issue.

Only a single concurrent FTP connection is possible. This is annoying if you want to update your site often with large amounts of files. You will not be able to parallelize uploads.

Customer satisfaction

WebHostingPad is a fairly recent hosting company growing very fast due to word of mouth by their satisfied customers.

Technical specs

WebHostingPad custom build their own servers. Each web server is a dual Xeon server with 8GB of system RAM. Furthermore, the shared web hosting service is delivered from a load-balanced cluster of servers and files are served from a Netapp network attached storage device. This ensures high availability and consistent performance for all user accounts.

  • MySQL 5.0.45 - Up to date
  • PHP 5.2.45 - Up to date
  • UTF-8 and mbstring: supported

Overall, the platform is state of the art.

Section updated April 30th, 2008.

Security

Web Hosting Pad is running suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

WebHostingPad offers a single hosting plan:

WHP Plan
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)$4.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)$2.75
Monthly fee (× 36 mo)$1.99
Disk spaceUnlimited
TransferUnlimited
Included domain namefree
Domains per accountUnlimited
b2evo auto installyes

Options

  • SSH: $25

Check out WebHostingPad now »

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18 comments

Comment from: RT [Visitor]
RTThis is definitely the best in budget web host arena.

My only concern is, how can I use up this big allowance? :D
02/08/08 @ 07:51
Comment from: mike [Visitor]
mikegood price, good offer!
great support center!
got an answer within minutes!
02/21/08 @ 22:46
Comment from: Bobby Haldermeyer [Visitor]
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Bobby HaldermeyerJust got hosting with them a few weeks ago and got great support for my website.
02/25/08 @ 06:15
Comment from: Jack [Visitor]
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JackI have a new b2 blog and chose webhostingpad based in part by the good reviews. I have been up and running for about a month now and it serves 2 different web sites. I used their support often during the first week and their response as always been fast (a few hours even) and correct. I would also say that any of the problems I had could have been caused by my lack of experience. I have not had any trouble since and am very happy with their services. I highly recommend webhostingpad.
05/09/08 @ 19:11
Comment from: srinivasan nayar [Visitor]
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srinivasan nayarWebhostingpad features are excellent and they have great technical support 365/24/7
05/25/08 @ 07:35
Comment from: Mich D [Visitor]
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Mich DAmazing support from these folks. I dont have to call much but this is the only web host I like to call. They always get you straight fast and the people a friendly. That for me is THE big deal to.
05/29/08 @ 17:28
Comment from: Anthony [Visitor]
AnthonyThanks for the review, I was considering going with WebHostingPad, now I know for certain that i'm going with them!
06/15/08 @ 09:43
Comment from: xMoDx [Visitor]
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xMoDxi have recommend this hosting for my friend who needs a webhost for his internet cafe business :)
09/10/08 @ 09:37
Comment from: john [Visitor]
johnsounds good and I am going with them soon !B)
11/28/08 @ 03:36
Comment from: Bill [Visitor]
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BillI've got four active blogs on their server and have had for nearly a year now, with zero problems. Once in a blue moon the server will be down for a few minutes, but by and large, they have been extremely dependable, and the load time for my pages is excellent, a couple of seconds at most. Their tech support was good when I was getting set up, and I haven't had to call them since. I'm getting ready to renew for another year. I really don't know how they could be much better, although I can't speak for high traffic sites, as mine are relatively low traffic. I have no hesitation recommending them, though.
12/14/08 @ 01:52
Comment from: Oxy [Visitor]
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OxyNew cleint since 4 months!Best ever! Best support and tools+ no down times so far. I strongly suggest everyone to all.
Happy New Year and good luck.
01/07/09 @ 17:31
Comment from: Alexandro [Visitor]
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AlexandroI'm looking for a new hosting for my site y this is just that I'm looking for. Great work !!!
01/13/09 @ 14:49
Comment from: web-sketchers [Visitor]
web-sketchersThe site offers good service, Im also thinking of trying it.B)
02/18/09 @ 05:18
Comment from: chad [Visitor]
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chadi LOVE these guys. everytime i have a question, i do a live chat and they fix it in seconds. the problem is 99% on my end, not on their's. i have definitely found a new home with them.

06/08/09 @ 16:41
Comment from: James [Visitor]
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JamesThis is an awesome deal for the money. The set up on my blog using wordpress was extremely simple.

The bottom line is that 2 bucks a month is a pretty good deal for what you get and the services that they offer.
10/13/09 @ 01:54
Comment from: Howie Hoyt [Visitor]
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Howie HoytI have been using them about 20days so far.
Everything works as advertised ;-)

Howie
10/24/09 @ 19:37
Comment from: Andres [Visitor]
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AndresI'm from Spain and I use WebHostingPad for all my sites.

I never thought that their services were so excellent.The prices are also incredibly cheap. I commend you for the work they are doing.

Andres, from Madrid
11/18/09 @ 19:26
Comment from: fangoono [Visitor]
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fangoonoI was having an issue with my little brother's domain (hosted by another company) pointing to my hosting space (hosted by WBP). This issue has been going on for 2 weeks and I kept going back and forth with both companies until your rep Chris totally fixed the issue and his domain worked. If he hadn't, my brother was going to go with another company for hosting and spend money he can't afford to spend at this time. Thank you so much for your service! He and I both really appreciate it.
11/19/09 @ 08:59

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