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AN HOSTING REVIEW
AN Hosting was born in early 2001 as a small, two-man shop in a basement office near Chicago. That changed quickly as the company grew and progressed over time. In 2005 AN Hosting was acquired by midPhase, and now collectively hosting over 150,000 domain names. |
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| Your website or websites will be housed in a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art Equinix IBX data center in Chicago, IL, designed to withstand the most extreme weather conditions, electrical outages, hacker attempts, and other safety, privacy, and security threats. Over 25,000 individuals and companies trust AN Hosting to serve their websites. |
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| All AN Hosting packages include free setup, free live 24/7/365 support, free Domain Names for life, a number of free software tools such as a Site Builder and web analytics tools. AN Hosting also gives users unlimited email addresses. In addition to UNIX and Windows hosting, AN Hosting offers a Virtual Private Network (VPN) server package. |
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"I've been very pleased with your services. You never cease to amaze me! The responses have been so great, you've been very patient with my silliest questions. And the problem is always solved. I've referred you already to all my family and friends. Thank-you AN Hosting!"
Manshu Chhabra. Greenwood, MS
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General Comments:
AN Hosting has been around for some time and a search of usergroups, blogs and forums does not reveal a great deal of negative comments regarding AN Hosting.
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Price Value
AN Hosting avoids the industry-standard 20-odd packages for its all-in-one, "everything-you-need" package. The wealth of features - web design tools, email tools, online statistics tools, e-commerce tools, and more - that come free with this web hosting package makes AN Web hosting - already a bargain at $6.95 for 500 GB disk space and 5000 GB data transfer - an even better value.
AN Hosting stands behind its 99.9% uptime guarantee and its 99.9% network uptime guarantee. There is a gotcha, however, with its 30-day money back guarantee - it's not 100%. If you cancel, you forfeit the $21.95 domain name registration fee AN Hosting incurred when getting you your "free" domain name, though you will walk away owning your domain name. We find this unsettling considering that the cost of a domain name is usually $9.95. Hostreviewonline.com recommends that you purchase your own domain name at GoDaddy. |
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Reliability
AN Hosting has a high customer retention rate, probably because of its top-of-the-line equipment and an experienced team of administrators making sure those servers are always up. AN Web Hosting's network operations center touts 2 OC-3s with double redundancy. AN Hosting has little difficulty holding fast to their 99.9% uptime and network uptime guarantees. Remember that with just about every uptime guarantee provided by web hosts there are exclusions, such as upstream provider failures. |
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HOST RATINGS |
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| Price |
6.5/10 |
| Performance |
8.0/10 |
| Reliability |
8.0/10 |
| Support |
6.5/10 |
| Control Panel |
7.5/10 |
| User Feedback |
7.0/10 |
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| TOTAL SCORE |
72.5 |
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