APOLLO HOSTING REVIEW

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The maintenance of 4 Tier 1 Backbone connections by Apollo Hosting is the key factor behind their superfast rocksolid connectivity. Additionally, their web hosting servers have been custom-built to fulfill the demanding needs of round-the-clock web serving environment because of which they have a highly reputed history of 99.9% server uptime.

Apollo Hosting back their web hosting service with a number of guarantees. Their Price Freeze Guarantee ensures that the costs incurred to you will not be changed once you have signed up with them. Their 99.9% uptime guarantee ensures that your website will be visible to your visitors round-the-clock. Their confidence in their budget web hosting plans is reflected in their 30 days no questions asked moneyback guarantee which entitles you to a full refund in case you're not satisfied with the service and cancel within this period. You can even get refunds on your unused hosting with their 'No Risk Guarantee' which charges you a cost only for the number of months that you have actually used their service before canceling.

With Apollo Hosting, you can rest assured that you will never be left alone any time you encounter problems and someone will always be available to address your queries. You can chat live with Apollo Hosting's technical support personnel anytime, whether it's day or night. Plus they also have toll-free telephone support throughout the week should you prefer to contact them via telephone.

The "Get Traffic Tool Box" offered by Apollo Hosting is a set of highly advantageous tools which can be used online for website optimization and promotion. This set of tools includes banner impressions, search engine submission, newsletter and tons of other features for marketing your business online.

Since 1998, Apollo Hosting has been a member of BBB (Better Business Bureau) and has so far not received even a single complaint. Their budget web hosting solutions have also won them numerous quality awards from the web hosting industry.

SpamAway is a state-of-the-art SPAM/Virus filtering software developed by Postini with the help of the world leader in spam and virus filtering McAfee. This software is included for free in all the web hosting plans offered by Apollo cheap web hosting. PC Magazine has voted Postin's SpamAway to be the best corporate spam filtering software. Reliance on some bad quality cheap web hosting company to make spam filtering decisions can often result in their customers losing important e-mail. Contrary to this, Postini gives customers access to their own Online Message Center where they can view the filtered e-mail due to suspicion of spam or virus, and can subsequently program the software not to identify particular e-mail messages as spam in the future but instead deliver them to their inbox.

Apollo Hosting offers attractive discounts to customers who pay for their hosting plans for longer contract periods. So if for example, a customer pays advance hosting fees for two years, he can chose between receiving a discount of 30% or free web hosting for up to 7 months. Similarly, quarterly, semi-annually and annual payments also entitle customers to generous discounts.

Apollo Hosting has had an alliance with Miva Corporation for 3 years and has subsequently been declared as their 'Premier Partner'. This means a lot to the potential customers of Apollo Hosting because any time they encounter a problem with Miva storefront, they can get high quality professional support from Apollo's personnel who are highly trained to support Miva Ecommerce products. This technical staff is available around the clock to help their customers with any problems with Miva storefront. Furthermore, Apollo has also been recognized by Microsoft as "Certified Microsoft FrontPage Service Provider" following a strict testing procedure carried out on their servers. The FrontPage Server Extensions are therefore supported by Apollo Hosting's highly optimized custom-built servers.

A distinctive feature of all Apollo Hosting packages is that they are feature-rich as well as fully loaded with highly functional programming tools. These features include Postini SPAM/Virus filtering software, lots of e-mail accounts, unlimited mySQL databases, multiple domain hosting on one account, FREE Miva Merchant worth $695, support for ASP, PHP, Perl and a whole lot more. And best of all, all these tools are always at the disposal of their customers through their state-of-the-art Control Panel to put them to their use.

Apollo Hosting offers such a wide range of plans that their customers never have to worry about having additional resources required due to the growth of their websites. The budget web hosting plans they offer can be divided into 3 main categories to fulfill the exhaustive demands of a growing website. Customers can launch their website for as low as $6.96/month and can subsequently upgrade as their business demands. These upgrades are very smooth, cost the customers nothing and the transition occurs in less than 24 hours. There are lots of other inexpensive web hosting companies which cannot satisfy the demands of a growing website because they either offer a single plan or a limited selection of plans. Apollo Hosting on the other hand is flexible enough to conform to their customer's growing needs, so they can rest assured that they will never run short of resources or functionality.

 

In contrast with other budget web hosting companies, Apollo Hosting seems to be a bit expensive. Nevertheless, a full-year payment reduces the monthly cost to $7.96 thereby bringing Apollo Hosting to the same level as other hosts. On the other hand, Apollo's hosting packages include powerful software and other features which gives them a clear-cut competitive edge over other web hosts. These features include that get traffic tool box, site studio website builder, Postini Spam Filtering and Miva Merchant.

The Value Plan is their most common inexpensive web hosting plan, which offers 50 GB of space and 500 GB of bandwidth which is almost the same as offered by other budget web hosting companies. The package also contains unlimited MySQL databases and a host of other features.

 

Apollo Hosting is committed to provide excellent support to its customers. Potential and existing customers can get help by several methods. The toll-free support is available from Monday to Friday (8 p.m.- 5 p.m.). Live chat feature is also supported and is available 24 hours a day allowing instant communication with them. There is also a unique support feature which allows you to leave your number and be called back within a maximum time period of two hours.

 

Apollo Hosting customers have direct fiber optic connections with Frontier GlobalCenter, Qwest Communications, and Genuity, a division of GTE. These tier 1 providers service such giants as Yahoo!, Netscape®, Ebay®, and USA TODAY. With these three carriers, Apollo Hosting's router has up to 150,000 possible routes to send each packet of data. Because your site will actually be on a backbone, you will be provided with one of the fastest, most reliable connections available. Apollo Hosting is also connected to Qwest® Communication's OC192 line which provides it with redundancy and increased routes to Europe, Latin America and Asia.

 

Apollo Hosting offers competitive pricing and a host of features and is a very strong web host on the inexpensive web hosting scene. The bundle of features offered by them make them a very attractive company to host with. Their speed and reliability is superb because they utilize Tier 1 providers and fast servers. Apollo Hosting is also a very dynamic host in that it keeps changing its packages according to the needs of its customers. For over 15 months, not a single of their customers has had a downtime for over 10 minutes. It's definitely worthwhile to consider Apollo Hosting as your future host. Sign up today!

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