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ANHosting Review
When preparing to write this ANHosting review, we visited the ANHosting website and bought the hosting plan we intended to review using exactly the same method as any other provider. We did not notify ANHosting that we intended to write a review of their services and, to the best of our knowledge, we were treated exactly the same as any regular ANHosting customer.
About ANHosting
ANHosting was founded in 2001, which makes it a relative newcomer when compared to some other web hosts. However, in its relatively short history ANHosting has grown to become one of the major players in shared web hosting, boasting customers in over 100 countries.
ANHosting have based their infrastructure around Dual-Core, Dual-CPU Opteron servers, Cisco network hardware and SCSI based RAID-5 storage technology. The data center power system is of-course fully protected by UPS with diesel generator backup.
Plan Features and Pricing
The ANHosting ‘Mega Plan’ offers an industry leading 500GB of disk space and 5000GB of data transfer/bandwidth per month and allows the hosting of up to 20 full domains and unlimited sub-domains, all for the low price of $6.95 per month.
Control Panel
ANHosting provides a customised version of cPanel for administration of your web sites. cPanel has become something of an industry standard, with the majority of web hosting companies offering it for administration. Those coming from other cPanel based hosts won’t have too many problems completing tasks with the ANHosting panel. It was nice to see that the panel can be configured for a number of non-English languages, making life a little easier for those whose first language is not English.
During our test period, our ANHosting test site only experienced one short (less than 15 minute) outage; we are still unsure whether this outage was due to an issue at ANHosting, or network problems somewhere between our testing site and the ANHosting network. Since this outage was a ‘once-off’ occurrence, we tend to think that it is worth giving ANHosting the benefit of the doubt on this occasion.
Technical Support
A 24/7 phone support ‘hotline’ is provided for technical support, or, if you prefer, you can use email for support enquiries. Our time at ANHosting was mostly without incident, so we did not have much of a chance to test their support facilities. However, the few email requests we did send were answered rapidly and provided the information we were seeking.
Conclusion
ANHosting offers a top-quality, reliable and highly affordable web hosting package. The 500GB disk space and 5000GB monthly data transfer/bandwidth offered by the ‘Mega Plan’ should prove to be enough for even the most demanding web site. During our testing period, reliability proved to be excellent. If you are currently shopping for a web host, we recommend you take a very close look at ANHosting.
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