Formely known as 1&1, Ionos was formed in 2017 to provide a wider array of hosting and cloud services to companies around the world. Their platforms remain pretty solid and we've hosted sites here since the early 2000's. Their unlimited storage claim, unlike GoDaddy, actually allows unlimited storage. Our company generates GB's of data for our projects and Ionos has never complained.

Recommendation: Highly recommended for sites where one platform is sufficient.

(Reviewed 1/1/2020)

Though the price is different and remains a low-cost solution for smaller sites, the administration layout for this hosting company makes administration a headache. For the price, we think that other hosting solutions are better suited to administer a site, something smaller companies may be doing.

ADMIN CONSOLE: The admin console for this site is cumberson to deal with. It's not that intuitive, but does offer the basic features you would expect for a console.

(Reviewed 1/2/2011)

Recommendation: May be sufficient for general hosting. Read online reviews to get current perspectives from existing customers.

1/3/2020 - This hosting company is still in business and offering up-to-date features and technologies. We have not used them since 2011 and have not reviewed their current administration system that we reviewed above.

ADMIN CONSOLE: XO offers some moderately priced hosting solutions. While their services are more expensive, their reliability as a hosting company justifies the cost if you have mission-critical website apps running. Their ANTI-SPAM filters for the mail works very well and offers a wide range of flexibility. The only downside is that you need to login to the webmail to delete the SPAM (Junkmail). It would be nice to automatically delete it. For one of my clients, this means that when the main contact is out of the country, I usually get notices that we are over the limit because so much spam comes into this person's Inbox.

As of 2nd Quarter 2004 XO divided their Spam filtering services into two tiers. The first tier provides a lower level of spam filtering for free. A significant amount of spam still gets through. If you want to upgrade to the Premiere spam filter, you will incur a small monthly fee. Too bad the Premium feature is what the service used to be. I haven't been particularly happy with this division of service.

The NeonZ Enterprizez website was hosted here from 2007 to 2009 after they purchased WinSave.com. Our experience was decent and provided the basic functionality we needed.

There weren't many free add-on's available for our account, so we transitioned away from Gate.com as part of a host consolidation plan.

ADMIN CONSOLE: The admin console for Gate.com is decent and allows you the flexibility to manage multiple domains under one account.

(Reviewed 1/2/2011)

Recommendation: May be sufficient for general hosting of small to medium-sizes websites. Read online reviews to get current perspectives from existing customers.

1/3/2020 - This hosting company is still in business and offering up-to-date features and technologies. They have decent hosting plans available, but we haven't used their administration system that we reviewed above.

The NeonZ Enterprizez website was hosted here from 2009 to 2019. Their Windows Hosting package allowed both Windows and Linux based applications. Thus, you could run a standard Windows-based website using MSSQL along side a Wordpress site using MySQL. However, their "Unlimited Storage" feature requires your individual file-sizes to be low. Any filesize above 300MB is at risk of being flagged if your total disk usage gets above 15GB. Their storage team will start sending you notices to delete content, even if it is legitimate. GoDaddy is now on the pricer side of hosting, but does offer a wide range of applications that can be used in each site at the same time.

ADMIN CONSOLE: The Plesk admin console for GoDaddy.com is decent and allows you the flexibility to manage multiple domains under one account. Each domain has numerous options for managing various server-level settings and we found it very flexible.

(Reviewed 1/1/2020)

Recommendation: Recommended for sites where multiple applications on one platform are needed and file sizes and total storage space will remain small.