Hostway: Showing You the Way to Smart Hosting Plans

One of the top five hosting companies in the world is open for business and ready to serve.

Hostway, a company that serves 300,000 or so happy customers is waiting for you to call them and put your website up with the 400,000 or so other websites currently sitting on the Hostway roster.

Who are these companies with such a sharp eye for value and a dedication to their e-business customers? You may have heard of some of them. Coca Cola, for starters, or a little company named Sony. Or maybe you’ve heard about some of their other customers, with names like the Fox News Broadcasting Corp. or even a little known animation and children’s entertainment company called Disney.

All kidding aside, if these companies and other fortune-500 types are taking advantage of Hostway web service, what are you waiting for? Step into the ring with these corporate giants and show the world you have what it takes to be a success, too.

This article will detail the many web packages and hosting plans available from Hostway. If you would like some information on the business of Hostway and some of the things that make this company a great place to set up shop, take a moment to look over this Hostway company review.

Hosting Services

Hostway web hosting is split into four major areas: Email hosting, shared web hosting, business web hosting, and dedicated web hosting. All of their plans are available through Windows web hosting, UNIX web hosting, or Ecommerce web hosting, allowing you to take advantage of Server-Side Scripts such as ASP web hosting and PHP web hosting.

Hostway Email Hosting

The smallest plans available for web hosting through Hostway aren’t even website plans—they’re smaller. Email hosting is available at a modest fee for companies who are simply looking to add a touch of professionalism that personal emails can add. Email Plus and Email Business are a good place to take your first steps into the website hosting experience.

Each of Hostway’s email plans come with handy features such as unlimited email forwarding and advanced spam filters to get rid of potential viruses and other annoyances. In addition, they come with unlimited email aliases so you can get control of your email and keep control of it.

The Email Plus plan from Hostway costs $59.95 per year and comes with 5 pop3 or SMTP email accounts. It also comes with 100Mb of storage space, and since this is web-based email we’re talking about here that means you can access it from anywhere and your storage is online.

The Email Business Plan starts at about $99.95 per year. If you are looking for more web space and accounts than the Email Plus plan has to offer, than this plan is exactly what you need. You get 15 pop3 or SMTP email accounts on a web-based email server that comes with its own navigation bar and control panel. You also get 300Mb of storage space for your email, plus all the great features available to Email Plus plan customers!

Hostway Shared Web Hosting

Hostway’s web hosting services begin with the staple of small and medium companies on the internet—shared web hosting. Hostway offers a three-tiered setup for companies interested in shared hosting for their websites; you have the option of going with the Gold, Gold Plus, or Platinum plans. All of Hostway’s shared web hosting plans are available in Windows web hosting, UNIX web hosting, or Ecommerce web hosting.

The Gold plan is available for as little as $13.95 per month and comes with everything you need to get your little e-business going. You get 600Mb of storage space with 20Gb of monthly data transfer. You also get 25 web based pop3 or SMTP email accounts for your site.

The Gold Plus plan is a step up from the Gold plan and is available for $19.95 per month. You’ll receive 800Mb of online storage space for your website, as well as 40Gb of monthly data transfer and 40 web based pop3 or SMTP email accounts. For the price of a cheap meal, you can have professional, easy to use web hosting for a month.

The Platinum plan is the top of the food chain for the shared web hosting ecology. It also represents the best shared hosting deal by far. For $26.95 per month you can have a whopping 1.2Gb of monthly storage space and an unlimited amount of monthly data transfer.

You’ll also receive 200 separate email accounts to run your business with. What the Platinum plan means for you as a customer is that for the price of a drink with your cheap meal you can make sure that you stay on the top of the food chain.

Hostway Business Hosting

The Hostway business hosting plans represent a significant jump in both bandwidth and storage for your company’s online presence. These plans are split into the Platinum Plus plan and the Diamond plan.

The Platinum Plus plan is the perfect plan for medium sized companies looking for dependable web hosting. The Platinum Plus plan costs $44.95 per month. This plan comes with 2Gb of storage space and unlimited monthly data transfer. It also comes with 300 pop3 or SMTP email addresses.

The Diamond plan is for medium sized companies who will one day be big companies. It comes with a price tag of $71.95 per month, and for that price you get 3Gb of storage space, unlimited monthly data transfer and 400 pop3 or SMTP email addresses.

Hostway Dedicated Hosting

Hostway offers managed dedicated hosting solutions for companies who need the space and freedom of their own dedicated platform but don’t have their own technical people to make sure it runs smoothly. These platforms are available as Windows web hosting and UNIX web hosting platforms, depending on your needs and desires.

Hostway’s dedicated hosting packages come in two flavours, their Advantage plan, which promises to be 100 per cent simple, and their Tru-Flex plan, which represents the ultimate dedicated server experience for large companies with significant bandwidth and storage issues.

The Advantage plan is $179.00 per month for a Linux platform, or $249.00 per month for a Windows platform. It is guaranteed to be as easy as a shared web hosting package but as powerful as any dedicated package out there. You don’t need any IT skills to run it, because Hostway takes care of it at every step.

The Tru-Flex plan represents the ultimate flexible plan for corporations and large companies with significant bandwidth and storage issues. This plan offers powerful solutions for your company with no limits on storage or bandwidth.

You will have complete control over your server and its operations on a Linux platform for just $279.00 per month, or if you prefer, a Windows platform for $295.00 per month. This is the ultimate plan for the ultimate online business.

Other Services

In addition to the many web hosting services provided by Hostway there are a lot of other services offered that can help you run a better online presence. Let Hostway take care of your other online needs at the same time they take care of your hosting needs in order to bring your entire web presence together under one roof.

Hostway offers co-location for your web servers at an affordable price. Being the global company that they are, you can choose one of three destinations for this: Tampa, Florida, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Seoul, South Korea. Hostway will give you full connectivity through their Tier1 backbone that will guarantee a constant online presence at a safe and secure facility.

Hostway offers its powerful M2 Merchant Manager software to quickly and painlessly build professional merchant websites online. With this software you can build a multi-product online store with just a few simple clicks. You’ll be up and running in no time at all.

Miva Merchant Shopping Cart is a dynamic way to turn your site into a browser based storefront application. With features such as real-time credit card processing, Miva Merchant is a world-class program that will have your customers clicking ‘til the cows come home.

Hostway is a top five web hosting company for a reason, and now you may be beginning to see it. They offer a full spectrum of web alternatives for your company that you can’t help but be impressed with. If you need a serious boost in your hosting quality, or are just someone who expects the best, it’s time to give Hostway a call. They’ll show you the way to a smart hosting plan.

For more information on Hostway and their hosting plans, visit their website.

About the Author

Bill Schnarr is a single parent and freelance writer who makes his home in Calgary, Alberta. As well as having dozens of on-line and print publishing credits, he has recently written reviews about the Hostway web hosting company and an in-depth review on Hostway hosting plans. Look for him in the upcoming "Chicken Soup for the Single Parents Soul" due out in February 2005.