HostRocket Review

Overview

HostRocket offers a very professional service and their plans are tailored to your needs (see below). I wouldn't hesitate to recommend HostRocket. I've yet to find anyone who has had a bad experience with HostRocket. If you have, please let us know.

About the Company:
HostRocket is a highly successful web-hosting firm headquartered in Clifton Park, NY. Since its foundation in 1999, HostRocket has always had the goal of underscoring support, availability, technology and value.

Owning their own datacenter allows HostRocket to provide you with unmatched reliability and uptime. Not being dependant on other companies to provide them with access to the servers makes hardware upgrades on the fly easy, and allows them to fix problems before they become problems for your customers.

Statement from the web hosting provider:
"HostRocket is reshaping and influencing the web hosting industry on a daily basis by providing world-class services that cannot be found anywhere else. For that reason, we take pride in keeping our customers and the media informed about important events and changes surrounding our company.."

HostRocket Hosting Benefits:
One of the most impressive things with HostRocket is their undeniably outstanding data center. Here is a breakdown of their datacenter features:

Location: 21 Corporate Drive, Clifton Park, NY
An area not prone to any major natural disasters ensures you that your servers will not be down as a result of Mother Nature.

Building Size: 52,000+ Sq. Ft.
A new class a office building, 21 corporate drive offers the perfect location for housing a world class data center.

DataCenter Size: 10,000+ Sq. Ft.
Large enough to hold thousands of servers and the ability to more than double the capacity of the server room ensures you will have room to grow for years to come.

Connection: Redundant OC-12 Loops through TW Telecom
Huge pipes with bandwidth available on demand up to OC-12 capacity ensures that your site will be available fast even during peak usage hours.

Networking: High end gigabit Ethernet infrastructure
All wiring is done with tested factory terminated cat5e gigabit Ethernet wiring to ensure maximum bandwidth. Cisco Routers and Switches ensure that your site will not be down as a result of inferior hardware failure.

Network Security: DOS and DDOS attack prevention in place.
High end DOS (Denial Of Service) and DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attacks are stopped using redundant firewalls.

Cooling: Redundant Rooftop 12 1/2 Ton AC Units
The server room is kept at a cool 65 degrees farenheit and the proper level of humidity to ensure both condensation and static electricity will not be a problem no matter what the weather is like outside.

Electrical: Multiple 30 Amp Circuits Per Rack
Running our electrical circuits at 75% max capacity ensures your server will never be short on the power it needs no matter what conditions happen that could affect the power further up the line.

UPS: Full UPS Battery Backup for all equipment
All equipment is backed up using multiple separate APC battery backup units to add extra redundancy in case of power failure. All UPS equipment is automatically tested every 2 weeks to ensure working order.

Generator: Full diesel generator backup for all equipment
All equipment is on a powerful Kohler diesel power generator which is turned on automatically 4 seconds after a power failure, long before the battery backup begins to fade. 1,000 gallons of fuel are kept on site, with refueling contracts in place.

Staff: 24/7/365 On Site Staff
Full staff means that no matter what time of day or night a problem may arise, the proper technicians to handle the problem be it software, hardware, or networking, are available to fix it right away.

Beyond this amazing datacenter they also have a very effective support system set up. This will be outlined more in the next section.

HostRocket's Hosting Support
HostRocket has the best support system I have seen at a hosting so far. They have the ticket-support system (submit a ticket, get a reply) but they also have a bustling support forum and an entire site dedicated to hosting support at http://support.hostrocket.com/ I could babble on with all the features offered here, but its just as easy for you to check them out!

HostRocket Reliability:
As discussed earlier HostRocket has an outstanding datacenter and outstanding support. Along with this and their wide variety of plans to fit anyone's need they are completely reliable. No complaints from this reviewer.

HostRocket Money-Back Guarantee:
HostRocket offers a 30 day money back guarantee.

Conclusion of HostRocket Web :
HostRocket offers a very professional service and their plans are tailored to your needs (see below). I wouldn't hesitate to recommend HostRocket. I've yet to find anyone who has had a bad experience with HostRocket. If you have, please let us know.

HostRocket Shared Hosting - $4.95/month
High Bandwidth Connectivity and Redundant Connections allow us to guarantee 99.5% uptime on all sites. Their 30 day money back guarantee ensures you will be happy with your shared webhosting service. Instant Account Activation allow you to get online and start uploading your website within minutes.

HostRocket offers the most complete and highest valued shared hosting packages available anywhere on the internet today. They offer both plenty of space for you to store both your web site along with any side projects you are working on, and enough bandwidth to deliver your site to thousands and thousands of visitors a month. Details on transfers, pop3, etc can be found here: http://www.hostrocket.com/products/index.htm If you need more then the basic bandwidth and storage space there is an array of other offers with upgrades including the Executive, Corporate, and Semi-Dedicated plans.

Rocket Freedom : The Rocket freedom plan should fit all personal, small, and some medium sized businesses. Unlimited transfer and 25,000 MB storage is a ton for this price! This plan is reduced from $8.95/mo to $4.95/mo now.

Dedicated & Semi Dedicated Plans: Their Dedicated and semi dedicated plans are or large companies that run a high-traffic and high-resource site (you need to store a lot of files). If yours is a very heavy traffic sites with very large files then you should look into these plans.