About Site5
Site5 is a highly acclaimed web host based in San Ramon, California. The company was founded in 1999 by Matt Lightner and Rod Armstrong, and has been serving webmasters for almost a decade. Site5’s philosophy is “web hosting should be easy, fun, accessible, reliable and generally not painful to use.” With over 200 dedicated servers and nearly 200,000 domains hosted, Site5 knows how to bring their vision to life.
Site5 Plans and Features
On their shared hosting plan, Site5 provides you with a massive 750 GB of webspace, and an even juicier 7.5 TB of monthly bandwidth. While customers are usually billed $7.95/mo for the hosting plan, you can now avail a special sale price of only $5/mo (for a limited time). Not only that; as a Site5 customer, you also enjoy hosting of unlimited websites, unlimited email accounts and unlimited MySQL databases at no extra charge. Your website will be hosted on a server along with very few others, thanks to which Site5 guarantees a 99.5% uptime. Plus, all this is backed by their 60-day unconditional money-back guarantee.
Site5's Hosting Environment
The user control panel at Site5 is a user-friendly custom engineered version of cPanel, named SiteAdmin. From in here, you can manage all aspects of your account including you website’s files (through the inbuilt File Manager), databases, emails etc. You are allowed to have unlimited MySQL databases which come with a pre-configured version of phpMyAdmin for easy administration. Another very helpful feature is the ‘DNS Zone File Editor’ which allows for modification of DNS information. The AwStats module found in SiteAdmin will enable you to track your website statistics on a daily basis. While this isn’t the absolute best of analytical software, it does a good job of presenting accurate stats. For more advanced solutions, please consider Google Analytics.
Joomla Specific Features
If a Content Management System (CMS) is vital your website, you will find Fantastico within your SiteAdmin from whence CMS solutions, including Joomla, can be installed with ease.
Tech Support
Site5 has a reputation for being one of the most responsive and customer-oriented companies in the hosting industry. If you should ever need to contact technical support, you can do so by opening a ticket on their support page. What’s special about this is that Site5 has salaried and dedicated support staff and their average response time is 15 minutes, which is nothing short of amazing. Furthermore, support forums for members can be found at forums.site5.com where almost 2000 active members participate. Toll-free telephone support and live online chat are also available for sales queries.
Conclusion
With all of Site5’s features and offerings in mind, it should really be noted that they provide excellent value for money like very few other hosts do. Thanks to their dedication and support, refund and bounce rates are at minimum, meaning you’ll probably never switch hosts if you only try Site5 out.
