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Editor's rating
9.5
out of 10
Average user rating: 8.7 
4 User reviews
Plan Features
Price: $5.00
Disk Space: 750 GB
Bandwidth: 7,500 GB
Domain Registration: Not Available
Domains Hosted: Unlimited
Edit DNS Zone File: Yes
Money Back Guarantee: 60 Day
MySQL Features
MySQL Databases: Unlimited
PHP MyAdmin: Yes
Joomla Features
Joomla Auto Install: Yes
Fantastico: Yes
Ion Cube Support: Yes
Support Options
Email / Help Desk: Yes
Phone Support: Yes
Member Forum: Yes
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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.

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Site5's Plan 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.

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Site5 The Plan
Editor review : Excellent Web Host!
Overall rating
9.5
Website Uptime
10.0
Control Panel Features
10.0
Customer Support
9.0
Price
9.0
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

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I have used Site5 for several years now and they have always done an excellent job.

I host well over 2 dozen different Joomla sites with various hosting companies. Site5 runs the most of any web host. I have moved some of my sites to other host to try out the service and often times find myself moving the site back to Site5.

They really excel when it comes to multi site hosting. I think they are calling in turbo charged these days. For a few more dollars a month you can give each one of your sites its own hosting control panel. If you do host multiple sites this makes managing them much easier.

The dashboard is very easy to navigate and complete tasks. They have a highly customized cpanel configuration. The great thing about this is they have a single signon for all services. This also is a huge plus to me. Some other hosts have separate accounts for billing, tech support, hosting, etc. Not Site5. It is very easy to access all systems.

High marks all around I have been very pleased with site5 and we think you will to!

User reviews

Average user rating from: 4 user(s)

Overall rating
8.7
Website Uptime
8.0
Control Panel Features
9.8
Customer Support
7.8
Price
9.3
 

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Overall rating
6.8
Website Uptime
4.0
Control Panel Features
9.0
Customer Support
5.0
Price
9.0
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Not impressed lately

Written by Kathy
Sunday, 25 May 2008

I have two different accounts with Site5. A multi site plan which I have not had issue with and a single shared plan. Both accounts are on different servers. This review is only for the single shared hosting plan.

My first 6 months of hosting were without incident, but the last 6 have been horrible. Site keeps going down, keep getting database errors. The response I recieved back from their support was, keep an eye on it and see if it keeps happening. What the? The last 3 weeks my site has been doing all sorts of strange things including messed up text and showing tripple the bandwidth which is an error. Support taking anywhere from 9 hours to 2 days to respond. They are a victim of overselling and it is catching up with them in their service which USED to be first class.

Overall rating
9.5
Website Uptime
10.0
Control Panel Features
10.0
Customer Support
9.0
Price
9.0
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Great host / great customer service / ssh access

Written by Max Hyatt
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

I have nothing but praise for site5.com hosting. I've been w/ them for the last 2.5 years, and haven't had a single problem. Support is amazingly fast, even at 3:00 am EST. I like the separate control panels allotted to each site I put up, which makes management extremely easy. Having SSH access was important, and they offer it to you.

I would definitely recommend this to others!

Overall rating
9.3
Website Uptime
9.0
Control Panel Features
10.0
Customer Support
9.0
Price
9.0
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Great Hosting company

Written by Don
Wednesday, 14 November 2007

I have really enjoyed site 5. The provide a good product and it is easy to set up a Joomla site.

Overall rating
9.3
Website Uptime
9.0
Control Panel Features
10.0
Customer Support
8.0
Price
10.0
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Great Service

Written by JackieK
Wednesday, 12 September 2007

I really like hosting with these guys. They have great deals and joomla runs real well on their servers. The price is right to. All of my sites have great uptimes.
One time when talking with tech support on the phone, I asked the guy how they were able to keep prices so low and he said that it was because they own all of their own servers. I thought that was good to know.

On occasion I have gotten a site on a bad server but I have been able to work with customer support to get the site moved to another one. I have over 20 sites with them so you are going to get a few slower machines.


 
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