Overview: Liquidweb focuses on medium to large businesses and offers its customers top of the line dedicated hosting with unsurpassed customer service and security.
Pricing:
VPS: $50/mo for VPS hosting
Cloud Dedicated: $50/mo for managed hosting
Managed Dedicated: $199/mo for managed hosting
Ideal Customer: Any enterprise or corporate level business looking for specialized hosting services with fully managed options.
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Unique Features:
Managed VPS Hosting: Managed VPS Hosting is a special feature from Liquidweb which comes with many other uses and advantages. VPS, meaning Virtual Private Server is a virtualized server which technically mimics both dedicated and shared hosting. Shared hosting is when you share segments of a server with other users, this is useful when you run a small or new website with little traffic. A dedicated server is when you rent an entire server for yourself, and this is useful for much more high traffic yielding sites. A VPS server, however, offers you the benefits of both and if you are considering a dedicated server but not 100% sure, then you should certainly check out a VPS host. A VPS host can provide you with many benefits such as added privacy (as you don’t share your OS with anyone else), an ability to customize (your own OS means all server applications are yours and hence easier to adapt and change), added control (your VPS server can restart without affecting others), and dedicated resources such as RAM available to you whenever you need it.
Liquidweb offers various different types of VPS servers, from the basic 1GB RAM and 50GB SSD disk space (for $50 a month) to 8GB RAM and 300GB SSD disk space for $219 a month. They can however, cover you for much more RAM if you so require.
Included with the VPS service is the Storm VPS Server which provides you with many additional benefits. Firstly, you are provided with Cloudflare CDN. Cloudflare has two distinct features in that it helps secure your site (by acting as a proxy), as well as helping to optimize your site (by optimizing your HTML). Cloudflare therefore allows you to preserve bandwidth and resources by allowing threats to be detected and stopped well before they reach your site. Liquidweb’s Cloudflare promises the following attributes with full site coverage including improved performance on any site, faster page load times, reduced bandwidth usage, server dashboard integration, together with improved SEO and conversion rates. Another benefit of using Storm VPS hosting is the built-in backups. Storm VPS backups can be enabled to allow you to take full server snapshots (including full server backups, on-demand backups, whole serve restoration, and automatic daily backups) and hence provide data recovery as and when you need it. They also provide you with security in the form of firewall protection, server hardening, daily security audits, and HTTP intrusion protection. Another feature added to Liquidweb’s Storm VPS Managed Server is the ability to prevent small-scale DDoS attacks. Comprehensive protection is available for larger scale attacks if required.
Liquidweb’s Managed VPS packages all support 100 percent network uptime, monitoring, and a 30 minute response time guaranteed. Together with this, you also get instant provisioning, real-time monitoring, free incoming bandwidth, API access, free storm firewall, an available Plesk, 5TB outgoing bandwidth, the ability to easily upgrade or downgrade, RAID protected SSD VPS, as well as daily billing available so you only pay for what you use.
Storm Add-Ons: Liquidweb offer Storm Hosting Add-Ons to enhance and improve your Storm Hosting environment. These include Block Storage, Object Storage, Load Balancer, and a VPN. Block Storage allows you to create and move block storage volumes separated from your instances. This makes it easier than ever before to create an exceptional amount of storage space. Object Storage provides you a cost effective way of allowing you to store and access an almost limitless amount of data through a simple API call (replacing the need to rely on additional servers). Object Storage provides you with 3 copy redundancy (3 copies of your data are stored across a distributed system), durable cloud-based storage, and is Amazon S3 compatible. Load Balancer offers you intelligently distributed traffic across multiple nodes (it comes with full redundancy built in, handles HTTP and https traffic, and is fully managed by network engineers). Lastly, a VPN simply allows you to connect across a secure plane of communication to access various geographical areas.
Hybrid Hosting: The power of the Hybrid server was unlocked and discovered when Managed Dedicated Servers were provisioned in conjunction with the new Storm Server. There are many advantages of Hybrid Hosting with Liquidweb. These include dedicated servers with flexible cloud hosting, the ability to directly attach to storage networks, high availability database integration, managed dedicated load balancers, and advanced network infrastructure options.
Pros:
- Customer Service: Response time is part of their uptime guarantee and they have a 20 second response time guarantee on all support calls.
- Uptime Guarantee: A 100% network uptime guarantee for Dedicated and VPS also comes with a 30 minute hardware replacement guarantee and a 30 minute initial response time guarantee.
- Security:Redundantly Built Network with each facility having multiple backup emergency generators, reinforced walls, on-site security, and fully managed facilities have trained technicians on-site 24 hours a day.
- Money back guarantee: Liquidweb offers a 30 day money back guarantee on shared hosting plans.
Cons:
- No shared uptime guarantee: Shared hosting does not come with an uptime guarantee.
- Backups: Backups are an added on cost for Dedicated and VPS. Shared hosting can only do DIY backups through CPanel.
- Higher Price: Liquidweb has a higher price tag than others for shared hosting, but with fewer features and no guarantees.
Summary:
Liquidweb have a well formed reputation for being strong providers of security, but above that, they are strong leaders in client help and support. To illustrate this, their claim of being able to answer the telephone (and live chat) within 59 seconds guaranteed is second to none in the market. They have plans going upwards from $50 a month depending on the store and service you require.
Takeaway: If you are unhappy with the level of support and guidance you are getting from your current server then Liquidweb may well be your solution. They have taken in many customers who were astounded by their swift and knowledgeable support structure. On the flip side however, pricing plans do not start cheap, therefore you will need to determine if you need the level of services they provide for your website and business.
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