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Akamai 🆚 Homestead - May, 2024

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Akamai (akamai.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2015.
Homestead (homestead.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2019.

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akamai.com logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
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VISIT WEBSITE		homestead.com logo
Profile completion status:
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✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
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👉 Total Reviews: 48
🙌 Average Rating: 2.6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 10
👎 Bad Reviews: 38
👈 Official Responses: 0 2.6 / 10

48 user reviews
 
Akamai
150 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02142
US

akamai.com		Homestead
10 Corporate Drive
Burlington, MA 01803
US

homestead.com is inactive, but is redirected to web.comPart of Newfold Digital
homestead.com
📧 Emailhostmaster-billing@a...support@h...
☎ Phone+1 617 444 3000, Fax: +1 617 444 3001(602) 267-3600
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 14,519▲3,684 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 28,229▼-4 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 9,711
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 82/68🔗 Links 710,784		🏆 Alexa Rating 50,753▲19,653 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 14,682▼-78 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 11,527
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 91/79🔗 Links 17,404,417
Languages zh-CN en-US fr-FR de-DE it-IT ja-JP ko-KR pt-PT es-ES en-US
📄 InfoAkamai's journey began with a challenge posed by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, at MIT in 1995. He foresaw the congestion issues that would plague Internet users and challenged colleagues to devise a better way to deliver Internet content. This challenge ultimately led to the creation of Akamai, a commercial service that has revolutionized the Internet. MIT Professor Tom Leighton, intrigued by the challenge, assembled a team of researchers to tackle the problem. Together, [...] Read full reviewFounded in 1996, Homestead is considered by many to be a top provider in terms of web building, marketing or web hosting. They have concluded partnerships with technology companies like Verizon and Google to help them design their products and services mainly produced for small businesses.

All the website building plans include user-friendly software, hundreds of customizable templates, royalty free images, as well as website statistics. They claim that there is no need for coding knowledge [...] Read full review
📡 EstablishedAugust, 19981996
🏁 Site speedFast, load time 1.4 seconds 67% sites are slower
SEO Links count 5,659		Average, load time 2.3 seconds 38% sites are slower
SEO Links count 47,343
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
akamai.com IconAkamai
Started from: January, 2009
  • Tweets: 27,511
  • Followers: 122,900
  • Friends: 2,926
  • Last activity:
https://twitter.com/hswebsites
Started from: October, 2012
  • Tweets: 1,234
  • Followers: 555
  • Friends: 105
  • Last activity:
akamai.com IconAkamai Technologies
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https://www.facebook.com/HomesteadWebsites/
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Akamai Technologies
  • Followers: 59,568
  • Entity type: Public Company
  • Founded: 1998
  • Employee Count: 5001-10000
  • Industry: Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/company/homestead-technologies/
  • Followers: 173
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet
Akamai Blog
  • Blog Posts: 16,651
  • Blog added on: Nov, 2015
  • Language used: en
  • Last written post:

http://www.homestead.com/blog
  • Blog Posts: 47
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2014
  • Language: en
  • Last written post:

🔧 Website Builder - 0/3
💡 Plan Name-Starter
💰 Price-$ 7.99/mo.
💿 Disk Space-25 GB
📶 Data Transfer-5 GB
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages 5
Number of Sites 1

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain Names Add-on
Email Addresses Add-on

Customer [...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2020
💡 Plan Name-Business
💰 Price-$ 22.99/mo.
💿 Disk Space-5 GB
📶 Data Transfer-100 GB
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Website, domain name and email !

Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages 100
Number of Sites 3

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain Names 1
Email [...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2020
💡 Plan Name-Business Plus
💰 Price-$ 62.99/mo.
💿 Disk Space-10 GB
📶 Data Transfer-500 GB
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Website, domain name and web listings !

Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages Unlimited
Number of Sites Unlimited

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain [...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2020
💻 Supported Operating Systems
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    📤 List of products
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    • Website Builder
    ✍️ Support Options
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    • Email
    • Help Desk
    • Phone / Toll-Free
    • Forum
    • Live Chat
    • Available 24/7
    • 0 WHTop support responses
    💰 Payment Options
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    • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
    👪 Last positive / negative customers review
     -
    Rob (dzine@e...)
    on 📆 May 07, 2013
    has served me well with multiple sites for years. I have the gold plan and get great cs when I [...]
    😁 I have several websites that I have hosted with homestead and I am on the gold plan. Have always received great customer service, never over charged and the services seem to be fair.I have been a homestead customer now for over 5 years. One thing [...]

    -anonymous- (scoranda@m...)
    on 📆 Jan 22, 2024
    😠 Stay away from Homestead.com and Web.com! When they worked on their servers, I lost access to my business account and emails! This was terrible and made me lose business.

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