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Host Nine (hostnine.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on2020. Soft Layer (softlayer.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on2016.
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Profile completion status: Things done ✓ 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 ✓ Promotions are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
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👉 Total Reviews: 26 🙌 Average Rating: 6 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 16 👎 Bad Reviews: 10 👈 Official Responses: 16 / 10
Profile completion status: Things done ✓ Company descriptions is fine ✓ Company address location is complete ✓ Company phone/fax is 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 Note: Add a promotion or coupon
Things to do ✗ Facebook account is missing
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👉 Total Reviews: 2 🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 0 👎 Bad Reviews: 2 👈 Official Responses: 01 / 10
hostnine.com is inactive webhosting company!Part of Newfold Digital
Soft Layer
14001 North Dallas Parkway, Suite M100 Dallas, TX 75240 US
softlayer.com is inactive, but is redirected to ibm.com
📧 Email
support@h...
sales@s...
☎ Phone
+1.9194087600, Fax: +1.6782986780
866.398.7638
Ranks
🏆 Alexa Rating154,461▲48,162 (lower is better) 📈 Domains4,956▼-6 (higher is better) Alexa Rank in IN 31,908 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA40/49🔗 Links119,118
🏆 Alexa Rating70,205▲9,001 (lower is better) 📈 Domains39,567▼-342 (higher is better) Alexa Rank in US 36,028
Languages
en-US
en-us
📄 Info
We’re on a mission to do things better. At HostNine we are committed to continually evaluating and improving our product line and your services - ensuring that we’re always firmly ahead of the competition, and even more importantly, providing our clients with everything that they need to be successful. We’re committed to using high-spec hardware and using our expert knowledge to maintain it - we don’t believe in cutting corners.Read full review
NOTE: By 2018, SoftLayer was renamed to IBM Cloud and almost fully redirected to https://www.ibm.com/cloud/ (except few pages and logo) Full list of new products from IBM: https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog SoftLayer, (an IBM Company) provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. Our customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking, [...]Read full review
📡 Established
2006
May, 2005
🏁 Site speed
Average, load time 2.3 seconds 38% sites are slower SEO Links count 265
Slow, load time 3.9 seconds 15% sites are slower SEO Links count 2,001
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
Facebook Shared Count:
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https://twitter.com/Hostnine Started from: November, 2008
Tweets: 3,000
Followers: 1,675
Friends: 111
Last activity:
https://twitter.com/IBMcloud Started from: October, 2010
on 📆 Dec 30, 2010 😃 I've been a customer with HostNine for a very long time. I can remember the time they were very small. They have been doing great work and thats why they grew so fast. There were some small issues in the past, but they have been improving a lot [...]
-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Jan 03, 2017 No support for months 😠 HORRIBLE SERVICE!!! I've been waiting like 6 months on a reply and phone calls, this hosting is a joke and not at all secure!!! Bunch of kids busy messing with other peoples websites when they were not ever asked to do most of what they do. I've [...]
-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Sep 21, 2021 😠 Softlayer is no longer a good hosting solution. Save yourself the headaches and avoid them.Softlayer used to be a good company to have for hosting. Little by little it has become less support and more fees - everywhere. They just closed a [...]
👉 Total Reviews: 34 🙌 Average Rating: 9.5 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 33 👎 Bad Reviews: 1 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating38,742▲9,696 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA48/55🔗 Links31,590
👉 Total Reviews: 8 🙌 Average Rating: 3.3 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 2 👎 Bad Reviews: 6 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating92,196▲5,335 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA26/46🔗 Links24,729
👉 Total Reviews: 4 🙌 Average Rating: 10 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 4 👎 Bad Reviews: 0 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating144,988▲57,587 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA25/48🔗 Links9,416
👉 Total Reviews: 34 🙌 Average Rating: 9.5 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 33 👎 Bad Reviews: 1 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating38,742▲9,696 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA48/55🔗 Links31,590
👉 Total Reviews: 8 🙌 Average Rating: 3.3 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 2 👎 Bad Reviews: 6 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating92,196▲5,335 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA26/46🔗 Links24,729
👉 Total Reviews: 4 🙌 Average Rating: 10 / 10 👍 Good Reviews: 4 👎 Bad Reviews: 0 👈 Official Responses: 0 🏆 Alexa Rating144,988▲57,587 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA25/48🔗 Links9,416
