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Host Nine (hostnine.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.
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hostnine.com logo
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✓ 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: 1 6 / 10

26 user reviews		wpengine.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
✓ 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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 Host Nine
2500 Ridgepoint Dr
Austin, TX 78754
US

hostnine.com is inactive webhosting company!Part of Newfold Digital
hostnine.com
WP Engine
Irongate House, 22-30 Duke's Place
London EC3A 7LP
UK

wpengine.com
📧 Emailsupport@h...sales@w...
☎ Phone+1.9194087600, Fax: +1.6782986780020 3770 9704
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 154,461▲48,162 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 4,956▼-6 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 31,908
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 40/49🔗 Links 119,118		🏆 Alexa Rating 2,347▲227 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 1,175
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 80/65🔗 Links 363,755
Languages en-US en-US
📄 InfoWe’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 reviewWP Engine is a hosting platform that is rather new in the hosting industry. They claim to offer powerful hardware architecture and high speed. They are partners with Google, New Relic, Amazon, BigCommerce and Cloudflare.

They specialize in WordPress hosting and their plans are dedicated for both beginners and enterprises that need customized plans. Backups are made automatically, security is guaranteed with Cloudflare and speed is improved by CDN and their multiple data centers. Site [...] Read full review
📡 Established20062010
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.3 seconds 38% sites are slower
SEO Links count 265		Average, load time 2.3 seconds 39% sites are slower
SEO Links count 21,165
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
https://twitter.com/Hostnine
Started from: November, 2008
  • Tweets: 3,000
  • Followers: 1,675
  • Friends: 111
  • Last activity:
wpengine.com Iconwpengine
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 27,503
  • Followers: 44,328
  • Friends: 45
  • Last activity:
https://www.facebook.com/HostNine/
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  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

wpengine.com IconWP Engine
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/hostnine/
  • Followers: 43
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2006
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Internet
company/wpengine/
http://blog.hostnine.com/
  • Blog Posts: 15
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2010
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

WP Engine Blog
  • Blog Posts: 1,237
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • Blog added on: Jan, 2015
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/0
💡 Plan NamePersonal Plan [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 8.46/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains1-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)$39.99 SSL
Dedicated IP: $2/mo
Priority Support: Unavailable

It doesn’t get much simpler than this

We want to make it as simple as possible for you to manage your hosting. In addition to our outstanding support, our package configuration gives you all the tools you need to be in control of your [...]		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameBusiness [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 13.42/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs1-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameEnterprise [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 18.14/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs1-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Free SSL
Priority Support

It doesn’t get much simpler than this

We want to make it as simple as possible for you to manage your hosting. In addition to our outstanding support, our package configuration gives you all the tools you need to be in control of your setup.

cPanel Access

cPanel [...]		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 3/0
💡 Plan NameValue Server [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 89.98/mo.-
💿 Disk Space1000 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU4 Core / 8 Thread Intel Xeon-D CPU-
🔋 RAM8 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs3-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Unlimited Databases
Fully Redundant network
Full Root Access
DDOS Protection
24/7/365 Live Support
3 Dedicated IPv4 IPs		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NamePower Server [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 119.89/mo.-
💿 Disk Space2000 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU8 Core / 16 Thread Intel Xeon-D CPU-
🔋 RAM16 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs3-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameEnterprise Server [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 139.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space1000 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU8 Core / 16 Thread Intel Xeon-D CPU-
🔋 RAM30 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs3-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
🔧 Reseller Hosting - 2/0
💡 Plan NameReseller Level 1 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 19.35/mo.-
💿 Disk Space19 GB-
📶 Data Transfer500 GB-
🔌 Hosted domains1-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Standard Features with Our Reseller Plans

Our reseller plans really are the best in the industry

Get the full service stack and complete control of individual website locations.

Our unique reseller hosting platform allows you to host websites all over the world, with data centers located [...]		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameReseller Level 4 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 66.54/mo.-
💿 Disk Space999 GB-
📶 Data Transfer5 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain1-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
🔧 VPS - 3/0
💡 Plan NameCloudVPS 1 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 19.35/mo.-
💿 Disk Space30 GB-
📶 Data Transfer2 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU1-
🔋 RAM1 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs2-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)A fantastic, redundant cloud-based environment.

Our Cloud VPS packages can outperform many other hosts' dedicated plans, and are perfect for website owners and developers running mission-critical, high-resource, or complex websites and applications.

Redundant Networks

Highly reliable [...]		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameCloudVPS 4 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 50.60/mo.-
💿 Disk Space100 GB-
📶 Data Transfer4 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU3-
🔋 RAM8 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs2-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
💡 Plan NameCloudVPS 5 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 66.54/mo.-
💿 Disk Space150 GB-
📶 Data Transfer6 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU6-
🔋 RAM16 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs2-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
🔧 Domains - 1/0
💡 Plan Name.com-
💰 Price$ 15.00/yr.-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over).online $1.99

.host $6.99

.store $6.99

.net $15.00

.org.uk $26.00

.biz $15.00

.us $20.00

.mobi $20.00		-
📅 Date PlanDec 2020-
🔧 Cloud - 0/4
💡 Plan Name-Custom [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-500 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-30
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)For large businesses and mission-critical sites. This dedicated environment delivers high performance, with managed onboarding and our fastest support response.

Call +1-512-201-4819
to talk to a sales specialist

Local storage: 100 GB – 1 TB
Bandwidth / month: 400 GB+
Visits / month: Millions

[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Startup [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 23.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-10 GB
📶 Data Transfer-50 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-1
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)All the basics for starting a small website or blog.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 25,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page Performance
[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Growth [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 140.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-20 GB
📶 Data Transfer-200 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-10
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Features you need for a growing business.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 100,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page Performance
[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Scale [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 350.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-500 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-30
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Higher capacity and site limits to scale your experiences.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 400,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page [...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux/Windows
  • Linux
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Reseller Hosting
  • VPS
  • Domains
  • Cloud
✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 1 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Forum
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
Martijn (billing@m...)
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 [...]

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