Ligtel 🆚 PHP Web Hosting 🆚 Smart File - Mar, 2024

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Ligtel (ligtel.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 .
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Smart File (smartfile.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.

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👉 Total Reviews: 6
🙌 Average Rating: 7 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 5
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0
7 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

6 user reviews
smartfile.com logo
Profile completion status:
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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
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👉 Total Reviews: 9
🙌 Average Rating: 3.1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 7
👈 Official Responses: 0
3.1 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

9 user reviews
 Ligtel
414 S Cavin St
Ligonier, IN 46767
US

ligtel.com is inactive webhosting company!
ligtel.com
P.O. Box 4476
Indianapolis, IN 46082-4476
US

phpwebhosting.com
125 W. South #2955
Carmel, IN 46206
US

smartfile.com
📧 Emailcontactus@l...abuse@p...dscott@s...
☎ Phone+1 260 894 9935, Fax: +1 219 894 7711+1 877 582 9093, Fax: +1 877 346 8599877-336-3453
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 2,778,344▲1,230,844 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 73
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 30/38
🔗 Links 397
🏆 Alexa Rating 480,561▲307,755 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 5,250▼-14 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 55,499
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 56/52
🔗 Links 171,713
🏆 Alexa Rating 356,703▲76,835 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 177,498
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 48/50
🔗 Links 10,035
Languages en-US en-US en-US
📄 InfoLigTel Communications was founded as the Ligonier Telephone Company in Ligonier, Indiana in 1896 by Harry Inks. We continue to investing infrastructure development to best serve our customers in the seven county footprint we cover in northeastern Indiana. Our company continues to be family-owned, and continues to call the mural city of Ligonier 'home'. Product offerings have expanded greatly from the original telephone service, leading to our current deployment of cutting-edge fiber optic [...] Read full reviewProviding services for around 20 years, PHP Web Hosting promises professionally developed high-speed servers.

They specialize in providing shared hosting plans. Unfortunately, they do not offer other types of hosting services, such as VPS or dedicated servers.

Besides the fact that customers get unlimited storage and data traffic by choosing a plan here, the good news is that there are several unmetered resources integrated in their plans: Unlimited domains;Unlimited [...]
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Two serial entrepreneurs, John Hurley and Ben Timby, founded SmartFile in 2009. Their idea was to create a simple web-based FTP product and, in the fall of that year, SmartFile was released for public consumption. SmartFile serves thousands of companies and helps share millions of files in over 140 countries. From Fortune 500 companies to the one-man enterprise, SmartFile is the trusted platform chosen by customers to move big data in a secure environment. Read full review
📡 EstablishedDecember, 1995July, 19992009
🏁 Site speedVery slow, load time 8.7 seconds 1% sites are slower
SEO Links count 51
Very fast, load time 0.4 seconds 96% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,022
Fast, load time 1.1 seconds 75% sites are slower
SEO Links count 92
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media


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https://twitter.com/ligtel
Started from: September, 2009
  • Tweets: 87
  • Followers: 108
  • Friends: 1
  • Last activity:

phpwebhosting.com Iconphpwebhosting
Started from: June, 2008
  • Tweets: 26
  • Followers: 427
  • Friends: 187
  • Last activity:

smartfile.com IconSmartFile
Started from: August, 2009
  • Tweets: 6,296
  • Followers: 1,651
  • Friends: 1,659
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/LigTelCommunications/
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-smartfile.com IconSmartFile
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-red-chair-photography/
  • Followers: 49
  • Entity type: Self Employed
  • Employee Count: 1
  • Industry: Photography

-SmartFile
  • Followers: 114
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2009
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Internet

--Smart File Blog
  • Blog Posts: 308
  • Blog added on: Oct, 2013
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/3/3
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Basic [Linux]Classic + SSD [Linux]Business Unlimited [Linux]
💰 Price$ 20.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee
$ 10.00/mo.on request
💿 Disk Space10 MBunlimitedunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain 00
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United StatesUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Ligtel Communications - Serving Noble, LaGrange, Kosciusko,&Whitley Counties

*$50.00 Setup Fee For All Packages
1 Year Domain Registration Included In Setup Fee

Domain Registration is done through godaddy.com. LigTel can register your domain for you, call us [...]
INFO (mouse over)Unlimited domains
Unmetered Disk space on Classic
8 gigs disk on Classic SSD
Economical yet quality shared hosting
Basic monitoring
All popular extensions and tools ready to use.
INFO (mouse over)Automation Workflows
File Locking
SSO
Multi-factor Authentication
Signed SLA & BAA Available
Unlimited users
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Nov 2020Dec 2020
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Deluxe [Linux]Business Pro [Linux]Business [Linux]
💰 Price$ 40.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee
$ 28.00/mo.$ 6.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space20 MBunlimited1000 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain 00
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United StatesUnited States
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansINFO (mouse over)Your own private cloud server
Dedicated IP Address
Quality Global Sign SSL (no junky "free" certs here!)
Pro monitoring suite
Full admin access to install anything without limits.
INFO (mouse over)Unlimited File Size
Advanced Sharing Options
FTP / SFTP / FTPS Access
SSL Encryption
Outlook Plugin
Unlimited Connections
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Nov 2020Dec 2020
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Executive [Linux]Custom Private [Linux]Business Plus [Linux]
💰 Price$ 50.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee
$ 300.00/mo.$ 10.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space35 MBunlimitedunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain 00
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United StatesUnited States
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansINFO (mouse over)We can configure load-balancing, failover and other solutions. We can build a private solution to fit your exact specifications.INFO (mouse over)Custom Branding
Use Your Subdomain
File Versioning
Activity Reports
WebDAV Access
Automation Workflows
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Nov 2020Dec 2020
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux
  • Linux
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Shared Hosting
  • Shared Hosting
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
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-anonymous- (scaledavid90@g...)
on 📆 Apr 20, 2020
😃 It’s hard to get technical support. The server crashes regularly. Numerous outages due to DDoS attacks

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Apr 20, 2016
😠 Although hosting is fine, customer service is terrible. No one ever answers the phone and they don't return voice mails. I'm ready to transfer my domain to another hosting service.Another service will be just as good, but will also answer calls.

David Ellis (comet1961@y...)
on 📆 Mar 02, 2011
😁 Smartfile is awesome. We have been using it for just over a month now and the speeds are great. We use in on a daily basis.

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Feb 03, 2016
😠 Prepaid SmartFile for 1 year. Was a waste of money. Customer service is poor, tickets were often closed without the questions within being answered. SmartFile is inflexible with their plans, they are not granular as claimed as there are only 3 [...]

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