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Ligtel 🆚 Smart File - May, 2024

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

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ligtel.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
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
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✗ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are missing
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smartfile.com logo
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
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

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✗ Company descriptions is too short. Minimum 500 chars
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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
Smart File
125 W. South #2955
Carmel, IN 46206
US

smartfile.com
📧 Emailcontactus@l...dscott@s...
☎ Phone+1 260 894 9935, Fax: +1 219 894 7711877-336-3453
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 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
📄 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 reviewTwo 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, 19952009
🏁 Site speedVery slow, load time 8.7 seconds 1% sites are slower
SEO Links count 51		Fast, load time 1.1 seconds 75% sites are slower
SEO Links count 92
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
https://twitter.com/ligtel
Started from: September, 2009
  • Tweets: 87
  • Followers: 108
  • Friends: 1
  • 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
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Basic [Linux]Business Unlimited [Linux]
💰 Price$ 20.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee		on request
💿 Disk Space10 MBunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimited
🆓 Free Domain 0
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United 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)Automation Workflows
File Locking
SSO
Multi-factor Authentication
Signed SLA & BAA Available
Unlimited users
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Dec 2020
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Deluxe [Linux]Business [Linux]
💰 Price$ 40.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee		$ 6.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space20 MB1000 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimited
🆓 Free Domain 0
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United States
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansINFO (mouse over)Unlimited File Size
Advanced Sharing Options
FTP / SFTP / FTPS Access
SSL Encryption
Outlook Plugin
Unlimited Connections
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Dec 2020
💡 Plan NameLigtel - Executive [Linux]Business Plus [Linux]
💰 Price$ 50.00/mo.
$ 50.00 Setup Fee		$ 10.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space35 MBunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains unlimited
🆓 Free Domain 0
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server Location United States
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansINFO (mouse over)Custom Branding
Use Your Subdomain
File Versioning
Activity Reports
WebDAV Access
Automation Workflows
📅 Date PlanOct 2008Dec 2020
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Shared Hosting
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 -
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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