❌ Host Excellence review
88 user reviews; 3 support responses; 6 testimonials; 10 products, 1 promotion, 4 social accounts; 9,848 domains, Alexa #1225320; 📆 listed 2005 (#2581)Host Excellence
Website language(s): en-US
hostexcellence.com is inactive, but is redirected to site5.com
1774 Dividend Drive
Columbus , OH 43228 US
☎ Phone +1 (614) 534-1962
📧 info@h...Website language(s): en-US
hostexcellence.com is inactive, but is redirected to site5.com
👪 Most Recent Customer Reviews
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-anonymous- (nunodecampos@g...) / nequim.com
😠 HE recently migrated my account to a different company, site5.com without notice. This happened after I had just renewed my plan for another 2 years with HE. In the process, they lost a entire database and one of my sites has been down since March. One other site is not functional. The new service is awful.
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-anonymous- (-hidden-) / sevengroup.com.co
😁 Host excellence is a very important partner in my job!
Thanks for all the help Anastacia, thanks for your knowledge and patience!!! Thanks Hostexcellence for all the help, Host excellence is a very important partner in my job! thanks!
Thanks for all the help Anastacia, thanks for your knowledge and patience!!! Thanks Hostexcellence for all the help, Host excellence is a very important partner in my job! thanks!
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-anonymous- (-hidden-) / thecrystalspoon.com
😠 So last week Host Excellence "decided" to rebuild a RAID that hosted one of my MySQL databases without any notice. Of COURSE they botched it up and hundreds of us where without email and access to our MySQL databases for more than 40 hours.
I lost more than $4,000 in sales and when I asked for more internal memory to host the database on another home server and connect it to my website they hosted they took more than 24 hours to get back to me and just gave me the glib answer that NO they wouldn't do it because it violates their TOS. Well THEY violated the TOS by not notifying me and making my site unusable for more than 40 hours.
Their customer service has gotten worse and worse and I for one no longer trust them. I am moving to another host ASAP. Add to that they LIED to me for more than 16 hours when the RAID rebuild first started and told me nothing ws wrong with my site based on their testing.
I lost more than $4,000 in sales and when I asked for more internal memory to host the database on another home server and connect it to my website they hosted they took more than 24 hours to get back to me and just gave me the glib answer that NO they wouldn't do it because it violates their TOS. Well THEY violated the TOS by not notifying me and making my site unusable for more than 40 hours.
Their customer service has gotten worse and worse and I for one no longer trust them. I am moving to another host ASAP. Add to that they LIED to me for more than 16 hours when the RAID rebuild first started and told me nothing ws wrong with my site based on their testing.
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Update 2018 Oct: hostexcellence.com is closed for business
If you used exclusively Linux products, please go to Site5.com
If you used any Windows products, please go to Verio.com
If you used only Domain products, please go to Dotster.com
NOTE 2018: All customers are migrated to Site5 since the acquisition transition to EIG.
Host Excellence (part of Ecommerce.com brand which includes Ix Web Hosting) came out to offer the best webhosting services.
When started, the focus was mainly on best services and excellent support, not necessary on price. Linux and Windows platforms were both supported from the beginning, at that time most of other companies was only offering Unix based servers.
Nowadays, this focus has driven an increasing degree of success for HostExcellence, which imply directly to success for their clients. Keeping the cost of their services affordable while continuing to improve their track record has been an effort, but not one that has been without reward.
Why choose Host Excellence ?
They understand their clients need and bring these needs to reality. Webhosting is a lot more than domain names and servers. It's about customer service, performance and dependability. It's about every customer.
There are a lot of hosting providers to choose from, all promising pretty much the same experience. However, when you're operating fixed budget, but cannot afford the compromises associated with most shared hosting, Host Excellence is a great choice.
Locations
Host Excellence is by now a big company along it's sister, ixwebhosting. They maintain a corporate in 3 continents and 4 countries. Their data center and headquarters is located in Columbus, OH and along with their support facility in Hopkinsville, KY they do their best to provide you great services, directly from the heartland of USA. They also have an office in Ukraine and Romania (even in India and Austria in the past) and have relationships with entities worldwide.
Guarantees
As a Hostexcellence customer, you have the possibility to test their services for 30 days without any risk. Such feature is quite rare on webhosting companies and prove their openness on great services.
Moreover, they offer 100% Money-Back Guarantees, 30-Day Money Back Guarantee and Any-Time Money Back Guarantee to its subscribers. This guarantee allows clients to purchase HostExcellence services with zero-risk and full confidence.
Along their packages, they offer few extras which can help you improve your business:
SSL certificates
Merchant Account (Accept Credit Cards)
Website Moving Service (from $49)
💰 Price & Cost
If you are looking to get the best price on budget webhosting range, ixwebhosting or bluehost may be a better choice. However, if you are looking to great services at affordable prices, hostexcellence will give you what you need.
⌛ Reliability
Host Excellence guarantees at least 99.9% of the time during any 12-month period update, this means that your website will be up and running all the time. This includes server uptime, network uptime and webserver. It does not cover any areas where Host Excellence has no direct control, such as fibre-optic main line cuts, backbone provider failures, DNS or Registrar issues with domain names, routing issues between Host Excellence data center and subscriber location.
🏢 Data Center
A key factor which set them apart of other companies is their own privately owned data center, located in Columbus, OH. Previous they owned a datacenter in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
They employ a distributed servers architecture, with services configured very well. A lots of brands will host a variety of webservices on a single machine. In this case the server cannot properly use its own resources on any particular task. Instead of wasting servers in this manner to save a few dollars, they give each webserver to a specific task (like special server for databases, for DNS..), and optimize the machine for that task.
Having 24/7 administrative staff, multiple backbone providers, diesel power-backup facilities and redundant cooling systems, HostExcellence has one of the most robust, very well managed data center. They try to continue expanding their capacities, refining their performance and reliability.
🔨 Control Panel
Since it's start, Hostexcellence provided it's own control panel (GHCP) to manage your account and domains, however, a modified version of H-Sphere was integrated for hosting management.
Today, a complete new version of their own control panel is already in place.
For VPS they offer you cPanel or Plesk on CentOS or Debian.
🌏 Server locations:
Columbus📢 Special pages
- Contact us: http://www.hostexcellence.com/support
- About us: http://www.hostexcellence.com/about-host-excellence
- Terms of Service: http://www.hostexcellence.com/terms-of-service
- Privacy: http://www.hostexcellence.com/privacy-policy
- FAQ: http://www.hostexcellence.com/faqs
Website research for Host Excellence on October 7, 2018 by WebHostingTop
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Host Excellence Listed Plans
🔧 Shared - 💻 Linux | Keep mouse over features! | 💰Price | 💿 Disk space | 📶 Transfer | 📆 Updated | 🆓 Free domain / 🔌 Allowed |
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Basic | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : [In-house], H-Sphere ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 1 📌 Dedicated IPs : 1 Sub Domains Unlimited Free Site Builder Free 24/7 Support Email Resources (Accounts) Catch-All Email Addresses POP3 IMAP Webmail Email Forwards Mailbox Aliases Email Auto-Responders Mailing Lists Single Mailbox Quota Total [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/hosting-plan/basic-plan | $3.95/mo. | unlimited | unmetered | 1 / unlimited | |
Business | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : [In-house], H-Sphere ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 2 📌 Dedicated IPs : 3 Sub Domains Unlimited Free Site Builder Free 24/7 Support Email Resources (Accounts) Catch-All Email Addresses POP3 IMAP Webmail Email Forwards Mailbox Aliases Email Auto-Responders Mailing Lists Single Mailbox Quota Total [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/hosting-plan/business-plan | $7.95/mo. | unlimited | unmetered | 2 / unlimited | |
Ultimate Business | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : [In-house], H-Sphere ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 3 📌 Dedicated IPs : 15 Host Excellence Ultimate Business Plan is ideal if you are in the web hosting business or wish to host many different websites. Host Excellence First Class Plan offers the best in features, in service and value. Sub Domains [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/hosting-plan/ultimate-business | $7.95/mo. | unlimited | unmetered | 3 / unlimited | |
🔧 Shared - 💻 Windows | Keep mouse over features! | 💰Price | 💿 Disk space | 📶 Transfer | 📆 Updated | 🆓 Free domain / 🔌 Allowed |
Business Windows | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : [In-house], H-Sphere ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 2 📌 Dedicated IPs : 3 Host Excellence Business Windows Plan is the plan for your online business needs. Designed by their experienced staff, this plan is built to meet the demands of the majority of online business presences. Packed with rich features and benefits, and [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/hosting-plan/business-plan | $9.95/mo. | unlimited | unmetered | 2 / unlimited | |
Ultimate Business Windows | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : [In-house], H-Sphere ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 3 📌 Dedicated IPs : 15 Host Excellence Ultimate Business Windows Plan is ideal if you are in the Windows web hosting business or wish to host many different websites on a Windows platform. Host Excellence First Class Windows Plan offers the best in features, in service [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/hosting-plan/ultimate-business | $9.95/mo. | unlimited | unmetered | 3 / unlimited | |
🔧 VPS - 💻 Linux | Keep mouse over features! | 💰Price | 💿 Disk space | 📶 Transfer | 📆 Updated | 🔋 RAM / 📌 Dedicated IPs |
H4 | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : CPanel, Plesk, [In-house] ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔋 RAM : 768 MB 💪 CPU : 4x CPU Cores Intel Xeon E5400/E5500 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 0 📌 Dedicated IPs : 2 Burstable RAM 4092 MB Unlimited Hosted Domains / SubDomains Complete Root Access YES Monthly $69.95/mo Quarterly $64.95/mo Annually $59.95/mo Bi-Annually $54.95/mo 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/vps-hosting | $54.95/mo. | 50 GB | 1,500 GB | 768 MB / 2 | |
H8 | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : CPanel, Plesk, [In-house] ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔋 RAM : 2000 MB 💪 CPU : 8x CPU Cores Intel Xeon E5400/E5500 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 0 📌 Dedicated IPs : 2 Burstable RAM 8192 MB Complete Root Access YES Monthly $119.95/mo Quarterly $109.95/mo Annually $99.95/mo Bi-Annually $89.95/mo 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/vps-hosting | $89.95/mo. | 100 GB | 2 TB | 2 GB / 2 | |
🔧 VPS - 💻 Windows | Keep mouse over features! | 💰Price | 💿 Disk space | 📶 Transfer | 📆 Updated | 🔋 RAM / 📌 Dedicated IPs |
H4W | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : Plesk, [In-house] ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔋 RAM : 768 MB 💪 CPU : 4x CPU Cores Intel Xeon E5400/E5500 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 0 📌 Dedicated IPs : 2 Guaranteed RAM 768 MB Control Panel Plesk 10 / 100 Plesk Domains Burstable RAM 4092 MB Complete Admin Access YES Monthly $84.95/mo Quarterly $79.95/mo Annually $74.95/mo Bi-Annually $69.95/mo 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/vps-hosting | $69.95/mo. | 50 GB | 1,500 GB | 768 MB / 2 | |
H8W | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay 🔨 Control Panel : Plesk, [In-house] ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 🔋 RAM : 2000 MB 💪 CPU : 8x CPU Cores Intel Xeon E5400/E5500 🔌 Hosted domains : Unlimited 🆓 Free domains : 0 📌 Dedicated IPs : 2 Guaranteed RAM 2048 MB Control Panel Plesk 10 / Unlimited Plesk Domains Burstable RAM 8192 MB Complete Admin Access YES Monthly $134.95/mo Quarterly $124.95/mo Annually $114.95/mo Bi-Annually $104.95/mo 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/vps-hosting | $104.95/mo. | 100 GB | 2 TB | 2 GB / 2 | |
🔧 SSL Certificates | Keep mouse over features! | 💰Price | 📆 Updated | 🔐 Domains protected | ||
Ecommerce SSL Certificate | features💳 Payment Methods : Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards, PayPal, AliPay ✍️ Support Options : Email, Help Desk, Phone / Toll-Free, Live Chat, Available 24/7 Other features : Free installation Requires a Host Excellence Hosting Account Domain Validated 2048 bit Industry Standard SSL Certificate Immediate "No Hassle" SSL certificate issuance 24/7 Automated validation - no paperwork Trusted by ALL popular browsers Unlimited Re-Issuance [...] 🔗 Plan URL : http://www.hostexcellence.com/products/ssl-certificate | $49.95/yr. |
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⚑ Targeting: | United States |
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📥 Website DNS: | corp1.hostexcellence.com => 98.130.253.226 ( Hyderabad ) / Amazon.com Inc. corp2.hostexcellence.com => 98.130.254.226 ( Hyderabad ) / Amazon.com Inc. MX::ironport2.opentransfer.com => 76.162.254.119 ( Seattle ) / Amazon.com Inc. |
🔨 Server Software: | Apache |
📌 Website IP: | 98.130.254.118 |
📍 IP localization: | United States, Massachusetts, Burlington - see top providers in United States, Massachusetts |
🔗 ISP Name, URL: | Amazon.com Inc., amazon.com |
Testimonials✅ Customer testimonials
Before signing on with Host Excellence in August of 2006, we needed a web hosting company that could guide us through the entire site building and web hosting process, and after researching nearly 23 major web hosting companies, Host Excellences first-rate services and unmatched customer care put the entire web hosting package into perspective.
We found exactly what our growing business needed with Host Excellence. If you demand rock-solid dependability and the piece of mind in having available the most knowledgeable and professional 24 hour direct line technicians, then look no further than Host Excellence. We clearly rank Host Excellence five out of five stars. Thank you Host Excellence!
We found exactly what our growing business needed with Host Excellence. If you demand rock-solid dependability and the piece of mind in having available the most knowledgeable and professional 24 hour direct line technicians, then look no further than Host Excellence. We clearly rank Host Excellence five out of five stars. Thank you Host Excellence!
I was having a problem trying to setup one of my services offered by Host Excellence. Of course, they have an excellent step-by-step online manual that walks you through the process, but for some reason, I just was not making it happen. I went online and used the chat helpdesk. Immediately, a Host Excellence service representative asked how could they help me. Within a few minutes, they had my problem solved. I felt so thankful. I had not had this level of service before. I have not tried the phone help line, but I'll bet they are excellent also, and they are there 24 hours a day to help you with your problems.
You know, price is very important in today's society, but a business like mine is looking for reliable service. I want a company with the highest standards, just like me. Your hosting company has a direct effect on how your customers view you. If your site is down, or there are server issues or problems, your customer sees you, not your host, as the problem. I have been so satisfied with Host Excellence, I have never had any server issues whatsoever.
And you know what? Host Excellence has the best price. I do not know how they do it, but I'm glad to recommend them to anyone I know. They have service, reliability, and the best value on the net. What more could you ask for in your hosting service? Thank you, Host Excellence!
You know, price is very important in today's society, but a business like mine is looking for reliable service. I want a company with the highest standards, just like me. Your hosting company has a direct effect on how your customers view you. If your site is down, or there are server issues or problems, your customer sees you, not your host, as the problem. I have been so satisfied with Host Excellence, I have never had any server issues whatsoever.
And you know what? Host Excellence has the best price. I do not know how they do it, but I'm glad to recommend them to anyone I know. They have service, reliability, and the best value on the net. What more could you ask for in your hosting service? Thank you, Host Excellence!
Hostexcellence is the best Hosting company we have ever had. they are really the best of all hosting companies. The services are best. Also the packages include all the sepcifications which are required to run a website. And the best of all the uptime of website is 100%. I Have never seen in my tenure with hostexcellence till date where the website going offline. The customer support is also very good. I wish Host excellence best of luck for future and to serve as many customers as they can. It gives a gr8 piece of mind with hostexcellence taking care of our website requirements. Thank you for all the assisitance for last 6 yrs and we look forward for lifelong service with hostexcellence.
Anuj Agrawal ( anuj.agrawal@s... ) / www.shreecorp.com
Excellent, I strongly recommend it.
Well I bought an account with them and it was set-up within 2 hours, I picked starter plan which was just $2.00 as I could not see a plan that they offer for cheaper. I was having problems making a site to go on the domain that I got with the account, so I posted a help ticket and they help me make a site for free! they made it for me and said I did not have to pay. no web hosting company would do that for free I thought but they did. And their customer support very good I can post a ticketed or I can use live help to talk to them and the problem are sorted out and I have my own unique tech who helps me. Just wanted to tell people about this site as they made a site for me.
Over the six years of my Internet presence I have had painful experiences with different hosting companies, thus changing a provider more than once. Now I am on my fourth host and it seems like this time it is for long. First of all, because Host Excellence is oriented towards Web Masters who intend to run professional sites and secondly, since I have an interactive forum on my site, I'm logging on at least daily basis and more likely during peak hours. I was impressed with the extremely robust server environment Host Excellence offers. I feel like I'm strongly backed and have complete peace of mind, never having to worry about downtime issues with my websites.
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📋 Host Excellence News / Press release
Ecommerce Corp. Deploys CM4all - Web-based applications developer CM4all (cm4all.com) announced on Monday that Web hosting provider Ecommerce Corp. (ecommerce.com) has licensed the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition to integrate into its subsequent Web hosting brands Host Excellence (hostexcellence.com) and IX Web Hosting (ixwebhosting.com).
CM4all's WebsiteCreator Business Edition will become an integral part of both Host Excellence and IX Web Hosting's product portfolios, says the company. Each brand will receive a customized GUI of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition matching their corporate identities, enabling them to retain their already established brand awareness.Customers of Host Excellence and IX Web Hosting will be able to create and maintain professional Web sites including e-commerce functionality and simultaneous creation of .mobi pages, easily and intuitively in the near future, says CM4all.Earlier this month, Poland-based Az.pl became the first Web hosting provider to launch a branded [...]
[search all hostexcellence.com news]CM4all's WebsiteCreator Business Edition will become an integral part of both Host Excellence and IX Web Hosting's product portfolios, says the company. Each brand will receive a customized GUI of the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition matching their corporate identities, enabling them to retain their already established brand awareness.Customers of Host Excellence and IX Web Hosting will be able to create and maintain professional Web sites including e-commerce functionality and simultaneous creation of .mobi pages, easily and intuitively in the near future, says CM4all.Earlier this month, Poland-based Az.pl became the first Web hosting provider to launch a branded [...]
📣 Host Excellence Social Networks
https://twitter.com/HostExcellence
Account started from April, 2009, having already 160 tweets with 236 followers and 56 friends. Last activity on . See recent tweets:
Account started from April, 2009, having already 160 tweets with 236 followers and 56 friends. Last activity on . See recent tweets:
- Host Excellence has proudly joined forces with Site 5, more details on this are available in your account helpdesk.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/976170956170383360
- We’ve filtered out the WordPress attack for now. Users can now access wp-login. Go to http://hostexcellence.com/blog for more info
- We are affected by blackouts in Ohio. Servers and websites are working via generator. Phone lines are closed. Contact us via ticket.
https://www.facebook.com/hostexcellence/ (inactive) Recent posts:
- Host Excellence has proudly joined forces with Site 5, more details on this are available in your account helpdesk. As part of this transition, this page is no longer monitored but you can still contact us by visiting the Site5 Facebook and Twitter pages at:
- We've isolated the cause of the DDoS attack, and have contained it. Everyone's site should be back up and running, but we are still noticing a few remaining issues here and there, so if you are experiencing any problems, please contact us directly.
- Who is lucky enough to have Google Fiber? Tell us about it!
https://www.linkedin.com/company/931351/
Host Excellence (established 1999) is a Privately Held entity having 11 followers on LinkedIn and 51-200 employees, industry Information Technology & Services.
Host Excellence (established 1999) is a Privately Held entity having 11 followers on LinkedIn and 51-200 employees, industry Information Technology & Services.
http://www.hostexcellence.com/blog/ (RSS error new) First post from May, 2009, with total 7 articles, Language en-US. See recent blogs summary posts:
- Add your website to HE’s New Host Directory! - We mentioned earlier this year that a few extra features would be launched alongside MyHE. Well, we're happy to announce that another one is up and running right now! Introducing the Host ...
- Important WordPress Security Update - If you're a customer who uses WordPress, you have probably already noticed the issues concerning logging into your WordPress control panel. We wanted to send out this notification to alert anyone who
- Take Your Eyes Off That Ball And Read This! - The New Year's ball, that is. It's New Year's! A happy time? It's a time for remembering. A time to celebrate. For a lot of us, it's also a time for making resolutions that seem to get harder ...
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