Homestead 🆚 LuxSci - Mar, 2024

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Homestead (homestead.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2019.
LuxSci (luxsci.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.

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homestead.com logo
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👉 Total Reviews: 48
🙌 Average Rating: 2.6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 10
👎 Bad Reviews: 38
👈 Official Responses: 0
2.6 / 10

48 user reviews
luxsci.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
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👉 Total Reviews: 7
🙌 Average Rating: 4.1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 5
👈 Official Responses: 0
4.1 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

7 user reviews
 Homestead
10 Corporate Drive
Burlington, MA 01803
US

homestead.com is inactive, but is redirected to web.comPart of Newfold Digital
homestead.com
PO Box 326
Westwood, MA 02090
US

luxsci.com
📧 Emailsupport@h...sales@l...
☎ Phone(602) 267-3600+1 800 441 6612, Fax: +1 413 332 0598
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 50,753▲19,653 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 14,682▼-78 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 11,527
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 91/79🔗 Links 17,404,417
🏆 Alexa Rating 147,606▼-30,381 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 20,735
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 55/50🔗 Links 37,597
🎁 Coupons-
Languages en-US en-US
📄 InfoFounded in 1996, Homestead is considered by many to be a top provider in terms of web building, marketing or web hosting. They have concluded partnerships with technology companies like Verizon and Google to help them design their products and services mainly produced for small businesses.

All the website building plans include user-friendly software, hundreds of customizable templates, royalty free images, as well as website statistics. They claim that there is no need for coding knowledge [...]
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LuxSci has been in business since 1999 and they are an internet service company dedicated to protecting web-based data. It has been established by Erik Kangas. The main focus of the company is to provide email or web hosting solutions for the healthcare system. Some of the companies for which they provide hosting are USAmeriBank, athenahealth or Southwest.

They offer a set of well-equipped online solutions: Cloud Hosting; Email Hosting; Shared Hosting; Dedicated Servers; Domain [...]
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📡 Established19961999
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.3 seconds 38% sites are slower
SEO Links count 47,343
Slow, load time 3.5 seconds 19% sites are slower
SEO Links count 221
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media

🔃 User Shares
https://twitter.com/hswebsites
Started from: October, 2012
  • Tweets: 1,234
  • Followers: 555
  • Friends: 105
  • Last activity:

luxsci.com IconLuxSci
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 4,203
  • Followers: 712
  • Friends: 715
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/HomesteadWebsites/
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  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

luxsci.com IconLuxSci
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/homestead-technologies/
  • Followers: 173
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet

Lux Scientiae, Incorporated
  • Followers: 68
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1999
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services

http://www.homestead.com/blog
  • Blog Posts: 47
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2014
  • Language: en
  • Last written post:

LuxSci Blog
  • Blog Posts: 473
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • Blog added on: May, 2012
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Website Builder - 3/0
💡 Plan NameStarter-
💰 Price$ 7.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space25 GB-
📶 Data Transfer5 GB-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages 5
Number of Sites 1

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain Names Add-on
Email Addresses Add-on

Customer [...]
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📅 Date PlanNov 2020-
💡 Plan NameBusiness-
💰 Price$ 22.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space5 GB-
📶 Data Transfer100 GB-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Website, domain name and email !

Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages 100
Number of Sites 3

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain Names 1
Email [...]
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📅 Date PlanNov 2020-
💡 Plan NameBusiness Plus-
💰 Price$ 62.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space10 GB-
📶 Data Transfer500 GB-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Website, domain name and web listings !

Easy-to-use SiteBuilder software Included
Hundreds of customizable templates Included
1.1 million royalty free images Included
30-day Free Trial Included

Number of Pages Unlimited
Number of Sites Unlimited

Domains & Email
Personalized Domain [...]
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📅 Date PlanNov 2020-
🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 0/2
💡 Plan Name-Custom Enterprise [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-1
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Security & privacy
Performance & reliability
Server type Business Class
HIPAA Compliance Available
Location USA or Custom
Maximum Disk Space Unlimited
Full-disk Encryption
Multiple layers of firewalls
Backups included
Custom backup/retention schedules
Account isolation: No other LuxSci [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
💡 Plan Name-Dedicated [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 200.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-2000 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-1
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Security & privacy
Performance & reliability
Server type Business Class
HIPAA Compliance Available
Location USA or Custom
Maximum Disk Space 2 TB
Full-disk Encryption
Multiple layers of firewalls
Backups included
Custom backup/retention schedules
Account isolation: No other LuxSci [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
🔧 Cloud - 0/3
💡 Plan Name-2X-Large - AWS [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-100 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer-1,200 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-8 CPU Cores
🔋 RAM-32 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-1
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Amazon Web Services Public Cloud
Max Network Speed 1 Gbps

LuxSci offers standard levels of dedicated servers in both the Business and Enterprise Classes ( https://luxsci.com/path/reliability-business-vs-enterprise.html ) .

You can choose the one right for your size, needs, and budget. You can [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
💡 Plan Name-2X-Large - RackSpace [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-100 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer-10 TB
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-8 CPU Core
🔋 RAM-32 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-1
🔨 Control Panel-VMware
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Private VMWare Cluster and SAN at RackSpace
Max Network Speed 1 Gbps
SSD RAID 10

LuxSci offers standard levels of dedicated servers in both the Business and Enterprise Classes ( https://luxsci.com/path/reliability-business-vs-enterprise.html ) .

You can choose the one right for your size, [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
💡 Plan Name-Small - RackSpace [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 50.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Shared services

Low capacity

Standard security & isolation

Standard fault tolerance

Standard SLA

Standard backups

5-star Technical support

Monthly contract

HIPAA compliance
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
🔧 Emails - 0/1
💡 Plan Name-Secure Email Hosting [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)SECURELINETM EMAIL ENCRYPTION
Adaptive Encryption: TLS, portal pickup, PGP & S/MIME support
Dynamic TLS negotiation & fallback
Send secure text messages (SecureTextTM)
Opt-in, Opt-out, & DLP encryption
Use WebMail or any email program

HIPAA-COMPLIANT EMAIL
Highly-configurable email [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020
💻 Supported Operating Systems
    • Linux
    📤 List of products
    • Website Builder
    • Dedicated Hosting
    • Cloud
    • Emails
    ✍️ Support Options
    • Email
    • Help Desk
    • Phone / Toll-Free
    • Forum
    • Live Chat
    • Available 24/7
    • 0 WHTop support responses
    • Email
    • Help Desk
    • Phone / Toll-Free
    • Live Chat
    • 0 WHTop support responses
    💰 Payment Options
    • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
    • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
    • PayPal
    • Wire Transfer
    • Check Payments
    • Bitcoin
    👪 Last positive / negative customers review
     
    Rob (dzine@e...)
    on 📆 May 07, 2013
    has served me well with multiple sites for years. I have the gold plan and get great cs when I [...]
    😁 I have several websites that I have hosted with homestead and I am on the gold plan. Have always received great customer service, never over charged and the services seem to be fair.I have been a homestead customer now for over 5 years. One thing [...]

    -anonymous- (scoranda@m...)
    on 📆 Jan 22, 2024
    😠 Stay away from Homestead.com and Web.com! When they worked on their servers, I lost access to my business account and emails! This was terrible and made me lose business.

    -anonymous- (dr.greg.sweitzer@g...)
    on 📆 May 21, 2016
    😁 Great for HIPAA compliance - powerful features. Does take time to learn all that it can do. Highly configurable. Their help techs are very knowledgeable. Their security is rock solid and for me they have delivered more than expected. If you want [...]

    -anonymous- (john@f...)
    on 📆 Apr 23, 2019
    😞 Support is not so good. Luxsci provides some custom services and website configurations but support is variable. Trying to set up an email contact page and after a week of back and forth with tech support they appear clueless as to what the [...]

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