Host Blast 🆚 Packet.com - Mar, 2024

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Host Blast (hostblast.net) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.
Packet.com (packet.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2018.

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👉 Total Reviews: 228
🙌 Average Rating: 7.3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 166
👎 Bad Reviews: 62
👈 Official Responses: 2
7.3 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

228 user reviews
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👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 4
👈 Official Responses: 0
3 / 10

5 user reviews
 
244 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10016
US

hostblast.net
Packet.com
30 Vesey St, Fl 9th
New York, NY 10007
US

packet.com is inactive, but is redirected to equinix.com
packet.com
📧 Emailinfo@h...support@p...
☎ Phone+1.646.776.5859(212) 933-9785
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 376,007▼-211,596 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in TR 47,347
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 22/45🔗 Links 41,415
🏆 Alexa Rating 283,141▲40,379 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 1,440▼-2 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 190,025
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 50/46🔗 Links 41,428
Languages en-US en-US
📄 InfoHostBlast is a US-based hosting provider designing hosting services for online projects. They claim to provide well-equipped products available for reasonable prices.

The company designs the following web hosting solutions:Shared Hosting;Reseller Hosting;VPS Hosting;Dedicated Servers;Domain Registration;
Shared hosting packages include a number of unlimited features: Unlimited data traffic;Unlimited domains;Unlimited email accounts;Unlimited MySQL databases;
Features to improve your [...]
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UPDATE 2020: Packet was acquired by Equinix in March. To help make our vision for global, interconnected bare metal a reality, we've rebranded Packet as Equinix Metal and introduced new locations and features. Packet, makes infrastructure a competitive advantage for the leading companies of the world with globally-available, developer-friendly bare metal and a neutral, interconnected ecosystem of networks, software, and solution partners. Our mission is to protect, connect, and power the [...] Read full review
📡 Established20012014
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.4 seconds 36% sites are slower
SEO Links count 94
Very fast, load time 0.9 seconds 84% sites are slower
SEO Links count 58
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📣 Social Media

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hostblast.net Iconhostblast
Started from: October, 2011
  • Tweets: 79
  • Followers: 157
  • Friends: 11
  • Last activity:

https://twitter.com/packethost
Started from: August, 2020
  • Tweets: 0
  • Followers: 8
  • Friends: 0
  • Last activity:

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  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/getpacket/ (inactive)
HostBlast.Net
  • Followers: 14
  • Entity type: Public Company
  • Founded: 2001
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Internet

https://www.linkedin.com/company/packet-host/
Host Blast Blog
  • Blog Posts: 18
  • First post from: Jul, 2010
  • Last written post:

https://www.packet.net/blog/
  • Blog Posts: 40
  • First post from: May, 2016
  • Language: en
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 4/0
💡 Plan NameBronze Package [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 0.50/mo.-
💿 Disk Space1 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Private Nameservers
cPanel
Website Builder PRO
Multi PHP Versions
SEO Tools
CloudFlare
WordPress Installer
Free Comodo SSL
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📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
💡 Plan NameSilver Package [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 0.85/mo.-
💿 Disk Space10 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
💡 Plan NameGold Package [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 1.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains1-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
💡 Plan NamePlatinum Package [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 2.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 2/3
💡 Plan NameHB-Intel-2G [Linux/Windows]t1.small.x86 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price$ 20.00/mo.
$ 20.00 Setup Fee
$ 50.40/mo.
💿 Disk Space200 GB80 GB SSD
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPUCeleron/Atom 1.6+ GHz Processor4 Physical Cores @ 2.4 GHz (1 x Atom C2550)
🔋 RAM2 GB8 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs11
🔨 Control PanelCentOS Web Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)200 GB SATA II-HDD
Disk Cent OS, Debian, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu (Free), Windows ( Not compatible)
OS Unlimited traffic
Traffic One main IP Free, No additional IP
INFO (mouse over)PRICE: $0.07 per hour
Network 2.5Gbps Network (1 Γ— 2.5Gbps)

We've designed our server configurations to power the most common & demanding workloads at unbeatable prices.


Locations

EWR1 (New York Metro)
SJC1 (Sunnyvale)
AMS1 (Amsterdam)
NRT1 (Tokyo)

OS Support
Custom [...]
📅 Date PlanDec 2022Aug 2018
💡 Plan NameE5504 16G [Linux/Windows]m2.xlarge.x86 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price$ 46.00/mo.$ 1,440.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space2000 GB120 GB SSD
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPUXeon 2 x E5504 2+ GHz Processor28 Physical Cores @ 2.2 GHz (2 x Xeon Gold 5120)
🔋 RAM16 GB384 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs11
🔨 Control PanelCentOS Web Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Xeon 2 x E5504 2+ GHz
Processor 16 GB DDR2-RAM
RAM 2TB SATA II-HDD
Disk Cent OS, Debian, Scientific Linux, Ubuntu (Free), Windows ( Not compatible)
OS Unlimited traffic
Traffic One main IP Free, No additional IP
INFO (mouse over)PRICE: $2 per hour
DDR4 ECC RAM
Network 20Gbps Bonded Network (2 Γ— 10Gbps w/ LACP)
Storage 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash
Storage 120 GB of Redundant SSD (2 Γ— 120 GB in RAID 1)

We've designed our server configurations to power the most common & demanding workloads at unbeatable [...]
📅 Date PlanDec 2022Aug 2018
💡 Plan Name-c3.small.x86
💰 Price-$ 0.50/mo.
💿 Disk Space-unlimited HDD 10000 RPM
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain- 
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Most people don't fall in love with servers, but this one may change your mind. Featuring an Intel Xeon E-2278G processor with an embedded UHD graphic 630 processor, this machine strikes the perfect balance for cloud native, CPU intensive, or graphics heavy workloads.

Where else can you get a [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jul 2020
🔧 Reseller Hosting - 1/0
💡 Plan NameReseller Platinum [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 20.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, Plesk-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)UNLIMITED Cpanel or Plesk accounts
UNLIMITED E-Mail Accounts

Free Data Transfer to us
Private Name Servers FREE
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
Sub Domains UNLIMITED
Parked Domains UNLIMITED
FTP Accounts UNLIMITED
MySQL Databases UNLIMITED
Email Accounts (POP3, IMAP & SMTP) UNLIMITED
Mailing Lists [...]
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📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
🔧 VPS - 1/0
💡 Plan NameVPS 4 [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 50.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space200 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU4 vCores-
🔋 RAM8 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, Plesk-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Free DDos protection

Full root access
You have full root access to your VPS over Linux command line.

24/7 Support
We’re here to help you 24Γ—7 with any server related query.

Control Panel
All popular control panels are supported including cPanel and Plesk.

SSD storage
Faster access to your [...]
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📅 Date PlanDec 2022-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux/Windows
  • Linux/Windows
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Reseller Hosting
  • VPS
  • Domains
  • Dedicated Hosting
✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 2 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
  • Bitcoin
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
-anonymous- (inglishjorden@g...)
on 📆 Mar 22, 2023
Commendable stuff
😁 The customer support is truly commendable. It's very easy to deal with the staff. Keep up the good service

-anonymous- (lionaljimmy3@g...)
on 📆 Mar 08, 2023
Commendable
😞 Hostblast support team is doing a commendable service. When I have something to be sorted out, they are always there.

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Aug 25, 2018
😁 Packet.net is a provider that delivers dedicated compute within minutes - the network connection is fantastic, They have a good selection of configurations and locations available, the sign up process involves requiring linkedin or something to [...]

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Aug 22, 2019
😠 The first year Packet servers functioned fine and it seems to have been the decent choice to move over from Digital Ocean to bare metal. Recently however Packet started more and more doing maintenance during office hours, even shutting down entire [...]

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