Apollo Web Hosting Review

Since 1999, Apollo has hosted over 165,000 personal and small business domains worldwide. A good reputation and unique features make Apollo a web host to seriously consider.

Apollo Price & Features:

Apollo offers several plans. Their standard plan is a Unix (Linux) plan and is called the Value Plan, $6.96 /month (2 year plan, setup fee waived). The Value Plan is geared to personal and "business card" small business sites where no online purchasing is to be done. This offers:

• 1,000 MB (1 Gig) of disk space (Plenty for almost any website),
• 50 GB bandwidth (Very Generous),
• 50 eMail accounts with autoresponders,

and other features.

1 Gig may not sound like a lot, but in truth 1 Gig is much more than enough for over 90% of all websites. Note that one database (MySQL) and one mailing list are provided. ASP is not available on this plan.

Up to four (4) eCommerce sites can be hosted under one account with their Business Plan. Priced at $13.96 /month, this plan offers:

• Dedicated IP
• 1,500 MB (1.5 Gigs) of disk space,
• 70 GB bandwidth,
• 200 eMail accounts with autoresponders,

and they offer many features, including ASP.

Apollo Hosting plans all use Postini Perimeter Manager, a strong anti-spam filtering system praised by CP Magazine. You can get more details at the Apollo Hosting website.

Reliability:

Apollo Hosting is a solid company with a good reputation. Apollo Hosting is one web hosting company that has a solid history of reliability. They guarantee an uptime of 99.9%. Apollo maintains a state-of-the-art data center in Austin, Texas, where they maintain only the highest-quality servers and redundant Tier 1 connections to insure dependability.

They are members of the Better Business Bureau.

Customer Support:

Apollo support is sometimes a little slow, but it is generally much better than many others. Apollo was one of the first to offer toll-free phone support. Phone support is available during standard business hours, Central Standard Time. They also have online chat 24/7.

In addition, Apollo offers a series of manuals and video tutorials.

Control Panel:

Apollo uses the Plesk Reloaded Control Panel, which is ranked high because of the wide range of features that are accessible, and its ease of use. Here is a demo for the Plesk Reloaded.

Web Builder:

Apollo was one of the first to offer a suite of tools to build and support a website. There present package of features includes SiteStudio website builder, blog software ($20.00 installation fee), plus several marketing tools, and several accounting tools. This wide range of software is unique to Apollo.

Money-Back Guarantee:

Apollo offers a 99.9% uptime Guarantee or your money back.

Conclusion on Apollo Web Hosting:

Apollo Hosting provides dependable hosting, their plans have a long list of features, they have good Customer Support, and they have fair prices. For more information and to order a plan, go to the Apollo Hosting website.

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