HostMetro Review
HostMetro is a new comer to the web hosting industry. The brand was founded in 2012 with a group of individuals who has 50 years of experience in web hosting. HostMetro’s objective is to provide reliable and excellent hosting services as well as receptive customer and technical support; and a secured purchase environment. In HostMetro, the following are the available types of hosting:- Business hosting
- Shared hosting
Features
Although the brand is new to its market, it has been receiving great feedback from its customers. Some notable features that the customers enjoy with HostMetro at a very low price are as follows:
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Free Site Builder
- Unlimited Disk space
- Immediate installation of scripts
- Free domain
- Money back guarantee
- Weekly backups
- Two site builders
- Yellow pages listing
Reliability
HostMetro got a 5 star review from one dependable host reviewers in the area of its reliability. Hostmetro invested much in building their data centres. All of their servers have Intel XEON CPUs and they are all equipped with RAID. This is to ensure the security of the customers’ information. Weekly backups of customers’ data are also done to make sure that no data is lost in the worst case that the servers will go down. A distinct feature of HostMetro that has received great feedbacks from clients is its ability for the customers to perform manual backup in their data.
Hostmetro uses cloud technology to ensure that their clients’ websites has a more speedy access compared to their competitors. HostMetro uses CloudFare and CloudLinux which gives them an edge over other web host providers. CloudFare helps in running the customers’ website faster. Cloudlinux on the other hand isolates each account on HostMetro to ensure that it does not consume too much resource. To add, HostMetro also offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee with a money back guarantee feature attached to it.
Easy to Use
HostMetro uses the cPanel for user control panel like most of the web hosting providers. cPanel is customer friendly and has lots of applications of your choice. There are also plenty of tutorials online for those who are not familiar with cPanel. These tutorials explain the different features of cPanel and teach you how to make use of it.
Price
HostMetro is relatively cheaper compared to other web host providers considering the great service and features that you get. It comes at an affordable price of $2.45 which is inclusive of all its key features and a free domain. The only web hosting provider that beat HostMetro in terms of price in the top ten list of web hosts is the iPage.
Customer Support
The customer support provided by HostMetro is very responsive and detailed. The staffs on detail have at least 5 meaningful experiences in the area. They are able to provide useful trouble shooting information to their clients who need help. You can reach their customer support through their 24/7 telephone service, live chat or through email. HostMetro also has informative tools online in the form of video tutorials and articles that are of great help in problems that you might encounter.
