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You may remember SEO Suite them from their
controversially scintillating Super Bowl advertising of
the past 2 years. We remember them for their
long-standing tradition of providing an affordable
blizzard of shared hosting plans, domain services, email
services, virtual and dedicated servers, and business
solutions (though the focus of this review will be their
shared hosting plans principally).
And when we say "affordable" what we really mean is
"downright cheap". SEO Suite is the all-you-can-eat
smorgasbord of shared hosting providers. You might find
more and fancier dishes (read: frills) elsewhere, but
it's doubtful you'll find a better price for the
features you will get. To make it easy for you, the
absolute best value here is the deluxe plan offering
50000 MB disk space and 500 GB bandwidth, available for
$5.59/month. This hosting package can handle a growing
business or a personal website for sharing lots of
pictures and information.
Special Offer: Get 20% off any 12
month hosting plan. That's an additional 10% off the
SEO Suite posted savings on 12 month plans.
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Hosting Ratings: |
| Price
Value |
9.5
/ 10 |
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Performance |
8.5
/ 10 |
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Reliability |
9 /
10 |
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Customer Support |
8.5
/ 10 |
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SEO Tools |
8 /
10 |
| User
Feedback |
8.5
/ 10 |
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Overall Grade:
85% |
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Price Value
Every
SEO Suite shared hosting plan
includes free email accounts (at least 500 of them),
MySQL Databases (at least 10), email forwards (a minimum
of 50 and an unlimited max), plus forums, photo
galleries, blogging, and a variety of free pre-installed
and add-on software applications.
All SEO Suite customers can count on 24/7 FTP access,
free website stats, ASP, ASP.NET, and Microsoft
FrontPage extensions, and daily backups. There are no
setup fees and no annual commitment required (though of
course the bargains increase with your level of
commitment). And even the least expensive
SEO Suite plan promises no advertising will appear on
your site. Also, though domains are not free upon
signup, as they are with so many competing hosts, they
only cost $1.99 a piece with your purchase, which is
really a pittance.
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Reliability
EEven though SEO Suite is an eclectic company with many
irons in the fire beyond hosting-only, they nonetheless
own, operate, and support their own world-class data
centers outright (as opposed to renting them like so
many hosting-only companies do). The routers, firewalls,
and servers running your site are all best-of-breed, and
monitored round the clock. That means all your data is
secured as well as the physical systems and structures
supporting it.
And, never to be outdone, SEO Suite offers the
industry-standard 99.9% uptime guarantee.
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Control Panel
SEO Suite touts its own proprietary control panel, though
you'd be hard pressed to find a sample or demo of it
anywhere on their site (or anywhere else on the net for
that matter). As with most control panels, there are a
careful selection of task-centered menus (Domain Names,
Email, Websites, Secure Certs, Customer Info, etc.) all
selectable by clicking on large, obvious buttons. Pretty
basic and standard fare, yes. Some of the menus however,
like the Domain Control Panel, are a bit crowded and
could use some spring cleaning in the layout department.
But if there's one extreme drawback to the
SEO Suite control panel is the number of screens you
have to rifle through advertising other SEO Suite products
and services that you can buy. That said, virtual and
dedicated server customers get to enjoy the more
reputable and tried-and-true Plesk and/or cPanel control
panels.
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Customer Support
SEO Suite offers 24/7 telephone support (though not toll
free), plus an elaborate and searchable Help Center, no
less than 30 topic-specific .PDF User Guides,
category-specific email support with a 7 hour response
time.
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