AN HOSTING

AN Hosting is able to provide a very stable and reliable environment due to its use of top-of-the-line hardware. Most of AN Hosting’s shared servers are Dual Dual-Core Xeon servers with a minimum of 8 GB of RAM. Servers run RAID-5 using SATA drives to provide for additional data redundancy and stability. AN Hosting keeps weekly full backups and daily incremental backups of every shared account they host, and can restore backups in under three hours compared to Cpanel’s backup restoration procedure that usually takes 12-24 hours for a complete server by using their own backup technology. The last cool thing about AN Hosting is their network. AN Hosting has an extremely diverse network comprised of Level 3, AboveNet, BandCon, SC Net and numerous other providers.

AN Hosting offers a unique pricing plan which allows you to select your own monthly rate. You can commit to one, two, three and four year packages and prices range from $7.95/month to $5.95/month. Unlike many other hosting companies, regardless of what term you select, AN Hosting never charges setup fees.

AN Hosting uses a customized version of Cpanel as its control panel. Cpanel is cool because almost every other hosting company uses it, and if you are considering moving hosts it makes transfering your site to AN Hosting easy. Transfer Customers vs. New Customers - ANHosting offers free domain registration or transfer for all customers. For transfer clients (clients moving from another hosting company) AN Hosting will do the transfer for them manually making sure everything is moved properly.

AN Hosting really shines in this area. Average ticket response time is under 20 minutes. Phone hold times are usually under 10 minutes when it is busy, and non-existant during off-hours. They answered their phone at all hours of the night when we tested them. AN Hosting offers 24/7 phone, e-mail and live chat support – with a live chat button on every page of their site.

AN Hosting is a good hosting provider if you are looking for moderatly priced packages that have a huge range of features and quality support. They are a subsidiary of much larger midPhase Services, Inc. which hosts over 200,000 domains. It is important to point out what the package AN Hosting is offering says about them. They clearly understand the business and understand how to properly balance disk space allocation with server capability. They also answer their phone, respond to their E-mails and pick up the live chat requests quickly. Overall, we have no issue recommending AN Hosting as one of our top 10 hosting providers.