WinSave Web Hosting

WinSave is a good web hosting company, firmly based in Windows. In fact, their technicians are MCSE certified. This expertise helps them to carry a 99.9% uptime rating, which, in return, provides a reliable web hosting service. The focus of this company is aimed mainly toward small, less active websites since WinSave places limits on the number of concurrent users that are allowed access to the website.

WinSave is relatively low in cost compared to some of the other web hosting companies that we reviewed-only $8.95 per month with no setup fee.

Feature Set:

WinSave offers various tools that allow you to manage your website, including Microsoft FrontPage, site traffic statistics, and site traffic statistics. Also the supported environments include CGI Directory, Perl, FrontPage Extensions, Active server pages (ASP), and Microsoft Access Database. Two of the environments that are missing from this service are PHP and the SQL database.

WinSave offers a maximum of 1000MB of disk, 100GB of data transfer, and 500 email addresses, an most of the other hosting companies offer 1000 Email address or more. They also lack the Spam protection and the Secure Socket Layer (SSL), which is the added security that most other services offer.
Customer Service:

WinSave gives limited customer support options-no published email, no toll-free number-but they do have phone support on weekdays from 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. EST. WinSave offers a question submission page on their website, but no live chat service.

Even though their customer service is not convenient, the service is worth the wait. If WinSave offered a toll-free number and extended hours we’d give them full marks-two of our sites at TopTenReviews use WinSave as host. What we at TopTenReviews like about WinSave is that we can reach someone who knows the ins and outs of web hosting quickly. In every case, we have never finished a phone call with our question unanswered. In fact, WinSave is the only web hosting company that could knowledgeably answer complex questions we had about concurrent users on a given site (open sessions). Sadly, support technicians at other hosting companies we’ve encountered do not understand enough about how a website works to comprehend the scope of our questions.

The documentation that comes with WinSave just after signup is excellent, too. With other hosts you often must hunt around to learn how to setup your POP3 accounts, the FTP login, and the IP address of your site. With WinSave, this information comes nice and tidy in an email within a few seconds of your purchase.

The FAQ section of WinSave is also extensive if you don’t mind using the database to find your answers. The sections cover most beginner web hosting topics including billing questions, DNS, databases, FTP, email, policies, program languages, and several other topics.
Control Panel:

WinSave uses its own master control panel software. One unique feature about the control panel is the ability to set the user controls. You have the ability to setup passwords and user names in order to allow certain people access to your website files. Emails and databases are easily setup and managed from within the control panel as well. You also have a link to install the web creation tool, Microsoft Frontpage. This program will allow you to perform specific tasks such as FTP, adding a new user, configuring your website settings, and adding or deleting a sub web.

As far as the statistics go, the control panel has a separate page with a list of 5 different summaries and 12 reports that can be used to maximize the outcome of your website. The summaries include: General, Quick, Daily, Hourly, and Brower.
Summary:

Overall, WinSave is a good web hosting company for your small business. With their 99.9% uptime rating and excellent Windows WinSave was selected based on the advanced Windows hosting features that allows complete flexibility, control and reliability for a website. In addition, its serviced and supported by Microsoft Certified System Engineers (MCSEs).