Overview
Netfirms is a good web host provider for small, personal sites. They offer several hosting solutions for all levels, but their most outstanding feature is the rock bottom price of their Plus plan—the least expensive monthly cost among the top ten hosts we reviewed. Netfirms hosting has no-frills in this plan—no database, no ecommerce features and few email perks—but their service includes all the necessities for building and posting a site, including both a good uptime and a fine customer service reputation.
Unique to the hosting world, Netfirms uses a cluster of servers to handle your website's needs. This approach eliminates your site's dependency on any one server. If any server goes down, the others pick up where it left off. This multi-server method improves response time and site availability for your site.
Running web store for over five months now and have had a generally positive experience. Positives are cost. Nowhere else will you get 100mb of bandwidth, osCommerce hosting, URL redirection, multiple emails, easily integrated credit card processing for only $10.95 per month. However, you get what you pay for. Netfirms supports over 1.2 million businesses and individuals in getting their websites online. Netfirms is committed to providing easy web hosting solutions for beginners along with advanced flexible features for hardened webmasters.
Contact Information
Company Name NetFirms, Inc.
Website www.netfirms.com
Phone Number 416-661-3863
Customer Support
Email Support : - you can email them any time in case of any problem. Your email will be answered with in 24 hours. Their response time is quite fast and you would be guided right through.
Toll Free Support : - NetFirms offer toll free support that is available all the time you can call them and get your issues solved regarding web hosting.
Online Chat Support : - They provide online support to their customers so that they can share their problem with NetFirms. Their staff is very well trained and you get “right answers” for “right questions”.
Flash Video Tutorial: - Customers those are new to this web-hosting field, NetFirms provides them with flash tutorials. These are live video tutorials, which includes various mail client setup, control panel tutorial, change DNS and FTP clients setup.
Statement from the Host
" With well over 1,000,000 Websites, our hosting solution has proven it is both popular and reliable. Our success is built on trust. Each person hosting a site with Netfirms has 24/7 access via phone or e-mail to our friendly, highly trained staff. Every Website is put on our clustered server platform to ensure speed, security and dependability. And with premium, feature-rich hosting plans as low as $4.95/mo, customers know they are getting the best deal on the net. "
Control Panel
With Netfirms, you have access to a very good control panel. The control panel is fairly easy to navigate and is divided into these basic categories: account management, billing management, domain forwarding (creating new domains that will point to your site) email management and site management (to view site statistics). Now new XL6 Control Panel really is an improvement over their previous offering and is now one of the best control panels we have ever used. It is fast, looks really polished and is loaded with all sorts of cool features. For example the “Site Tools" tab contains “one-click" installers for the popular Word Press blogging tool, the Wall Street Journal recommend Commerce Pro shopping cart, a file manager, photo gallery, password protection and about 15 other applications.
Conclusion
NetFirms ahs won several awards as Netfirms was chosen the #1 Budget Web Host by Web Host Directory because of their low-cost, flexible and scaleable hosting plans which are suitable for small personal sites to growing business Websites, along with their commitment to excellent technical support. The bonus start-up disc including Net Objects allows both novice users and experienced designers alike to produce sophisticated and professional Websites quickly and easily. In summary, Netfirms provides fantastic, inexpensive hosting services empowering Web designers and non-Web savvy users to establish a Web presence and fully harness the power of the Internet.  |