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8/10 |
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8.5/10 |
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8.5/10 |
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7/10 |
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7.5/10 |
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8.5/10 |
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87% Overall Score
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MavenHosting is an award-winning web hosting company that seems poised to gather even more support, loyalty and customers from around the world. Based in France, MavenHosting web hosting operates data centres in France, Netherlands and Montreal, Canada, ensuring that all international customers have access to fast connections and a stable server environment.
Maven Hosting's support staff is available day and night to answer questions – 24/7 on MSN Messenger, a feature we particularly like. We would also highlight Maven Hosting's double-backup feature: every two days (at minimum), Maven Hosting will take a copy of everything on their servers and save it on two separate drives. Even with a 99.999% uptime guarantee in place, it's nice to know Maven takes extra precautions with your precious files.
Maven Hosting's basic shared web hosing package is excellent value for your investment. For added convenience, MavenHosting also sells extra services – like dedicated IP addresses, SSL certificates, advanced support and file transfers – for those who are looking for them. Maven Hosting has everything you need to set up a stable, powerful site and grow it to meet your vision.
Price Value
MavenHosting web hosting offers solid value in the competitive European hosting market. Starting at a respectable €4.95/month – less if you sign on for multiple years – Maven Hosting's robust shared hosting plan includes a very substantial 75 GB disk space, a free domain for life, unlimited traffic, cPanel control panel, instant activation, unlimited email addresses and MySQL databases, Fantastico script library, incredible security features, and much more.
One of the things we at Hosting-Review really like about Maven Hosting is that customers who choose the business or enterprise hosting plans have the option of paying month to month. This is a great option for those trying the larger-capacity hosting plans for the first time! It's also easy to switch between plans, ensuring you get what you need – and don't pay for what you don't.
Reliability
Maven Hosting lists a very impressive 99.999% uptime, thanks to quality infrastructure and incredible stability. Security is a priority for Maven Hosting. The company does “double backup” of all files every two days (at minimum). Firewalls and anti-virus protection are always in place and updated.
Maven Hosting's data centres, all boast superior security monitoring and protected access. Many customers will also be pleased to know the MavenHosting data centres are constructed with the environment in mind. In all, Maven Hosting is a responsible web host you can count on.
Control Panel
Maven Hosting doesn't mess around with the control panel, one of the most important web management tools you'll use. By offering European customers cPanel – included in every hosting package at no extra cost – MavenHosting gives clients a powerful, simple, intuitive way to build and maintain their websites. CPanel offers customers an effective portal through which to manage security options, files, databases, domains and email accounts and to create backups.
Customer Support
Maven Hosting web hosting offers customer support via telephone, online chat and email ticket support around the clock. They have a searchable knowledgebase as well, which answers most basic support questions. For an extra fee, Maven Hosting customers may sign up for 24/7 cell-phone access to technical support.