AccuBURST Hosting Review

We love their logo - "Hosting for an Unpredictable World" - we don't know what it means, but we love it. Put together by a bunch of Harvard, Yale, and MIT grads (they tell us), AccuBURST has amassed a wall safe's worth of awards and industry accolades. What's greatest about AccuBURST is that they're (mostly) one-plan-fits-all. While this may not be the most realistic approach (as one plan ordinarily does not fit all), their m.o. makes it so that individuals and small businesses don't have to pay through the nose to get the same basic features their more corporate counterparts are getting for (what feels to them like) pocket change.

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Hosting Ratings:
Price Value 8 / 10
Performance 7.5 / 10
Reliability 7.5 / 10
Customer Support 8 / 10
Control Panel 8 / 10
User Feedback 8 / 10
Overall Grade: 78%



 

 

 

 

Price Value
AccuBURST service includes free promotional tools, a point-and-click Site Builder, a free domain, and free setup. You get web hosting for up to 8 websites, with up to 50 parked domains, 50 subdomains, and 75 MySQL databases.

You get SSH access and your sites are all Fantastico enabled. POP and IMAP enabled Mail features include webmail, 75 mailing lists, a Spam Assassin, and unlimited forwards and autoresponders. And you can include as many blogs, bulletin boards, forums, polls and surveys, guestbooks, chat rooms, image galleries and password protected directories as you want.

Ecommerce sites get two different shopping carts (osCommerce and Agora) on an SSL secure server with Private and Shared Certificates and the ability to accept PayPal and credit card payments. All of the most common web programming languages are supported including PGP, Perl, CGI, Python, Server Side Includes, FrontPage, Curl, GD, ImageMagick, and Custom Cronjobs.

The free promotion tools included help with both search engine submission and optimization. And they come with a $25.00 credit for use on Overture. The free Site Builder gives you complete development integration, meaning that you need no other tool to build your entire website from start to finish - it's cross-platform, it comes with hundreds of customizable templates, and it integrates seamlessly with pretty much any web-oriented applications you may wish to utilize. This is an all-around total package that doesn't require a slew of upgrades to get the functionality you need. AccuBURST web hosting also comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Reliability
To back up their 99.9% uptime guarantee, their PIII Xeon and P4 servers, all on Apache web server software, all 2.4 Ghz or faster, all with 1 Gig of RAM, are hosted at a top-tier data center serviced by 22 Gagabit connections from multiple providers. The center is protected by equipment-safe fire suppression systems. Uninterrupted power and climate control is supported by such measures as UPS backups and diesel backup generators. And, of course, the data center is monitored by security personnel 24/7, 365 days a year.

Control Panel
cPanel 10 is one of the top-leading industry standards in control panels, and it's no wonder why. From your AccuBURST cPanel, you can do all of the following: password-protect a directory, change your password,manage a MySQL database in PHPMyAdmin, redirect a URL, keep your contact info current, use webmail, add an FTP account, add a domain and/or subdomain, create an autoresponder, back up your site, create a catchall or default email account, set up a cronjob, redirect emails, create a POP email account, make custom error pages, manage all your files, install and uninstall FrontPage extensions, protect your Hotlinks, manage your index, create a MySQL database, set up email accounts in Outlook Express...and that's just for starters. But you get the idea. There's not much you'd realistically want to do with your site that cPanel 10 can't help you to do.

Customer Support
Eminently available, AccuBURST knows that customer service matters most. You can contact them anytime of day or night by email, email support ticket, or chat with an operator live online. They've also got toll-free phone support (including numbers for international callers), though it isn't 24/7.

Beyond that, they foster their own web-based community and host an extremely popular user forum and an online chat area. Plus they have web-based tutorials so simple and visual a child can follow them, and not just a mere smattering of them either. There are tutorials on using each of the major programming languages and no less than a dozen on utilizing various functions (basic to advanced) of the cPanel control panel.

Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plan
AccuVALUE: 12000 MB disk space, 300 GB bandwidth (host up to 8 domains and 3,000 email boxes)
- $6.95/month if paid biannually
- $7.95/month if paid annually
- $8.95/month if paid semiannually
- $9.95/month if paid quarterly
- $10.95/month if paid monthly