midPhase.com - Hosting Service
http://www.midphase.com/
midPhase is a relatively new player, launched in late 2002 it has grown quickly by the thousands of customers. Today, midPhase is honored almost daily by new customer testimonials, which they seem to add to their testimonial page daily. midPhase has two corporate offices, one in Chicago-Land and one in Kentucky, with servers in Chicago, and in Orlando Florida.
Price and Cost Effectiveness
midPhase's most popular plan is its "Mega-PHASE" plan, which for $7.95 a month, offers 5000 MB of disk space, unmetered bandwidth and unmetered e-mail accounts. The plan comes with support for PHP, JSP, MySQL, PERL, SSL, and more, What makes this plan more desirable. midPhase also throws in a free domain name and a 99.98% uptime guarantee, which makes this a great deal.
midPhase has two other plans: "Xtra-PHASE" is priced at $9.95/month with 3500 MB of disk space and allows you to host two domains under one account and "Pro-PHASE" is priced at $11.95/month with 3900 MB of disk space and allows you to host three domains under one account.
Data Center
midPhase's data center, called the "Equinix IBX Center", is located in Chicago, IL. The center is hooked to several network providers and backbones to maintain redundant connections to the Internet. All of their servers are connected to a line burst-able up to 100 MBPS. Time Warner, Internap, and Bell South are just some of their Internet backbone providers.
Control Panel
midPhase's control panel is essentially a slightly altered version of CPanel that might prove to make the whole process of managing a web site easier to a beginner. The panel is equipped with all the different CPanel functions, and is graphically intuitive. The panel makes available a number of third-party scripts, including chat, message boards, and more.
Conclusion
midPhase has a well deserved reputation as a reliable, trustworthy, low-cost hosting company.
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