Last Updated: April 1, 2008

Reviews - Netfirms

Review Criteria Score Business Hosting (Netfirms ADVANTAGE™ ) 94% Diskspace 10/10 Bandwidth 10/10 Domains 10/10 Features 9/10 Price 8/10     Overall Performance 98% Reliability (up-time, data center technology) 9/10 Price Value (most for your money) 9.5/10 Control Panel (ease of use) 9/10 Customer Support (live chat, 24/7, toll-free, timeliness, quality) 10/10 Overall Score: 96%

Netfirms is the premier provider of web hosting, domain name, e-commerce, e-mail, e-marketing services and technology solutions for web developers, small business, large corporations and non-profits.

Hosting over one million websites worldwide, Netfirms customer websites collectively receive billions of page views each month.

Editor's Note: Outstanding Web Hosts likes Netfirms because of their Outstanding customer service and support team, as well as their free domains. No other web host offers two free domains for life with free privacy.

Business Hosting

Netfirms Advantage plan features 250GB of disk space to store and share your websites, photos, and multimedia files. With 2000GB bandwidth this plan is excellent for high-traffic websites with multimedia.

Netfirms Advantage also includes two free domains for life with free domain name privacy (more than most typical business hosting plans). It gives you access to many features, including a Website Starter Kit with FREE design software, 30 MySQL 5.x databases with PHPMyAdmin, 1 MSSQL database with MSSQLAdmin, 500 POP3 or web-based e-mail accounts @yourdomain with virus and spam filtering.

You also get applications on demand for blogs, photo galleries, e-commerce, wikis, and hit counters. Their custom one click script installer includes many popular applications including Wordpress, Joomla, phpBB, and more!

Editor's Note: The price is outstanding! Netfirms Advantage is only $9.95/mo.

Overall Performance

Reliability
Netfirms is an ICANN certified registrar and a member of the Better Business Bureau's Online Reliability Program. Netfirms multiple data centers are equipped with state of the art load-balanced clustered servers running on Alternating Current power to reduce energy consumption while maintaining outstanding server reliability.

Netfirms hosting provides free shared SSL certificates and support for dedicated SSL and dedicated IP addresses, multiple firewalls, UPS power back-ups, and 24/7 network monitoring to ensure your data is always secure and your website is always live.

Price Value
Netfirms offers you the most for your money. In addition to reliability and feature-rich, high-capacity hosting plans with expert customer support, Netfirms also offers online marketing tools and Windows/Linux integrated hosting - all for very affordable prices. Want to grow your business? Take advantage of free Google Adwords credits from within the Netfirms control panel.

Control Panel
Netfirms developed their award-winning Control Panel XL6 specifically for their customers. It's user-friendly with one-click application installs and step-by-step instructions. The control panel supports English, French, and Spanish and can be accessed from anywhere in the world.

Customer Support
Netfirms Certified Customer Support department is based in North America and is available 24/7 by phone, email, and through live chat. Netfirms Support Representatives are knowledgeable, courteous, and resolve issues quickly and effectively within a one to eight hour timeframe. Netfirms also has a very detailed support pages with a searchable knowledgebase, video tutorials, and answers to frequently asked questions.