Aplus
Aplus. Net
Company Overview:
Company History: The Company is providing everything for a good online business like domain name registration, web hosting and even professional design for your business website. Apart from these web hosting services company is providing marketing and online advertising as well as search engine optimization and ecommerce.
Managemen Team:
Date Started/Founded: Company is founded in 1992 as Abacus America, Inc., Aplus.net began offering Internet services in 1995 and hosting services in 1998.
Location ‐Aplus.net Internet Services
110 East Broward Boulevard, Suite 1650
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Employees: More than 250 employees worldwide .Jeff is one of their employees; he is responsible for handling all the client’s queries
Contact information
877.275.8763 : United States
858.410.6929 : Worldwide
Product/Service Offerings other than hosting
Web Design
HTML Design Plan
HTML+Flash Design Plan
Full Flash Design Plan
Domains
Domain Transfer
Domain Registration
Domain Tools
Marketing
Online Advertising
Search Engine Booster
eTraffic: PPC Campaign Management
Customer Management Tools
CRM Chat: Live Chat Software
Marketing Resources
RatePoint
Website Magazine
PRWeb
Noah´s Classifieds
SSL Certificates
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
Interesting Statistics
èAplus.net have received the industry's most distinguished awards - including the prestigious CNET Editors' Choice Award, CNET's "Most Popular" Rating, #1 Web Host from TopHost.com and many more. Aplus.net has been featured in the top U.S. business and technology news outlets, including Forbes, Entrepreneur, PC Magazine, ABC News, the Christian Science Monitor, and many more.
èMore than 250 employees worldwide
èMore than 100,000 customers
èMore than 6,000 Dedicated Server customers
èMore than 400,000 Domains registered
èMore than 113,000 Websites designed just since 2003
èMicrosoft Gold Certified Partner
Live chat available: Live chat is available 24/7
Green/Environmentally friendly initiatives: No
Key Features ‐ General Information about core hosting features. (NOT PLAN SPECIFIC)
a. Reliability: Very Reliable
b. Customer Support: yes
c. Technical Support: yes
d. Describe the infrastructure and hosting environment: Our fully modernized, state-of-the-art data centers in San Diego and Phoenix use the best and most reliable brands: Our data storage is Seagate, our network runs on Cisco, and our servers are based on Intel products
e. What control panel software do they use: They have their own control panel
f. Do they offer website builder: No
Hosting Plans ‐
| Plan Name | Personal Web Hosting Plan | Business Web Hosting Plan | Professinol Web Hosting Plan | E-Commerce Web Hosting Plan |
| Storage | 15 GB | 200 GB | 300 GB | 500 GB |
| Bandwidth | 250GB | 2000 GB | 3000 GB | 5000 GB |
| Email Accounts/Size limits: |
50 Emails (3GB inbox) |
250 Emails (3GB inbox) |
1000 Emails (3GB inbox) |
Unlimited accounts (3GB inbox) |
| Hosted Domains: | 1 | 10 | 50 | 100 |
| Platform |
Unix® or Windows® Server 2008, |
Unix® or Windows® Server 2008, |
Unix® or Windows® Server 2008, |
Unix® or Windows® Server 2008, |
| Domains Allowed | ||||
| Pricing | Set up :Free Monthly: $5.95 Monthly(save with annual repay): $4.46= $52.53 |
Set up :Free Monthly: $9.95 |
Setup: Free |
Set up :Free Monthly: $31.46 Monthly(save with annual repay): $23.30=$279.60 |
| Private SSL Available | NO | NO | NO | Optional |
| Shared SSL Included | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Static IP Price per month if available | NO | NO | NO | Yes(for SSL certificate) |
| MySQL Databases included in plan, Number and Storage Space | 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 |
| What freebies come with the hosting plans |
30 days money back guarantee, custom web counter, google adword credit for $25, virus protection, control panel, global |
30 days money back guarantee, custom web counter, marketing tools like google adword credit , keyword density |
30 days money back guarantee, custom web counter, marketing tools like google adword credit , keyword density |
30 days money back guarantee, custom web counter, marketing tools like google adword credit , keyword density |
| backup | analyzer etc, virus protection, control panel, global backup, Pinnacle Shopping Cart, Site map builder, PDF2word,. | analyzer etc,virus protection, control panel, global backup,Site map builder, PDF2word, web site search engine. |
analyzer etc,virus protection, control panel, global backup, Pinnacle Shopping Cart,Site map builder, PDF2word, web site search engine. |
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| Who is this plan good for | Personal Website |
This plan is good for common web applications such as blogs, photo galleries etc. |
We can host up to 50 domains. This solution is perfect for power users, small businesses, or anyone who wants to hosts multiple websites. |
This is perfect solution for those who wants to set up an online stores without any technical knowledge |
Opinion
a. Pros: Very Good Prices, Best if you want to host more then 1 website
b. Cons: Has its own control panel, no website builder
5. Final Thoughts or remarks: Very good if the customer wants to host multiple websites and can easily adapt to control panel they offer.