Review: Canadian Web Hosting

Important Note: When being asked to review a website, paid or not, I treat it as though I’ve just come across the site on Google and then give my opinion from there. Price tags do not, by any means, sway my opinion on a sponsored entry. This is something I would like for the sponsor to keep in mind. Through me, you will receive my 100% honest opinion on your product and I remind you that this is what you’ve asked for.

This review is for Canadian Web Hosting Services.

I know it seems a bit strange that I’m writing a review for a web hosting company but this is only because I don’t have a bias opinion when it comes to the web hosting world. When, these days, it seems that everyone and their mother has a website, you’re going to need numerous companies out there housing all of these websites and there’s no possible way of getting around that.

When I first loaded the site I did notice a little bit of a lag but I want to assume this was Firefox and not them considering the main header on the site is flash based. I think that’s pretty typical for any hosting company so as of right now they don’t stand out very much for me at all. I do feel that for the services they’re offering, they’re a bit under priced to the point of what I’d believe to be overselling. For less than CAD$9.00 a month they’re offering a terabyte of transfer with 125gb of storage. All this triggers for me is a massive amount of overselling their servers. For CAD$16.00 a month you get 3 terabytes of bandwidth and a 300gb hard drive, that’s a dedicated server – basically – and there’s no possible way they can afford to run multiple servers with those kind of resources when they’re only earning $16 per month on that particular account! Doing further information you find out that it is only in the $16 per month range if you happen to purchase a yearly based account, the monthly price for this account is more in the $20 range if you choose to pay on a month-to-month basis. I personally would choose to pay CAD$20 for the first month and then decide from there if I’d like to stay with their services. You would have to pay them approximately $200 in order to go with the $16 per month plan. I think the $20 is the better route to take, honestly.

When it comes to standard web hosting, you’re rarely going to find companies that can do it 100% correctly. There is absolutely no need for someone to search around and get the most bang for their buck when it comes to web hosting. Do not put yourself on a server where you’re given 3 terabytes of bandwidth and an 80 gig hard drive to over load with stuff that you don’t need. I’ve noticed a trend in many people looking for high-bandwidth accounts in the $5-$7 a month range. Unless you average over 10,000 hits per day on your personal blog that your friends from school visit on a regular basis, you do not need anything more than 8 to 10 gigs at most of bandwidth. Yes, having some extra is nice depending on how many sites you happen to be direct linking off of but there’s no way that you will ever blow through 3+ terabytes of bandwidth in one month unless you’re doing something illegal or just running some kind of an adult site, if that’s the case you aren’t on a shared server that’s for sure.

Another thing that doesn’t quite sit right with me is how oddly priced their services are. They’ll give you over 3 terabytes of transfer for an account that can only host up to 10 add-on domains but a reseller account with 10 cPanel domains only has the option of 500GB of transfer even on a plan that costs $300 per month to run. For $150 you can rent a dedicated server and load it with as many clients as disk-space will allow and also giving you about 2-4 terabytes of transfer in the process. Half the price and four times the resources, that’s more than likely the company anyone who properly shops around would choose. If you’re someone spending $300 a month on literally no resources, please email me so I can point you in the right direction.

I’m not too sure if I would recommend this company to someone looking for web hosting. I will say that I would greatly appreciate anyone who is currently hosted with this company, and not an owner/support member, to give me their opinion on their services. What do you think of their company? How is their support staff? How much of the resources that you’re paying for do you actually USE during the month? I’d love to hear it.

This was a sponsored post.