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If you're looking for an affordable web site hosting plan, then who handles your internet web site hosting services is critical. We were attending a conference and one of the speakers was asked who he recommended for web hosting and his reply was, "They're all alike". Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Back in my early days on the Net, I woke up one morning to discover that my web site had not only vanished - but in its place was vile words accompanied by graphic porn pictures! The hosting company finally sent out an email (approximately two weeks later), admitting they had been hacked and asking if users had any idea what they should do about it!

The company we recommend for web hosting is marvelous and we have a multitude of reasons for our attitudes.

1. They offer 24 hour, seven day a week phone support. We've called them at 2 AM and spoken with a real live human being! Not a call center with 14 buttons to push or a foreign country where the operator is clearly reading out of a manual and doesn't really know his product. With most hosting companies, the only contact mechanism is email. (This is a US based web company - this service may not be available in other countries.)

2. When we phone, we've never had to wait more than about one minute. No long hold periods.

3. All of their techs are server-trained so they can almost always answer any questions and fix the problem. On the rare occasions when further research was required, the call-back was prompt.

4. They use very high-quality hardware - no junky stuff from someone trying to save a buck and run a web-hosting business out of his basement or spare room.

5. Liquid Web is financially stable. You won't wake up one morning and find your web site gone because the company has folded its doors and gone out of business.

6. The company offers multiple band width connections so your site won't run out of bandwidth. As a tech explained to me, it's like a store that has multiple interstate highways running by it - if one chokes, there are other sources.

7. They use only high quality, sophisticated equipment so they can offer many advanced setups and options that aren't available with other web hosting companies.

8. Your data will be backed up daily. This is highly unusual for a web hosting company!

9. The company runs "Raid" which means that if one hard drive fails, another one immediately takes over.

10. When your business has grown and you need to move from a web hosting account to your own dedicated server, Liquid Web will move your data at no cost.

11. Most web hosting companies have only one or two techs - Liquid Web has dozens.

12. Liquid Web owns its data center. It is NOT a reseller.

My good friend, Brad Fallon, learned the hard way that it is risky to use a re-seller. His multi-million dollar sites were hosted via a reseller and the parent hosting company believed (erroneously, as it turned out) that the reseller hadn't paid his bill ... so they shut down all his sites, Brad's among them. For several days, all of Brad's web properties were offline and he couldn't even talk to the hosting company. Only the reseller could do that and Brad's company was helpless.

13. They offer multiple internet connections from multiple companies. For instance, if there is a problem with AT&T, there are backup lines - so your site doesn't go down.

14. If you wish additional bandwidth, it can be added in hours - not days.

15. Liquid Web has a backup power supply, so even an electrical failure doesn't take you offline.

16. Their network is fast, meaning their servers act quickly and downloads are rapid.

17. You are allowed two domains/account, rather than the one offered by most hosting companies.

18. They don't "oversell" space - an analogy is the airlines overbooking a flight based on the belief that some passengers may not show up. Then when everyone appears, there aren't enough seats. Liquid Web doesn't do this.

19. Liquid Web claims to be online an amazing 99.99% of the time. We can believe this because our sites simply aren't offline. Ever. Of if they ever have been, we don't know about it and we're on our computers constantly.

20. They have been online since August of 1997, thus proving their endurance. They're not a new and untried service.

21. This is the incident that made us eternal fans ...

Most web hosting companies only support certain Operating Systems (OS) on a dedicated server. For instance, one company only allows Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Windows. If you want something else - tough! However, one of our services required an OS that was not on their officially supported list. Liquid Web said 'no problem', installed our customer OS, tested the server out and, at first, everything appeared to be working properly. But we discovered that one of the pieces of hardware was not compatible with the OS we had chosen. To fix this problem, Liquid Web immediately installed a higher grade card & reinstalled the OS and tested it extensively to ensure that everything was OK. They then proceeded to order a $500 backup card - at their expense - in case that one failed.

To top it off, they did not charge us one additional penny for this service and even more incredibly they apologized for the inconvenience. Since we had chosen a custom OS it was really our fault but Liquid Web didn't see it that way and accepted total responsibility.

22. Liquid Web is reasonably priced. Although there might be cheaper Internet web site hosting services, you won't find any with this kind of quality. Our sites are our livelihood - their reliability online is crucial to our well being.

23. We have recommended it to many clients and have never received a single complaint. In fact, some folks have called us specifically to express their gratitude for this recommendation.

We don't just talk about Liquid Web - we use them ourselves. If you want an affordable web site hosting plan, try Liquid Web.

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