www.aplus.net

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General Information: Located in San Diego, Aplus.Net began offering Internet services more than 15 years ago and over time won the industry’s top awards - including the CNET Editors’ Choice award and the coveted #1 spot on the TopHosts Top 25 list. Established in 1992, headquartered in a state-of-the-art facility with more than 300 employees in 3 offices worldwide, they got more than 200,000 customers, more than 400,000 domains registered, more than 6,000 dedicated server customers and more than 13,000 websites designed since 2003.
For a veteran in the web hosting industry aplus offers one of the broadest range of services in the industry ranging from domain name registrations to dedicated webservers and webdesign services, not to mention a worthy marketing package including google search engine techniques.

Technology: Aplus Internet owns and operates their own data center, located in the San Diego Tech Center campus, a meeting point for 10 major carriers including MCI, Level3, AT&T, Time Warner, and SBC. Aplus.Net is the only hosting provider with VISA[tm] CISP Compliance, a validation process designed to ensure maximum credit card transaction security.

Support: Being a decently well rounded company, Aplus offers TOLL FREE support, live chat and a great ticketing system to maintain your wesite. Additionally, their knowledgebase is quite extensive and overall support experience is above average in the industry.

Products And Costs:

Linux Hosting

* Solo 0.3 GB disk space, 25 GB bandwidth, $5.95/month
* Solo XR 170 GB disk space, 2,000 GB bandwidth, $7.46/month
* Pro 190 GB disk space, 2,500 GB bandwidth, $14.96/month
* ePro 190 GB disk space, 2,500 GB bandwidth, $26.21/month

Windows Hosting

* Primo 0.5 GB disk space, 40 GB bandwidth, $5.95/month
* Primo XR 170 GB disk space, 2,000 GB bandwidth, $9.95/month
* Proxima 190 GB disk space, 2,500 GB bandwidth, $19.95/month
* Maxima 190 GB disk space, 2,500 GB bandwidth, $34.95/month

Dedicated Hosting

* Ultimate 80 GB disk space, 1,500 GB bandwidth, $2/month
* Ultimate Pro 240 GB disk space, 1,500 GB bandwidth, $3/month
* Standard 160 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $99/month
* Standard AMD 64 160 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $129/month
* Standard XR 160 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $149/month
* Standard XR AMD 64 X2 160 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $169/month
* Premium 160 GB disk space, 1,000 GB bandwidth, $199/month

Reseller Hosting

* Reseller Platinum Discount off retail price: 50% disk space, 500 Customers Minimum bandwidth, $59/month
* Reseller Gold Discount off retail price: 50% disk space, Unlimited customers bandwidth, $59/month

Conclusion: Variety of web hosting services, money back guarantee and Ecommerce ready. No colocation and very low storage and other resources for packages. Reduced monthly fees available to new accounts only. UNIX Plans – the monthly fee will be reduced only for the first three months of service. After three months, customers will be charged the regular fee. Free domain name registration applies to first year of registration only. For .tv and for .cc, this free registration discount only covers $20 of total registration fees; customer is responsible for remainder.