Storm Web review

General Impression

StormWeb is a high technology web hosting brand based in Ontario, Canada.
Our offices are located in Sarnia, Ontario at the base of Lake Huron. We have been offering top quality web hosting since 1996. StormWeb is privately owned and operated.

Our network operations data centre is located in Toronto's financial and telecommunications centre in the downtown core. The data centre is located in a secured building, with state-of-the-art network and power redundancy. We use only heavily peered high speed upstream providers for our internet connection.

For as low as $5.95/month, you get:

Unlimited Traffic
With unlimited traffic, you never have to worry about having too many visitors accessing your site or costly overage charges.

Unlimited E-mail Addresses
Each e-mail address gets its own POP3 or IMAP account. POP3 and IMAP are the standard protocols for reading e-mail on the internet. You can use any mail user agent you want, from Apple Mail to Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird. Give each of your employees an e-mail account or use them all for yourself. StormWeb puts the power in your hands with our Web-Based Control Panel (see below for details).

Free Domain For Life
We include free domain registration for as long as you host with us. This can be used towards a new registration or domain transfer.

Unlimited Disk Space
Don't let your web host cramp your style. With our unlimited web space allotment, we allow you the freedom to create media and data-rich content, where the size of your web site isn't the limiting factor in your design.

E-mail Forwards
If addition to regular e-mail accounts, you can use these to forward e-mail addresses at your domain to existing e-mail accounts on our servers or elsewhere.

Web-based E-mail
That's right, you don't even need a mail user agent. With our web-based e-mail access, you can read and send e-mail from anywhere that has web access. Do you have more than one computer or travel a lot? If the answer is yes, this is perfect for you.

E-mail Auto-Reply
With our web-based control panel you can setup a custom auto-reply for any e-mail account. Use this feature to let people know you're on vacation and won't be able to respond right away.

Virus Protection
As part of your overall virus solution, all StormWeb accounts include e-mail virus protection. Our virus scanners check every messages with virus definitions that are updated every 30 minutes.

Advanced Spam Control
Sick of spam? Our advanced anti-spam filters can be customized to block about 95% of spam. You can choose to have our servers delete spam or just tag the subject so that you can do filtering in your e-mail client.

Site Builder
New to web development? We offer a free site builder with your hosting account that will allow you to quickly and easily get your new web site up and running. You can choose from over 130 professionally designed templates. No software is required. Create and maintain your site all from the web.

CGI and SSI Support
Each StormWeb account also includes a cgi-bin folder to support Perl and shell CGI scripts. We're currently running Perl 5.8.

Password-protected Directories
Have a section of your web site that's for employees only, or an area only intended for paying customers? With password-protected directories you can create secure areas of your web site that can only be accessed by people with a username and password given to them by you.

PHP 5.2 Support
The most popular application development environment for the web is guaranteed to work with our servers. Whether you're creating an extensive database-driven e-commerce application, or a simple contact form, PHP is the perfect environment to get your application developed on-time and on-budget.

Zend Optimizer 3
Some PHP applications protected with Zend Guard or Zend Encoder require this to run.


Unlimited FTP Sub-Users
As well as the regular FTP account we include for you to update your site, we allow you to create as many additional FTP sub-user accounts as you like. With these, you can give your clients an account to upload files, or allow another person to maintain a section of your web site without being able to access the rest.

High Speed Internet
StormWeb uses only heavily-peered high speed OC48 upstream providers for its internet connection. All this adds up to: superb redundancy, better connections through greater route diversity, and unparalleled uptime.

Web-based Control Panel
Create new e-mail accounts, manage your database, control portions of your web site with password-protected directories, manage visitor log files, and more. All this available at the touch of a button, using your web browser any time, day or night. Our award winning control panel will make your life easier.

Web Statistics
Want to see a visual break-down of your web site's visitor by country, the average number of visitors that use your site at 2:00 PM, or countless other facts about your web site clientele. StormWeb's web statistics data provides it all.

Raw Apache Logs
We also provide you with the last 7 days of raw Apache access log files, which are accessible via FTP. This will come in handy for advanced users that wish to do their own web statistical analysis.

High Speed Servers
We use only top-end, industry-standard FreeBSD UNIX-based servers.

Unlimited MySQL Databases
Store customer profiles, forum data, or anything else in a relational database. MySQL and PHP make a great combination for your web applications.

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
If we do not meet your needs or expectations, we will gladly refund all monthly hosting fees in full within 30 days from the initial sign-up date less a $30 administrative fee. Domain registrations are non-refundable.

Technical Support and FAQ
Not only do we provide superb e-mail technical support, we also provide toll-free telephone support during business hours. What could be better? Our qualified support staff will assist you with any problem you might experience.

Secure Server Layer (SSL) +
SSL is used to encrypt private data across the internet securely. Planning to take credit card numbers over the internet? Then you need SSL. (+ secure certificates are an additional $150/year)

Completely Canadian
StormWeb is owned and operated in Canada (find out more).

Free Setup
There are no hidden setup fees when you sign up with StormWeb.

Flexible Terms
Sign up for one year and we charge $7.95 per month. Sign up for two years and we charge $6.95 per month. Sign up for three years and we charge only $5.95 per month.

Data Center

All servers are located in our state of the art data centre in London, Ontario, Canada. The data center is a class one secure building with full battery backup diesel generators. Our world class facility is equipped with an HVAC temperature control system and antistatic floors. It boasts 24/7 secured access, superb security and video camera surveillance. As well, features such as StormWeb's triple redundant backbone and fully redundant on-site power supply ensure that data servers are both protected and fully functional in the event of a communications or power failure.

Conclusion

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