First, before getting into this specific web host provider review, let me give you a little background.
I started online in 1999 with a few hundred page site – one information product with several articles used to caputure Search Engine traffic and feed traffic to the sales site. That site alone went on to make me a living online – but behind the scenes it was chaos.
Over the next 4 years I would painfully go through close to a dozen different web host providers – some went out of business, others were down 25% of the time and still others had such crappy features of support I just couldn’t stay with them.
It wasn’t until 2004 that I finally found the ultimate web host provider.
I now operate dozens of domains each with thousands of associated pages, blogs, downloadable information products and a membership site with 100’000’s of visitors each month and I still use this this web host provider I found in 2004 called ThirdsphereÂ
So – why do I love Thirdsphere as my web host provider?
1. They are reliable. Of the dozens of web hosting providers I’ve tried in the last 7+ years, these guys are the most reliable in two major ways – site uptime (I can only recall one major downtime over the last 3+ years and that was not more than a few hours). If you have not done business online then you won’t appreciate how important it is for your web host provider to have a strong reliability record. Believe me, the one time when you run a big promotion or depend on your website being available the most is exactly when most hosts will let you down.
Also important to reliability is the support you get. There are many times you will need the help of your web host provider as you build your online business. Handling little issues that come up, new features, adding new scripts, accessing web statistics, adding space, adding sub-domains or new domains for new sites. You need them to respond – and fast! I can honestly say I have NEVER waited longer than a few hours to get a response from Thirdsphere – that even surprises me when the industry as a whole has a dismal support record.
2. Ease of Use. Not very often you get a web host provider that has the all-important combination of robust features, a very simple control panel to help manage your account all at a very reasonable cost. Thirdsphere excels in every case. I use many features including secure directories, sub-domains, SQL databases for blogs and various applications, statistics tracking and reporting, remote webmail and of course the upload and management utilities to manage my various online businesses. I’m sure I use 95% of the features they have and everything works like a dream.
Even though I have a pretty good technical sense about me, I don’t want to be spending my valuable time playing around with complicated features, scripts or other techie stuff – their control panel makes it simple to manage all aspects of my site.
For example, once you set your domain up, it’s simple to upload webpages, create new directories for articles, thank you pages or even secure directories for storing e-books.
3. Scales with your business. With Thirdsphere web host provider you get a very decent introduction package that gives you the space and bandwidth requirements you need including:
– 500 megs of space
– 30 Gigs bandwidth
– Unlimited Sub-domains
– Unlimited email accounts and aliases
– Unlimited MySQL databases
– One button backup
– etc…
It’s been more than 3-years since I first joined Thirsdsphere – for less than $30/month I operate many websites with a full-time income – and that still amazes me, the value is incredible.
If you are looking for a first web host provider or moving from a less reliable, bad sitiutation to your next web hosting provider, then consider Thirdsphere.
In fact, if you act before March 30th, 2007, and order a Thirdsphere web hosting provider package through this link — Thirdsphere Web Hosting , I will give you a 1-month membership to the powerful online marketing Private Forum InfoMarketer’s Zone.Â
It’s taken me 3-years to be confident enough with Thirdsphere’s services to even mention the fact that I use them, after 3-years I’m confident they will maintain their great record of services.
Jeff
