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Shared Hosting 19 Reviews
Plan Name Space Bandwidth No. of Sites Price/Mo. Overall Ranking  
Basic Unlimited Unlimited 1 $8.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #21
  • Basic
  • Plan Features Score: 80%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 19%
  • Rating Score - 44% (Good)
Advanced Unlimited Unlimited 4 $10.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #57
  • Advanced
  • Plan Features Score: 72%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 16%
  • Rating Score - 40% (Good)
Ultimate Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited $12.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #13
  • Ultimate
  • Plan Features Score: 90%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 21%
  • Rating Score - 48% (Good)
VPS Hosting 24 Reviews
Plan Name Space Bandwidth RAM Price/Mo. Overall Ranking  
Linux VPS - 1GB 30 GB 1000 GB 1 GB $8.24 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #12
  • Linux VPS - 1GB
  • Plan Features Score: 94%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 34%
  • Rating Score - 23% (Fair)
Unmanaged Linux VPS - 2GB 50 GB 2000 GB 2 GB $9.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #15
  • Unmanaged Linux VPS - 2GB
  • Plan Features Score: 80%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 29%
  • Rating Score - 22% (Fair)
VPS - 2 GB 50 GB 2000 GB 2 GB $16.49 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #11
  • VPS - 2 GB
  • Plan Features Score: 80%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 64%
  • Rating Score - 29% (Fair)
Unmanaged Linux VPS - 4GB 75 GB 2000 GB 4 GB $18.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #16
  • Unmanaged Linux VPS - 4GB
  • Plan Features Score: 70%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 29%
  • Rating Score - 22% (Fair)
VPS - 4GB 75 GB 2000 GB 4 GB $29.99 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #19
  • VPS - 4GB
  • Plan Features Score: 70%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 41%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 20%
  • Rating Score - 20% (Fair)
Dedicated Servers 4 Reviews
Plan Name Storage Dedicated IP RAM Price/Mo. Overall Ranking  
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2 - Dedicated Server 1TB 8 32 GB $122.00 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #78
  • Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2 - Dedicated Server
  • Plan Features Score: 19%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 0%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 25%
  • Rating Score - 11% (Fair)
Intel Xeon E3-1271 v3 - Dedicated Server 1TB 8 8 GB $137.00 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #242
  • Intel Xeon E3-1271 v3 - Dedicated Server
  • Plan Features Score: 16%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 0%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 13%
  • Rating Score - 8% (Fair)
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 - Dedicated Server 1TB 8 48 GB $207.00 Smart-Rating Top Ranked #65
  • Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 - Dedicated Server
  • Plan Features Score: 22%
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  • Customer Rating Score: 0%
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  • Domain Authority Score: Low
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  • Plan Popularity Score: 27%
  • Rating Score - 12% (Fair)

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Hostwinds Windows VPS Plan's Research Report

Prons

100% uptime in our 15 days of testing

Unlimited bandwidth

Free rebuild of Operating System

Cons

Failed to resolve the issue we had reported

10.92 seconds to respond to 500 concurrent connection

Do not provide pre-installed hosting tools

Research summary

The best part of their services is their uptime.

Our Exemplary Methodology

We could have chosen the uncomplicated way out, and simply collated data from the provider’s respective websites. That’s lazy, though. Instead, we undertook, and continue to undertake, an extensive research program to reach a far more objective and scientifically authoritative conclusion for users of our VPS hosting directory. The above analysis indicates some of the information we analyze, and to perform it, we leased a Windows VPS server from Hostwinds and conscientiously monitored it to evaluate their services over a duration of approximately one month. All critical elements were rigorously examined: uptime, backup procedures, support skills, load capacity, as well as any other relevant key features.

Rating Summary
  • Overall Rating
  • Load test rating.
  • Support rating.
  • Backup rating.
  • Uptime rating.

Stress Testing

Left Verticle axis is active users & Right Verticle axis respond to every users and Horizontal axis is showing the time
The URL used to test the load.

This URL was setup and hosted on Hostwinds Windows VPS's server and all tests were performed using this URL.

http://hostwinds.jobs2jobz.com
.Net application hosted.

The application that we hosted on Hostwinds Windows VPS's for stress testing.
Nopcommerce with sample data was hosted while we tested it.
Concurrent users.

Total number of users were simultenously online for stress testing.
500
Test duration.

Total time span lasted to carry out this test.
30 minutes
Load time recorded.

Total number of seconds taken to respond to each connection.
It took 10.92 seconds to respond to each request when there were 500 concurrent users
Test server location.

Location of the load generating server.
The testing server was located in Columbus, US
Location of Hostwinds's VPS server.
Hostwinds Windows VPS's server was located in Oklahoma, US.
Rating - Overall load handling capacity
Our Comments
While we audited, we found the Windows VPS was fairly stable to handle 400 concurrent users of NopCommerce Ecommerce Store with a response time being one second. However, as the number of concurrent users were increased by another 500, it resulted in a higher response time of 10.06 seconds for each user.

Support

  • Technical depth of their service desk.
  • Depth of their knowledgebase articles
  • How easy is their service desk to use?
  • How far they are courteous and patient?
  • How securely they handle sensitive data?
Service desk rating.

Overall performance of their support team.
Service desk availability.

Availability of their support team on live chat, ticket system and phone support.
Live Chat
Phone
Support Ticket
Average time consumed to send the first acknowledgement of a new issue received at their end.
Instant
Within 0 to 3 Minutes
Above 3 Minutes
Error reported to their service desk.

The error that we reported to their service desk.
403 Forbidden
Error resolution time.

The time taken by their service desk to resolve the error.
Within 1 Hour
Within 1 to 4 Hours
Within 4 to 6 Hours
Within 6 to 24 Hours
Within 24+ Hours
Unresolved
Our Comments
Their technical team failed to resolve the Windows based issues. Also, their Windows VPS knowledgebase requires to be improved further.

Backup Report

Backup rating.
Backup frequency.

What is the frequncy of taking backup of your VPS? Daily, weekly , monthly?
Daily
Backup facility.

How do they backup your VPS? Whether they backup your VPS as a virtual disk or they take file level backup?
Free / Complimentary
Virtual disk level backup
File/Folder level backup
Paid
Virtual disk backup
File/Folder level backup
Restoration requested.

We requested them to restore our data from the available backup.
Not requested
Restoration result.

What was the result of our data restoration request?
Not Applicable
Our Comments
They offer paid file level backup. Any offering of complimentary backup will add up to value addition.

Uptime Report

Server uptime rating.
The URL used to monitor uptime.

This URL was setup and hosted on Hostwinds Windows VPS's server and all uptime tests were performed using this URL.

 http://hostwinds.jobs2jobz.com
Uptime test duration.

Total time span lasted to carry out uptime monitoring test.
15 Days
Server uptime recorded.

Total server uptime recorded during the test period.
100%
Uptime monitoring tool.

The tool that was used to record uptime of Windows VPS server.
Uptimerobot.com
Our Comments
During our test, we didn't face any downtime. In this research, we undertook a test to monitor uptime of thier Windows VPS for a period of 15 days using Uptimerobot.com tool. The service we checked was HTTP on port 80.

Pre-installed Tools

Server roles installed.

List of the server roles that were pre-installed by Hostwinds when the Windows VPS was setup.
IIS
DNS
FTP
Application softwares.

List of the application softwares that were pre-installed by Hostwinds when the Windows VPS was setup.
.Net framework
Control Panel
Document processing tools like Notepad++
WebpI
MSSQL Db server
MYSQL Db server
Email Server(SmarterMail or MailEnable or similar)
PHP & PHP Manager IIS
Free usable disk on VPS.

The amount of usable disk space after the installation of operating system and other applications.
54GB out of total 70GB

Perks

Unlimited bandwidth.

Do they offer unlimited bandwidth option?
Yes
Upload Speed

File upload speed to their server
226.48 Mbps
Download Speed

File download speed from their server
653.18 Mbps
Rebuild of operating system.

Do they offer rebuild of operating system at no additional cost?
Yes
Free domain name registration.

Do they offer free domain name registration with your Windows VPS order?
No
Green hosting.
No
Our Comments
In this research, we verified the additional perks offered by Hostwinds along with their Windows VPS plan. Please see the list of the perks available when you sign up.

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855-467-8946 12101 Tukwila International Blvd #320, Seattle, WA 98168 hostwinds.com
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"They are fast, efficient and excellent service. I have been using Hostwinds to host our business site for a while and I never have to worry about my website. I could not ask for anything more. I know them to be the best for me. "

Published on May 02, 2018