Best Windows Hosting for 2017

Discountasp is one of the few web hosting providers whos is recognized as a Microsoft Partner with the Gold Hosting Competency status and licensed under the Microsoft's Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) Program.

Discountasp holds impaccable expertise in .NET and SQL Server technologies, utilizing the highly available ASP.NET driven Hosting Infrastructure Developed by Microsoft ASP.NET Experts.

The company has their own control panel built with ASP.NET technology which allows them to launch the latest .NET technologies faster than the rest. Discountasp has won numerous awards from leading technology publications, review web sites and web hosting directories.

They host their servers in two top tier, secure datacenters at USA/California and in Europe/UK. All Servers are DELL Poweredge with company support contract.

Discountasp offers two types of web hosting, 1) ASP.NET Web Hosting on the latest Microsoft Web Stack (2)Team Foundation Server Hosting. Both of these packages include 30 day money back guarantee and support from inhouse ASP.Net/SQL Server experts.

EasyCGI offers three tiers of shared web hosting solutions to suit the requirements of individuals to large enterprises. These cost efficient packages are backed by a 30-day Money-back Guarantee, 24x7 Support and 99.9% Uptime Guarantee.

EasyCGI utilizes 2 data centers in the Boston, MA area. Combined, they occupy over 2400 square feet of space, comprised of thousands of servers and multiple Petabytes of storage.

The company uses clustered architecture to serve the website data. When user sends the requests, the website data is parsed by the load balancers, then managed by the high quality servers, which are split into application pools (Web, FTP, incoming mail, etc.).

Every server is clustered with another identical server that will seamlessly take over if the primary unit crashes. This type of architecture ensures high level of redundancy, fastest performance and more reliability.

The support staff of EasyCGI is highly knowledgeable and trained to provide quick resolutions to technical problems.

The web hosting services of iPower cover Linux and Windows Shared Hosting, WordPress Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Email Hosting and Domain Registration. In addition, you can buy addon services, such as SSL certificates, SEO services and online backup tools.

iPower’s tech support is available via an online ticketing system, live chat, email forms and US only toll free telephone numbers on 24/7 basis. You can access the knowledge-base, user guide, tutorials on the iPower website under Help Center menu. The knowledgebase is quite basic and more likely beginner guide for site building and hosting.

There’s no claim about uptime guarantee on the iPower website, so we are unsure about whether they offer an uptime guarantee. iPower offers 30 days money back guarantee on hosting plans only valid for credit-card payments. There’s no money back guarantee on dedicated plans, addon services and domain orders.

While looking for the iPower reviews on Internet, we could find lots of negative reviews on various websites complaining on downtime and poor support incidents. iPower uses the custom control named vDeck which may be a downside for many people.

The company provides cloud hosting, Linux & Windows VPS hosting, Linux & Windows shared hosting, domain registration and other addon services. While surfing around the IX Web Hosting plans, we noticed that company presents its Linux shared plans in the wrong order. The most expensive plan is featured in the centre of the page.

Also, there's no cPanel or Plesk for shared plans, company uses its own custom control panel. Though, VPS and cloud customers can choose cPanel or Plesk. IX Web Hosting takes backups of customer data but at what interval they take the backup is not mentioned on their website.

IX Web Hosting runs its own tier 3 (N+1) data centre in Ohio. IX Web Hosting owns the whole facility and does not share with anyone else. The datacenter is equipped with two backup generators and protection against server outages.

IX Web Hosting has some excellent support reviews submitted by their customers claiming one of the best support in the web hosting industry.To each customer, personal support guy is assigned to fix the technical/billing issues. The technical support is approachable via various email addresses to contact the relevant department. There’s also access to support via telephone and live chat. The company's support staff is active on social media and hence they can provide support through Twitter and Facebook.IX Web Hosting provides 30-day money back and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. The company also offers completely free hosting for 7 days. You can use free hosting for 7 days, cancel it before trial period ends and you will never be billed.