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Netfirms is built to meet the needs of everyone from the individual starting a small personal website to the large corporation who counts on reliable web hosting for its daily business success. This is not a budget web hosting service! But Netfirms is a solid Canadian company with an impressive international roster of clients – clients that have developed great loyalty, thanks to Netfirms' expansive product offerings, adaptability and excellent service.
Netfirms uses enterprise-class clustered platforms, located in multiple data centres. This commitment to redundancy and load sharing ensures all customers (large and small) have the same access to uninterrupted uptime and the fastest service available.
Because of Netfirms' many web hosting offerings, this is a good company to sign up with if you plan to grow your website or business substantially. Start with Netfirms base-level shared web hosting plan and expand or upgrade as you need to. Netfirms proudly brings powerful web hosting to the great white north – and everywhere else!
Netfirms web hosting is an ICANN and CIRA-certified registrar and a member of the Better Business Bureau's Online Reliability Program. Netfirms boasts powerful technology and infrastructure, including its Tier 1 Data Centre and proprietary clustered hosting (this type of web hosting spreads the load of hosting across multiple hardware machines or servers, distributing the load efficiently).
Netfirms also offers extensive security features, including virus scanning, spam filtering, password protected folders, .htaccess, dedicated SSL certificates and more.
Netfirms' highly trained customer service team is available via toll-free telephone and live chat customer support anytime of the day or night. An online knowledgebase and video tutorial library are also incredibly helpful to web workers new and experienced.
The Plus Plan: Unlimited disk space, Unlimited bandwidth @ $4.95/month
The Advantage Plan: Unlimited disk space, Unlimited bandwidth @ $11.95/month (includes 2 free domain names)
The Business Plan: Unlimited disk space, Unlimited bandwidth @ $17.95/month (includes 5 free domains)
Netfirms Plus, the basic web hosting package, offers unlimited storage and unlmited data transfer, which definitely more than covers the needs of most customers, especially those with personal or hobby sites. The two higher-level plans, NetFirms Advantage and NetFirms Business, are perfect for those with a bustling small business and larger corporate site, respectively.
All packages come with a site builder, personal email accounts, photo gallery, blog, hit counters, PHP 4 and 5, Perl, MySQL databases and more. Their security features are better than many competitors', with high quality spam filters and virus scanning with each package. The personal hosting package is solid and expansive enough – the business packages are substantially robust and a true advantage to any Canadian (or international) operation.
All Netfirms hosting packages include Netfirms' proprietary control panel. This may be a point in the web host's favour: Netfirms tirelessly works to update and improve their control panel with the latest features and options. This flexibility has proven an advantage for Netfirms' discerning customer base. Netfirms' control panel allows you to conveniently build websites, manage your account, register domains, activate online ad credits, apply SSL certificates, install open-source applications, and analyze visitor traffic to your websites and much more.