HostingSource Review – Lots of Features & Lower Prices

HostingSource has been in business for 20+ years. They specialize in a variety of services.  Website marketing, managing hosting solutions, software development, website design, programming, database management.  Any other online support you may need for your personal and business needs.

They are not a huge company.  Value their customers, so one on one support is their strong point. Located at 59 East Main Suite A, Lowell NY, New York.  They have an extensive customer base in New York and New Jersey. The company offers reliable services to all sizes of customers.  At a glance, HostingSource looks good.

Will take a look at their features.  Then, their uptime.  Next, their performance.  Then, their customer support.  Lastly, I will write a summary.

HostingSource Features

HostingSource offers a ton of features.  They have shared plans.  VPS plans.  Cloud plans.  Dedicated plans.  They support both Linux and Windows.

Shared Plans

HostingSource offers four shared plans.  Plans down below:

• Hosting I. This plan is $8.95/month. 5 GB of disk space.  200 MB of monthly bandwidth.  Only supports one domain and 1 FTP.  500 mailboxes.  1 GB of storage per mailbox.  Uses the Plesk control panel.
• Hosting II. This plan is $14.95/month.  50 GB of disk space.  500 MB of monthly bandwidth.  Only supports one domain name.  5 FTP accounts.  2 GB of storage per mailbox.  Uses the Plesk control panel.
• Hosting III. This plan is $24.95/month.  200 GB of disk space.  1 GB of monthly bandwidth.   Supports one domain.  10 FTP accounts.  2 GB of storage per mailbox.  Uses the Plesk control panel.
• Hosting IV. This plan is $34.95/month.  300 GB of disk space.  2 GB of monthly bandwidth.  Supports 2 domain names.  20 FTP accounts.  2 GB of storage per mailbox.  Uses Plesk as your control panel.

These shared hosting plans are high compared to MDDHosting and GoDaddy.  However, HostingSource tells you exactly what you get.  They do not use the unlimited bandwidth marketing gimmick.

VPS Plans

• VPS-I. $8/month. 1GB RAM. 1 CPU Core. 30 GB SSD storage. 5 TB monthly transfer.
• VPS-II. $15/month. 2GB RAM. 2 CPU Core. 50 GB SSD storage. 6 TB monthly transfer.
• VPS-III. $22/month. 4GB RAM. 3 CPU Core. 75 GB SSD storage. 7 TB monthly transfer.
• Cloud-I. $29/month. 8GB RAM. 4 CPU Core. 100 GB SSD storage. 10 TB monthly transfer.
• Cloud-II. $39/month. 12GB RAM. 8 CPU Core. 150 GB SSD storage. 15 TB monthly transfer.
• Cloud-III. $39/month. 16GB RAM. 12 CPU Core. 200 GB SSD storage. 20 TB monthly transfer.

List of add-ons:

• 1 IP. $1/month.
• WHM/cPanel. $12/month.
• Plesk. $12/month.
• Fantastico. $4/month.
• Softaculous. $4/month.
• DirectAdmin. $15/month.
• 100 GB backup. $10/month per 100 GB.
• Managed Advanced Plan. $19/month.
• Managed Professional Plan. $39/month.

Dedicated Plans

• Intel Xeon E5 2670 – 4 Cores CPU. $29/month. 8 GB RAM. 100 GB SSD. 10 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2670 – 8 Cores CPU. $39/month. 12 GB RAM. 150 GB SSD. 15 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2670 – 12 Cores CPU. $59/month. 16 GB RAM. 200 GB SSD. 20 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2670 – 16 Cores CPU. $79/month. 24 GB RAM. 250 GB SSD. 25 TB monthly bandwidth.

Single CPU Servers (SSD Storage Optional)

• Intel I5 (4590) – 4 Cores CPU. $75/month. 16 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. 20 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel I7 (4790) – 4 Cores CPU. $95/month. 16 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. 25 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel I7 (4790) – 4 Cores CPU. $109/month. 24 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. 30 TB monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E3 1275 – 4 Cores. $129/month. 32 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 1650 – 6 Cores. $149/month. 32 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2650 – 8 Cores. 1/year free domain. $169/month. 32 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2660 – 8 Cores. 1/year free domain. $189/month. 48 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Xeon E5 2670 – 8 Cores. 1/year free domain. $209/month. 64 GB RAM. 1 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.

Multi CPU Servers (SSD Storage Optional)

• Intel Dual Xeon X5660-12 Cores. 1/year free domain. $229/month. 64 GB RAM. 2 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Dual Xeon E5-2670-16 Cores. 1/year free domain. $259/month. 64 GB RAM. 2 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Dual Xeon E5-2670-16 Cores. 1/year free domain. $299/month. 128 GB RAM. 2 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel Dual Xeon E5-2670-16 Cores. 1/year free domain. $369/month. 256 GB RAM. 2 TB H/W RAID-1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.

Storage Servers

• Intel I5 (4590) – 4 Cores CPU. 1/year free domain. $199/month. 8 GB RAM. 6TB H/W RAID – 1. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel I7 (4790) – 4 Cores CPU. 1/year free domain. $299/month. 16 GB RAM. 12TB H/W RAID – 10. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel I7 (4790) – 4 Cores CPU. 1/year free domain. $399/month. 16 GB RAM. 18TB H/W RAID – 10. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.
• Intel I7 (4790k) – 4 Cores CPU. 1/year free domain. $449/month. 32 GB RAM. 24TB H/W RAID – 10. Unmetered monthly bandwidth.

Optional Features

Like ServerPronto and LiquidWeb you can purchase more features.

• Windows OS – $20/Month. Basic Support – Free.
• WHM / Cpanel – $25/Month, Plesk – $15/Month. Advanced Plan – $19/Month.
• Fantastico – $4/Month, Softaculous – $4/Month. Professional Plan – $39/Month.

Public And Private Cloud Plans

HostingSource does offer many cloud hosting plans. They provide top of the line security.  There are eight cloud plans. For now, on the public plans, you can get a 1-year domain free.  The private you get free setup and data migration. The price is higher than most other plans due to the options that come with these.

Here are their public cloud plans:

Here are their private cloud plans:

HostingSource Uptime and Performance

Uptime

HostingSource does have a 99.9% uptime policy. They do an excellent job at balancing their servers.  Keeps servers from being oversold.  Have many clients that can attest to this. Unlike, MochaHost they don’t cram tons and tons of websites on a shared or VPS server. One of the key reason they can back up their 99.9% uptime policy.

A lot of other web hosting companies do promise the same thing.   But in terms of uptime you’re certainly not going to have any problems.

Performance

If performance matters to you, and it should you certainly won’t be let down with HostingSource. Again, since they do carefully monitor their servers, your websites are going to run very fast on their servers. In fact, I always check with isitdownrightnow.com to ping their servers and make sure they respond quickly. When I went to isitdownrightnow.com, I checked, and their servers do respond in 8.51 ms. This is very fast!

HostingSource Customer Support

How good is customer support? Great.

The customer service staff is the focal point behind them. Other companies such as 1and1 get so big they can not handle their clients. I talked to their owner/CEO, Ron.  He assured me they have a full team dedicated to helping resolve customer complaints. They are not a huge company like Hostgator and GoDaddy.  HostingSource can offer much more one on one customer support.

They do have a full comprehensive knowledge base section on their website which is geared towards VPS and dedicated servers.  However, at anytime you wish to get ahold of HostingSource.  They have a toll free telephone number that you can call (24/7).  They do handle their customers questions via a ticket system.

HostingSource Review Summary

Do I recommend them?  Yes.  You may not expect this excellent kind of services for the amount they charge.  I was impressed.  The value is there, though.  The company has fast servers, personal customer support, and a high uptime. So they are not a bad host.  Servers are fast.  They come with SSD hard drives.

Read my RoseHosting reviews or InMotion review.  Both companies are great.

Research on HostingSoure down below.

Interviews with HostingSource customers.