Aspiration are fairly new when it comes to hosting companies, with many clocking up 10-15 year. Aspiration have been around since 2008 but in that time they have poured their vast knowledge and helpful customer feedback into the service they offer, to provide a reliable and well-priced hosting platform for both small scale companies and large organisations.
Let’s check it out.
Reliability
High-End Dedicated Servers & Excellent Uptime
With every website hosting plan you need a good reliable backbone to keep your site loading fast, as well as keeping it live on the net. With Aspiration hosting you get the best of both worlds as they offer an impressive 99.9% uptime rating, 24/7/365 support lines, and also a 30 day money back guarantee to help gain confidence in the services that they offer.
Some reviews on the net do complain about uptime so I would take the 5-star “positive reviews around the net”on their site with a pinch of salt as I don’t feel this is transparent – and acts more of a ‘show off’ feature than anything. However with that said, they do reply to every review out there however positive or negative they may be. More often than not, problems come with users not knowing exactly what they are doing and Aspiration Hosting do their best to address this.
Features
Solid Set of Features With Extra Tools For Higher Tier Plans
Aspiration offer UK and USA hosting options, so you can choose to have your server based in the US or UK, depending on your needs and requirements. With each shared hosting package you will get 3 different pricing plans which offer a range of features.
Bandwidth starts at 30GB for the starter plans and rises to 500GB for the premium tiered plan, whilst the middle plan (the most popular) offers a decent 100GB. Each price plan comes with free backups, SEO tools, and also a merchant payment gateway so you can take onsite orders. The top plans have a few additional features which include Magento full page cache and also next generation global CDN.
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Support
Support That Is With You 24/7/365
With the reliability and uptime that Aspiration Hosting provides you shouldn’t run into too many emergency situations, but sometimes it can be something that you have accidentally done, or question that you need quickly answering.
The support offered by Aspiration is pretty good although they do make it hard to contact them by phone or email, and lack any social media help. However, they are committed to a 24/7365 service, meaning they are on standby via the help-desk and live chat every day, and every hour of the year. The only downside is that the sales and billing side of the company isn’t part of that 24/7/365 setup.
The also have flash video tutorials, an uptime reporter, and a knowledge base packed full of information.
- 24/7/365 support
- Live chat
- Video tutorials
- Knowledge Base
- Live chat only in daytime
- No phone
- No email
Pricing
Good Prices For Any Size Business
As Aspiration Hosting cater for all types of business, however small or large they also offer price ranges that vary from cheap to expensive. However, when you see the specs and features that come with the high-tier prices and plans you will instantly see these are powerful packages aimed at the big organisations out there.
For the small business/personal packages the prices are decent, and so to are the features and tools that come with each plan grading.
Everything is nicely backed up by a 30-day money back guarantee, but be warned that if you used a promotional code then you wont be able to take advantage of this feature.
User Friendly
CPanel & Hosting Tools to Make Life Easy
Whether you want to check your webmail, add new databases or just want to increase the security on your hosting and websites, Aspiration offer a user-friendly way of being able to do all this without you having to be a networking genius, because everything can be done with a few clicks on your admin control area.
The other added benefit is that once you have your website launched, Aspiration offer some SEO tools which can help you begin to optimize your site in accordance with Google’s T&C’s, which will help you gain some organic traffic from search engine results.
Finally, you can add sub-domains onto your account and setup FTP access so you can easily tap into the back-end of your site and edit files (if you need to/if you wish).
Summary
A Good Hosting Solution but Could be More Transparent
With good server specs, reliability and very good prices across all the ranges of plans they offer on the site, it’s hard to see why you shouldn’t go for Aspiration as your hosting providers. Support services are pretty good, only let down by the fact that you cant get hold of them by phone or email, and if there are phone or email contacts they make it very difficult to get hold of.
From a service point of view, the specs, tools and features that are offered with each hosting plan is very good and will keep your hosted website running smoothly, efficiently and free from drops in network or server downtime.
Pros
- Reliable severs and network
- Range of tools and features
- Good support services
- 30-day money back guarantee
Cons
- No phone or email
- Not transparent with ratings/reviews
- Some issues with Magenta installations