ComputingHost has been around since 2004 offering customized hosting options and truthful service. They do not believe in unlimited selling in order to offer their customers high quality and service. They own all of their own equipment and datacenters, and Branded Equipment ensures a very high uptime. Though they have low prices, they claim to not offer low quality services. They do not oversell services or charge any sort of setup fee. With servers located in Los Angeles and Miami, this is a good company for US based hosting. Their support service offices are located in Mumbai, India.
This company offers Windows and Linux Shared hosting, shared reseller plans, dedicated and cluster servers, Linux virtual hosting, domain registration, and Windows virtual servers. All of these server options come in a number of package options depending on your power and service needs.
Uptime & Reliability
Typical 99.9% uptime guarantee
Computing Hosting offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee for all of their servers, and this comes from branded hardware and servers being located in the US. As this is a fairly standard (and expected) uptime, there were no customer complaints or concerns regarding uptime.
Features
Many high quality features – Some have additional costs
Shared hosting options come with no contracts, Multilanguage support, instant and automated backups, 365 day a year support, no setup fees, html editors and more. Linux hosting comes in package options and are also completely customizable. These options offer ample space and bandwidth options depending on your needs with no setup fees, html editors and web builders, and other custom options based on your needs.
Other dedicated and virtual options have many custom options and differing package size options based on your needs. Additionally, they offer competitive pricing for domain hosting and registration with free addons such as email accounts, domain theft protection, domain forward, and DNS management.
Support
Fairly good support
This company offers free 24/7 business and technical support through a ticketing and live chat system. Self-serve options include a customer knowledgebase and client-based forum to tackle any needs. If those are not helpful or if you wish to find a quicker, more reliable answer, tickets may be submitted in your billing and support area. Live chat tickets may also be submitted during regular business hours.
Pricing
Fair prices at every hosting package
Windows shared hosting starts at $3.33 a month for their most basic package, and increasing package sizes go from there. Their disk space starts at 1024MB a month and 10GB a month for bandwidth allowances, which is fairly standard. Linux shared hosting starts at$6.66 a month for 10 GB of disk space and 100 GB a month for bandwidth usage.
They do not list any pricing options for their dedicated servers, however, they do have highly customizable options for these packages depending on your needs. Domain pricing starts at $11.99 a year for a .com address and $12.79 for a .org address. Domain services also come with a number of optional add-ons depending on your needs. These pricing options are on the cheaper side compared to other hosting and domain registration companies.
Summary
Very nice hosting option for most types of websites
ComputingHost offers fairly straightforward web hosting package options based on customer needs. Dedicated servers are highly customizable based on customer needs, and other package options are fairly straight forward and come with many features. They offer 24/7 support through a ticketing system, and limited live chat support during certain hours. Their prices are relatively inexpensive compared to other hosting companies, and support seems to be fairly standard.
Pros:
- 24/7 ticketing system
- Fair prices
- Customized dedicated servers
Cons:
- No 24/7 live chat
- Tech support is in India