CW3 Hosting offers high speed hosting from top quality datacenters in downtown Los Angeles. They have a fairly widespread network across the United States with datacenters in California, Texas, Washington, Illinois, and a few other states. Additionally they have worldwide servers in England, Spain, France and other European countries. Their datacenters connect though OC192 internet backbone fiber to ensure top quality service and availability to their customers.
They offer many different hosting options in addition to domain services, SSL certifications, and web design options to help enhance your website. They also offer flexible reseller hosting if that is something you are looking for. Their home page boasts a number of awards and high ratings from a number of different hosting site rating pages.
Uptime & Reliability
Good reliable hosting
Their website uptime is guaranteed 99.9% and is currently at 99.91% based on WebHostingStuff’s uptime verification. This is a pretty high and reliable uptime, and given they do not oversell their servers, an uptime like this should be expected.
Features
Almost all features are included in base prices
Starter hosting packages come with 5 GB of bandwidth, 500MB of disk space, 5 parked domains, and 5 subdomains. They also offer free domain registration depending on the package, and is contingent on your payment plan. Depending on your needs, packages can go up to 200GB of bandwidth and 10 GB of disk space with unlimited parked domains, subdomains, and domains. All of their webhosting plans include FTP, spam assassin, antivirus file manager, and more and include a number of software options to download. They also offer domain registration, transfer, and renewal for your domain needs. CW3 hosting also offers web design services and are experienced using PHP, Javascript, HTML, DHTML, Flash, Oracle and more. Also offered is cloud backup and reseller plans if that is something you are looking for.
Support
Good ticketing system and knowledge base
It is not clear if their support system is available 24/7, but they do have a ticketing system if you are unable to find answers or solutions in their database. Ticket inquiries are separated out in billing and technical topics. There does not seem to be any concern from customers regarding the company’s response time to ticket inquiries, and their knowledgebase seems fairly thorough.
Pricing
Affordable pricing options for most types of hosting
Starter hosting packages begin at $2.50 a month and come with a free domain if you pay for the year in full. Higher power options go up to $9.95 and offer free domain registration if the plans are paid on a quarterly, bi-yearly, or yearly basis. They also offer professional webhosting from $24.95 a month that offers a much more involved service depending on your needs. Web hosting on this site is not oversold, so your websites will be readily available, and with no overselling, this company’s pricing is fairly inexpensive for what you get. Domain pricing starts at $9.99 a year for a .com address, and this is a little lower than average compared to other hosting sites. Web Design services are quoted on an as-needed basis, and seem to be fairly reasonable.
Summary
Overall very nice hosting
CW3 Webhosting offers inexpensive webhosting services in a fairly straight forward manner. They have many hosting package options available in addition to web design services and managed web hosting packages. Their uptime is very high, and they have received many awards from website rating companies. It is not clear if their support system is 24/7, but customers do not seem to have an issue with response time.
Pros:
- 99.91% actual uptime
- Several data centers in the US and Europe
Cons: