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Web Drive is a New Zealand based hosting company that has been in business since 1997. They offer a variety of options but seem to focus mostly on cloud base services. This company currently has about 25,000 customers making them a fairly small hosting provider, but they do offer good services. Over the years they have gone from the original 5 founders up to 50 employees who are all dedicated to maintaining a high quality hosting company.
One thing to make sure you are aware of is that they are focused on helping people with hosting in New Zealand. While they will be happy to take customers from anywhere, they are primarily serving this region. So, whether you live in New Zealand or you want to target web visitors from this area, this is a pretty good company to consider.
You’ll get a 99.9% uptime guarantee with all your hosting, which is pretty much the industry standard. They do use cloud technologies to help provide additional stability, and the data centers they use have full redundant power and network connections. If you have your site or sites hosted here you will almost certainly have a very stable experience.
You can choose from a variety of hosting options, each of which have the specs clearly listed to make it easier to find exactly what you need. The starter hosting package comes with 1 gig of disk space, 5 gigs of bandwidth and options for just 10 email addresses. It is set up specifically for 1 website. As you move up to high shared hosting options you will get 5 gigs of storage per site, 10 gigs of traffic per site and unlimited email addresses.
If you need something more powerful than the shared hosting options, you can move up to their cloud or dedicated servers. These packages come with a lot of nice features including the ability to deploy your own cloud servers, paying only for what you use, full server management and more. No matter what level of server you need, they will be able to get it for you and have it up and running fast.
If you run into any trouble with your hosting, they will be there for you. They are staffed 24/7 and can fix most any issues right away. Their dedicated servers are also fully managed, which means their tech support teams can help you with any type of issue you have. In addition to their direct support they have a nice knowledgebase and other self-help options to help you learn more and get things done on your own.
The prices with this company are a little unusual. For example, while the entry level shared hosting option is $15 per month, it is only for one site. This is a little higher than you might expect to see. When you move up, however, the price goes to $30 per month plus $8 per month for each site you run. When you get to the enterprise level shared hosting it is $500 per month plus $2 per site. All of the shared hosting packages (except the entry level one) have the same server specs so it is clearly set up just for people or companies that are going to be running a lot of sites.
The dedicated servers start at $295 per month and go up from there. They have nice specs including options for solid state drives or SATA. Overall the dedicated server prices are quite reasonable and you will be getting great service for a fair price.
You can find everything you need very quickly and easily on their website. They have all the hosting packages clearly laid out with the most important information right up front. The more technical details are available too, but they are not cluttered in with the main points. Once you sign up for the hosting you will get an easy to use cPanel to manage your sites and the hosting is really quite nice. Should you need to talk to anyone at the company for billing or tech support they are very friendly and easy to work with.
When it comes to hosting in the New Zealand area, this is one of the better options. The one thing you need to make sure you look for, however, is the price points that they offer. Their prices are not set up like most other hosting companies so you need to make sure you know exactly what you’re getting when you sign up.
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| Plan Name | Space | Bandwidth | OS | Panel | Number of Sites | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 GB | 5 TB | Unlimited | $11.81 | |||
| Lite | 5 GB | 10 TB | Unlimited | $23.62 | |||
| Enterprise | 5 GB | 10 TB | Unlimited | $393.73 |
| Plan Name | Space | CPU | RAM | OS | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated | 1 TB | - | 8 GB | $232.30 | ||
| Enterprise dedicated | 31.25 TB | - | 128 GB | $626.00 |
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