I've been with KnownHost for 5 years. The servers are always up. The response time to ticket submissions are very fast. The support staff never make me feel like I'm imposing on them. Overall, a great hosting company.
Phurix vs Knownhost

Compared options | Visit Phurix | Visit Knownhost |
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Pricing | 9 hosting plans | 34 hosting plans |
Starting price | $2.45 / month | $3.47 / month |
Free domain | Yes | No |
Coupons | No | 2 coupons |
User Ratings | 2.0 | 4.9 |
Reliability | 2.0 | 5.0 |
Pricing | 2.0 | 5.0 |
User Friendly | 3.0 | 5.0 |
Support | 1.0 | 5.0 |
Features | 2.0 | 5.0 |
User Reviews | 1 review | 405 reviews |
Latest positive review | No reviews yet | |
Latest negative review | Recently my client and I both lost our email services on a phurix host. It was reported to normal support and through their 'urgent' support route but their response was nothing, not even an acknowledgement. 10 days later and... More many emails from us and still no response. I was on the basic personal option but my client was on small business level option and loss of emails was a serious issue for them so we had no choice but to move to another host. I changed our MX records to point to the new host and got our email functionality back instantly, then I redirect our nameservers. This issue was not the only time we've had poor support so moving hosts had already been discussed; this was the final straw though. The new host is fastcomet.com and actually worked out cheaper than phurix as we're combining our domains onto the one host, but price is not the main concern, it's the support and so far it has been very good from fastcomet, with a support ticket and online chat options available - something that phurix used to have but dispensed with several years ago unfortunately. Also their claimed 100% reliability is only on the network connectivity - it doesn't include server downtime! There may be a solid reason for their total lack of support but as we don't know what this is we didn't have much choice; they've hosted several domains for me for over 10 years but loyalty only goes so far, bye bye phurix. Less | Claimed profile - Hasn’t replied to negative reviews Well doesn't that say it all! Negative support (basics only) Superficial! Arrogant and if you have any real needs they will just brush you OFF and AWAY! So many limitations... More (hidden) and not WP friendly. STAY AWAY from those SMALL hosting company! Less |
Shared Hosting | 3 plans from $2.45 to $12.13 | 3 plans from $3.47 to $9.97 |
Under $4 | Basic Shared Hosting
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Under $8 | Standard Shared Hosting
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Over $10 | Professional Shared Hosting
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VPS | 3 plans from $19.40 to $77.60 | 10 plans from $5.00 to $100.00 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
Dedicated Server | 3 plans from $77.14 to $140.10 | 11 plans from $49.00 to $373.00 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | Dual Intel Xeon E5620
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Cloud Hosting | No | 4 plans from $50.00 to $120.00 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Website Builder | No | 2 plans from $5.98 to $9.98 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | Business Level WordPress
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Resellers | No | 4 plans from $6.97 to $27.47 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | Basic Reseller Hosting
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Over $10 | No | Standard Reseller Hosting
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Data Centers | 1 of 6 | 0 of 6 |
North America | No | No |
Europe | Yes | No |
Asia | No | No |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
Live Chat | No | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | No |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | Yes | Yes |
Video guides | Yes | No |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 4 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | Yes | Yes |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | Yes |
OS Support | 2 of 2 | 1 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | Yes | No |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 0 of 8 | 5 of 8 |
PHP | No | Yes |
Java | No | Yes |
Python | No | Yes |
Node.js | No | No |
Django | No | No |
Perl | No | Yes |
Ruby on Rails | No | Yes |
ASP.NET | No | No |
Database Support | 0 of 3 | 2 of 3 |
MongoDB | No | No |
MySQL | No | Yes |
PostgreSQL | No | Yes |
Payment Types Support | 0 of 6 | 0 of 6 |
PayPal | No | No |
Credit Card | No | No |
Moneybookers | No | No |
Wire Transfer | No | No |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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