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SoftLayer vs Knownhost
| Compared options |  |  |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | 5 hosting plans | 34 hosting plans |
| Starting price | $25.00 / month | $3.47 / month |
| Free domain | No | No |
| Coupons | No | 2 coupons |
User Ratings | 1.9 | 4.9 |
| Reliability | 2.0 | 5.0 |
| Pricing | 1.5 | 4.5 |
| User Friendly | 2.0 | 5.0 |
| Support | 1.5 | 5.0 |
| Features | 2.0 | 5.0 |
User Reviews | 11 reviews | 415 reviews |
| Latest positive review | |  For us, a great partner! Naghi Stefan Bogdan, |
| Latest negative review |  Softlayer is no longer a good hosting solution. Save yourself the headaches and avoid them. Ty Roden, Softlayer used to be a good company to have for hosting. Little by little it has become less support and more fees - everywhere. They just closed a datacenter in Dallas - they sent out migration emails to people saying that s... More ervers were being migrated. Not very clear. They literally turned off all servers in that datacenter even if you were a paying client, and proceeded to flat delete all data. If you missed the email, tough. I have spoken with others that were affected by this, same response. " We will give you 2 free months of service, but your data is gone ". Considering that these servers were virtuals, they could have literally just migrated the files to operational servers, instead they send emails, and just shut you off. Period. This is horrible and unprofessional. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Less |  Stay away from knownhost, they are scammers Haseeb Anwar, I was using their services since 2019, their renewal rates were increased and they pushed me to use upgraded reseller package. I decided to move my files from their server and then happened the WORST thing, They told me on ch... More at that i would be able to move my files till Tuesday, They suddenly suspended my services and asked me to pay 20 Usd in order to access my WHM for 2 minutes to download the backup. I had long discussion with their support team and they were just forcing me to pay money.. My website was down for 4 hours just to wait for their support to respond.Their support team is poor and they can Scam you. I have left 4 Usd in their so called in house credit, that they overcharged me just to show how faulty their system is. Stay away and choose a better Web host...!! Less |
| Shared Hosting | No | 3 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| Under $4 | No | Basic Shared Hosting
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| Under $8 | No | Standard Shared Hosting
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| Over $10 | No | Professional Shared Hosting
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| VPS | 1 plan from $25.00 to $1,439.00 | 10 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | |
| Over $10 | ||
| Dedicated Server | 3 plans from $25.00 to $1,439.00 | 11 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | No |
| Over $10 | Custom Single Processor
| Dual Intel Xeon E5620
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| Cloud Hosting | 1 plan from $25.00 to $1,439.00 | 4 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | No |
| Over $10 | Virtual Servers - Custom
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| Website Builder | No | 2 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | |
| Over $10 | No | Business Level WordPress
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| Resellers | No | 4 plans from $3.47 to $373.00 |
| 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 | 5 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
| North America | Yes | Yes |
| Europe | Yes | Yes |
| Asia | Yes | No |
| Oceânia | Yes | No |
| South America | Yes | No |
| Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
| Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
| Phone Support | Yes | No |
| Email Support | Yes | Yes |
| Forum Support | Yes | Yes |
| Video guides | No | No |
| Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 0 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
| WordPress | No | Yes |
| Joomla | No | Yes |
| Drupal | No | Yes |
| Magento | No | 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 | 3 of 8 | 5 of 8 |
| PHP | Yes | Yes |
| Java | Yes | Yes |
| Python | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js | No | No |
| Django | No | No |
| Perl | No | Yes |
| Ruby on Rails | No | Yes |
| ASP.NET | No | No |
Database Support | 2 of 3 | 2 of 3 |
| MongoDB | Yes | No |
| MySQL | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL | No | Yes |
Payment Types Support | 1 of 6 | 1 of 6 |
| PayPal | Yes | Yes |
| Credit Card | No | No |
| Moneybookers | No | No |
| Wire Transfer | No | No |
| Webmoney | No | No |
| Bitcoin | No | No |
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