Excellent service from a decent provider. .
Myrna Silva,
When my email didn't work, I talked to a person right away and he worked through my problem. It's an excellent service from a decent provider. .
MacHighway vs A Small Orange
| Compared options |  |  |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | 3 hosting plans | 20 hosting plans |
| Starting price | $2.95 / month | $2.92 / month |
| Free domain | Yes | Yes |
| Coupons | No | No |
User Ratings | 1.7 | 1.8 |
| Reliability | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Pricing | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| User Friendly | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Support | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Features | 2.0 | 2.0 |
User Reviews | 43 reviews | 40 reviews |
| Latest positive review | |  Very good experience. No downtime in last 3 months. Ridwan Choudhury, I signed up with A Small Orange despite seeing many bitter reviews on the internet. I've been using ASO shared (small) plan for 3 months. Never experienced any issue with their service. I've monitored my website uptime with J... More etpack plugin of wordpress and tested speed, server response time regularly. Never experienced any downtime in last 3 months. Pingdom shows my website is faster than the 98% website. Actually, so far I'm very happy with their service. It is true that their support ticket is very slow and they took almost two weeks to reply my ticket about registering a new domain. But I never had to wait more than 3 minutes to get live chat support. My ticket was solved instantly via live chat. Another good thing about ASO is their server name and user area interface is very unique and user friendly. Hope ASO will remain consistent with their good service. Best wishes for ASO team! Less |
| Latest negative review |  Maddeningly gawdawful Russ Wetmore, I've been a customer of MacHighway for over 12 years. They used to be different. They were Mac based. They actually listened to their customers, and were readily available when issues arose. Hackers have been breaking into on... More e of my sites every few weeks for over a year. They change my passwords, send out spam emails, and install bots to further their dirty work. Every time it's happened, it's taken days to get their customer service department to even acknowledge me. Their "chat" support has never worked, so it's just email which sits in somebody's inbox somewhere in India for days sometimes before there is any response. They treat me like an idiot, and do the absolute least amount of work necessary. Typically, they make up in their minds what they suppose the problem is without reading my entire email. So they'll send pointless or irrelevant responses that, again, take days to set right. What's worse, no one at MacHighway seems to care one way or the other, and don't seem to want to prevent it from happening again. So, the final straw was TWO break-ins in the past THREE days. I'm moving to another service provider. Good riddance. Less |  Customer support has really gone downhill. Not what they used to be. Chad Rock, When they first started, they were one of the best. However, like so many others, they sold out. Even after new ownership, I still stuck with them because I'm loyal. After finding out my $140 plan didn't include SSL, and th... More at they wanted to charge me an additional $40 per year for just that feature, I decided it was time to move on. That wasn't my only reason though. Support wait times have been increasing and the chat experience was getting worse. Simple questions were taking almost 10 or more minutes to get answered. Since I was only a few days into my renewal period, I didn't think it would be a problem asking for a refund or if they would prorate my account. They refused it. So that's the treatment I received after being a loyal customer for 13 years. They really could care less. Stay away from this company. There are much better hosting options out there that offer better and quicker customer support and features. Less |
| Shared Hosting | 3 plans from $2.95 to $6.95 | 4 plans from $2.92 to $275.00 |
| Under $4 | ||
| Under $8 | ||
| Over $10 | No | |
| VPS | No | 8 plans from $2.92 to $275.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | No |
| Over $10 | No | |
| Dedicated Server | No | 8 plans from $2.92 to $275.00 |
| Under $4 | No | No |
| Under $8 | No | No |
| Over $10 | No | |
| Data Centers | 1 of 6 | 1 of 6 |
| North America | Yes | Yes |
| Europe | No | No |
| Asia | No | No |
| Oceânia | No | No |
| South America | No | No |
| Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
| Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
| Phone Support | No | No |
| Email Support | Yes | Yes |
| Forum Support | Yes | Yes |
| Video guides | Yes | Yes |
| Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 4 of 6 | 3 of 6 |
| WordPress | Yes | Yes |
| Joomla | Yes | Yes |
| Drupal | Yes | Yes |
| Magento | Yes | No |
| Softaculous | No | No |
| PrestaShop | No | No |
OS Support | 1 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
| Windows/ASP.NET | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | No | Yes |
Language Support | 1 of 8 | 3 of 8 |
| PHP | Yes | Yes |
| Java | No | No |
| Python | No | Yes |
| Node.js | No | Yes |
| Django | No | No |
| Perl | No | No |
| Ruby on Rails | No | No |
| ASP.NET | No | No |
Database Support | 1 of 3 | 1 of 3 |
| MongoDB | No | No |
| MySQL | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL | No | No |
Payment Types Support | 0 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
| PayPal | No | Yes |
| Credit Card | No | Yes |
| Moneybookers | No | No |
| Wire Transfer | No | No |
| Webmoney | No | No |
| Bitcoin | No | No |
 Second |  Winner |