Reliability

Solid, Reliable and Robust Data Centre

Crystone claim to have a state of the Art data centre which is situated in Stockholm, and is home to some 1200 servers. With fully redundant power supplies, a high voltage ring with its own substation and a powerful network, you know you are in safe hands.

Monitoring is regular at Crystone and they offer a dedicated 24 hour monitoring system and surveillance system. If there is ever a system failure or malfunction technicians are also on call 24-hours a day to rectify the problem with in at least 1 hour. Not bad eh?

Features

Plenty of Unlimited Options to Carry You

Features over at Crystone Hosting are plentiful and offer solutions for small to big scaled organisations. The lowest plan on offer provides unlimited disk space, bandwidth, email account and MYSQL databases, so you can see where I am going here…

For the PRO plan under the shared hosting option you get unlimited sub-domains, FTP accounts, a site builder, 52 scripts and plenty to start marketing your site in search engines.

Support

Every Support Channel Plus Remote Admin

Crystone have 3 main offices, Sweden, UK, and USA. All offices provide a fax and phone number, along with address details. If you are looking for other support options then Crystone pretty much tick off every possible support and contact option that you can think of.

They have a user-friendly support section where you can read FAQs, submit tickets, or chat on live chat. Technicians are readily available 24/7 to answer any questions you have, and they are also on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin should you want to take the social media route to contact.

The best part to the support is that they offer remote administration so support operatives can control your computer.

• 24/7 support
• Live chat
• Knowledge Base
• Ticket System
• Video Tutorials
• Remote Admin
• FAQs
• Social Media Channels

Pricing

A Price Plan for Small and Large Companies

Depending on what you are looking for will ultimately control the price you pay. For a mini web hosting plan you can get a low $3.96 per month when you go for a 3 year contract, or $5.56 per month if you plump for the yearly option. The minimum period is 1 year for all plans.

The highest you will pay for a shared hosting plan is £11.96 per month which is the one year plan under the Pro Plan. VPS servers range from $29.99 to $89.99, whilst the most expensive packages fall under the dedicated server section where you can be expecting to pay $500 per month for the top tier plan.

Each plan comes with a 45-day money back guarantee.

User-Friendly

A Pleasure to Use and Navigate Around

The Crystone site is pretty well presented in all honesty, and offers the user a pleasurable experience in finding what products they want. Some web hosting solutions find it hard to implement several hosting solutions, plans, and then more tiered priced brackets without getting the user confused. Crystone do this with ease, and you won’t find yourself getting lost on the site.

The only drawback is there is no CPanel available here, so if this is a must-have for you, you may want to look elsewhere. For those that don’t mind learning a custom control panel then Crystone provides plenty of material to help you along the way.

Summary

One of The Best Hosting Platforms With Great Support

Overall Crystone fill you with lots of confidence, whether it’s the reliability and uptime of 99.9%, or the support service they offer which really does go above and beyond most support options out there. The remote admin control is definitely a unique selling point here, to know you are in safe hands.

The prices, features and tools offered by Crystone are all worthy of small to large size businesses, with easy ways to scale-up if needed.

Pros

• 99.9% Uptime
• Cost effective, with discounts on annual purchases
• Unlimited features and tools
• Remote Admin for Support
• Small to Large Audiences
• 45-day money back guarantee

Cons

• Can be expensive for dedicated plans
• No CPanel