URL Jet is a web hosting company that is focused on hosting forums based websites. Forums are typically used for making sites that encourage discussion between users and is quite popular. Forums do require strong hosting because there are so many database queries and other things going on. While this company will certainly be able to help with any type of forums, they say they specialize in vBulletin (the most popular forums software).
The company has been in business for years now and operate their own data center in Kansas City. The data center has high quality equipment, redundant power and network equipment and much more. As far as hosting companies go, this one does a great job at meeting the needs of their customers.
The hosting with this company is very stable. They have a 99.9% uptime guarantee but the fact is they will likely be much better than that. Their data center is state-of-the-art and has redundant power and network connections. They also have hourly backups with many of their packages so if there is an outage, you’ll be back up and running fast. The high quality hardware they use for all their servers will also help you to avoid any type of outage.
This company is always working to provide the highest quality hosting services possible. They have a vairety of options including shared hosting (they call it WordPress Hosting), VPS options and dedicated servers. They also break things up further for their forums specific hosting options. One concern I have is that they have so many package options that it will be confusing on which one is the best for newer webmasters.
Within the different hosting packages there are lots of options including RAID-10 disk configuration, hourly backups, dedicated IPs, free hosting templates and much more. The amount of disk space and bandwidth you get is all more than enough for any type of site.
The technical support teams are there 24/7 to help with any type of issue you’re having. They also do proactive monitoring to find issues before they cause any type of outage. No matter what type of issue you’re having, this company will be able to help you get it fixed and keep your site running smoothly for your visitors.
URL Jet comes right out and says that they are not competing to be the lowest cost hosting provider on the market today. They always put quality over price, and that is why their prices are significantly higher than most other companies you’ll see. The WordPress (shared) hosting starts at $15.95 per month and goes up to $49.50. VPS pricing goes from $109 to $170 per month. Dedicated servers are $299 to $1495 per month.
As you can see, the prices are quite high. They do offer very nice hardware and a lot of nice features that most other hosting providers don’t offer (free upgrades on vBulletin for example) but it is hard to say whether it is worth the higher prices. If you really want to just get hosting that will take care of everything for you, this is likely a good option but you’ll have to pay for it.
There is no doubt that this company provides you with high quality hosting for any type of site, especially forums. There is also, however, no doubt that the prices are going to be higher than you’ll see with other companies. If you don’t mind paying for quality, you will be happy with the service you get.
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