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StartLogic Review

Startlogic is a web hosting company that offers basically three webhosting plans. They are PersonalLogic, ProLogic and WindowsLogic.

The PersonalLogic plan is for people who want to set up a small or personal website. The Two-year plan comes at $3.95 per month + $7.95 annual Domain Registration Fee. The One-year plan comes at $4.95 per month + $7.95 annual Domain Registration Fee. The Monthly Plans comes at $5.95 per month + $30 Setup Fee + $7.95 annual Domain Registration Fee. Setup is free for the two annual plans. At this price you get 60 GB disk space, 600 GB monthly bandwidth, 50 e-mail accounts, and you can host up to 10 domains. Pretty basic, but you can have a website for about $52.00 a year.

Software support includes CGI-BIN and script library, PHP 4 and 5, Perl scripts, MySql Database, SSL secure server, Server Side Includes and FrontPage extensions. Multimedia support includes Real Audio and Video, Macromedia Shockwave, MIDI file support, and user-definable MIME types. You can have unlimited POP3 mail accounts, and email forwarding, Auto responders, spam filtering and webmail. Scripts include Guestbook, Bulletin board, Content Management by PHPNuke, X7 Chat, Blogging by WordPress and Image Galleries by Coppermine and Gallery2. You also have fully integrated Google Webmaster Tools, File manager, FTP Manager, Password Protection and a Backup Program. You also have ecommerce facility by way of SSL and a choice of shopping carts included with this plan. Given the price this is good value.

Next we come to the ProLogic Plan. This is meant for more advanced and commercial users. The Two year plan costs $5.95 per month and includes free setup and free Domain Name. Free setup and free Domain name is also included with the One year plan, which comes for $6.95 per month. The Monthly plan also costs $6.95 per month, but you will also have to pay $30 for setup and $7.95 annually for Domain Registration. For this price you get unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, unlimited domain hosting and a money back guarantee of 30 days.

Once again, software support is similar to that of the PersonalLogic Plan. You also have fully integrated Google Webmaster Tools, File manager, FTP Manager, Password Protection and a Backup Program. Ecommerce is supported by way of SSL and a choice of shopping carts. With this plan you also get website building facilities through Website Creator by CM4all, a large number of professionally designed web templates. For your marketing needs, there is a Marketing Guides (500+ Page Manual), Keyword Generator, $30 Google AdWords™ Credit, $50 Yahoo Search Marketing Credit, RatePoint Customer Feedback Platform.

The last plan is the WindowsLogic Plan. This is hosted on a Windows server, and gives you the ability to use ASP.NET with AJAX technology, and also the ability to use Access databases. As is normal Windows hosting costs more, and gives you less than UNIX/Linux hosting, and in my opinion, there is no reason to go for Windows hosting unless you are totally into the Microsoft thing.

Price: 9

Reliability: 10

Tech Support: 10

User Experience: 9

Overall: 10

Price 9
Reliability 10
Support 10
Experience 9
Overall 10