Gate.com's service comes at a decent price, there's a good range of choice with respect to platforms and plans.
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Gate.com has been in the web hosting business since 1998 and offers a great choice of plans as well an option of either a Windows or UNIX platform. Known for its friendly customer service and a range of advanced features, Gate.com is a great choice for small businesses looking for a reliable web hosting service.
Pros
Gate.com's service comes at a decent price, there's a good range of choice with respect to platforms and plans, and there are several great e-mail features and advanced features.
Cons
The service does not always seem to live up to its 99.99% uptime guarantee. Also, while support staff is friendly, the resolution time for a problem can sometimes be rather lengthy.
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Gate
| Features | Mach 1 | Mach 50 | Mach 500 | Mach 1000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price Per Month | $9.95 | $14.95 | $29.95 | $49.95 |
| Disk Space | 5 GB | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB |
| Data Transfer Per Month | 200 GB | 500 GB | 1000 GB | 2000 GB |
| Email Accounts | 500 | 1000 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Phone and Email Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Price & Value:
At $9.95 per month for the Mach 1 plan, Gate.com's price is not the cheapest available, but it's still competitive and affordable. With a choice of either a Windows or UNIX platform for the same price and with a range of features, the overall value of Gate.com's service is quite good.
Technical and Customer Support:
Gate.com offers support by both e-mail and phone. Phone support is 24/7 and toll-free. There's also a community forum for customer use. The support staff is pleasant and friendly. They typically respond to inquiries and problems within 24 hours, but sometimes responses take longer. In the past, the knowledgeability of some of the support staff members has been questionable, but this has improved quite significantly over the years.
Features/Scripts/Languages:
Gate.com provides an array of tools and features that allow customers to build successful web sites easily and efficiently. The Mach 1 plan comes with 500 mailboxes with 1 GB of storage per mailbox. Other e-mail features include unlimited aliases and forwards, virus filtering, and POP3/IMAP/SMTP access. The Mach 1 plan also features 100 MB of MYSQL database access and password protected directories to increase the security of sites.
Gate.com supports Perl, PHP, ASP, Server Side Includes (SSI), and features a CGI script library. While Gate.com highlights the fact that it offers a user-friendly control panel, its control panel is relatively simplistic in comparison to those offered by some of Gate.com's competitors and only provides a very basic summary of the web site's activities.
Bottom Line:
The company could do better with respect to resolution time in the support department. However, the service comes with decent storage space and bandwidth considering the cost. Overall, Gate.com is a good option for small businesses.
