VISIT STARLOGIC!


StartLogic are a medium sized web hosting provider, supplying host services to over 70,000 customers from their Los Angeles data centre. They offer a wide range of products, including domain registration, budget shared hosting, Windows hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. When StartLogic’s products are compared on a like-for-like basis with those of their competitors, we see that StartLogic’s prices are usually somewhat cheaper! Does this mean that they offer great value for money? Or does the old adage, “you get what you pay for”, hold true? To find out, read on….

Features

Please visit StarLogic’s website for a full feature list of all their products. Outlined below are the main features of StarLogic’s most popular hosting plan, the “ProLogic”:
300GB Disk Space – This is the allocated amount of server storage space for all the files contained on your web pages.
3000GB/month Bandwidth – An absolutely massive allocation. Both disk space and bandwidth are unlikey to be exhausted.
Free setup and domain registration – This feature is only applicable when you sign up to either a 12, or 24 month plan. This is a very good incentive to sign up for a longer term. Very few people will choose the month by month payment option, when they consider that the 12 month plan costs $71.40 for the year, while the monthly option will cost $71.25 for just 5 months hosting (with the setup and registration fees included)!
Host up to 10 domains – Multiple domain hosting is definitely the future of web hosting, and StartLogic offer you the chance to host up to 10 websites on one single account. We love this feature; it gives great flexibility, and means that we can take full advantage of the huge disk space and bandwidth limits on offer.
Web builder software – This allows you to build your own website, and includes hundreds of professional templates which make it a simple task.
Site promotion software – Includes search engine submitter, search engine position checker, keyword generator, and Meta tag generator.
Unlimited e-mail accounts.
30 Day money back guarantee.
99.9% Uptime guarantee.
Free Google and Yahoo marketing credits.



Customer service and Technical support

StartLogic provide three forms of technical support 24/7 365 days a year; toll free phone, live online chat, and an email ticket system. Only web hosts who are leading the way in terms of customer service offer all three of those options together, free of charge, all day, everyday. In order to check for ourselves if the quality of service was good, we made several technical enquiries. We found that we were satisfied with the service we received, though it could not quite match the likes of Lunarpages, who are definitely number one in this field. Though we think you would be with happy with StartLogic’s support service, it’s always advisable to test them out yourself first!
Also on offer is a busy customer forum which can be an excellent alternative way of getting support.

Performance

We find that StartLogic’s sever speed is on a par with most of their competitors, and when you consider you are paying less with StartLogic, this can only be a plus. At certain peak times you may find that your website runs a little slow, but as we said, this pretty much guaranteed with all budget shared hosting plans ( and some of the more expensive ones too), so its nothing to worry about, and most of the time performance is very good.
The 99.9% uptime guarantee should be enough to tell you that reliability is unlikely to be a problem. We would agree with this.
The control panel supplied with this hosting package is a Vdeck. Now many people are telling us that Vdeck is the best control panel out there, and that we should all be waving goodbye to cPanel (StartLogic would certainly seem to think so)! However, will still believe that cPanel is the best option available for this type of hosting. Either way, it’s preferable to check out a Vdeck demo first, to see what you think!

Our Verdict

Is StartLogic’s ProLogic plan the best shared hosting plan on the market? – No! Is it the best value plan out there? – Quite possibly, yes!
If you are on a tight budget, but still want all the features and capabilities of a more expensive hosting solution, then this simply has to be the package for you. If you can afford to spend a few extra dollars per month, then there are probably better options, namely Hostgator, Bluehost and Lunarpages.
The monthly cost of the ProLogic hosting plan works out at just $5.95 if you sign up for 12 months, and $4.95 if you sign up for 24 months! This really means that you get an incredible amount of features and performance for the price you pay. There currently is no better hosting plan on the market at $5.95/month or less. So if that’s your budget then your web hosting search should be over!