MochaHost.com Hosting Review
April 17, 2008 - 6:19 amIt is amazing how good news travel slow. It took me quite awhile to learn about MochaHost. Here is why I consider MochaHost as great news for webmasters. MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California), and provides web hosting, and tons of other complementary services. These services include web design, E-commerce, and Internet promotion services.
MochaHost’s plans tailor all hosting needs - from personal use, small businesses, to sophisticated E-commerce sites with huge requirements for bandwidth and disk space. But these are not the reason why I am thumbing up for them.
Award Winning Services
MochaHost has been the recipient of HostReview.com’s Top 10 Budget Host Award Feb 2006, is listed as one o f CNET’s Most Popular Hosts, a Top 25 Host March 2006 of RateMyHost.com, the Web Design Award Oct 2005 from DesignFirms.org, and one of FindMyHost.com’s E-commerce Guaranteed Approved Hosts.
So if all the bragging rights of top brass critics carry weight then we can celebrate. But just before rushing in, let’s see what the users say about this award winning host.
Users Find Its’ Good Enough
On February 8, 2007 a hosting survey and test service, HosTest, completed a four week study of the customer service provided by over 50 hosting companies throughout the US. MochaHost scored #1. They received an excellent score on the response quality part of the test and answered all e-mail support requests with an average response time of 24 minutes!
So far this year there have been 233 positive votes for Mochahost and 19 negative, placing MochaHost in the number for spot for overall hosting nationwide.
But MochaHost also satisfied affiliate users and staff members. A recent report on their affiliate program gave them a 70% grade but ranked them number 3 nationwide for best affiliate program.
And staff members listed it as an “excellent†place work.
Hosting Options
You can land a hosting account from about $4 per month. The largest package costs about $11. But MochaHost can take your hosting a bit further than most companies will. They offer a complete solution tailored to your budget including hosting, design and website promo.
Mochahost.com average uptime is 99.995% with total 75906 successful and 4 failed checks, monitored since 2006-02-28.
The Black Spot
MochaHost recently lost some assets in a lawsuit and also lost some of its staff in a company split. We give them a 4 Star with reservation as it remains to see what impact this will have on MochaHost.
Overall rating: 4/5
