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One of the oldest web hosting services online is QWK.net, a privately owned webhost located in Boise, Idaho and has been in the hosting business since early 1998. They have provided solid linux hosting in a secured environment to tons of webmasters. Apart from a few PR glitches years ago, they have done very well as a top hosting service.

Excellent, but not so cheap service

QWK.net has five hosting solutions, three of which are considered Budget plans, costing less than $14.95. The others are more expensive. Budget plan for most webmasters means under $5. Yet this has not been enough to stop the tons of webmasters from buying QWK.net services. Their support and service has a lot to do with that.

QWK.net’s Budget plans come with standard features and bandwidth. They have since increased their web space to 100mb baseline to 1GB for the highest of the three budget plans.

First Class, Rapid Customer Service

Support at QWK.net is quick and responsive. They provide 24/7 email, office-hour phone support, and an emergency toll-free phone number. QWK.net’s support department is renown as courteous and knowledgeable. Most webmasters, even those who complained, could not help but state how satisfied they were with the QWK support.

Security and Servers

QWK provides a stable network with dual OC-48 connection and they back it up with a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee and a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee. Or so they write on their website. However, Vista and Web Host Directory rank them a bit higher for uptime, 99.92%, and gave them an “A” for secured servers.

Qwk average uptime is 99.992% with total 78528 successful and 6 failed checks, Vista states in report monitored since 2006-01-29.

One may note that QWK.net shows little favoritism when it comes to its security. In 2006, QWK.net claiming the possibility of “security” risk, closed the account of one of its largest customers, Tiffy, amidst an outstretched battle on nudity and coding security issue.

Among The Top 10

Most host review companies rank Qwk in the top 10 web hosting companies. And a few even place it in the top five aside Godaddy and Rackspace. In the words of one review “QWk Budget plans offer only the standard features, … support and network more than make up for it.”

This many reviews continue to highlight, and users prefer a solid host even if they must pay a bit more. We proudly give Qwk a five star.

Overall rating: 5/5

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