Profit Server began as a company in 2007, but they were around before that. These hosting services began as just one small department within a company called ITC Holding back in 2003. Over the course of four years this department continued to grow and become more and more popular with customers. It finally reached the point where it no longer made sense to run these hosting services as a department, and it needed to become its own company. ITC Holding remains the parent company, but Profit Server operates independently.
They provide good quality hosting services in the form of shared hosting, VPS hosting, and dedicated servers. If you prefer, you can use them as a colocation service with your hardware located in their datacenters. You can also use them to register your domain name, and they even provide DDoS protection should it become necessary. To put it simply, no matter what type of hosting related services you need, the chances are excellent that Profit Server will be able to provide them.
Let’s start with the bad news. They offer a 99.8% uptime guarantee. While this isn’t terrible, the industry standard is 99.9% or higher, so anything below that point is just going to come off as disappointing. Despite that, however, it is very unlikely that you will ever experience any downtime caused by a problem on Profit Server’s end. They use high quality, name brand hardware that works great. They use solid state drives, which are extremely reliable. They offer RAID configuration on dedicated servers for further redundancy. Perhaps most importantly in today’s world, they also have DDoS protection, which can help prevent downtime due to attacks on your site.
When you browse through all their different hosting packages you will almost certainly be impressed with the features you see. For their entry level shared hosting, all the packages have unlimited traffic, databases, websites, emails, and FTP accounts. They also all include solid state drives (3, 5 or 15 gigs). VPS solutions come in four levels starting at 1 CPU core and 256megs of RAM and scaling up to 4 CPU cores and 2 gigs of RAM. Here to they use only solid state drives. The dedicated servers are all completely customizable so you can pick the processor you want, the amount of RAM, how many (and how large) disk drives you need, and more. Once you make your order, they will provision it and have it running within 5 minutes!
In addition to these features that are directly related to hosting, they also offer DDoS protection, which is becoming increasingly important given how popular this form of attack has become. They protect the data with regularly scheduled backups, and provide customers with full root permissions on VPS and dedicated servers.
If you ever need help with anything about your website, their technical team is there for you 24/7. They always provide live support by people who really seem to know what they are doing. You can get in touch with them via phone, email, or you can request a call back. The one complaint in this area is that they offer very little in terms of ‘how-to’ information. Many website owners like to be able to quickly fix their own common issues, and a knowledge base or other resource would be very appreciated.
The prices with this company are quite low when you look at what you are getting. For shared hosting you will pay just $1.23-$3.85 per month depending on the package you choose. For hosting with solid state drives and other great features, this is a real steal. If you want a little more control on your servers, the VPS prices are just as inexpensive. These start at just $1.27 per month and go up to $6.15. The prices can rise further if you make any sort of customization to their configurations, but no matter what you are getting a good deal. Dedicated servers start at $63.33 per month, and go up from there depending on what features you require. For a full server, this is still a bargain that most people will be very happy with.
There is really nothing to complain about when it comes to how easy this company is to work with. They have a very nicely made website that makes it easy to navigate and find exactly what you want. The back end control panels and other interfaces are easy to use and basically standard so anyone who has had any experience with hosting will find it very familiar. If you should need to get in touch with their customer service or tech support teams, they are all on site and available to help anytime you need it.
No matter what type of hosting needs you have, this company will almost certainly be able to meet them. They have years of experience, and lots of satisfied customers to show that they really know what they are doing. From basic personal websites to business pages, they can handle it all with no problems.
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| Plan Name | Space | CPU | RAM | OS | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel I3 | 1 TB | 2 cores | 8 GB | A$63.76 | Details | |
| Xeon-E3 1220v2 | 1 TB | 4 x 3.1GHz | 2 GB | A$97.76 | Details | |
| Xeon-E3 1240v2 | 1 TB | 4 x 3.4GHz | 8 GB | A$106.27 | Details | |
| 2 CPU Xeon X5650 | 500 GB | 6 x 2.66GHz | 16 GB | A$211.11 | Details |
