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This month we have optimized the website theme, reduce graphic and content on the website. This will increase the site performance and allow the page to load in shorter time in future.

In fact, this budget hosting from Netfirms only cost us $2.49/mo and with this budget hosting plan, we can get averagely good server speed and site performance.

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This Netfirms review blog also include server speed test, uptime analysis, and user reviews. Throughout the years of reviewing their web hosting, we have collected some user comments and rating too.

Netfirms web hosting review

Is Netfirms a good web hosting company? We have been hosting with them since 2008 and using their shared hosting plan to host our website. Our overall experience is great and we love it. Their advantages are far more compared to disadvantages and we know their pros and cons.

Netfirms web hosting feature reviews
They have three shared web hosting packages and price is far below three dollars per month. What are the things included inside and what are the features provided?

Here are the top 10 reasons to choose Netfirms

1. Unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth.
2. 2 free domain for advance plan, up to 5 free domain names.
3. Unlimited addon domain hosting available.
4. $100 Google ads, $50 Facebook ads and $25 Yahoo ads.
5. Free Yellow Pages listing.
6. E-commerce site hosting support.
7. 24/7 email ticket and toll free phone support.
8. Instant account setup.
9. 30-days money back guarantee.
10. Cheap domain registration at $7.99 per year.

Netfirms coupon code and promo code
They are offering few shared web hosting packages and VPS web hosting packages, and only their basic shared hosting plan is available with special discount price. Their lowest price ever is 50% off regular price or $2.49/month only. For limited time, this unlimited domains hosting plan is available with biggest discount price ever! It’s now $2.49/month and available for all users signup during this promotion. No Netfirms coupon code to enter and this is an automated discount price.

Netfirms coupon special discount

Netfirms uptime and downtime reviewed
What Netfirms customers are getting and how often their website went offline or having failure. Is there any statistic for reference? In this Netfirms hosted review site, we have monitored their website uptime for many years. All statistic and uptime rating are posted here for free.

For our Netfirms website, the uptime percentage is 99.808% and downtime is kept at below 0.2% rating which is good. This is statistic collected for the last three years. We also recorded 133 downtime events with 1395 minutes in total. Here is the uptime statistic

Netfirms Uptime Downtime Statistic

Our Netfirms Rating and Score
We are reviewing and testing their web hosting plan from the inside out and in every detail. We test the web hosting features, check their service quality and monitor its uptime rating. We are comparing Netfirms with other top web hosts too. We give them full scores in term of web hosting feature and price; their web hosting plan of $2.49/month is a great offer. They provide free marketing credits and free domain name, these are another advantages.

There is limited upgrade option, they have VPS plan from $33 per month and there is no dedicated server plan. We are removing one point from this. In overall, here is our Netfirms rating score

Netfirms server IP address and Name Server
From our investigation, we learned that Netfirms web server is using the IP address 65.254.227.16 and this IP is located in Seattle, Washington. The domain name has been registered since year 1998 and active until now. They use two domain name servers; NS1.NETFIRMS.COM and NS2.NETFIRMS.COM. Further investigation shows they are 359,000 domains are hosting using their name servers. Their domain name servers have the following IP address

• NS1.NETFIRMS.COM is in 65.254.254.157
• NS2.NETFIRMS.COM is in 66.96.142.145

Netfirms contact and mailing address
Where is Netfirms located and how to reach them? This is a Canada web hosting company and currently located at Markham, Canada. Following is their mailing address

Netfirms, Inc.
7030 Woodbine Ave #800
Markham, ON L3R 6G2
CANADA

Contact number: 416-661-2100
Technical support number: 866-317-4678
Sales number: 866-317-4678
Fax: 416-661-0700

Here is their location when view from Google Maps. Click on below map and it go to Google Maps for direction to Netfirms

Netfirms in Google Maps

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Netfirms control panel uses the latest version of vDeck control panel. It provides all the features, tools, and widget that are required to run websites. And we review Netfirms control panel via our own hosting account with Netfirms. This Netfirms control panel login can be performed from their homepage top menu section, or from the link http://netfirms.com/controlpanel/

To login Netfirms control panel, provide the login information including username and password to proceed. Once successfully login to Netfirms vDeck control panel, it will look like this.

*Note, this is our own Netfirms account and not the Netfirms control panel demo account.

Netfirms Control Panel Demo

From the Netfirms control panel main page, we have access to all the tools and features, including

• Website management tool with .htaccess editor, archive gateway, CGI script support, server information, Frontpage extension,
• File manager for managing files and FTP manager for creating FTP account.
• Email manager and mail central for adding new Email, set catchall, manager spam filter, autoresponder, and access webmail client.
• Domain manager and domain central for register and add new domain name, create subdomain, domain forwarding, add domain guard and WHOIS protection, domain transfer and migration, change domain pointer and domain nameserver (DNS)
• MySQL database manager for creating new database, change database login info, grant access etc.
• Visitor statistic and website traffic monitoring tool.
• Site builder tools including Weebly site builder
• Apps installer with Netfirms Simplescripts installer

All these are some of the most important features that you will find in this Netfirms control panel. Beside this, their control panel sidebar is providing the account and server information including:

• Website IP address
• Your nameserver is NS1.NETFIRMS.COM & NS2.NETFIRMS.COM
• Path to FTP is FTP.NETFIRMREVIEW.ORG
• Incoming mail server is POP.NETFIRMREVIEW.ORG
• Outgoing mail server is SMTP.NETFIRMREVIEW.ORG
• Webmail URL is http://webmail.netfirmreview.org
• Control panel URL is http://controlpanel.netfirmreview.org
• CGI script support statis is ACTIVE
• Frontpage extension is NO
• View logs
• Document root path
• Server platform type is Debian
• MySQL database version is 5.0.91-log
• Perl version is 5.8.8
• PHP version is 5.2.12
• Path to sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail
• Secure FTP (SFTP) Port is 2222
• Disk usage and bandwidth usage

Netfirms control panel reviews and user-friendliness? We like both vDeck and cPanel control panel, both have own advantages and pros. We love control panel that perform the job nicely and perfectly, and this is what vDeck control panel are able to provide us.

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1. Domain price is $7.99 per year.
2. Free email webmail account.
3. Free basic hosting included.
4. Free domain privacy.
5. Satisfaction guaranteed.

What is Netfirms domain registration pricing?
Their domain registration price is now $9.95 per year. When registering domain name with them, you also get free basic hosting account and free webmail account.

Beside that, each new domain name that you register with Netfirms, you getting following free offer:

• Free email account
• Free domain privacy WHOIS protection

“Domain .com, .net and .org sale pricing is $6.99 for the first year. Domain will renew at $9.95 per year thereafter.”

Beside cheap domain name registration, Netfirms is also offers some of the greatest web hosting services. Their customer can use the live chat to contact support team and address their technical issue or requesting assistant. They are very friendly, we tried that couple of times, and we love to use their live chat service to solve problem. Beside this option, they also have email support if you don’t like chatting, or phone support if you like to speak with someone to solve the problem immediately.

Netfirms domain name registration
Where and how to register new domain name with Netfirms web hosting? To register for domain name without web hosting plan, go to Netfirms and click the domain name in menu tab. This will bring you to domain registration service page. Search for a valid domain name and register it. Make the payment and the domain will be register for you. Netfirms will provide you with domain manager control panel and here is where to manage your domain setting for DNS field etc.

If you are registering domain name and buying their web hosting plan, then signup for their web hosting plan directly and you get free domain name too. Basic plan is with one free domain and higher plan with multiple free domain names. You get the free domain credit and get t register for additional domain name in future. Note that the domain you use to register web hosting plan will become your primary domain name, and other domain name that you add to your Netfirms hosting account will become addon domain names.

Netfirms domain privacy and protection
For each domain name that you register via Netfirms hosting, you can lock or unlock it, and add WHOIS domain protection to your domain name. This protects your personal contact information with WHOIS protection, and you can order it from Netfirms web hosting too. You can purchase domain privacy for your Netfirms hosted domain name at anytime you like, all via the domain manager tool available in their vDeck control panel.

And each domain name that you registered via Netfirms can be set for auto-renewal or not to. It’s done via domain central at their vDeck control panel. You can have automatically renew or manually renew, and Netfirms will inform you 15 days before each domain expiry date.

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In our own Netfirms control panel, we have access to this Simplescripts installer. Following is screenshot taken from our live account

Netfirms SimpleScripts Installer

Inside here, we find nearly a hundred of free website apps for installation. Including blogs, forums, eCommerce, social networking, RSS, project management and many more. All these are free open-source application that we can install into our websites. There is no extra cost to use this installer, it is 100% free from Netfirms web hosting.

Comparing this Simplescripts with the other installer for example Softaculous and Fantastico, this is still the best installer. They also have automated scripts upgrade for existing installation. This allow future version upgrade for your website too.

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Here is our latest website uptime statistic

• 2013 uptime is 99.717%
• 2012 uptime is 99.816%
• 2011 uptime is 99.796%

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Here is our Netfirms website being tested

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For our website, this is the uptime rating for the last two years. We are getting 99.826% uptime for this website which is monitored over the Internet. This web hosting plan is with good uptime, and we are recommending their web hosting service.

And the monthly uptime statistic is as following

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• Affordable web hosting plan
• Good hosting quality and great customer support
• Include the most free gifts and free marketing credits

Take Netfirms web hosting for example. Previously they offer Google ads credits only, and now they are with $50 Facebook advertising credit too. This allows you to advertise more in Facebook social site. If you want targeted web user, Facebook is the social site to advertise your business.

Netfirms Facebook marketing credit

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Once your website is protected with the best domain protection feature, it will protect your domain name. How to add Sitelock protection to your Netfirms domain name? The signup link is available in Netfirms Simple Scripts > Security > Sitelock. Signup via their affiliate link and start protecting your domains today.

Netfirms Sitelock link is as following

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Similar special discount applicable for other plans too, and Netfirms hosting plan is really more affordable after discount. Give them a try today, no risk to take, 30-days money back guarantee included inside. Best part is that Netfirms are with cheap domain names and lots of free domain when choose the right plan. We love free gift, and even better when it’s multiple.

What is the best Netfirms coupon to use?
Use this EXCLUSIVE coupon code to get the best discount price.

For end of May 2011, Netfirms web hosting promotion gets bigger. Sales end this month.

For May 2011, Netfirms customer can take advantages on their new 50% saving plan.

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Netfirms shared web hosting services are divided into three web hosting packages. The most basic plan is with one domain hosting and it come with five MySQL database. It uses the latest version of MySQL version 5+ and providing phpMyAdmin all together. Commonly one domain name or website will require one MySQL database, now they have limit of five and this give more possibility of website that you can host. How this is done? First you can have a primary domain name, and then have a blog setup at sub-directory or a forum website at sub-directory. This means you can have a database driven website, then a blog and forum in it. All sum up in three databases and all under one domain roof. Off course, if you need to host more separate domain names, there is two more shared web hosting plan to choose at Netfirms hosting.

Netfirms shared hosting provides the following database features

• MySQL version 5+
• phpMyAdmin
• Running at PHP 5 Linux server

To configure or add a new database to your account and host by your domain name, first go to Netfirms vDeck control panel > database. Here is where to add and create new database. You can continue add new database with your remaining database credit, up to five for their shared hosting plan. From here we can change the database username and password as well. Here is the stat from our Netfirms database

• Database version: 5.0.91-log
• Server Name: netfirmrevieworg.netfirmsmysql.com
• Databases Available: 3
• Database Used: 2

Once again, Netfirms hosting is offering 5 databases.

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Above Netfirms website speed test indicate the time to connect is 0.1 second and the website loading time is 0.62 second in total. This is the website speed test over the Internet and conducted from remote tester server. This indicates the overall web server response time and webpage loading time.

All these indicating this Netfirms hosting plan is fast and responsive.

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   This is their promotion price and regular price is $6.95 per month. Bluehost offer the best cPanel web hosting plan with custom design, lots of free apps inside, and the most powerful Simplescripts installer inside.
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   They are partner with Bluehost and hence very similar to each other. Hostmonster uses the best cPanel and Simplescripts installer that are shared with Bluehost. What you found in Bluehost are almost identical in Hostmonster.
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   They offered the widest range of cloud web hosting service and VPS hosting service. If you need high-end web hosting plan for your website, this is the web hosting company to consider. Uptime and service quality is among the best.

The top web hosting plans can start from $5 dollars and range up to $10 dollars per month, that is how far the price can varies from one to another. This is one of their best web hosting deal.

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For our Netfirms website, here is the uptime for 2011

• 2011 uptime is 99.796%
• 2011 server response time is0.238 second

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