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Having an innovative idea in mind, of high quality web hosting services, powered by 100% renewable wind and solar energy, the popular company Thinkhost was founded in 1999. It is an Oregon-based web hosting company. The company, at present, is a leader in environmentally friendly web hosting, specializing in exceptionally reliable and sound-supported web hosting solutions for all (small and mid-sized businesses, community groups, and non-profits) throughout the world. Thus, Thinkhost has a reputation for technology leadership. Having supported by top-notch outsourced net and a global team of committed and highly skilled support engineers, ThinkHost, while ensuring 100% uptime, offers its customers some of the top Web technologies, including PHP, Microsoft FrontPage, MySQL, PERL, and SSH.
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Background:
On realizing that web hosting is bad for the environment, as the data centers occupy a lot of energy, ThinkHost decided to do something about it. Thus, the company it became a ‘green’ hosting company, which runs all services on 100% renewable energy, along with planting a new tree on joining of a new customer.
All of three of the above mentioned core values of the company are kept with keeping the environmentalism factor in mind.
Overview:
Thinkhost offers quality service and competitive plans to its customers. Their standard plan puts forward a 1000 GB of bandwidth with a 100 GB of disk space. Features such as PHP 5 and Ruby on Rails, for $7.95 a month (assuming the customer pays in advance for two years) are also offered by the company. If the customer wishes to pay for a six-month time period, the service becomes a bit expensive, costing $19.95/month.
Pros & Cons of ThinkHost:
- 120 –day money-back guarantee is also offered by the company. ThinkHost also guarantees 100% uptime, which only applies on a submission of a ticket to the company’s support team to report the problem and it does not provide the customer with a full refund if his/her website is not functioning properly for a few minutes. However, the offer is unique and the money-back guarantee period is one of the longest ones in the entire industry.
- The control panel of ThinkHost is not that easy and comfortable to use for the users, as the company uses a custom control, panel and not the popular and most wanted cPanel. However, this control panel gets the job done for a huge majority of web sites, along with allowing for somewhat complete managing and running of a particular web site.
- The company offers no support via phone lines, or IM, but only through e-mails, which is quite fast. The company has a vast knowledgebase, which almost has the answer to all the customer queries.
- Other than providing standard hosting features, such as unlimited databases, email, autoresponders, etc., the company also includes a variety of software and services with its hosting plans, ranging from a call with a business consultant to discounts on environmentally friendly paper products.
Conclusion:
While offering top-level technology to its users, Thinkhost, at the same time, supports a more earth-friendly future, being a “green” company. It is a solid choice for the ones to whom having an environmentally friendly hosting and a socially responsible web hosting company is important. Even otherwise, ThinkHost features some of the top features so we would certainly recommend it for all, especially for the ones who do not compromise quality over money.
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