Gate Web Hosting Review

Gate web hosting provides one of a kind web hosting service, and I don’t mean that positively. Founded in 1996, Gate Hosting has now been in business for over 11 years, and it seems like they never bothered to change their prices or features since when they began. Gate webhosting provides one of the worst web hosting service around today, and that’s putting it lightly.

Gate Offers 4 different packages to supposedly suit everyone’s needs, These are divided in terms of disk space, data transfer limits per month, number of mailboxes (email accounts) and cost. The statistics of the different packages are as such:
Disk Space:
Mach1 Package – 5GB – this is laughable compared to the industry standard of 100GB or more.
Mach50 – 10GB of disk space, which is again embarrassingly low.
Mach 500 – 50GB of disk space – this was the industry standard about 3 years ago.
Mach1000 – 100GB disk space – this is closer to the standard of most companies. However, the cost is astronomical.

Data Transfer:
The industry standard is 2000GB, now moving towards even higher numbers quickly. Compare the following with it:
Mach1 – 200GB transfer
Mach 50 – 500GB
Mach 500 – 1000GB
Mach1000 – 2000GB

Next up is the number of email accounts you are allowed. You get up to 500 accounts on Mach1, and 1000 accounts on all the other three packages. The standard is 5000+, so none of the packages come even close to the standard.

Finally, you have the price comparisons. Gate is surprisingly more expensive than just about every single webhost out there. It would make sense for such sub-standard service to be dirt cheap, but the case is quite the opposite here. The prices for each of the packages is as follows:
Mach1 – $9.95 a month
Mach50 – $14.95 a month
Mach500 – $29.95 a month
Mach 1000 – $49.95 a month

Given that you can find features and hosting better than the Mach 1000 package for under $10 a month easily, the pricing of Gate Hosting just doesn’t make sense.

Added to this, the customer support of Gate is unreasonably slow and useless. While they advertise a a guaranteed response time of 24 hours or less, it takes on an average of 3 business days for them to respond. As such, Gate is one of the worst webhosts out there.

As is clear, Gate does not match up to the industry standards of either the disk storage, monthly bandwidth, mail boxes per account, customer service, and even the pricing. With all this stacked up against them, its a wonder as to why the service hasn’t been pulled off the market or at least completely revamped.

Gate offers both Unix, and Windows hosting. The rates and features for both the hosting plans are exactly the same. Generally, Windows hosting costs a little more than Unix hosting, but due to the already high prices, both Windows and Unix hosting cost just the same at Gate. Relatively speaking, the Windows hosting at Gate is slightly better than Unix, but is still vastly over-priced.

Gate also offers dedicated servers and VPS. Surprisingly, the prices of the servers. both Unix and Windows are relatively reasonable. However, Gate still manages to cheapen the service by charging extra for services that should be considered as part of the server plan. For example, you will end up paying an extra $35 every month for support with the server. If you decide not to get the support, and something goes wrong, you will end up paying $15 for every support ticket you file. Since things commonly go wrong with Gate, you are almost forced to pay up.

Some other services that Gate charges extra for are Web Stats from Urchin at $10 a month, Microsoft SQL 2005 Workgroup Edition for $100 every month, and Shared SQL 2000 for $20 per month. These additionally costs yet again re-enforce the idea that Gate is out for your money, and not for customer satisfaction.

If you are looking for a web hosting service, then Gate is definitely not one that you should even consider. There are a number of much better alternatives available to you, most, if not all of which are much better than Gate.

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