AN Hosting Review

Since 2001, AN Hosting has taken every measure possible to live up to its magnanimous mission to be the "Host-20-sites-on-1-account-and-never-go-down company," and if the awards AN web hosting amassed over the years are any testament, it is doing a stellar job.

With AN Hosting, Your website(s) will be housed in a multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art Equinix IBX data center in Chicago, IL, designed to withstand the most extreme weather conditions, electrical outages, hacker attempts, and other safety, privacy, and security threats. Over 25,000 individuals and companies trust AN Hosting to serve their websites.

All AN web hosting packages include free setup, free live 24/7/365 support, free domain names for life, a number of free software tools such as a Site Builder and web analytics tools. AN Hosting also gives users unlimited email addresses. Besides UNIX and Windows hosting, AN Hosting offers a Virtual Private Network (VPN) server package.

SPECIAL OFFER: Purchase a 1 year Linux or Windows hosting plan with AN Hosting and get 3 months free by entering coupon code HR3 during the order process. With 12 months of web hosting for the price of 9, your cost works out to just $5.21/month.

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Price Value
AN Hosting eschews the industry-standard 20-odd packages for its all-in-one, "everything-you-need" package. And the breadth of features - web design tools, email tools, online statistics tools, e-commerce tools, and more - that come free with this web hosting package makes AN web hosting - already a bargain at $6.95 for 500 GB disk space and 5000 GB data transfer - an even better value.

AN Hosting stands behind its 99.9% uptime guarantee and its 99.9% network uptime guarantee. There is a glitch, however, with its 30-day money back guarantee, namely that it's not 100%. If you cancel, you forfeit the $21.95 domain name registration fee AN Hosting incurred when getting you your "free" domain name, though you will walk away owning your domain name.

Reliability
AN Hosting has a high customer retention rate, undoubtedly thanks to its top-of-the-line equipment and an experienced team of administrators making sure those servers are always up. AN web hosting's network operations center touts 2 OC-3s with double redundancy. AN Hosting has little difficulty holding fast to the aforementioned 99.9% uptime and network uptime guarantees.

Control Panel
AN Hosting uses the Cpanel control panel, popular because of its clean, intuitive, icon-based interfaces and eminent usability. Cpanel incorporates a wide array of powerful and convenient features - including integral Backup and Restore functionality - with readily available help info beside each tool to make learning to use them simple and painless. A collection of billing features help make account management easier too.

Customer Support
With its 24/7/365 toll-free telephone and live web chat support, AN Hosting invites you to contact it anytime at all, whether with pre-sales questions, for email and FTP assistance, technical issues, service status updates, or any other web hosting question on your mind. This far surpasses the standard email query ticket system many web hosting companies rely on. That said, some users may be pleased to find that AN Hosting also offers support via email and postal mail.

AN Hosting support team members have replied with outstanding courtesy, promptness, and relevant information to the few customer complaints we have heard.

Hosting Plans
Linux/UNIX Hosting Plan
The Mega Plan: 500 GB disk space, 5000 GB bandwidth @ $6.95/month (up to 20 domains)