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View more Hosting Reviews on WebHostingReviews.com Brilliant!
Normally, I am not given to spending time reviewing things just for the sake of it. Some things, however, are so good, you feel the whole world should know.
In a word, AwardSpace hosting is absolutely brilliant. I am a free user, using a sub-domain of AwardSpace. I hopped over at least five different free web hosts before settling on this one. Each of the ones I rejected had show stopping reasons for rejection: speed or reliability issues, lack of critical features, forced ads or something else. AwardSpace has no such problem.
My site is a personal blog - not at all mission critical. It's a self-installed WordPress platform, which comes with plenty of niggles on other services: missing PHP modules, misplaced CGI folders, draconic file size limits and some file format blocked altogether. On AwardSpace, it was a breeze.
AwardSpace offers excellent tech support. Replies are quick, to the point, and resolved more quickly than most companies even register a support request.
The feature offerings themselves are extremely generous: a fair amount of webspace and bandwidth. Even these are not set in stone - I remember going over my monthly bandwidth limit due to an influx, and AwardSpace admins very kindly reset my limit.
There are two slight blemishes on an otherwise perfect system: the hosting control panel does not feature very sophisticated file managers or back up methods, and they have a fancy (and un-published) list of 'bad words' which causes 404 errors to appear when present on a particular page. While I understand that the second of the two helps prevent abuse of the free hosting system, I do wish they would, sometimes in the near future, implement a system of 'trusted' users for whom they could waive that issue.
Conclusion: I've been on AwardSpace since July 2008. And I have yet to see a reason to persuade me to look elsewhere.
Biggest Pro: Brilliant support eco-system
Biggest Con: The 'bad words' filtering system
Reviewed on December 5th, 2009 at 08:57 EST by Muhammad Fahd Waseem
Customer for duration of 1 - 2 years
IP Address: 119.153.66.167
Type of Plan: Shared Platform: Unix Domain: http://superphysics.awardspace.com/ Email: [withheld]
Service and support is fantasticI am not some professional in building web sites. I just have my own site that has 2 domain names hosted at awardspace.com (the 2 different domains lead to the same site). The site I use is just for my hobby in fact my son helped me build the site and I maintain it during the last 9-10 months.
I've been with them for just under a year and only had 2 downtimes for about 5-10 mins each. If you know anything about hosting, you know that is AWSOME. I am really happy with AwardSpace hosting, costumer service very fast to solve the problem. I would recommend them to anyone.
The really go over and beyond the call of duty at all times. I already renewed my hosting for 3 years this instead of just the year I currently have. I even paid a discounted price on that.
Biggest Pro: Good service
Biggest Con: So far none
Reviewed on August 4th, 2009 at 06:31 EST by Eric Lauzon
Customer for duration of 6 - 11 months
IP Address: 209.44.123.4
Until now, the best one I foundSince the beginning of June I'm a customer of AwardSpace. After having left my old host due to billing reasons I had to find a host that was fast, cheap, that had lots of space for my files and a considerable amount of bandwidth and, above all, reliable.
I had a free account in AwardSpace in which I kept files for back up etc And since I got to know AwardSpace I always found it a good host not only for the space in free accounts but also for the control panel's simplicty.
Now I'm very happy with the service and I hope that it'll continue like that. Just two small issues I cannot hide from the review. At the beginning I was surprised by a suden downtime of my website. I mailed the support and in ten minutes got the answer back telling me that the server had to be fixed due to some problem. I just think that they could have mailed all the customers that had websites hosted in that webserver instead of waitting for a "What's happening to my website?". The other problem is that the control penel is missing an extremly important feature - backup. When I want to back up my files or compress all of them for once in a zip file or something (like we can easily do on CPanel) I have to do it manually.
However, I'm very very happy. I would recommend it to anyone who asks me which host he/she should choose for any type of website.
(Sorry about the language. I'm not a native speaker).
Biggest Pro: Technical suport and price
Biggest Con: Lack of back up feature in control panel
Reviewed on July 27th, 2009 at 13:14 EST by Nuno
Customer for duration of 1 - 2 months
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I picked Award Space from the few free webhosts that do not employ banners or adverts. The service is very good for newbies like myself who are learning the art of web design. I am also impressed with the consistancy of the service compared to other webhosts. In fact the service has been so good that I have never had to use the support services which means I can't actually rate the customer relations properly. Kudos.