Easy CGI Web Hosting Review

EasyCGI offers a wide range of services including shared hosting, dedicated hosting and email hosting in the Windows 2003 hosting environment. Its Advanced, Advanced x2, and Advanced x4 hosting plans covers almost any function you expect your website to perform. Domain registration for the most common TLDs is offered at cut rate pricing and its trained support staff are always ready to help with issues you might encounter.

Easy CGI is a sophisticated operation catering for the needs of small and large businesses alike. One you enter their site, you will already be impressed with their sleek sense of style and professionalism.

Plans range from 7.96 per month to $21.56. There is no setup fee and there is a money back guarantee. Its 3 dedicated plans range from $43.96 to $95.96 and offer absolutely everything that you could ever need from a web hosting provider, and more!

All plans are provided on a Windows 2003 Hosting Environment. Disk space and monthly data transfer range from 350 GB/3,500GB per month to 750/7,500 GB per month. All plans include a website builder, hosting control panel, unlimited domain aliasing and FTP accounts. Easy CGI is an overall solution for resource intensive web sites that demand exponential amounts of web space and powerful MySQL and Microsoft SQL 2005 database connectivity. All its packages are powerful and will support any type of website with ease.

The cheaper plan provides 500 POP3 email accounts whilst the most expensive plan provides unlimited accounts. Other features available in all plans are spam and virus blocking, SMTP server relay, webmail, email forwarding, auto responding email, alternate MX records, catch-all email addresses and Windmail/Sendmail.

Easy CGI has a comprehensive list of advanced features including ASP.NET 2.0/1.1, Ajax 1.0, ASP, PHP 4.4.4, Perl, SSI, CGI-BIN, Frontpage Extensions, Microsoft Index Server, Persits AspUpload 3.0.0.5, Persits AspEmail 5.0, Persits AspJpeg 1.4, Flash/Shockwave and Streaming Audio and Video. The main databases are provided including other features included due to their Microsoft environment - MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Microsoft Access, 300MB Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database, and Data Sources (DSNs). In terms of scripts, Easy CGI comes with osCommerce, phpbbForum, DotNetNuke, Community Server, nGallery Image Gallery, Form Mailer and Counter. For more sophisticated e-commerce tools, Easy CGI offers at extra cost, e-onlinedata - a high quality credit card processing and payment solution. The costs for this tool include a $15.00 access fee (set up is free), then $0.05 per transaction.

Easy CGI has a toll free number for 24 hour, 7 days a week customer service. Easy CGI also provides support tickets and live chat for customers. There is a community forum available to see what questions and concerns other people have had plus plenty of online resources.

A recurring comment about Easy CGI is its superior hosting environment and the ability for users to administer their own domains. This is an important feature for dynamic websites who add and subtract features and applications constantly. Being a niche market of sorts, Easy CGI is renowned to be a knowledge leader in its field and provides excellent customer support and online resources which from all reports answers most questions.