Storm Internet Hosting Review

Top 10 web host for uptime

Storm continues to be ranked within the Top 10 for server uptime by the website: hyperspin.com.

24/7/365 Direct Technical support

Storm's premium Plus, Ultimate and Reseller hosting packages have 24/7 LiveChat expert support! At the touch of a button you will be directed to an experienced hosting technician who will assist you with technical questions or server related issues regarding your web site or hosting package. With Storm’s LiveChat, there are no phone queues to get stuck in – you instantly get the expert help you need.

Exclusive customer discounts

At Storm they value every customer and are committed to ensuring they receive the best in customer service. That's why once you become a Storm customer, you will automatically receive 20% off the first year's hosting of any subsequent hosting packages you purchase. 

UK based data centre

Storm Internet provides UK web hosting – and all of their servers are based at the Bluesquare Data Centre in Maidenhead. By hosting your website on UK based servers, they can significantly improve your web site's position within UK search engine results UK specific searches.

Fast web hosting

BlueSquare have one of the fastest connections to the Internet in the world and this means that web sites hosted with Storm become some of the fastest on the web.

Reliable web hosting

The BlueSquare data centre is one of the only Tier 4 data centres in the country. Tier 4 data centres are the most resilient type of data centre you can get and are designed for hosting systems which are critical to businesses. This exceptional infrastructure combined with their 24/7 server monitoring means that your site will consistently achieve 100% uptime and market-leading performance.

Feature packed web hosting

Storm's web hosting packages are designed to enable your web site to get the most out of the Internet.

Value for money web hosting

Storm are not the cheapest UK web hosting provider, as ultimately this would only cause your web site to suffer. The goal of Storm is to provide high quality, dependable web hosting combined with excellent customer service..

Customer satisfaction

In a recent customer survey, 98% of customers said they would recommend Storm Internet web hosting services to others. They also received an average rating of 8.9 out of 10 for overall service.

Awards

On July 11th, 2013 - Storm Internet has won the award for Best SME Business Hosting at the 15th annual ISPA Awards, a category which saw fierce competition this year. The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) Awards event celebrates the best of the UK Internet industry, and is the longest running and most respected in the Internet industry.

July 17th, 2014 - Storm Internet has won the Best Dedicated Hosting category at the 16th annual ISPA Awards.

About ISPA

Each entrant underwent 2 months of rigorous technical testing, putting sample files on their servers, and allowing ISPA's testing partner thinkbroadband to download them periodically, testing every aspect of the host.

Judging Criteria: 

• Hours of support
• Hardware redundancy of each level
• Firewall protection
• Security measures at data centre(s)
• Patch management process
• Guarantees for connecting servers to the Internet
• Number of IP addresses offered
• Flexibility: Can size of site change without financial penalty or being tied into a contract?
• Payment options
• Price and value for money
• Domain/DNS management available
• Data centre availability/SLAs
• Provides IPv6 Address
• Availability and speed of service

Finalists, Storm Internet, managed to clinch the award at the black-tie event held at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The Best SME Business Hosting category saw more entrants than any other category, making it the most competitive at the event. Other finalists included 4d Data Centres, Datanet, Macace, StratoGen, and Virtual Internet.

What does it mean "web hosting for life"?

Life time hosting is offered with some types of hosting package. This means you pay a one-off fee and StormInternet then provide you with the hosting service without any further renewal fees. This offer is conditional and is based on the assumption that the domain name assigned to the hosting package upon ordering, resolves at all times to the server hosting the Life Time package. Should the domain name expire or it's "A Name" record or "Name Server" records are found to resolve to a server other than the one the Lifetime hosting package is hosted on, StormInternet.co.uk reserve the right to cancel the hosting package and close the account.

StormInternet.co.uk offers unlimited web space with some account types. By this, they mean unlimited space for legitimate web site content. All files on a domain must be part of the active website and linked to from a legitimate page on the site. By "legitimate page" they mean a page that clearly forms an essential part of the web site and not a page constructed to get around this term. Space cannot be used as a file repository and sites will not contain any backups, downloads, or other non-web based content.

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Conclusion

StormInternet.co.uk are multi award winning specialists in Managed Hosting. For a £59.99 you can get a lifetime hosting for 1 domain with 250 MB of Web space and 2.5 GB Bandwidth/Month, which is enough to host a simple WordPress or Joomla website.

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