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Media3 Overview
With a 90 days free offer, Media3 gives its customers a nice incentive to alleviate any buyer’s remorse. It doesn’t hurt that the company has been in the hosting business since 1995, offering scalable, flexible cloud-based solutions with straight-forward pricing and no surprises or hidden fees. With Media3’s customer-focused approach, your business’ concerns are taken into consideration before the company makes a professional recommendation for a web hosting plan. Your budget is just one of the factors that Media3 takes under advisement, but its flexible plan pricing allows businesses of any size to find a solution that changes as your business’ demands change. Media3 provides world-class business solutions for such as Cloud/Plesk Cloud Virtual Machines, ColdFusion Cloud hosting, Hybrid/Dedicated Cloud and Private Cloud Mail Servers
Ease of Use
While many web hosting providers give you little in the way of a solution that is truly tailored to your requirements, Media3 has eliminated the guess work by offering their professional recommendation based on an in-depth review of your business’ demands. That extra step can alleviate a lot of stress and prevent countless wasted hours and dollars for your business. A customized solution that provides all the elements your business needs to succeed is exactly what helps Media3 to succeed.
To that end, Media3 offers free migration assistance for new and existing customers that wish to transition to any of their web hosting plans. Regardless of how much content, and how many databases need to be transferred, Media3 provides an experienced team that is at your disposal to ensure a smooth transition. A pay-as-you-go pricing option makes it easy to change, upgrade, downgrade or cancel your account with Media3 whenever necessary, and without long-term contracts.
Features
Whether you’re in the market for Windows, ColdFusion or Linuz cloud site plans, the web hosting offered by Media3 includes infrastructure that features Microsoft Hyper-v Cloud Platform, Dell Enterprise grade cloud-optimized hardware, fault tolerant advanced storage and fully redundant, state-of-the-art datacenters. You can rely upon the latest and greatest development environments and know that it will be supported by Media3’s versatile solutions.
Enterprise-class Email services include access to all of the tools that help your day-to-day operations: Email, calendars, contacts, tasks, chats, notes and other features that can be accessed from the office, at home or on the road. You’re given total control with mobile web apps for iPhone, iPad, Android devices and more, so that you always have the access and availability of data and information that keeps your business up and running.
Media3 provides features that help you keep track, promote and maintain your websites and databases with SmarterStats Web Analytics. The search engine optimization (SEO) tools provided will help your business achieve higher search rankings and improve the overall visibility of your business, meanwhile; you can use analytics to analyze web traffic and determine where to allocate appropriate resources.
Customer Support
Media3 offers fully managed web hosting solutions for those customers that don’t have the know-how, in-house resources or budget to handle it themselves. With so many years of hosting experience, Media3 can take on a key role in your business’ success without requiring much work from you. A web hosting solution that provides 24/7/365 customer service and technical support can ensure that any solution you choose for your business is covered in the event that issues and questions arise, and surely, they will. With Live Chat and phone support options, Media3 provides customer service access regardless of when it is needed.
FAQ and knowledgebase articles, along with contact information can be located from Media3’s support portal. Their portal requires a login in order to access the areas of support that will matter most to its customers, but Email and Live Chat is provided for sales questions, as well as a sales phone number where you can direct your questions to a live representative.
PRICING
Media3 provides Windows Cloud Site Plans for 3 different business categories: Foundation, Business and Corporate. All plans include ASP/ASP.net, .NET, PHP, unmetered bandwidth, web-based DB tools, unlimited aliases, SmarterStats Analytics, 24/7/365 technical support, control panel, mobile app and more.
Foundation – $24/month for 2.5GB cloud disk storage, 2 MSSQL DBs, 2 MySQL DBs, 25 POP/IMAP Mailboxes, and IIS 8 server OS.
Business – $35/month for 3.5GB cloud disk storage, 5 MSSQL DBs, 5 MySQL DBs, 35 POP/IMAP Mailboxes, and IIS 8 server OS.
Corporate – $55/month for 5GB cloud disk storage, 10 MSSQL DBs, 10 MySQL DBs, 50 POP/IMAP Mailboxes, and IIS 8 server OS.
The Good
Customer-focused approach is at the core of Media3’s philosophy
90-days free is a good start to what Media3 and its customers hope will be a long-standing relationship
The Bad
There aren’t many reasons why a small website owner would opt for Media3’s enterprise-class hosting solutions
The Ugly
Free migration service means that you can transfer only one database or a bank of servers to Media3