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Pair Networks Overview
For the month of May 2014, pair Networks has waived ALL setup fees. Make sure you take advantage of this offer if you are a first-time customer. For those loyal clients of pair Networks, there is a 24% discount on ALL Web Inspector packages. With clients that have reputations to uphold, and can’t afford to have their sites down for the briefest of moments, pair Networks has proven itself to be a reliable hosting solution provider by making sure that they are online 100% of the time. Its current list of clients includes Reader’s Digest Canada, EcoMarket.com, Chicago Children’s Museum, Green Map System, Digicel Group etc. The company boasts its own dedicated, multi-homed network in its data center which is fully switched and collision free. pair Networks has proven itself to be a very versatile hosting solutions provider by actually working with everyone from individual bloggers, to businesses (small and large), artists, musicians, educational institutions and even non-profit organizations.
Ease of Use
Pair Network lets webmasters have an easy day at the office. pairSIM is pair Network’s custom software installation manager that allows you to install and configure a large selection of software packages that aim to make your site a proverbial work of art. Some of the packages you can work with are: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB, Geeklog and MediaWiki.
Features
There are no limits on the number of domains that a client can have when hosting with pair Networks. As a matter of fact, the company even offers the first one for free. Shopsite, a store-building application is available in three versions through pair Networks and customers can install shopping carts and even software to accept credit cards. Once you have the basic page up, everything else is pretty straight forward. But in case you need to access your email, you can securely do so from anywhere using your browser. If you choose to, you can also setup your own client with IMAP or POP mailbox access.
In case you need to get your hands dirty and do some behind the scene coding for your site, you can access your site via SSH & SFTP. Whether you choose PHP, Ruby on Rails (including 1000’s of gems), Python, C or C++ you will find that you will be able to work on your site, giving you more authority in the overall outcome.
Customer Support
Pair Networks offers its clients world class customer support. The company helps its clients 24/7 and can be contacted via email and telephone. pair Networks states that if a client doesn’t get what he or she wants in terms of service or an issue is not resolved, a money-back guarantee will be issued. Furthermore, pair Networks’ support website has an impressive knowledge base that looks more like a technology library than one company’s offer of help to its customers.
Pricing
Pair Networks offers four hosting plans simply named Package 1, Package 2, Package 3 and Package 4. The monthly prices are: $5.95, $9.95, $17.95 and $29.95. The main differences in the plans are in the sizes of the hard disk spaces that are offered, the amount of bandwidth and the number of MySQL databases made available.
The Good
Pair Networks handles the complex jobs while you worry about expanding your business
The Bad
None
The Ugly
The “plain and simple approach” as with the package names could be dull for those looking for more spunk in a web host