Hosting Review LiquidWeb
Hosting Review LiquidWeb – Company Introduction
Establishment: 1997
Headquarter: The State of Arizona in the United States of America
Key Selling Points
- Liquid Web is a $100 million web hosting and cloud service-provider
- Delivers reliable, highly-available, secure and hassle-free hosting fueled by our Heroic Support®
- Liquid Web is part of the Madison Dearborn Partners family of companies.
- Leader in Professional web hosting
- Reliable and trusted web hosting provider
- Serves efficient, scalable and cost-efficient Storm Object Storage which boosts performance almost 500%
- Use of SSD cloud servers which are 100x faster than the average cloud servers
- cPanel Available
- Quick Provisioning
- RAID Protected SSD VPS
- API Access and Easy Clone & Resize
Data Centers
- Three self-owned data center located in Lansing and forth in Scottsdale, AZ
- Data centers provided with redundant power, network system, and 24 x 7 cooling.
Executive
CTO: Joe Oesterling
Chief Operating Officer: Carrie Wheeler
Parent Company: Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC (MDP)
Achievements:
- INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies award in 2007, 2008,2009, 2010, 2011,2012, 2013 and 2014
- Passed EU- US and Swiss-US, Privacy Shield audit
- SOC 1, 2, 3 attestations, and the PCI Service Provider recertification
Hosting Review LiquidWeb – Services Offered
- Managed Hosting Solutions, VPS, and WordPress Hosting
- Managed Dedicated Server Solutions with Windows or Linux come up with Single processor, dual processor, and quad processor dedicated servers
- Dedicated Server product line:
Processor: Intel Xeon processors: the E3-1230 v5, E3-1270 v5, Dual E5-2667 v4, and Dual E5-2680 v4 RAID - Blog Hosting with WordPress, other CMS solutions available include Drupal, PhpBB, OSCommerce.
Hosting Plans
- VPS hosting: Price starts at $19/month
- Intel Xeon 1230 Dedicated plan: Price starts at $149/month
- Managed WordPress & Managed WooCommerce
Managed Virtual Private Server: Cost $29.50 per month. Furthermore,2GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth, one vCPU and 40GB SSD. Also, pre-installed Linux built-in backup system, CloudFlare CDN, DDoS protection, Gigabit transfer and root access.
Web Hosting Features:
- Unlimited e-mail accounts, full CGI access, unlimited mailing lists, support of programming languages such as Perl, PHP5, C++, Python, MySQL databases, Free SSL Secure Server, SSH secure shell access
- Free 100GB Backup on all plans
Other Services Offered
- SSL included in all hosting plans, automatic backups along with automatic core and plug-in updates.
- Premium Business Email
- Managed WordPress innovations, such as Image Compression, Visual comparison tool and the addition of iThemes Sync.
Managed Cloud Hosting Managed WordPress Hosting Dedicated Servers
Managed Cloud VPS Managed WooCommerce Hosting Cloud Sites
iThemes WordPress Hosting Windows Dedicated Servers
Hosting Review LiquidWeb – Customers
Target Customers: Web-dependent professionals (designers and developers), SMB's and digital agency
No. of Customers: 32,000 customers spanning 150 countries
What for Customers?
- High-performance: Web pages open at fast speed
- User-friendly: Hosting plans convenient to users and easy to use. The clients don't even have to worry about maintenance or installing security patches. Help user to migrate data from current host to Liquid web servers
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Scalable and Secure: SSH Secure Shell Access
- Reliable: Redundant Backups. Disaster Recovery from Liquid Web
- Geographic Redundancy
- High Availability Setups: Data Hosted in Disaster Neutral Locations
- A broad range of hosting services: Offers affordable and reliable VPS Hosting. Clients have increased productivity at lower cost.
Uptime guarantee: 100%
Promotion: coupon code: READY35 for 35% off three months of hosting. Coupon Code expires on November 25, 2019
Security
- Performance Enhancements (CloudFlare)
- Site backups with malware scanning
- DDoS protection
- Built-in server backup solutions
Hosting Review LiquidWeb – Support
- Support: 24.7.365 by an expert group of solution engineers Heroic Support delivering reliable, highly-available, secure and hassle-free hosting. The company has 250 Red Hat, Linux, and Windows-certified technicians.
- Sonar server monitoring team and world class Heroic Support staff certified by Cisco and Red Hat
- Monitors server including hardware, software, and network
- Accessible 24 x 7
- 400+Heroic support engineers with specialties in Technical Assistance Database Administration, Migrations, Advanced Networking, System Restoration
Hosting Review LiquidWeb – Latest News
- (November 06, 2017) UHY LLP, an independent accounting firm validated the company's assertion that solutions comply with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and privacy guidelines. It includes administrative, physical and technical safeguard measures. The company processes, policies, and network security focussed on protecting customer's data with highest standards.
The announcement is significant to clients that store ePHI or PHI and any other sensitive data and for customers who have verification and reporting obligations to run their business. - (September 28, 2017) Adds Premium fully managed ‘Business Email' to Product Portfolio. It includes professional standard features like mobile access, webmail, and other email clients. Furthermore, spam and virus protection.
- (Jan. 19, 2017, PRNewswire) Liquid Web Acquires Chicago-based managed web hosting company WiredTree. Existing customers of WiredTree would get better infrastructure, superior support with no change in prices.
- (Dec 01, 2016, 09:00 ET) Liquid Web Hires WordPress Authority Chris Lema as VP to Head Up Product and Innovation. He would support growing WordPress Customer Base and Innovative Product Line of Liquidweb.
Chris Lema has more than 20 years of experience in software and product development.
(Oct. 26, 2016 PRNewswire) Liquid Web Upgrades Managed Dedicated Server Solutions with the CPUs, business-grade SSDs, and fourth generation DDR (double data rate) RAM improving Speed, Reliability, and Security for Customers. - To safeguard its customers, LiquidWeb has deployed Corero Network Security’s SmartWall® Threat Defense System (TDS). It protects its 100Gbps of Internet bandwidth with automatic DDoS mitigation across the multiple Liquid Web data centers.