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HostUpon Review
May 14, 2008 • Category: Reviews 
General
HostUpon was established in 2007 by Alfez Velji who has previously worked for several other hosting companies. They are based in Downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada.
HostUpon leases their servers from SoftLayer and so benefit from their high end data centers located in Dallas, TX and Seattle, WA with a third one coming in the fall in Washington, DC. For optimal response times, clients can choose which datacenter they wish to be hosted on.
User experience
HostUpon announces 100 accounts per shared user which is very good given the specs of their servers:
...
- Intel Xeon DualCore QuadProc Sata
- Processor Intel Xeon -Quad Core [2.4GHz]
- RAM slots 1GB DDR2 [4-8GB]
- Drive Controller Mainboard Onboard SATAII Controller
- Hard Drives Seagate Barracuda ST3500320NS
HostUpon uses the industry proven cPanel architecture. No surprises there.
Customer satisfaction
Customer feedback has shown that HostUpon's offering is aligned with other cPanel hosts in the industry with the added benefit of a very aggressive price.
Technical specs
- PHP version: 5.2.5 -- Good.
- PHP security: Average
- MySQL version: 5.0.45
Section updated on March 28th, 08
Security
File uploads can be done via SFTP which is excellent.
However PHP is running on mod_php which is not optimal for security.
Overall security is average.
Hosting Plans
 |
Starter | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee (× 24 mo) | $4.95 | $9.95 |
| Disk space | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Transfer | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Included domain name | free | free |
| MySQL databases | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Dedicated IP | Optional | Included |
Use coupon code "B2evo" for an additional 20% OFF!
6 comments
I have ben using vps hosting from host upon for th last 6 months now... They are a good company, and excellent uptime. The only time my server has been down was when I accidentally made an error in my scripting, which overloaded the server. I feel that while the vps plan that I have is expensive, their service is good and the ability to have dozens of domains on one vps makes it worthwhile. I would recommend them to others!
03/06/09 @ 08:25
HOSTUPON IS NOT GOOD AT ALL!!!! PAY ATTENTION TO THISIf you purchase the services from hostupon you have committed a great mistake, i myself am a victim of overselling.
Host upon oversells a lot with one purpose in mind "to get you to puchase their private plan". i have purchased a plan for two years with them, after almost 6 months they cancel my account saying that i was using 27% of their server resources which is a complete lie, i was only getting afew hundred visitors a month, so it was impossible for me to use that many resources; they said that it could be because of scripts, also a lie, i am with hostgator now and i am using only about 0.1% of servers resources.
HOSTUPON oversells, offers a lot for a very low price, with one intention in mind, get you to buy their plans, once you have them they suspend your account and offer you their private plans.
Hostupon is dishonest, they lie and offer too much, your site will be offline quite a lot.
my site tranferred to hostgator is www.rematerd.com
and domains that still remain with hostupon are:
datebookmatch (still suspended)
orbiventas.com (still suspended)
sugarmotion.com (still suspended)
08/15/09 @ 05:40
Comment from: J. Aneiros [Visitor]
A one man operation with terrible support. Servers are dead slow and the whole process has been extreamly frustratingI do not have a single positive thing to say, other than when asking to cancel my account, for once their response was fast. However, I've lost 10 months of hosting since they do not refund your money after 30 days.
03/27/10 @ 21:46
Comment from: Grace [Visitor]
HostUpon is a poor quality hosting company. When ask to refund for what an account that I did not buy, they try to avoid me through email, chat, and telephone.
12/20/10 @ 13:20
Comment from: Andrei [Visitor]
Host is very week, i buy this because i was refere by abk soft they made a site for me and it as only host with the settings that my site needed to work. Sequrity is very week, my host was broken by hackers and infected all my sites from the host.Mozilla firefox decare all my site malicios : Reported Attack Page!This web page at www.date-me.ro has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.
The host crashed a lot of times and it took somtime 24h until they solve the problems.
Suport are to coold and they dont know how to talk with the customers , after firts time you talk to them online you feal like u better send them a mail because they make you feal like you disturbing them , and host is to expencive for the services that they offer
After i finish my plan i will change host definitly.
01/27/11 @ 18:28
Don’t believe them anything they say. Before I chose their hosting plan I talked with their sale team and I said to them what type of website I want to have and how it will work. They said that their business hosting plan is designed for video and community portals. For some 6 to 9 months it was all ok but then in in one day they suspended my account and offered me two choices:Unfortunately based on your usage we cannot allow you back on the shared server. Your options are as follows:
1 - Upgrade to a VPS hosting plan. We will move you over to it and get you back online.
2 - We can provide a backup of your site for you to download and you can find a new provider.
Let us know what you would like to do.
Pure blackmail from their side so you must order a VPS plan for 120 USD a month instead of 9 USD they said that is perfect for my site.
DESIDE FOR YOUR SELF IF YOU WANT TO TRUST THEM OR NOT!!!
04/07/11 @ 21:01
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