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

Our HostUpon test site showed to be very responsive.

Follow up:

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

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