General

WebHostingPad was formed in 2005 as a divison of Omnis Networks which has been in the web hosting industry since 1999 and currently manages more than 200,000 accounts.

• CEO: Gary Chon
• Offices: Chicago, IL
• Data center: Chicago, IL

User experience

Our Web Hosting Pad test site showed good response and uptimes.

Follow up:

WebHostingPad is a standard cPanel 11 host. There is a little bit of wasted white space in the panel skin, but that is definitely not any major issue.

Only a single concurrent FTP connection is possible. This is annoying if you want to update your site often with large amounts of files. You will not be able to parallelize uploads.

Customer satisfaction

WebHostingPad is a fairly recent hosting company growing very fast due to word of mouth by their satisfied customers.

Technical specs

WebHostingPad custom build their own servers. Each web server is a dual Xeon server with 8GB of system RAM. Furthermore, the shared web hosting service is delivered from a load-balanced cluster of servers and files are served from a Netapp network attached storage device. This ensures high availability and consistent performance for all user accounts.

• MySQL 5.0.45 - Up to date
• PHP 5.2.45 - Up to date
• UTF-8 and mbstring: supported

Overall, the platform is state of the art.

Section updated April 30th, 2008.

Security

Web Hosting Pad is running suPHP and there is strong isolation between user accounts.

SFTP is not available.

Overall security is good.

Hosting Plans

WebHostingPad offers a single hosting plan:

	WHP Plan
Monthly fee (× 12 mo)	$4.95
Monthly fee (× 24 mo)	$2.75
Monthly fee (× 36 mo)	$1.99
Disk space	Unlimited
Transfer	Unlimited
Included domain name	free
Domains per account	Unlimited
b2evo auto install	yes

Options

• SSH: $25

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