Our Thoughts on Easy CGI

Easy CGI Bio

Easy CGI opened its doors during the internet bubble of 1998 and was one of the few technology companies with a solid enough business model to survive the burst in 2000. Easy offers three tiers of shared hosting to match the needs of every individual. Along with a nice set of options, customers should know that Easy CGI owns its own data center, so you can rest well knowing you are not dealing with a reseller.

Easy CGI is one of the select hosts that provide Windows 2003 Server shared hosting at a reasonable price. If you're developing with ASP.NET, AJAX 1.0 and the .NET Framework 3.0 you'll want to go with Easy CGI as their are specialized in providing Windows hosting.

Support

Easy strives to provide the best support in the industry by keeping its staff trained in the latest changes in web technologies and focusing on quick support so that you can focus on more important items like building up your website.

The support system at Easy CGI includes: 24/7 phone support via an 800 number, email support, help desk support, and an online knowledge base. In addition to those support options, Easy also maintains a collections of valuable web resources that are crucial to any web developer.

Reliability

Easy CGI has developed a extensive monitoring system that allows them to react to issues before they become serious problems. This means more uptime for your website and less lost business.

A lot of hosts say they offer 99.9% uptime, but Easy CGI puts its money where its mouth is and guarantees 99.9% uptime. This means if your uptime is less than 99.9% you'll get money back or free hosting credits. And if that wasn't enough they also offer a 30 day money back guarantee on each and every hosting package that they offer.

User Reviews of Easy CGI

atomicbliss's Review - From: www.webhostingtalk.com Dec. 16th, 2008

I've been web designing for quite awhile now and been through a variety of webhosts, but never, ever, have I seen such a lack of caring or complete ineptitude that EasyCGI showed.

I was with them for quiet a few months, preparing the launch of my website. Mid October, I noticed how slow the website was... but since EasyCGI was announcing a server change, I stayed by them and hoped for the best. I launched my website November 1st.

Basically, since it's launch.. every few days, my website would go down.. I'd file a support ticket and magically it'd be fixed. This went on for the first few tries, until I figured out that the culprit was the MySQL database behind my website (using Joomla). What was happening was every few days my database was getting overwritten with someone else's data... and in turn, I could go and browse their entire database (yes with credit card tables, usernames, ability to change passwords,...

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