REVIEW of Gate.com

Gate.com has quite a reputation to live up to. On their website, Gate notes how they were founded on “one simple principle” – that web hosting can be affordable, reliable, and, smarter. According to Gate, one of the “smarter” ways of web hosting means improving clustering technologies. Clustering technologies keep your information safe by transferring data and hosting capabilities across numerous servers. Moreover, clustering technology allows these servers to operate more effectively and efficiently. Gate uses clustering technologies across their web hosting accounts and provides a general overview of this technology to their web visitors. In the end, clustering keeps infrastructure costs down for clients while improving their client’s presence on the web.

Gate reserves their greatest praise for their innovative and dedicated staff of customer support representatives, developers, and engineers. To show just how accomplished and competent their staff is, Gate hosting plans range from the basics of domain registration and email accounts to Linux and Windows Hosting as well as dedicated servers.

The Gate website provides basic and succinct information to help even the novice web page builder understand some of the inner workings of web hosting technology. They explain to the buyer how clustering techniques work and why Gate remains the industry leader. When purchasing an account with Gate, you are “essentially acquiring systems, network, connectivity, and facilities.” Gate gives you an inside look into their networking infrastructure. They tell their customers how the latest in cutting edge technology, back up systems, and clustering infrastructure not only contribute to the reliability of your website, but also to lowering your online costs.

Gate also offers affordable rates for you to build and enhance your website. So what is affordable, especially when several other web hosting companies can offer free domain names, unlimited email services, and other perks for less that five bucks a year? Gate charges comparable rates for these services but they also build trust between their account holders and their support staff. For just under $8 a year, an account holder gets his or her domain name registered for a year. Email service, which can include up to fifty mailboxes and two gigabytes of storage is priced below $5. Reliability and trust are two parts of the overall Gate package.

Gate also keeps their front page fresh with new offers that help propel more traffic to your website. Take for instance their recent offer to shave 50% off several SEO tools, 80% off Gigamail, and the low price of $10 a year for Urchin 5 Web Analytics. And here’s the thing: if you’re a novice at website design, Gate offers you different plans designed to improve and expand your website presence. At the same time, professional designers will appreciate several additional services that you may not understand how they could enhance your site.

But let’s take a look at how Gate has custom-fit several plans for its diverse client base. If I click on the Windows Hosting link, I get four different web hosting plans. Take the Ultimate Pack service. For $5 a month, you get unlimited disk space, data transfers, mailboxes, and databases. For the Mach 1 plan, five bucks per month allows you up to a hundred gigabytes of disk space, five hundred mailboxes and broadcast email marketing. Their most expensive plan provides more than 250 gigabytes of disk space and two thousand mailboxes for $15 a month (this price was recently slashed in half from $30 a month). Similar plans are available on Linux.

The affiliates program at Gate appears to be the most innovative offer. The affiliates program works more or less like a referral system. If a small business uses Gate web hosting, and then provides some ad space for Gate, Gate will give that company up to $100 for any referrals made by that ad. This serves both to introduce Gate to more customers and gives small businesses a cash incentive to provide basic advertising to Gate.

Overall, Gate wants its customers to trust not only the professionalism of the company, but also how web hosting works. In giving both the infrastructure information and how the proper web hosting company can drive traffic to a customer’s website, Gate effectively hands the keys to its account holders while it provides the body work and behind-the-scenes upkeep to support its client web pages.