About Easy CGI
Easy CGI is a company providing MS Windows web hosting services. Since its inception in 1998, Easy CGI has become a globally competitive Web Hosting Provider, hosting over 20,000 Web sites. Their data center and network operations center is located in Pearl River, New York.
They offer shared hosting and virtual private server packages.
Performance & Reliability
Easy CGI web servers are running on Windows 2003 / 2008 servers providing unmatched stability, performance and reliability. Their Network Operation Center provides 2nd level technicians with powerful proactive monitoring tools that instantly alert them of a potential problem with any system.
Easy CGI's Internet connection is provided by a redundant Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) fiber optic uplinks to varied geographic locations. These connections operate on SONET technology are are provided by Verizon and Optimum Lightpath for maximum fault tolerance.
Both Data Center and Office access are monitored by secure access controls. All guests to their facility are escorted at all times during their visit.
Support
Support is offered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through either their toll free number or their support ticket system. They have an extensive knowledgebase filled with many do-it-yourself articles.
Easy CGI maintains its corporate headquarters directly adjacent to its Data Center. This provides our own qualified staff direct access to all systems.
Features And Pricing
When comparing Easy CGI to other web hosts, you have to keep in mind that Windows hosting is always more expensive. So keeping that in perspective, Easy CGI has to be one of the best Windows hosting providers, providing agressive prices and plans packed with lots of features.
Although their custom control panel may not be like what you're used to see, I got quite comfortable with it within a few minutes. Not only it allows you to manage your website, MySQL and MS SQL databases, email accounts, scheduled tasks, domain management and all the usual stuff, you can also add services and other features to your account.
I like the fact that you have access to backups of all your files and folders spanning back 2 weeks. It's really easy to restore files in case anything happens.
As far as supported programming languages goes, Easy CGI offers PHP 5, Perl 5 and ASP support. In addition to ASP.net 1.1 and 2.0, they also have the latest 3.5 framework. Less experienced users will find easy to install applications like osCommerce, phpBB (forum), image galleries and more.
If you're looking for a great Windows-based web host, Easy CGI is the place for you. And even if you don't necessarily need Windows hosting, Easy CGI can handle the job very well.
