About KnownHost
KnownHost is a privately held web hosting company based outside of Washington, DC. They have over 15 years of experience in the hosting industry. While they offer Linux-based shared hosting, reseller hosting and hybrid servers, their main bread and butter is VPS hosting.
Performance & Reliability
With KnownHost's VPS and Hybrid Server plans, you get to choose a data center in either Texas or California. Their Texas data center is located in downtown Dallas and their 500,000 square feet California data center is located on 7th Street in Los Angeles.
Both data centers are staffed around the clock and shows uncompromising standards for security, power supply and environmental controls, while focusing on connectivity, redundancy and resilience. Their network use multiple carriers with diverse building entrances, fully redundant Cisco architecture, HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol) failover protection and dual network feeds to each customer.
You can test their Texas data center connectivity by downloading this file (from IP 65.99.213.7) or their California data center by downloading this file (from IP 67.222.15.99).
Support
KnownHost hosting is backed by a highly professional support staff available 24x7. The support team offers extensive support on all platforms and control panels like cPanel, Plesk and Ensim. Support can be reached by email or through their support ticket system.
A knowledge base and a support forum are also available to help you manage your hosting account.
Features And Pricing
KnownHost has some of the most affordable website hosting plan in the industry. You can get your website online for as low as $4.75 per month which includes all the most common Linux hosting features such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, etc. And with any shared hosting plan you get cPanel, Fantastico Deluxe (a great script installer), a Sitebuilder, choice of three (3) shopping carts, AWstats (website traffic statistics) and lots, lots more.
Their VPS hosting plans are surely the company's best deals with one of the best price value in the industry. Starting at only $19 a month, you can have a full featured virtual server. With any VPS package, you get the choice of four (4) control panels: Webmin, DirectAdmin, Plesk or cPanel / WHM
If your VPS needs more power, you can go with one their Hybrid Server plan. Hybrid Servers are VPS running on Custom Built Enterprise class hardware with Dual CPU Dual Core Opterons, RAID 10 configurations and Virtuozzo virtualization technology. Starting at $104 per month, the cheapest Hybrid Server plan includes 768MB of RAM, 50GB of storage space, 500GB of bandwidth and 2 dedicated IP addresses.
With quality hosting plans a such a low price, no wonder KnownHost is one of the best value in the web hosting industry.
