About NetFirms
Netfirms Inc., a Canadian provider, was founded in 1998 and has been a highly successful and profitable hosting company with over 1 million websites hosted.
They offer shared hosting, dedicated servers, domain registration, ecommerce and web design solutions.
Performance & Reliability
NetFirms is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau's Online Reliability Program and an ICANN and CIRA certified registrar. Unfortunately there is not much information provided as to the networking and server equipment they use.
Support
NetFirms' support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can reach them by phone or email. Typically 70-80% of enquiries are responded to within 1-4 hours and 90% within 8 hours.
Over 95% of all initial enquiries are resolved during the first contact.
Features And Pricing
If you're looking for cheap domain names, NetFirms is the right registrar for you. You can get a .com, .net or .org for only $5.95 per year. They even offer rebates on these TLD so come back here often to keep updated.
I've personnally been registering many domain names with them and I've been very satisfied. On the downside, I think their domain management interface isn't user-friendly enough and can be a bit slow at times.
As for web hosting, they are not competitive with many other providers who offer a lot more features for the same price. NetFirms uses XL6 control panel which allows you to manage your domain, files, access statistics and more.
Unless you need a lot of storage and bandwidth, NetFirms still remains one of the safest Canadian web host.
