Japanese hosting provider Heteml (a sub-brand of GMO Internet Group) offers SSD hosting solutions to mainly medium-sized businesses. It appears in the list of the top ten hosting companies in Japan by market share, and its data centers are located in Japan. This provider also has a presence in the United States, Brazil, China, and Taiwan. Their website is available is in Japanese.
Features and Ease of Use
Heteml’s hosting solutions have the following standard features:
- Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
- Automatic backup
- MySQL databases
- SQLite
- phpMyAdmin
- FTP accounts
- Unlimited email addresses
- HTTP/2
- SSH access
Heteml’s SSD servers are housed in a well-equipped data center that uses state-of-the-art redundancy protocols and which has an earthquake- and fire-resistant design. The servers use more than 20 Xeon cores and have a large capacity of up to 128GB disk space.
Proprietary technology with a modular version of PHP provides faster and more secure web hosting solutions. You can host multiple websites on one server, and the servers are monitored 24/7/365 to ensure a guaranteed uptime of 99%.
This provider offers free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with all its hosting packages. It offers daily automatic backups for the last seven days and allows users to restore as many times as they wish. You can operate multiple websites on one server.
Pricing and Support
Heteml’s plan prices (in Japanese yen) are in line with other Japanese hosting companies. There is only one billing cycle, which is monthly, and you can pay by credit/debit card or bank transfer. Domain transfers are charged for, and customers can either pay for a GlobalSign SSL certificate or use the free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. There is no money-back guarantee, but there is a 15-day free trial, and don’t forget that you only commit to monthly billing anyway.
You can reach out to the Heteml support team through telephone or email during Japan business hours. They don’t offer live chat or a ticketing system, and their support is not available 24/7. However, I must say that the support team is experienced and highly efficient in their assistance. They have a detailed knowledge base (referred to as the ‘manual’) and a set of FAQs on their website to further assist you.
