iCreate Hosting is an internet services provider based in South Africa, founded in 2006. It provides an array of hosting solutions, including domain name registration services, web hosting, web design, and SEO services.
Features and Ease of Use
Some of the standard features you are most likely to find in iCreate Hosting packages include:
- SSD storage
- cPanel control panel
- LiteSpeed webserver
- CloudLinux operating system
- MySQL databases
- DDoS protection
- WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
- Email accounts
- Website builder
- Backup services
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
iCreate Hosting uses SSD disks on its hosting solutions, which ensures improved performance and faster loading of its clients’ websites. In addition, the firm uses LiteSpeed webserver, which is up to nine times faster compared to traditional Apache web servers.
All of iCreate Hosting’s hosting packages run on CloudLinux operating system. This optimizes the performance of its hosted websites, which remain unaffected by nearby users.
What’s more, iCreate Hosting provides R1soft backup services to its customers. Its R1soft backups are performed weekly and come with a restore functionality, which means that you can restore a deleted or edited file easily for up to one week.
It deploys a cPanel control panel, which includes UI which is fully responsive. With this cPanel, you can easily manage databases, emails, files, and domains. If you’re a CMS enthusiast, you’ll be happy to know that iCreate Hosting’s cPanel comes with pre-installed CMS solutions like Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress.
Its web hosting packages offer four plans. Its basic plan includes 550MB SSD disk space, six email accounts, and one MySQL database. Its advanced plan includes 5GB SSD disk space, unlimited email accounts, and unlimited MySQL databases. The firm doesn’t offer SSL certificates in any of its hosting package even as an add-on that users can buy.
Pricing and Support
iCreate Hosting’s hosting packages pretty cheap. Users can opt to make monthly payments or annual payments through this vendor’s flexible billing cycle, and all of its prices are all listed in South African rand. It offers free domain name registration as well as domain for free for two months for every annual payment plan. And, while it offers a 99.99% uptime network guarantee, it has no money-back guarantee or any other refund policy.
To get technical support, you can contact the iCreate Hosting customer service team through is ticketing system, contact form, email, fax, social media, or telephone. Its customer service team is available 24/7 to attend to its customers, and its support team is quick to respond to queries from potential customers; my email query to them was answered almost immediately.
The vendor has a fairly detailed knowledge base, as well.
