Established in 2012, MilesWeb is a comparatively new and “100% impartial” web hosting firm from India. It was based by Deepak Kori, Chetan Mahale and Chinmay Dingore with a transparent and easy intention, and that’s “to ship high quality providers around the clock at inexpensive costs”. From its humble starting, MilesWeb has grow to be one of many quickest rising corporations within the trade. In addition to a wide range of internet hosting varieties, they supply area registration, web site safety, SSL certificates and related necessities. They declare to have greater than 20.000 glad clients at this second.
MilesWeb’s information facilities are scattered everywhere in the world, so clients can select whether or not they need to host their web sites within the US, the UK, Canada, Singapore or (clearly) India. Their most important web site feels recent and pleasing to the attention. With its trendy interface and user-friendly structure, discovering your approach round feels simple. When you arrive on the touchdown web page, you’ll be warmly greeted by an Indian “Johnny Bravo” (MilesWeb’s thought of a handsome mascot) and introduced with an ongoing low cost, all with a ticking timer.
Like many new and trendy internet hosting suppliers, they’ve an official weblog and a reasonably fashionable one in addition. Along with up-to-date articles there’s a “Video Library” resulting in their YouTube account which options a substantial amount of tutorial-like movies. As far as we will inform, they’re in English, finished in directly-to-the-point method and fairly useful.
As for different social networks, MilesWeb is presently lively on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and (curiously sufficient) Instagram. The profiles on these platforms are purposeful and appear to be lively on a day-to-day foundation.
Plans and pricing
MilesWeb provides fairly various completely different internet hosting providers, beginning with primary shared hosting all the best way to managed WordPress, cloud, reseller, VPS and devoted server internet hosting. With most internet hosting varieties, clients are free to decide on which working system they wish to use (Linux or Windows) and this (commendably) doesn’t appear to have an effect on the pricing. The variety of introduced plans depend upon the internet hosting sort, however the minimal is three.
The most inexpensive shared internet hosting plan goes by the title “Tyro” and, at this second, it begins at extraordinarily low-cost $0.60 (however provided that you select to commit for 3 years) per 30 days. This will get you one free area registration (for the primary yr), unmetered bandwidth, 1GB of SSD disk house and free SSL certificates. Yet, automated backups will price you additional money. Even although it’s labeled as one of many “limitless internet hosting plans” (along with the opposite two), the one “limitless” characteristic it provides is its bandwidth, whereas each electronic mail accounts and disk house have clear limitations. For extra demanding companies, there’s a naked steel internet hosting choice as effectively and it goes as much as $290 on a month-to-month foundation.
Although MilesWeb provides a regular 30-day money-back assure, some refunds may be given within the type of credit score, which could depend upon the cost methodology you initially opted for.
For MilesWeb’s merchandise, you possibly can select to pay with credit score/debit card, PayPal, direct financial institution switch or by way of RuPay (principally, an Indian model of PayPal), which is extra choices than we usually see.
Ease of use
One of the issues we stored noticing on the MilesWeb’s web site had been a few of the questionable advertising and marketing strategies which utterly lack any subtlety. For occasion, there’s a desk on the backside of the touchdown web page that compares them with a few of the standard hosting suppliers (Hostgator, Bluehost, GoDaddy and BigRock specifically). As one would anticipate, MilesWeb is proven to be higher than its opponents by each parameter. Well, that’s undoubtedly not the kind of self-promotion we had been hoping to search out.
Another peculiar factor we encountered on MilesWeb’s web site was a type of timer that popped up with a “warning” a couple of soon-to-expire supply to register a free area in 5 minutes or much less. And we witnessed this quite a lot of occasions whereas looking the web site. If that was purported to be a joke, it went over our heads. If not, it merely isn’t true and simulating the state of urgency doesn’t seem to be the easiest way to “catch” new and even much less skilled clients.
Fortunately, once we determined upon a internet hosting plan, the method of buying it was somewhat uncomplicated, though we had our worries. After registering a brand new area, transferring an previous one or utilizing it as it’s, you’ll proceed to decide on a billing cycle. There, you would possibly discover {that a} free area is excluded if you wish to be billed for only one month. Additionally, that month will price you $3.00, whereas committing for a yr would drop the worth to $1.50 and $0.60 for 3 years. In any case, web site migrations are cost-free choices as is SSL certificates.
As for servers, two can be found for the most affordable shared internet hosting plan: one is positioned in New York and one other one in Mumbai, India. Before continuing, double verify for any undesirable additions to your chart (as there have been a couple of in our case), since they will increase the overall value considerably.
After this, to complete creating your MilesWeb’s account, it’s a must to present them with some commonplace private information, as effectively further details about what sort of SMS notifications you need to obtain. Then you possibly can create a password, choose a cost methodology, full your order and anticipate additional directions.
Once your web site exhibits up, managing each facet of will probably be a somewhat comfy expertise, on account of a user-friendly interface and famously easy-to-operate Linux-based cPanel. With the Softaculous installer, WordPress is one click on away and so is a substantial amount of standard purposes. If you would favor to make use of an internet site builder, you can be given one with loads of free templates and simple drag-and-drop performance.
Speed and expertise
Since MilesWeb proudly declared itself because the “highest rated net host”, it’s only pure that we must always anticipate the best efficiency to help the assertion in query. Fortunately for them, the outcomes of the pace check supplied by GTmetrix had been nearly good, which is one thing we seldom see. The time it took to utterly load the web page was 2.1 seconds, which seems completely positive in comparison with the common results of 8.1. Additionally, the entire course of took 80 requests, whereas the common is 89. Taking this and every thing else into consideration, GTmetrix rated MilesWeb’s web site efficiency with an A (97%), which is nearly nearly as good as it may well get.
MilesWeb claims that availability of their buyer’s web sites is their main concern, therefore the uptime ought to by no means fall under 99.95%, all because of their “cutting-edge” Tier-3 and Tier-4 information facilities. After performing an uptime check (made potential by UptimeRobot) on their most important web site for greater than a month we recorded one occasion of downtime which continued for 14 minutes (leading to 99.96% of uptime), which just about corresponds to what they promised.
Support
The very first thing we observed is that MilesWeb has an honest quantity of self-help choices, which is, sadly, not generally discovered with competing suppliers. Together with a trendy knowledgebase, there’s a “Video Library” filled with loads of tutorials on numerous subjects. There is a help discussion board as effectively, and whereas it hasn’t been a lot lively over the earlier yr, all of the questions had been answered accordingly and by MilesWeb’s help crew so far as we will inform.
Users are in a position to browse the knowledgebase with the assistance of a search field or by selecting one of many related classes adopted by subcategories and so forth. There is a ample amount of articles and so they appear to be up to date nearly day after day.
Apart from self-help, MilesWeb offers all of the anticipated kinds of buyer help and, importantly, in English. Customers can get in contact with them by way of phone, stay chat, ticket or e-mail. All the above talked about choices needs to be obtainable round the clock all year long.
The competitors
Although Strato relies in Germany and MilesWeb in India, they share equally excessive hopes and dedication to overcome the worldwide market. That being stated, Strato’s lack of user-oriented cPanel, restricted number of obtainable apps and unavailability of stay chat buyer help makes them onerous to advocate instead of MilesWeb.
Considering that MilesWeb beforehand declared itself a greater hosting supplier than Bluehost, we’ve got been compelled to achieve a deeper perception into the topic. Although issues said on MilesWeb’s web site could possibly be thought of true, Bluehost’s most budget-friendly plan provides every thing MilesWeb does (effectively, aside from a free .COM area) and a beneficiant 50GB of SSD storage. To be honest, each are extremely competent, however MilesWeb’s advertising and marketing techniques appear a bit unprofessional.
Hostgator is yet one more host focused by MilesWeb‘s advertising and marketing marketing campaign. Hostgator is probably not as low-cost as its critic, but all of its plans supply each limitless bandwidth and disk house, free area and web site switch, a magnanimous 45-day cash back-guarantee (with MilesWeb it’s legitimate for 30 days), about $100 of Google Ads and Bing Ads credit score and (regardless of the claims by MilesWeb) their customer support is accessible 24/7/365 by way of phone or stay chat.
When in contrast with MilesWeb, Leaseweb seems like a long-standing veteran on this line of labor. While each hosts present a myriad of hosting-related providers and a worldwide community of information facilities to select from, Leaseweb is extra geared in the direction of superior customers and huge companies whereas MilesWeb tries (and succeeds) to search out one thing for everybody.
Final verdict
The vary of internet hosting options MilesWeb’s provides is nothing however spectacular, in addition to their capacity to fulfill the necessities of each sort of web site. However, sure ambiguities about a few of the options in addition to considerably distasteful advertising and marketing practices would possibly make some individuals take into account different choices.
Ultimately, MilesWeb’s recognition is on the rise (notably in India and the US) and for a great cause: their providers are all-inclusive, inexpensive and dependable, and their buyer help is diligent, well-versed and useful. If you’re nonetheless not sure that MilesWeb has every thing you’re searching for, well-established suppliers reminiscent of Hostinger, Bluehost and Hostgator at all times current a superb different.
