When I started blogging around 10+ years back, the blog was hosted on blog-spot. There was no dependency about tracking utilized web space, down-time etc. since it was all taken care by none other than Google 🙂 But when we finally decided to move from blog-post to self-hosted blog, the critical search for good hosting provider begun. There are ocean of choices when it comes to hosting a website, which makes this search even more difficult.
When we had to narrow down on the choice of hosting company, we evaluated them on the following standard parameters:
Back-end Support is the most under-rated term but that plays a very crucial role in the long-term. If the hosting provider’s website did not have a Toll-Free number or Customer-Care’s email-id mentioned in the header, we did not even consider looking at other factors. It was also very important that hosting provider has “Dedicated Team” for Indian customers.
After committing initial mistakes in selection, this blog was finally hosted on HostGator. Now, we are considering to shift to a new provider – Hosting Raja since it offers a compelling proposition. Today, we have a look at Hosting Raja & how it can be your one-stop shop for web-hosting services 🙂
Bird’s eye view of Hosting Raja
Hosting Raja is a leading and reliable web hosting provider based out of India. It offers economical & sustainable services for web-hosting & domain registration.
It is a decade old-company specialized in web-development with headquarters in Bengaluru. They claim to provide 99.9% up-time which has resulted in 1000’s of satisfied customers.
Though they provide the cheapest hosting plans, their focus is on “Quality” rather than “Quantity”. Hosting Raja promises 30 days unconditional money-back guarantee since it aims to build a customer-focused brand.
Flexible Hosting Plans
Hosting Raja offers various web-hosting services i.e. WordPress hosting, Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting, Magento hosting for e-commerce customers etc. The complete list of their service’s can be found here
Whether you are a blogger or an e-commerce company, Hosting Raja has plans that suit your budget requirements. In fact, the flexibility to seamlessly shift from one plan to another is an added advantage !!
Features included in “Premium Unlimited”, “Premium Gold” & ” “Unlimited” Plans are as follows:
For newbie’s they offer the “Starter Plan” which costs around Rs. 69/month. The “Silver Plan” mainly caters to the Start-up & SME segment which costs around Rs. 99/month. The “Gold Plan” caters to corporate clients which costs around Rs. 29/month.
Reliability and Customer Support
Hosting Raja offers a guaranteed 99.9% up-time using High Availability or Fail Over environment. Web outage can result in heavy-losses to a company & hence, reliability & continuous up-time plays a pivotal role.
As mentioned earlier, technical support is of prime importance & Hosting Raja provides 24*7 customer support. They are available on toll-free number 1800-258-8000. Customer can also get support via chat. Support is provided in Hindi, English, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Telugu & other local languages.
If you do not get immediate support, you also have the flexibility of “Call-Back” where you just leave your number & Hosting Raja customer care team would get back to you.
Special Offers
Hosting Raja provides interesting offers which are hard to resist. Their hosting plans are built to suit the requirements from a small website to a large online store. You can find the complete list of offers here
Closing Comments
Hosting Raja provides range of plans to suit the needs of it’s varied clientele. They have won Top Pick Web Hosts 2012 & Best Re-seller Hosting 2010 awards for their customer-centric approach.
Whether you are newbie blogger/Startup/corporate, Hosting Raja caters to all your web-hosting requirements!!