Hosting Plans offered:

Basic Hosting $7.96/mo
Intermediate $15.96/mo
Advanced $21.56/mo

 

Special Offers:
* Windows Hosting


General Features:
Features offered with all hosting plans:
* Phone Support
* Control Panel
* PHP
* File Manager
* FrontPage 2000 Support
* FTP Access
* MS Active Server Pages
* Server Side Includes SSI
* 3000 MB Disk Space
* 50 Email Addresses
 



Contact Information:

URL Information :
www.easy-cgi.com

Email Contact:
sales@easy-cgi.com

Street Address:
 Easy CGI
99 Main Street
Nyack, NY 10960
 

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Web Host Review: Easy-CGI Web Hosting
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 Overall Rating: 
Currently rated as #6 by Affordable Web Hosting

Reviewed Items:  Plan Features, Customer Support, Comparison of Unix vs Windows

 

Plan Features

Our users suggested that Affordable Web Hosting should have at least 1 Windows plan listed in the Top 10 list. After significant research, our  recommended Windows web host is Easy-CGI Web Hosting. Easy-CGI offers 3 Windows hosting plans, with only 1 under $10/month, which is the Basic Hosting plan priced at $7.96/month. It is allocated with 2000 MB of disk space and 5 GB of bandwidth. The other 2 plans are priced at $15.95/month (3000 MB disk space + 10 GB bandwidth) and $21.56/month (5000 MB disk space + 15 GB bandwidth). They promise a same day setup for your account.

Windows plans are usually more expensive than Unix plans because Windows is a commercial product and therefore license fees are required. As opposed to Windows, Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris) is open source software distributed under the GNU general public license for free The most popular Unix you will encounter in the web hosting world is Linux, especially Red Hat Linux. An explanation on Unix would be lengthy however research shows that Unix servers tend to be more stable and reliable than Windows servers. 90% of the internet servers are running under Unix.


The only reason one will really need a windows hosting plan because of features including ASP, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, ColdFusion and JSP/servlets, which are only available on Windows Servers. If you do not need any of these, it is better to choose a Unix host. ASP can also run on Unix platforms if it has ChiliSoft ASP installed as well as JSP/servlets if