Apollo Hosting
Apollo Hosting
| Year Started: | 1999 |
| Location: | TX, U.S.A. |
| Own Datacenters: | Leased |
| 24/7 Support: | Chat |
| Money Back Guarantee: | 30 Day |
| Apollo Hosting: 2 Reviews | ||
| Category | Score | Stars |
| Overall | 6/10 |  |
| Price | 6/10 | |
| Features | 7.5/10 |  |
| Support | 5/10 |  |
| Uptime | 5.5/10 | |
ApolloHosting offers shared website hosting solutions, domain name registrations, VPS hosting and other online services to individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses.
Their hosting plans include free site-building software, as well as access to more than 200 other tools and services.
They offer a large application installation library for the purpose of adding open source applications to your site, such as WordPress, Gallery2, Joomla!, osCommerce and more.
In addition to these do-it-yourself tools, they offer skilled experts to provide website design, search engine optimization (SEO) and other marketing services.
Products
- Web hosting
- Email Services
- Website Management
- Scripting and Site Add-ons
- Domain Services
- Marketing Services
- E-Commerce Services
- SSL Certificates
Who They Serve
Small to medium sized businesses.
Customer Service
They provide 7 days a week /24 hours a day Customer Support.
Their Technology
ApolloHosting utilizes two data centers in the Boston, MA area. Combined, they occupy over 2400 square feet of space, comprised of over 800 Servers and half a Petabyte of storage. Each center is equipped with:
- 7/24 security
- Both data centers run on N+1 power (both A/C and D/C) and have the same network architecture and equipment.
Their secure network infrastructure is comprised of a pooled server environment, which gives virtually any server on our network the ability to access Web site files when a request occurs. This means that the first machine available will be the one to serve a customer's Web pages, giving customer sites faster loading times and fewer service interruptions than traditional hosting infrastructures.
Their front-end network consists of:
- dual redundant M7I routers
- 2 firewalls incorporating IDP technology cross-connected to the outside world with BGP border gateway protocol.
Site data is parsed by their dual Big Iron load balancers and is then managed by DELL servers, which are split into application pools (Web, FTP, incoming mail, etc.). This type of architecture allows them to customize each machine to the service it performs, which means more density per box, and ultimately, faster and more reliable services. No pool lives entirely on one rack. Therefore, even the loss of a rack's switch or its power will not take that service pool down.
Their network-attached storage enables any machine to access a customer's data. Every machine is clustered with another identical machine that will seamlessly take over if the primary unit crashes. These units are also backed up to another set of storage units that have a mirror copy of the data in case of disk failure in the primary units. An estimated 5.5 gigabits of storage are processed per second through our servers.
| Category | Score | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3/10 |  |
| Price | 5/10 |  |
| Features | 5/10 | |
| Support | 1/10 |  |
| Uptime | 1/10 | |
I have been with Apollo for 3 years. In the last two weeks, my site has been down no less than 15 times, once for over 18 hours. The cost to my business is impossible to measure. Yesterday, I was on the phone for 2 1/2 hours waiting for technical support. When someone finally answered, they hung up on me. I put in 3 tickets in one day with absolutely no response. Their technical support chat has been down for 2 days, as they are understaffed. I have never had such a horrible experience with a hosting company. In addition, when I finally reached someone they could offer no plausible explanation for the difficulties. I am moving my websites to another hosting company. I'm not leaving my name until I move my website, don't want them messing with my site...
| Category | Score | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 9/10 |  |
| Price | 7/10 |  |
| Features | 10/10 |  |
| Support | 9/10 | |
| Uptime | 10/10 | |
I host 4 domains with Apollo and they are good. Support always available via chat, they are able to help me with most of my questions, even if the tough ones. I have never noticed any downtime. The features are amazing, much more then I need, and the price is quite good as well. I recommend Apollo.