Best Web Hosting in India — The-Online.com Hosting and VPS Hosting Review

Review:

Few months ago I transferred my VPS and Web hosting accounts from Bigrock to The-Online.com India, as I was not happy with their support and over all service including the uptime and performance of the VPS and shared hosting account as well as the huge cost and high renewal prices. The-Online.com which is also popularly known as “Online” is also one of the leading web hosts in India which provides affordable web hosting solutions including Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Cloud Servers and cPanel Hosting, dedicated servers, KVM VPS, Managed and Unmanaged VPS, and other products. Online is one of the top web hosting providers in India.

Why I went to The-Online.com rather than other web hosting providers in India like HostingRaja, Znet live, Milesweb, Godaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator, resellerclub, Net4, Go4hosting, speedhost, hostinger, hostpapa, nextraone, hioxindia, Indialinks, siliconhouse, manas hosting, fast web host, etc. — the answer is simple — When I compared the pricing, features, support and service of all these hosting companies I found that Online provides much more features for their VPS hosting and cPanel shared hosting plans at more cheaper prices than its competitors and they offer 24/7 free support for VPS and Hosting which no other hosting companies offer (all other are paid support or no support at all!)

What does Online Managed VPS, Unmanaged VPS hosting, as well as, cPanel shared hosting offers:

Free Domain Name: You get free .com .net .in or .co domain name registration with every web hosting plan. You save Rs.600 per year on domain name registration!
Free 24/7 Support: You’ll get 24/7 free phone, ticket and email support for all technical and billing queries. The guys at The-Online.com help you set up your domains, point domains to hosting, set up email hosting, DNS, as well as help you setting up the website on their cPanel shared hosting plans as well as VPS hosting (both managed and unmanaged vps). I’ve found no web hosting company ever who helps you with setting up your VPS server, domains, websites, SSL certs if you purchase an unmanaged VPS from them — they’ll just neglect your ticket — but at The-Online.com they really go above the industry-standards and help you set up everything.
30-Money back guarantee and free trials: You can try any web hosting plan or VPS hosting, dedicated servers and try it free for 30 days. If you are not satisfied they’ll refund you fully — no questions asked. This is a great service if you want to try your hands on cloud hosting, or VPS hosting and test the waters. You loose nothing. simple.
Free cPanel web Hosting: There are only handful of Indian web hosting providers who offer free web hosting with cPanel and no ads — The-Online.com is one of them. They provide unlimited web hosting for free on fast SSD drives. You get free cPanel web hosting with any domain registration OR you can request a free credit by emailing them. Their free web hosting plan beats any paid shared hosting plan you buy from other hosting provider in India. In terms of speed — I got my site loaded in just <200ms while when I tried my site on other hosting providers paid and so called premium or business web hosting plans my sites loaded slowly with more than 1200ms. So why pay if something you can get free?

The-Online Review for VPS

Since I’m not a pro web developer I needed assistance in setting up my virtual private server and cPanel web hosting account. I got a managed VPS hosting account with Online. The support at The-Online.com helped me in installing the new VPS, hardened and added security features for me, and helped me to point my domain DNS, email records (mx records) and set up the MySQL databases for me. My VPS was ready in few minutes after I placed order. (They accept PayPal, Credit cards, Internet banking, and Mobile payments here)

The-Online.com has done excellent job. Their Managed VPS loads faster than my old VPS providers like digitalocean, vultr, linode, or other low end vps providers that I used like buyvm, chicago vps, ramnode, ssdnodes. The I/O speed is good for high-traffic website and my forum (community site) loads quite fast. The network seems quite premium as I have very low latency when connecting my VPS in India from other parts of Europe or even USA and Australia when I tested it using various VPN services. The shared port speed is 1Gbps while most VPS providers only offer 100Mbps speed.

In last 7 months my VPS gave me 100% uptime when I measured it with third-party uptime provider.

If you are pro or not, but want to get a good VPS in Asia or even USA or Europe, then you can try The-Online.com VPS hosting plans. The price starts Rs.1000 per month (with coupons) and yes the coupons are available for renewal too — that is lifetime discounts on VPS hosting.

You can add cPanel / WHM control panel optimized for VPS, and even add extra IPs. There are various OS options available like: CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, etc. Managed VPS and Fully Managed VPS hosting are also an option.

You can easily upgrade / downgrade the VPS resources and plan. It’s truly a good alternative for cloud VPS or regular VPS hosting.

The-Online.com Review of Web Hosting

Online also offers cheap web hosting in India on their cloud servers. These plans come with cPanel or Plesk control panel. The Starter web hosting plan price is just Rs. 99 per month or $1.99 per month. I got free domain name (free .com domain registration) with this web hosting plan. 24/7 free support is included. I also got free CDN installed (option). Over all their support and service is too good. More over, they are here since 1999 providing hosting services — so quite a reliable company. I feel safe that my sites are hosted at The-Online.com

Ah! they have domain reseller and web hosting reseller plans too. I’ll write a review about it when I’ll purchase them in future.

Also they’re are offering $100 account credit when you create an account with them. The $100 free credit is ONLY good towards buying hosting plans.

They also offer .IN, .CO.IN, .NET, .COM, .ONLINE, .SITE, domain name registration and other SEO services in India. You can go ahead and try them, and let me know about your experience.

In their own words: “The-Online.com India is domain name registrar and web hosting company in India having offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore (Bengaluru), Chennai, Hyderabad, Indore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Nagpur, Patna, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bhopal, Ludhiana, Ghaziabad, Ranchi, Kochi, Meerut, Gurgaon, Noida, etc.

Online is the place people come to register domain names, build a professional website, host their website, attract customers, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures.”

I highly recommend The-Online.com web hosting and VPS hosting if you want to save money and get more features, great performance, and friendly support who truly helps you to keep your site online.

site: www.the-online.com