Geek Host

[Nerdie]

Website Name: Geek Host
Website Link: http://geekhost.io
When was your website founded?: A month ago.
Which would you like?: Standard Review
Notes: Thank you!

 

[John]

Your Review is In Progress!​

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Thank you for requesting feedback. I have tagged your thread, and will finish an official review within at most 48 hours. In the meantime, you will receive informal feedback from other reviewers and members at Forum Promotion. Once your official review is complete, you will be free to ask questions and receive feedback so long as your website remains only, and this topic remains reasonably active. You will also be able to request a re-review 14 days after this review is completed.

Thank you, and good luck!

 

[Korora]

This seems like an amazing project you have started!

I really like the name & layout of the site, the design looks perfect. Honestly if I ever need to switch hosts I will be coming to GeekHost!

 

[Zuthis]

This website is phenomenal. Amazing graphics, great animations, and an all around great layout.

The only suggestion I can really make is on the VPS Hosting tab to give some information as to what you will be providing. Also the favicon is kind of strange looking, though it could just be my browser theme.

 

[Raees]

The design of the site looks cool. But the prices are extremely high, the price of shared hosting somewhat looks like a VPS price.

 

[John]

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Geek Host
Review by John123 ​

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Design Quality
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Your company is called Geek Host. The fact that it's "Geek" really shows in your theme and characters that you've displayed your your site. The huge glasses and "nerdy" look of your site craft you a amazing brand and design for your company.

Really the only thing I see that I'd change is the pictures at the bottom of the home page, to the left of your service descriptions. Some of the descriptions have two or three pictures to the left of the descriptions, while others only have one. This makes the pictures of your site look inconsistent.

Your theme, characters and color scheme look amazing! I do not see any glitches or problems with it at all. Your colors really "draw me in" I want to look around at your site specifically because of your theme and logo, because of the "fun" and professional look of your company.
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Excellent

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Originality
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Hosting companies have seemed to pop up more and more, because of that, uniqueness has been harder and harder to accomplish. How you have incorporated the "nerdy" style into your theme and company is something that I've never seen before. It really looks amazing and makes me want to look around your website. It's really cool to see you've taken your "nerd" brand and made it into a truly unique hosting company. You have really made a company that stands out from every other company on the market.
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Excellent

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Site Structure
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The first thing I always look for in a hosting company is price and support. I want to be able to find those two things very quickly. When I first scrolled down Geek Host, I found everything I wanted to know about your company. You have done a very good job displaying a clear, professional picture of your hosting plans on your homepage.

I see you don't have your VPS hosting fully set up at this moment. You should remove the VPS page off the navigation bar until you are ready to sell it. Right now it just taking up a spot in your navigation bar, while it's not providing you or your customers anything.
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Excellent

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Final Remarks​

I honestly found very few issues with your company. You're a professional with websites and it shows with this company. Good luck with Geek Host! Congrats on 5 stars!​

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Your Score​

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[Cosmic]

Congratulations on the five star review! There are a number of benefits which come along with it, including no charge for the review, etc. You can see a full list here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=128539 . I'n going to go ahead and implement all these benefits. 🙂 The blog article and service vouchers should be forthcoming within the next week.

 

[MasterA]

I like your theme. However your price is very costly and since your live chat is not online, I am assuming that you don't offer 24/7 support. You probably should for the price you're charging though.

 

[Scarface]

Honestly I agree with Raees the price seems like VPS hosting, with so many hosting companies and reputable companies such as hostgator offering for peanuts it would be hard to get someone to purchase from you. Other than that nice theme layout.

 

[Nerdie]

Our target audience is not the budget conscious webmaster who can only afford $5/month.

The average shared server is overloaded which results in problems you are unlikely to experience with our premium plans such as:

Server downtime - We have extensive monitoring systems to ensure your server never goes down and preventitive measures such as DDoS protection

Slow loading website - Overloaded shared hosting can cause this problem, however with our premium web hosting we do not oversell, which means you will have lightning fast page loads.

Slow support response times - We offer high quality 24/7 technical support, with an average wait time of less than 10 minutes.

Old hardware - We only use the latest technology, our hardware and data center's are top notch.
Blacklisting - The more people on a shared hosting server, the more likely it is that someone will spam and get the entire server blacklisted.

Our main focus is businesses in general, we can cater to their needs and provide a high quality web hosting solution.

 

[Darwin]

Nice theme! It looks very Professional and glad about the live support, but the prizes are on the top, it is very expensive, although I might buy it since it looks very reliable, good job and good luck! 🙂

 

[Quacker Jack]

Our target audience is not the budget conscious webmaster who can only afford $5/month.

The average shared server is overloaded which results in problems you are unlikely to experience with our premium plans such as:

Server downtime - We have extensive monitoring systems to ensure your server never goes down and preventitive measures such as DDoS protection

Slow loading website - Overloaded shared hosting can cause this problem, however with our premium web hosting we do not oversell, which means you will have lightning fast page loads.

Slow support response times - We offer high quality 24/7 technical support, with an average wait time of less than 10 minutes.

Old hardware - We only use the latest technology, our hardware and data center's are top notch.
Blacklisting - The more people on a shared hosting server, the more likely it is that someone will spam and get the entire server blacklisted.

Our main focus is businesses in general, we can cater to their needs and provide a high quality web hosting solution.

This makes sense to me. For the average FP user, this probably isn't the host for them due to price. You also brought up valid points as well. However I'd like to ask you two things - what is the thought process of using a .io domain if your audience is towards business? I would think that you'd surely want something a bit more professional (though I get .com probably isn't available). My other question was kind of furthering Master A's - if you claim that you have 24/7 support averaging 10 minute response and given the premium price your customers are paying, why is your live chat offline during the middle of a Friday?

Otherwise, looks great Nerdie. I especially applaud the theme.

 

[PirateAlphas]

Site looks really good, and I love the IO domain.

If you guys ignore or relax abuse reports (not saying I would get many) I will have to order from here

 

[Nerdie]

Our target audience is not the budget conscious webmaster who can only afford $5/month.

The average shared server is overloaded which results in problems you are unlikely to experience with our premium plans such as:

Server downtime - We have extensive monitoring systems to ensure your server never goes down and preventitive measures such as DDoS protection

Slow loading website - Overloaded shared hosting can cause this problem, however with our premium web hosting we do not oversell, which means you will have lightning fast page loads.

Slow support response times - We offer high quality 24/7 technical support, with an average wait time of less than 10 minutes.

Old hardware - We only use the latest technology, our hardware and data center's are top notch.
Blacklisting - The more people on a shared hosting server, the more likely it is that someone will spam and get the entire server blacklisted.

Our main focus is businesses in general, we can cater to their needs and provide a high quality web hosting solution.

This makes sense to me. For the average FP user, this probably isn't the host for them due to price. You also brought up valid points as well. However I'd like to ask you two things - what is the thought process of using a .io domain if your audience is towards business? I would think that you'd surely want something a bit more professional (though I get .com probably isn't available). My other question was kind of furthering Master A's - if you claim that you have 24/7 support averaging 10 minute response and given the premium price your customers are paying, why is your live chat offline during the middle of a Friday?

Otherwise, looks great Nerdie. I especially applaud the theme.

Hi QJ,

We felt it would be good to go with the .io since we are playing off being "Geeks" and would fit very well with them name. Secondly, the businesses who would use us, have heard of us from Nerdie Media, so there is no real issue with the .io. In my opinion the .io is very professional, and an innovative TLD, one of my top choices today for technology type websites.

We are 24/7 with less than 10 minute response times via Support Desk (which is for our clients) our sales chat admittedly is not 24/7 yet, however I am working to achieve that very shortly (which is the live chat).

Everyone else - if you are interested, remember we have a coupon code called FPLOVE for 25% off for life on all our packages.

 

[Cierra]

I like the theme and domain name. Good luck. 🙂

 

[vonnch]

Quick question on you site please. When you say free domain, do you mean a subdomain? Like user1.geekhost.com? Not www.user1.com?

 

[Ash]

Love the theme and the site looks great. I love how the favicon is the main character from your homepage (a sort of mascot). I especially like the flat look of the site, did you design it yourself or did you buy a theme/template? I would maybe customize the clients side of the site a bit to make it look like part of your site.