Arvixe Review and Test Results


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Summary

spacer. Ranking: 3.5 stars.
spacer. Cheapest Hosting Plan: (1-year term renewal)* $5.00 per month
spacer. Coupon Code (20% Discount): NCMONLINE20OFF
spacer. Company Founded: 2003
spacer. Domains Hosted: Unpublished
spacer. 24×7 Phone Support: Yes
spacer. Money-Back Guarantee: 60 days
spacer. BBB Rating: A+

*Price above based on 1-year term before application of coupon code/introductory discount. While you may pay less for the first year of hosting, unless otherwise indicated, the pricing displayed on this page is the 1-year term renewal rate. Star ratings based on a 0.5 minimum to 5 star maximum scale. Why you can trust our web hosting reviews. >

The Bottom Line

NOT RECOMMENDED

Appearances can be misleading. Unfortunately, such was the case with Arvixe. What looked like a good hosting deal, turned out to be something decidedly less.

Arvixe provides low-cost shared Linux hosting plans that include a range of attractive features. Set up was quick and easy. However, our 10-day uptime test resulted in a reliability score of only 98.7186%. Further, speed testing results were less than ideal. A web browser required an average of 4.7209 seconds to load our simple 1-page test site (click for sample test site).

In summary, the speed and reliability of Arvixe’s Personal Class plan were disappointing. On balance Arvixe has earned the NCM Online designation of NOT RECOMMENDED.

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Rating

Price: 4 stars.
Ease-of-Use: 5 stars.
Disk Space: 5 stars.
Bandwidth: 5 stars.
Speed: 0.5 stars.
Uptime: 0.5 stars.
Support: 5 stars.
BBB Rating: 5 stars.
Guarantee: 5 stars.
Satisfaction: 1 star.
TOTAL: 3.5 stars.

Review

HOSTING PLANS

Arvixe offers a complete range of web hosting plans the cheapest of which are the Personal Class and Personal Class Pro plans. Both include numerous unlimited features:

Screenshot of Arvixe homepage. Click image to visit site.
  • Disk space
  • Bandwidth
  • Domain aliases
  • Subdomains
  • FTP accounts
  • MySQL 5 databases
  • Postgre SQL databases
  • E-mail accounts
  • E-mail auto-responders
  • E-mail forwards
  • Mailman mailing lists

At only $5.00 per month for the annual plan, the Personal Class is the cheapest Arvixe offering. It provides hosting for up to 6 domains. Priced at $8.00 per month for the annual plan, the Personal Class Pro adds the ability to host an unlimited number of domains. Both offer upgrade options that include dedicated IP address ($2.00 per month) and SSL certificate ($25.00 per year).

Softaculous WordPress installation interface. Click to enlarge.

Softaculous WordPress installation form. Click to enlarge.

In addition to shared hosting plans, Arvixe offers business class, VPS (virtual private server), dedicated server, and reseller hosting plans. All plans are available with either Linux or Windows operating systems. We purchased the Personal Class shared Linux plan.

PURCHASE PROCESS

Our hosting experience with Arvixe got off to a very good start. The sign-up process was straightforward. The 20% coupon code discount was immediately applied and deducted from the plainly visible total due amount. In addition to MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover; payment options included PayPal, Google Wallet, and Skrill.

SETUP

Within 5 minutes of sign up, we received our “welcome” e-mail that provided all of the details required to set up hosting, including nameserver and FTP information. Upon logging into our account, we were pleased to see the familiar and easy-to-use cPanel control panel, as well as the Softaculous 1-click script installer (screenshot above right). We had our single-page test site (click for sample test site) up and running within minutes. So far so good.

Screenshot of Arvixe Uptime Test Results Chart 3/6/14–3/15/14. Click to enlarge.

Arvixe Uptime Test Results Chart. Click to enlarge.

TESTING

Pleased with our purchase, we moved on to other matters, while our speed and uptime test data began to accumulate. Unfortunately, that was the point at which things took a turn for the worse. Early testing reports showed intermittent reliability problems on both March 6th and 7th (see screenshot right). In all, 31 attempts to reach the server from various locations worldwide failed. The errors were mostly DNS related (error code 12007), although there were TCP (error code 10060) and HTTP (error code 12002) errors as well. While reliability testing continued until March 15th without additional incidents, Arvixe did experience the same error types on March 22nd and 23rd — after our testing had officially ended.

Screenshot of Arvixe Speed Test Results Chart 3/6/14–3/15/14. Click to enlarge.

Arvixe Speed Test Results Chart. Click to enlarge.

While we prefer not to dwell on negatives, Arvixe speed test results were not much better (see screenshot right). While downtime negatively impacted page-load speed averages, results during uptime were less than impressive.

All web hosting services reviewed by NCM Online are purchased and subjected to our 10-day test for uptime and speed. Tested for uptime every 15 minutes over 10 days, Arvixe produced a lowly 98.7186% reliability score, and recorded an average speed of 4.7209 seconds to load our NCM Test Site from 13 locations worldwide, and 4.0429 seconds from 7 U.S. locations. If we were to omit the two days of testing during which time the server experienced uptime problems, page-load speed averaged a disappointing 1.8297 seconds from 13 locations worldwide, and 1.3909 seconds from the 7 U.S. locations.

Pros

  • A+ BBB rating
  • Low-cost
  • Set up is quick and easy
  • cPanel control panel
  • Softaculous 1-click script installer
  • Unlimited disk space
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • 24×7 phone support
  • Cheapest plan includes dedicated IP address and SSL certificate options
  • 60-day money-back guarantee
  • Exclusive NCMONLINE20OFF no-expiration, 20% discount coupon code

Cons

  • Below-average speed
  • Less than 99% uptime

Conclusion

Despite the number of positive aspects, Arvixe’s inexpensive Personal Class plan disappointed us. The below-average results of the uptime and speed tests leave us little option other than to say there are faster and more reliable hosts in the same price range.

Arvixe has earned 3.5 stars and is not recommended by NCM Online.

Pricing and Features

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Plan Personal Class Personal Class Pro
Disk Space Unlimited Unlimited
Monthly Data Transfer Unlimited Unlimited
Websites (Domains) 6 Unlimited
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Management
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Domain Aliases Unlimited Unlimited
Subdomains Unlimited Unlimited
FTP Accounts Unlimited Unlimited
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Dreamweaver Compatible Checkmark. Checkmark.
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Daily R1Soft Backups Checkmark. Checkmark.
Password Protected Directories Checkmark. Checkmark.
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$100 Google Adwords Voucher (US & CA only) Checkmark. Checkmark.
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E-mail
Mail Boxes (POP3 & IMAP) Unlimited Unlimited
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Autoresponders Unlimited Unlimited
Forwarders Unlimited Unlimited
Mailman Mailing Lists Unlimited Unlimited
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RoundCube Webmail Checkmark. Checkmark.
BoxTrapper Spam Blocker Checkmark. Checkmark.
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Development
MySQL 5 Databases Unlimited Unlimited
PostgreSQL Databases Unlimited Unlimited
PHPMyAdmin Checkmark. Checkmark.
phpPgAdmin Checkmark. Checkmark.
PHP 4 and 5 Checkmark. Checkmark.
Perl Checkmark. Checkmark.
Python Checkmark. Checkmark.
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Statistics
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Network/Datacenter
SAS 70 Type II Certified Checkmark. Checkmark.
DDoS Attack Response Checkmark. Checkmark.
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Addons and Extras
Dedicated IP Address $2.00 / month $2.00 / month
Shared Servlet/Tomcat/JSP $5.00 / month $5.00 / month
Private Servlet/Tomcat/JSP $10.00 / month $10.00 / month
SSL Certificate $25.00 / year $25.00 / year
Price per Month* $5.00 $8.00

*Prices based on 1-year term before the application of coupon/promo codes and introductory/limited-time offer discounts. While you may pay less for the first year of hosting, the prices displayed on this page are the 1-year term renewal rates.

Company Information

Arvixe is a privately owned corporation located in San Luis Obispo, CA. Globally, Arvixe has hosted over thousands of small business, individual and enterprise websites. This is since the year 2003. It has been receiving many awards from other companies like Host-review and Inc. Magazine since its commencement. The reason being, it is a very fast growing hosting company globally.

Screenshot of Arvixe homepage. Click image to visit site.Arvixe provides reliable, quality and affordable web hosting services. This is as a result of better management of the company and employees who have the initiative to work and deliver the services. Their aim is to ensure they work hand in hand with the client and enhance their trustworthiness in the business by delivering extraordinary quality services and offering their support in any matter.

As time goes by, Arvixe have expectations of accomplishing best affordable prices of products by partnering with other hosting companies and good management of the company. Clients can be provided with their demands at the least prices possible without any kind of negotiation and hitches in the process.

There are many SAS 70 Type II data centers that are certified situated in Chicago, New Jersey, and Dallas. Arvixe has a system of power management. There is backup power in case there are unexpected power cuts which are installed by the generator architecture. It supplies enough data center power to heating, ventilation and air conditioning and other servers. Therefore clients are assured of power sustainability throughout.

Arvixe Data Centers have an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) that delivers power to many individual servers. It takes power that is raw from a utility and controls it before it’s supplied to the servers. The UPS is meant to avoid server performance from being affected by power cuts. The UPS system in Arvixe Data Centers only supplies power to servers or other systems in the buildings like air conditioning and ventilation when the power flows from the local service to the system. Generators are set to automatically start when power has been disturbed.

For any applications that are hosted, the Arvixe has a speed network that removes any kind of signal processing blocks and jams assuring very quick responses. This is done by using direct internet connections which reduces the distance between websites and visitors. The ultimate result from this is extreme speed with high dependability and effectiveness.

Arvixe has taken keen considerations in a building that was constructed with one of greatest innovative network routing in the hosting industry. It works in many layers with a full capacity having many core routers, core circulation switches and carrier range.

Arvixe provides enough centralized monitoring of networks services in every city from the Network Operations Center (NOC). It is certified to offer any support while quickly responding to network difficulty. NOC is designed to automatically transfer its operations in case a problem occurs to it. These operations are being transferred before the problem reveals itself. The company strives to provide security, reliance, quality performance and availability of systems at the highest peak and performance.

Arvixe, LLC 7031 Koll Center Pkwy Suite 150 Pleasanton, CA 94566 888-927-8493 707-304-5520

How to Install WordPress

This video tutorial demonstrates the installation of WordPress on an Arvixe shared hosting account using cPanel and the Softaculous 1-click installer.



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