Australia Windows Hosting Comparison – DiscountService.biz VS Web24.com.au

DiscountService.biz, an experienced web hosting provider located in Melbourne, AU. This company offers many hosting services, such as Windows shared hosting, Windows cloud hosting, Linux shared hosting, reseller hosting, SharePoint Hosting, Dedicated Server and so on.

Web24 is part of j2 Australia Hosting Pty. Ltd. [ j2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM)]. They are the Cloud experts in Australia providing cloud hosting solutions and other services to suit your business needs.

Focusing on the shared hosting, this DiscountService vs Web24 is to analyze the differences between the two companies and help webmasters make a suitable choice. And this comparison is based on price, feature, performance and customer service.

Features

Performance

DiscountService.biz guarantees to provide 99.9% uptime and fast hosting speed for all their customers to run sites stably and rapidly. To keep this promise, this company has equipped each of their state-of-the-art data center with quality servers, armed security and many cutting-edge technologies like UPS battery backup power and dual diesel generators.

Furthermore, the data center is equipped with cooling system and fire suppression including a pre-action dry pipe system. In addition, the data center, servers and network are under 24×7 monitoring carried out by a group of technicians. Therefore, any unexpected issue can be resolved immediately, ensuring customers can run sites with maximum reliability and performance.

Also, Web24 is a company who tries their best to realize 99.9% uptime. The data centers in Australia, Web24 claims that their network is designed to remove single points of failures and introduce N+1 design principals. Other advantages include their  firewalls using statefull failover to secondary HSRP devices, and their layer 2 redundancy achieved through 10GE and 1GBPS switching fabric that uses Rapid Spanning Tree.

Technical Support

In terms of technical support, both the two companies promise to offer timely 24×7 customer service via email. With a group of professional technical staff, the two companies can provide customers with a quick and effective help.

In addition, knowledgebase and blog of DiscountService.biz is accessible in which you can get some messages about how to build and manage your website, and fix some simple issues without the assistance from others.

Loading Speed

DiscountService.biz builds an excellent ASP.NET hosting environment to deliver customers in Australia a fast page loading speed in the industry, which will run up to around 1.5s. With this fast speed, visitors will not waste much time in waiting for loading pages and have a better surfing the Internet experience. And there are several important factors to maintain the fast page loading speed of DiscountService.biz ASP.NET websites all the time, like powerful datacenters, rock-solid equipment, advanced servers, world-class ASP.NET engineers and more.

To deliver much faster speed, Web24 makes use of RAID protected SSD (Solid State Drives) storage, along with 8 core Intel Xeon CPUs. Also, their 24×7 security monitoring and DDoS protection will protect a user’s site from lots of brute-force attacks. However, the actual loading speed of Web24 is not that impressive as we may expect.