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Brinkster (brinkster.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2018.
Gear Host (gearhost.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.

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👉 Total Reviews: 3
🙌 Average Rating: 4 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 2
👈 Official Responses: 0 4 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

3 user reviews		gearhost.com logo
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✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
✓ Promotions are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years

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👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 3.6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 4
👈 Official Responses: 0 3.6 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

5 user reviews
 
Brinkster
2600 North Central Avenue, Suite 310
Phoenix, AZ 85004
US

brinkster.com
Gear Host
1820 E Ray Rd
Chandler, AZ
US

gearhost.com
📧 Emailinfo@b...help@g...
☎ Phone800-345-7084888-535-5443
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 372,556▲183,371 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 8,911▼-19 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in AE 5,091
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 65/61🔗 Links 20,231		🏆 Alexa Rating 315,575▲85,454 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 2,492▼-3 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in EG 21,960
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 42/51🔗 Links 71,985
Languages en-US en-US
📄 InfoActive since 1999, Brinkster has become one of the industry-leading cloud IaaS providers. They claim that they are currently hosting the websites of around 50,000 customers from over 175 countries.
The company specializes in the following web hosting solutions: Shared Hosting;Cloud Hosting (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Bare Metal Dedicated Solutions);E-mail Hosting;Domain Registration;
Shared hosting packages are configured for Windows OS and they include support for classic [...] Read full review		Founded in 2000, GearHost offers cloud-based solutions mainly designed for individuals, small and medium-sized businesses or developers.

The company specializes in cloud hosting services that are SSD-configured. They support PHP (5.3, 5.4, 5.5) and .NET (3.5, 4.5, 4.6), as well as Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL database Server. Except for the free plan, all cloud packages have SSL and custom domains included in the features of each plan. Customers also have the chance of upgrading their [...] Read full review
📡 EstablishedJuly, 20002000
🏁 Site speedVery slow, load time 4.8 seconds 10% sites are slower
SEO Links count 5,437		Fast, load time 1.5 seconds 61% sites are slower
SEO Links count 228
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
brinkster.com Iconbrinkster
Started from: September, 2008
  • Tweets: 663
  • Followers: 1,735
  • Friends: 102
  • Last activity:
gearhost.com Icongearhost
Started from: March, 2009
  • Tweets: 2,198
  • Followers: 1,614
  • Friends: 282
  • Last activity:
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Brinkster Communications Corporation
  • Followers: 141
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1999
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
GearHost
  • Followers: 78
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2000
  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industry: Internet
-Gear Host Blog
🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/0
💡 Plan NameLevel 1 [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 5.44/mo.-
💿 Disk Space200 GB-
📶 Data Transfer2 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Linux OS / PHP 5.2.x OR Windows OS / Classic ASP
FTP Access
Daily Data Backups
Redundant Network Firewall
24x7 Live Customer Support
LINUX Features
Website Builder
Brinkster Webmail
Brinkster Domain Name Manager
Redhat Linux Enterprise w/ Apache WINDOWS Featurs
Brinkster [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💡 Plan NameLevel 2 [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 7.62/mo.-
💿 Disk Space350 GB-
📶 Data Transfer3,500 GB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Linux OS / PHP 5.2.x OR Windows OS / ASP .NET v4.0 / PHP, Classic ASP
250 MB MySQL DB
FTP Access
Daily Data Backups
Redundant Network Firewall
24x7 Live Customer Support
LINUX Features
Website Builder
Brinkster Webmail
Brinkster Domain Name Manager
Redhat Linux Enterprise w/ [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💡 Plan NameLevel 3 [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 21.79/mo.-
💿 Disk Space500 GB-
📶 Data Transfer6 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Linux OS / PHP 5.2.x OR Windows OS / ASP .NET v4.0 / PHP, Classic ASP 250 MB MySQL DB 250 MB Microsoft SQL Server FTP Access Daily Data Backups Redundant Network Firewall 24x7 Live Customer Support

LINUX Features Website Builder Brinkster Webmail Brinkster Domain Name Manager Redhat Linux [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 Cloud - 2/5
💡 Plan Name1GB [Linux]CloudSite Hobby [Linux]
💰 Price$ 25.56/mo.$ 5.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space20 GB1 GB SSD
📶 Data Transferunmetered1 TB
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPU1 vCPU1 CPU
🔋 RAM1 GB1 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs00
🔨 Control PanelVMware
🌏 Server LocationUnited StatesUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Our Cloud Server flavors are designed to meet an array of workloads. From corporate websites, to mission-critical applications, we've got a flavor to meet your needs. Check out our full line of Cloud Server flavors below.

Outgoing Public Data Transfer
Data Transfer Rate
First 1TB Free
Next [...]		INFO (mouse over)Perfect for small scale personal projects and hobby applications in shared web farm.
10 Max Workers
1GB Application Pool
15% CPU Usage
1GB Storage (up to 100GB)
Custom Domains
20min Session Timeout
SSL Support
64Bit Processes

Additional Services / Monthly Price
MSSQL and MySQL Database [...]
📅 Date PlanJan 2021Jan 2021
💡 Plan NamexW2 [Windows]CloudSite SMALL [Linux]
💰 Price$ 81.00/mo.$ 25.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space40 GB SSD1 GB SSD
📶 Data Transferunmetered1 TB
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimitedunlimited
🆓 Free Domain00
💪 CPU2 vCPU1 CPU
🔋 RAM2 GB2 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs00
🔨 Control Panel
🌏 Server LocationUnited StatesUnited States
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Our Cloud Server flavors are designed to meet an array of workloads. From corporate websites, to mission-critical applications, we've got a flavor to meet your needs. Check out our full line of Cloud Server flavors below.

Cloud VM Images

Custom Cloud VM image storage: $0.10/GB per month. Images [...]		INFO (mouse over)Enhanced performance and availability with your own reserved web farm node for your professional app.
10 Max Workers
2GB Application Pool
100% CPU Usage
1GB Storage (up to 100GB)
Custom Domains
24hr Session Timeout
SSL Support
64Bit Processes
Always-On Feature

Additional Services / Monthly [...]
📅 Date PlanJan 2021Jan 2021
💡 Plan Name-CloudSite MEDIUM [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 50.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-1 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer-1 TB
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-2 CPU
🔋 RAM-4 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Solid performance that offers your applications the resources they need to execute code fast.
10 Max Workers
4GB Application Pool
100% CPU Usage
1GB Storage (up to 100GB)
Custom Domains
24hr Session Timeout
SSL Support
64Bit Processes
Always-On Feature

Additional Services / Monthly [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jan 2021
💡 Plan Name-CloudSite LARGE [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 100.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-1 GB SSD
📶 Data Transfer-1 TB
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-4 CPU
🔋 RAM-6 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Superior performance when it's most critical for your resource demanding high traffic applications.
10 Max Workers
6GB Application Pool
100% CPU Usage
1GB Storage (up to 100GB)
Custom Domains
1hr Session Timeout
SSL Support
64Bit Processes
Always-On Feature

Additional Services / Monthly [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jan 2021
💡 Plan Name-CloudSite Free [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 0.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-100 MB SSD
📶 Data Transfer-1 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-1 CPU
🔋 RAM-256 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Ideal for experimenting with .NET and PHP cloud applications in a limited sandbox but full of features.
1 Max Worker
256MB Application Pool
5% CPU Usage
Custom Domains
20min Session Timeout

Additional Services / Monthly Price
MSSQL and MySQL Database Hosting
$0.00 includes 5-10MB - $5.00 [...]
📅 Date Plan-Jan 2021
🔧 Domains - 1/0
💡 Plan Name.com-
💰 Price$ 18.99/yr.-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Register your Domain Name in 3 Easy Steps-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 Emails - 1/0
💡 Plan NameBusiness Pro Email [Linux/Windows]-
💰 Price$ 7.19/mo.-
💿 Disk Space50 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Cloudmark Authority® Spam Filtering

CardDav, iCal and CalDav for contacts and calendars

Zimbra Mobile (ActiveSync) for Email, Contacts, Calendar and Tasks

Calendar Sharing

Briefacase App

Collaboration

Mailboxes Price Per Mailbox
1-50 [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux/Windows
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Linux/Windows
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Cloud
  • Domains
  • Emails
  • Cloud
✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • 0 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Dec 28, 2019
😃 I am using brinkster from some duration. Everything is just excellent I never had any complaints from them since I am with them overall great performance. Their are some other providers like domainracer and bigrock who provides value for money.

Muhammad Siddique (ms.analyst@o...)
on 📆 Mar 12, 2014
not happy
😞 today entire website brinkster.com is down since last 5 hours. since yesterday incoming emails are not working. we have 5 domains and all domains are down. emails are not working. we can not access online support since brinkster.com is not [...]

WeyrleaderZor (RaalynthsLair@G...)
on 📆 Dec 01, 2008
😁 This host is absolutely wonderful! I've had my website with them since late 2000 when my first domain host (a reseller who had an account with them) sold his business out to them. They didn't have a plan quite like what the reseller they bought out [...]

-anonymous- (pclement@o...)
on 📆 Nov 25, 2020
😠 HiI am Pierre Clement, I work for Optimax Credit for over 20 years.We have been using your hosting service for so many years and Gearhost unauthorized billing our credit card over $ 6168.85. Even though Ryan Kekos acknowledged the problem and [...]

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