Netfirms, Inc., founded in September 1998, has been profitable since the first quarter of 2000. Netfirms is undoubtedly a world leader in website hosting and domain name registration. The company offers comprehensive features at an economical price.

Unique to the hosting world, Netfirms uses a cluster of servers to handle your website's needs. This approach eliminates your site's dependency on any one server. If any server goes down, the others pick up where it left off. This multi-server method improves response time and site availability for your site.

Netfirms supports over 1.2 million businesses and individuals in getting their websites online. Netfirms is committed to providing easy web hosting solutions for beginners along with advanced flexible features for hardened webmasters.

•  Control Panel
With Netfirms, you have access to a very good control panel. The control panel is fairly easy to navigate. Password protected, the Netfirms control panel gives you access to Advanced Website Statistics, Billing History and upgrading, E-mail account manager, domain name manager as well as tools like bulletin board, Commerce Pro, MySQL databases and NetObjects Fusion 7.

•  E-mail Features and Functions
Netfirms provide 100 Email accounts and 100 MB space per account in this plus plan. They also offer POP3, Web mail, Catch-All/ Forwarding, SMTP, virus scanning, spam filtering and MX records as email features.

•  Developer & Programmer Tools
They provide MySQL4.1, phpMyAdmin, and daily database backups in databases feature. They also offer some programming tools like, PHP 4 / 5, Ruby on Rails, Python, SSH (Shell Access), Perl (CGI-BIN), Server Side Includes, MS FrontPage Extensions and Custom Error Pages.

This plan also includes some instant features. These include WordPress, Blogging Compatible, Picture Pro Gallery, phpBB Forums, Free Hit Counters and Formmail.

•  E-commerce Support and Tools
Netfirms provide E-commerce facilities and offers Built-in Professional Shopping Cart, and secure transactions. You can accept PayPal Payments.

•  Miscellaneous features
Netfirms offer 2 Multiple Domains, Domain Forwarding, Sub-Domain Names, Full DNS Management, A-Records and Forward to Filenames. These are all Domain Features.

their infrastructure includes, Load-balanced Cluster Hosting, Triple Redundant firewall, 24/7 Network Monitoring, Multi-homed OC3 and Gigabit fiber connections, UPS Power Back-up and Streaming Media.

The support staff at Netfirms works very hard to keep response time low and valuable feedback high. On average they only take 1-2 hours to respond to a customer request E-mail. Netfirms customer support includes online tutorials, guides and an extensive FAQ database that can respond to a typed question. Netfirms offers technical support by phone, but the number is not toll-free. You also have the option of using their priority email to communicate your troubles.