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Editor‘s Review for "Anchor"

Anchor is an Australian owned and operated web hosting with a seven-year-long history of successful operation in the hosting industry. A greater part of this success is attributed to its front-line staff, the customer service, the people who answer the phone, offer advice and find solutions. This job is done by the same people who were involved in the development and implementation of many major services provided by Anchor.

Web hosting package offers at Anchor start from Small/Starter and up to Enormous. Any package can be upgraded easily whenever customer wishes. Thus, if you choose to start your business with Small package, you can be sure you have a lot of space to grow.

Included in all plans are: daily backups, an easy-to-use, custom-built control panel and detailed statistics. Depending on package and your preferences additional features and add-ons may be included, too. Anchor web hosting gives you the opportunity to customize your basic packages to suit best your business's as well as your own needs.

Anchor is an environmentally conscious company that reduces waste and energy whenever possible. By purchasing carbon offset certificates for a small fee you can make your hosting page green, too. Anchor offers abundance of options and excellent support.

Price Value

With its web hosting plans ranging from Starter to Enormous, at Anchor everyone will find the size that suits their needs the best. For the very reasonable price Anchor charges it offers its web hosting customers its own email virus and spam protection, web hosting control panel, daily website statistics, MySQL and other databases, SSH and FTP access, and a variety of other features and scripts.

What differs Anchor from other hosting providers is that all its hosting plans come with Monday -Friday toll-free telephone support, with no queues. Australian customers will sure take pride in knowing that Anchor.com.au is a green hosting company, Australian owned and operated.

Reliability

The guaranteed uptime at Anchor.com.au is 99.8% (which makes 90 minutes of downtime a month at most). Though this number is less than at some of their competitors, Anchor is also more transparent about the way they make 99.8% or better.

Anchor has its servers located in Sydney in a Tier 1 data centre. To maintain its web commitments the company employs redundant power sources, hardware and cooling systems, physical security, 24/7 monitoring of servers and networks, and multiple connections. Anchor also performs backups of all your web material every day. All this makes Anchor a very stable, transparent and overall reliable web hosting company.

Control Panel

Anchor provides the same standard web hosting control panel for all its web hosting accounts. This straightforward control panel, accessible 24/7, allows to change mailbox passwords, change account passwords, change email aliases, access MySQL and PostgreSQL, back up your website, and monitor disk usage and website statistics.

Customer Support

Customer support is one of Anchor's strongest points. All phone calls from customers are answered by real people, professionals of web hosting. Though this toll-free telephone support is limited to business hours Monday through Friday, but on those days you have all the chances to get qualified advice and support.

Anchor provides support to its customers via email and a Wiki containing all sorts of useful articles, tutorials, reviews, and videos. If you need to be even more connected, Anchor has also a blog and an active twitter feed to help you stay even more connected.

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Hosting Plans for "Anchor"

Small Plan: 400MB disk space and 10GB bandwidth for $32.50

Medium Plan: 1GB disk space and 15GB bandwidth for $48.00

Large Plan: 2GB disk space and 20GB bandwidth for $64.00

Huge Plan: 5GB disk space and 30GB bandwidth for $125.00

Massive Plan: 10GB disk space and 40GB bandwidth for $250.00

Enormous Plan: 20GB disk space and 50GB bandwidth for $500.00

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Contact Information for "Anchor"

Address

Level 1, 230 Clarence ST, Sydney NSW 2000

Phone Support: 1300 883 979 (Outside Australia: +61 2 8296 5111)
Support hours 8am to 6pm (AEST) Monday to Friday
Phone Sales: +61 2 8296 5155
US Toll Free: (888) 894 2946
Fax: +61 2 8296 5199
Email:support@anchor.com.au sales@anchor.com.au accounts@anchor.com.au
IRC irc.oftc.net #anchor