StartLogic Review
Startlogic is one of the biggest shared hosts around, with years of experience. They do offer diverse plans and prices are competitive. Startlogic obviously is looking for large user base to to make sense of their pricing.Startlogic is owned by the same management as dot5 hosting and ipowerweb. If you are in a dot5 vs Startlogic vs ipowerweb dilemma, the answer is they are all the same. They have similar infrastructure and different support teams and managed by the same people.
StartLogic Plans
| Name | Platform | Price | Space | Bandwidth | Domains |
| PersonalLogic | Linux | $3.95 | 60 GB | 600 GB | 10 |
| ProLogic | Linux | $5.95 | Unlimited GB | Unlimited GB | Unlimited |
| WindowsLogic | Windows | $8.95 | 100 GB | 1000 GB | Unlimited |
StartLogic Features Review
Startlogic offers huge amount of space and bandwidth, a lot more than what anyone would expect from a shared host. Obviously they are overselling and most users will not be able to use even a fraction of what they offer. Just like most overselling host, Startlogic also wont allow you to use too much CPU. If you are getting heavy traffic and are using a major chunk of CPU available, you will be asked to move to a dedicated server. But as long as you have a small-medium website, you will find that the resources offered is more than enough for your needs.Startlogic offers unlimited mail boxes, spam protection, large number of mysql databases and goodies like Google adwords credits.
They provide vDeck for control panel. While vDeck is a clean, light, easy to use control panel with all basic requirements, it doesn't have all the bells offered in cPanel. But for most webmasters, VDeck is going to be more than enough.
StartLogic Performance Review
They offer 99.9% uptime guarantee which is the industry standard for shared hosting, even though rarely would we see hosts actually delivering the same. There has been occasional reports of poor uptime with startlogic, so we decided to test it ourselves. We got a real account with them and started monitoring the uptime using a third party service provider.The service was started at the end of August 2008 and the initial reports have been excellent. After the first week, uptime from startlogic was the best among all the hosts monitored. Please see the screen shot below for details or checkout the live stats directly from the service provider.
StartLogic Price Value
Their most popular package, Prologic comes at $5.95 per month. Considering the features, this is pretty cheap. The price is understandably higher for their windows offering at $9.95 per month. Startlogic is definitely cheap, no questions about it.Looking for something cheaper than StartLogic? Compare Prices Here.
StartLogic Support Review
They offer 24/7 Live Technical Support, email and online chat for support. However, there are mixed reviews about the support. Occasionally it is possible that your tickets doesn't get replied as fast as you would want but that is true with most cheap web hosts. On the plus side, they have very nice documentation and troubleshooter.StartLogic Reviews Added By Users
| StartLogic Review By: Matt, Phoenix | |
| Site Hosted:www.startlogic.com | IP Address: 68.2.188.55 |
Keeps getting worse |
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Startlogic was a good deal a few years back - cheap and supportive. They've grown too fast for their own good. Their own website is down at several points seemingly everday, their tech service reps don't understand their own products, and hosting with them as a whole has become unreliable. Oh, and their security is a joke. Go elsewhere. Review Added on: 2009-09-29 |
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| StartLogic Review By: Lola, California | |
| Site Hosted:http://startlogic.com | IP Address: 68.5.93.52 |
| Horribly Slow and always DOWN |
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I am a freelance artist looking for a full-time position, so it's important that it's running fast 24/7. It is VERY SLOW. It takes at least 10 seconds for my gallery to load despite the size of my images(50kb each and probably 10images per page) I have probably costed many clients because of this last year/this year. It has been slow ever since I signed up for it in 2008. I contacted them so many times regarding this issue. Every time, their response was "I don't see any problem" Instead, they blame your computer/connection/images on website. Not worth your money!!!!! Review Added on: 2009-06-16 |
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| StartLogic Review By: Fonda Teske, florida | |
| Site Hosted:http://www.fontera.org | IP Address: 71.200.218.140 |
| Hackers paradise |
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Starltogic decided to change all passcodes in October and sent out new passcodes via non secure email. Hackers got the passcode and now my website is gone....Startlogic does not have the files, they only keep them 2 weeks. Not only do I have to pay for another website, hackers in Europe somewhere have who knows how much information. So far they do not take any responsability or show any concern about what has happened. PS it is my understanding that they changed passcodes for all there customer and sent them by the same unsecure email so if you have not changed that passcode your site is in danger of being hacked. Review Added on: 2009-02-03 |
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| StartLogic Review By: Gil, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Site Hosted:http://wma.arrl.org/ | IP Address: 68.118.232.214 |
| Was good in 2006 but quality of service degraded badly since |
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I started hosting my website at StartLogic in Dec 2006 and I was very happy with the service for the first year out of my two year contract. However, they then migrated to a new system early 2008 during that time my site was running at a snails pace. I complained and I got a free month of service out of it but no real solution until a month or so later when the migration completed. OK, this is understandable, but it still did not make me very happy. In the middle of 2008 I found that my site was down, account revoked, no notification to me otherwise, I found out just by randomly visiting the site. I called and found out that it was revoked due to file sharing of intellectual property on my website. Come to find out it was a ISO CD image file that my organization has the patent on and we were offering as a free download. They deleted the file on their own and then reinstated my account. Luckily the file was outdated (it was for 2007 and it was now 2008), so I did not care, but again I was not happy that about no notification of the account shutdown and no verification that I was indeed sharing someone elses intellectual property since the ISO was ours to offer as freeware. Later in 2008 my site became very slow again. I did not bother complaining because the last time it was pointless. Instead I just let the account lapse and moved to a different service. The proof is in the pudding. Here is an image I got from Google Webmaster Tools that shows the retrieval times that Googlebot experienced with my website. I switched services the end of Dec 2008....can you tell? http://webpages.charter.net/gilwk1h/chart.jpg Review Added on: 2009-01-31 |
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| StartLogic Review By: Brandon, Las Vegas | |
| Site Hosted:http://artlv.net | IP Address: 24.234.160.175 |
| Grand master of slow host servers |
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I have been hosting with startlogic for quite some time. So far, my experience with them has been below satisfactory at best. I am constantly having to put in performance related support tickets for their terribad server/website performance, always with the same response..."I have reviewed xxxx.com/net and seems to be fine on our end with no issues"...as if they dont even read an entire submitted ticket! In performance related issues, OF COURSE its going to seem okay when you are viewing a website right off the server its located on or within the same building only having to load it through your internal network. Maybe if they didnt have (and this is a fact after reverse DNS checks) 7200-10k+ sites on one server this wouldnt be an issue. I even asked to be moved to a less populated server (as if thats too much to ask) to no avail. I can say this, I also host with 1&1...although not the best hosting service out there, they blow Slowlogic out of the water bar none. I have tried countless times to allow them to get their act together and be a loyal customer, but I am beginning to run out of patients. Review Added on: 2009-01-29 |
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| StartLogic Review By: G405T, Earth | |
| Site Hosted:http://the-lol.com | IP Address: 89.241.188.156 |
OKish |
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The features offered by Startlogic are AMAZING and I managed to buy a unlimited 2 year plan for just over £40! But I have experienced a LOT of downtime and very slow server speeds most of the time. Review Added on: 2008-10-11 |
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