Lycos Review

You may remember Lycos as a prominent leader in search, entertainment, shopping, and social networking. Now it's gotten into the web hosting business, and it brings with it years of experience, resources, and expertise in quality, professional web development. Among the unique features of Lycos web hosting that you're unlikely to find elsewhere is a web hosting tool builder for keeping your site's community on your site. The Lycos toolbar builder/editor lets you create branded, customizable, ad-free, and - best of all - secure toolbars that can be made to include RSS news feeds and internet radio (including a player). But as features of Lycos web hosting go, this only scratches the surface.

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Hosting Ratings:
Price Value 8.5 / 10
Performance 9 / 10
Reliability 8.5 / 10
Customer Support 8.5 / 10
Control Panel 8.5 / 10
User Feedback 8.5 / 10
Overall Grade: 88%




 

 

 

Price Value
All Lycos shared hosting packages include a free domain, email, chat, blogging, photo albums, and the comprehensive and easy to use Lycos OneClickSite website builder, as well as a free software CD packed with over £300 worth of programs for making your site as interactive, professional, and secure as possible. All hosting plans also come with a free domain name for one year. With prices that start at an unbelievably low £0.85 per year, Lycos web hosting is a deal that's hard to beat. All plans above the Active Start plan include at least one MySQL database and hosting for multiple domains.

Reliability
The Lycos Stockholm data centre is backed by eight years of experience hosting over six million sites, promising unparalleled speed, connectivity, safety, and security. Enjoy a 4500 MBIT/s IP transit capacity, a private network supported by all the major pan-European providers, 24/7/365 monitoring, redundant power systems and five air conditioning units - all working seamlessly to give Lycos web hosting customers a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Control Panel
The Lycos Control Panel gives you online access to all the functions and features you need in order to manage and maintain a top-notch website, with all functions laid out in a neat, clean format. The interface is organized into simple, separate sections for each category of functionality, enabling users to learn and use all the capabilities of Lycos web hosting to its fullest.

Customer Support
Lycos customer support is provided 100% in-house and reachable via telephone and email. Self-guided customer support includes a detailed FAQ and is fueled by a thorough e-Learning program (included with all hosting services) that provides unlimited access to literally thousands of articles for becoming the best and most effective webmaster one can be.

Lycos Hosting Plans
Active Start – 100 MB disk space, 8 GB bandwidth @ £0.85/year (20 email accounts)
All-in-one – 1000 MB disk space, 10 GB bandwidth @ £4.99/month (up to 10 FTP accounts, 100 email accounts)
All-in-one+ – 2000 MB disk space, 20 GB bandwidth @ £6.99/month (up to 20 FTP accounts, 200 email accounts)
Webmaster – 4000 MB disk space, 40 GB bandwidth @ £9.99/month (up to 40 FTP accounts, 400 email accounts)
Business – - 8000 MB disk space, 80 GB bandwidth @ £14.99/month (up to 80 FTP accounts, 800 email accounts)
Enterprise – 20000 MB disk space, 200 GB bandwidth @ £29.99/month (up to 200 FTP accounts, 2000 email accounts)