The New York Times, Business Week, PC World, and The Wall Street Journal recommend Netfirms. They speak for themselves saying that you give your website and advantage when hosting with them and you save money. The Netfirms Advantage plan is currently on sale and includes more than $300.00 worth of extras for free. It cost $9.95 a month and comes with free software and two free domain names. You get 250 GB of disk space and 2000 GB of transfer. With is package the customer get 200 GB of disk space, 2000 of GB transfer, and can host unlimited websites. With Netfirms Plus the customer can quickly create his website using flash templates and web-based tools for $4.95 a month. The Netfirms Enterprise plan costs $49.95 a month. The customer gets 150 GB of disk space, 1.5 GB transfer, a dedicated IP, and support is toll free. A domain name cost $6.99 a year.
The Netfirms reseller program is comprised of four types: the Netfirms Multipro 6, the Netfirms Multipro 12, Netfirms Enterprise, and Netfirms Business. Each reseller program offers you more in hosting plans, domain names and other things your customer would need.
If you want to launch web store you can get the Commerce Pro with the Advantage, Business, and Enterprise plans. It allows you to sell as many products as you like and you get a control panel to manage your store. It doesn’t require installing software. You can create newsletters and marketing campaigns. It gives you customer’s reports about orders and customer history. The customer can write product reviews. There are a lot more features to the Commerce Pro by Netfirms. It supports all of the main payment gateways. The price is $14.95 a month, which is paid quarterly.
Netfirms is working to help the environment by lowering energy use in their data centers and corporate offices, lowering the amount of computers and other electronics that go into landfills, and using organic cleaning products. They have green banners that you can put on your website.
Netfirms is a member of the Better Business Bureau and is accredited with ICANN. Pixlr uses Netfirms to host its site. The site builder makes your site e-commerce and PayPal ready, there are many templates. You take seven steps and shortly you have a website. There are three different site builders: Site Builder Lite, Deluxe, and E-commerce. You get three page with site Builder Lite, ten pages with Site Builder Deluxe, and unlimited pages with Site Builder E-commerce.
Netfirms has been recommended by some big names. What do some of the customer reviews report about them? Out of 27 reviews they got a 1.01 rating from a 4-point scale at Host Search. The complaints talk about poor e-mail, poor customer service, bad web service, lost domains, hard to install scripts, not recognizing domain name, causing problems with WordPress, and problems getting an account canceled. The picture of Netfirms is rounded out for you to judge what you think and if you would use them through the customer reviews and recommendations by some big name magazines and so forth.