Gate.com offers a very wide selection of web hosting services. The company features four plans for shared hosting for a few bucks per month, two different plans for virtual servers, and an impressive total of nine plans for advanced dedicated server services. The layout of Gate.com's site is very logical, and the packages are well-presented.
With its broad range of plans, Gate suits both the customer setting up a private website and the eCommerce company reaching for big market shares. For absolute beginners, Gate provides a very helpful tool called CreateIt! for building websites from scratch with little or no programming skills required.
The basic plans, with names like MACH 1 and MACH 1000, are priced at $9.95-49.95 per month, and include 5-100 GB of data storage and a bandwidth of 200-2000 GB. There's no set-up fee and all the essential email features are included. Gate's plans for dedicated servers fall into the $59-799/month range, and are available in both Linux and Windows versions. Most scripts are supported, and there's a good assortment of eCommerce features.
Gate guarantees an uptime of 99.99% for all its plans, which beats about 99.99% of its competitors. The company is also committed to a very high level of security to keep your data safe, fighting intruders with very advanced spam and virus protection. We did some testing of Gate's self-acclaimed extreme support, and we liked what we found: a very attentive and skilled service, which is available 24/7/365 through phone and email.
Gate is owned and operated by the large, reputable Affinity Internet group, instilling customer confidence with experience and stability behind the company.
