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With excellent customer service and many hosting types, TMDHosting is a web hosting service to monitor your shared, VPS, dedicated, cloud, and reseller hosting needs. It has excellent customer service and a rich selection of plans full of features. It is worth noting that the last time we tested TMDHosting, the web host suffered from uptime issues that lowered his score. A recent retest proved that TMD had bounced back, making it again a WebHost worth your time and money. This is our TMDHosting review.
Getting started
As soon as you select the desired hosting plan, you can choose a new domain or use an existing domain. There is a wide variety of both country-specific and generic domain names, which is always a welcome change.
Then you can start creating your TMDHosting account. The process requires you to provide fairly standard personal information, generate a password, and select a payment method. You can also choose a hosting server location from the six listed locations, and the nearest one will be designated. You can view the costs for monthly, yearly, biennial or triennial subscriptions and choose the desired subscription type.
Not surprisingly, if you select a triennial plan, as an example, it would cost you about three times less for each month, rather than opting for a monthly plan after another. If you need extra services that TMDHosting offers, such as those related to search engines or security, you will have to spend extra money for them.
Finally, you can view the details of your order and purchase your plan. Since each plan comes with the cPanel, i.e., the industry standard, users already familiar with its layout will have no problem finding their way around this plan. Even if you are a first-timer, the administration of your new website will be easy enough.
WordPress is just one click away, and besides that, you can get Weebly website builder, a very user-friendly solution that comes for free. Magento, Softaculous, Joomla, Open Cart, and over 300 other apps can be yours with a single click after an installation, and free daily backups are the most welcome bonus.
TMDHosting review: Performance
After putting the main TMDHosting website on the GTmetrix test, we got a mixed bag of results when it came to their speed. The time it took to load the page fully was 4.4 seconds, which is excellent compared to the average result of 8.1. Moreover, the total page size is only 1.93 MB, which helped the page load faster. However, the number of requests was 108, which is well above the average of 89.
TMDHosting promises 99.99% uptime and keeps that promise, at least according to our uptime test. During our monthly test period of TMDHosting’s main website, the results showed no downtime evidence and only a few variations in response time. Taking all this into account, we can conclude that most users should be satisfied with the performance of their website.
TMDHosting review: Pricing and plans
The promotional offer and key features and details about discounts will be prominently presented on the landing page. If that does not suit your needs, you can select a hosting (shared, cloud, WordPress, VPS, reseller, or dedicated hosting) that works for you, and for each of them, you will be offered several plans. The most popular one will be highlighted along with the one that is considered to be of the best value about the suggested price and features.
The least expensive shared hosting plan, Starter, will start at $4.95 (currently for sale for $2.95) per month, and you will get a free domain, Let’s Encrypt SSL, cPanel, and unlimited SSD space. Although TMDHosting does not offer a free trial, there is a generous 60-day money-back guarantee for most plans, which gives you plenty of time to decide if this provider is the right one for you. Regarding payment methods, TMDHosting accepts credit cards, PayPal, or direct bank transfer, which is more than we are used to.
TMDHosting review: Customer support
TMDHosting offers 24/7 web-chat-based customer and technical support, but the telephone support is limited to “US business hours.” I tested the phone and chat support on a weekday morning and afternoon, respectively, and never had to wait more than a few seconds before a courteous TMDHosting representative answered my questions about web hosting packages. Overall, I found the TMDHosting customer support excellent in my tests.
Final words
TMDHosting is packed with great features and excellent customer service. The service came close to returning to the top form that impressed us when we first viewed it last year. After seeing everything, TMDHosting can offer, and at what prices, we can say that it is a diamond in the rough that is worth keeping in mind when looking for an ideal host. Still, to stand out among well-known hosting giants such as Bluehost and Hostgator, TMDHosting will have to take their services to the next level.