Welcome to Net5
By now, you've probably already trawled through dozens of hosting providers, looking for one that will meet your needs. They all look the same, offer very similar products, and charge similar prices.
But look closely, and you'll notice something. They try to impress you with flashy sites and sound effects around their “servers”, which for a while was the same picture of a collection of Sun hardware worth several hundred thousand dollars. It seems that gaming computers are all the rage now for demonstrating a host's technical prowess. At the end of the day, most of these companies don't even own their own equipment, but have what's known as a reseller account from another company that's leasing their hardware from a third company...
Then there's their “support staff” — the beautiful girl wearing a big grin and her signature headset. If you visit enough hosting companies on your search for the place to host your site, you might even see the same person on multiple sites. Don't be fooled by stock photography!
We're Different
We're real. We don't pretend to be something we're not, and we'll be the first to admit that. We're not a mega-corporation — we're a small business, like many of our customers, and we understand what it's like to be a small business.
For years, we've watched other hosts come along, designing large corporate-looking websites and giving the air of professionalism and quality. But as they rapidly grow, this facade quickly wears off, and the true amateurism become apparent with poor customer support, increasing costs, and worst of all, downtime for your site or even loss of data.
We urge you to take a look at our offerings. You'll find we're quite competitive with other web hosts, but with support you'll find second to none.
From the Labs
Just Smashing
I’ve always been interested in design in all its forms — web, print, architecture and more. And while I know my way around photoshop, my tallent with all things pretty is mediocre at best. But that doesn’t stop me spending far too much time looking all things pretty. I’ve spent the last few days reading Smashing [...]
The New Net5 is Live!
I know this blog has been getting a little stale lately, but we finally have some good news to announce. We’ve finally taken the wraps off the brand new Net5 site! It’s a little bit more fancy than our previous incarnations, but we feel it better reflects our target market, and we’re really excited to have [...]