MilesWeb is a quickly growing Indian web host with a wide range of hosting options and plans.
Established in 2012, MilesWeb is a relatively new and “100% independent” web hosting company from India. It was founded by Deepak Kori, Chetan Mahale and Chinmay Dingore with a clear and simple aim, and that is “to deliver quality services round the clock at affordable prices”. From its humble beginning, MilesWeb has become one of the fastest growing companies in the industry. In addition to a variety of hosting types, they provide domain registration, website security, SSL certificates and similar essentials. They claim to have more than 20.000 happy customers at this moment. MilesWeb’s data centers are scattered all over the world, so customers can choose whether they want to host their websites in the US, the UK, Canada, Singapore or (obviously) India. Their main website feels fresh and pleasing to the eye. With its modern interface and user-friendly layout, finding your way around feels straightforward. When you arrive at the landing page, you’ll be warmly greeted by an Indian “Johnny Bravo” (MilesWeb’s idea of a good-looking mascot) and presented with an ongoing discount, all with a ticking timer. Like many new and modern hosting providers, they have an official blog and a pretty stylish one to boot. Along with up-to-date articles there is a “Video Library» leading to their YouTube account which features a great deal of tutorial-like videos. As far as we can tell, they are in English, done in directly-to-the-point manner and quite helpful. As for other social networks, MilesWeb is currently active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and (curiously enough) Instagram. The profiles on these platforms are functional and seem to be active on a day-to-day basis. MilesWeb offers quite a number of different hosting services, starting with basic shared hosting all the way to managed WordPress, cloud, reseller, VPS and dedicated server hosting. With most hosting types, customers are free to choose which operating system they would like to use (Linux or Windows) and this (commendably) doesn’t seem to affect the pricing. The number of presented plans depend on the hosting type, but the minimum is three. The most affordable shared hosting plan goes by the name “Tyro” and, at this moment, it starts at extremely cheap $0.60 (but only if you choose to commit for three years) per month. This will get you one free domain registration (for the first year), unmetered bandwidth,1GB of SSD disk space and free SSL certificate. Yet, automated backups will cost you extra cash. Even though it is labeled as one of the “unlimited hosting plans» (together with the other two), the only “unlimited” feature it offers is its bandwidth, while both email accounts and disk space have clear limitations. For more demanding businesses, there is a bare metal hosting option as well and it goes up to $290 on a monthly basis. Although MilesWeb offers a standard 30-day money-back guarantee, some refunds might be given in the form of credit, which might depend on the payment method you originally opted for. For MilesWeb’s products, you can choose to pay with credit/debit card, PayPal, direct bank transfer or via RuPay (basically, an Indian version of PayPal), which is more options than we normally see. One of the things we kept noticing on the MilesWeb’s website were some of the questionable marketing methods which completely lack any subtlety.
