SCal Linux Systems Web Hosting

Latest News:
Apr 26, 2006 - SCal Linux Systems upgrades it's host plan to 15 GB disk space and 400 GB bandwidth (previously 10 GB and 250 GB respectively).

Mar 1, 2006 - SCalLinuxSystems.com hosting plan has surpassed the 100,000 customer milestone.

Jan 27, 2006 - SCal Linux Systems introduces a new support forum, forum.SCalLinuxSystems.com, that aims to help the existing SCal Linux Systems customers.

Overview
SCal Linux Systems is not new to web hosting industry. They have been providing web hosting services to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. SCal Linux Systems offers a very competitive and complete web hosting plan that could easily meet most of your web hosting requirements but at a fraction of a cost of US$7.95 per month.

Key Hosting Features
SCal Linux Systems web hosting plan offers 15,000 MB of disk space and 400 GB of bandwidth. To put that into perspective, assume that each web page (HTML files and images) is approximately 50K in size, you can store approximately 300,000 static web pages for 15,000 MB disk space. If each web visitor reads an average of 5 web pages (i.e. 250K), then you will need to attract about 1.6 million web visitors to your website per month in order to use up the 400 GB bandwidth!

To take advantage of the huge disk space and bandwidth, you can now host up to 6 domains with a single SCal Linux Systems account. In other words, you can operate up to 6 unique URL websites under one SCal Linux Systems account at only US$7.95 per month. You can have many 'small' websites to share the resources provided by SCal Linux Systems (15,000 MB disk space and 400 GB bandwidth), with each domain can now shares up to approximately 2,500 MB disk space and 65 GB bandwidth. The multiple domain feature alone can cut down your hosting cost drastically to approximately US$1.35/month per web site!

In additional, SCal Linux Systems web hosting plan offers most of the standard web hosting features: free International domain names, FrontPage Extension, 2,500 pop3 email accounts, Cpanel control panel, website statistic analysis software and more. Below are few highlights:

mySQL Database - While many web hosting service providers support only 1 to 5 mySQL databases, SCal Linux Systems offers up to 50 mySQL databases at your disposal. You will need many mySQL if you plan to create a web site that supports dynamic web pages, online forums or shopping cart software. SCal Linux Systems also supports up to 10 of PostgreSQL databases just in case you need them.

e-Commerce Ready - SCal Linux Systems web hosting plan is e-commerce ready. It supports osCommerce shopping cart, Agora shopping cart, generated certificate and SSL secure server. You do not have to pay extra to enjoy these e-commerce features when you sign-up with SCal Linux Systems. However, SCal Linux Systems does not provide merchant account services but it's ecommerce solution, Agora shopping cart, is compatible with leading merchant account providers such as Authroize.net and CardService.com

Fantastico Script Library - The Fantastico Scripts Library is a collection of popular website plug-in scripts that can be installed into your website directly from the control panel. Example of the Fantastico scripts that you can add onto your website easily are Bloggers, Forum, PHP Nuke, Poll/Survey and many many more.

Customer Support
SCal Linux Systems is renowned for its outstanding customer service (Best Customer Service Winner, 2005 by Hosting Review) by providing various channels of support. You can reach SCal Linux Systems sales personnel or technical specialists by toll-free telephone or emails 24/7 whenever you need it.

SCal Linux Systems records showed that 75% of the average hold time for customers on the phone were answered in less than 30 seconds and the average ticket response time for Level 1 queries was less than 50 minutes. That is considered exceptionally good in the web hosting industry standard.

Awards
Below are the awards garnered by SCal Linux Systems:

> "Best Customer Service Award 2005"
> "Ranked #1 Best Overall "
> "Best Overall Host 2005"
> "Number 1 Host 2005"
> "Most Popular Host 2005"
> "Best Overall Host 2005"
> "Best Support 2004"
> "Best New Host 2003"

Summary
SCal Linux Systems may not as well-known as Yahoo web hosting or IPOWER, but it's web hosting plan is loaded with many hosting features that could be better than many of the popular web hosting providers out there. The e-commerce ready hosting plan comes with 15,000 MB of disk space and 400 GB of bandwidth plus up to 50 mySQL databases. Moreover, you can host up to 6 websites in a single SCal Linux Systems account. It is a huge cost savings and we think it is a steal at $1.35 ($7.95/6) per month per website. It's better to try than to just sit around wondering what SCal Linux Systems can offer.