MDDHosting Review

MDDHosting ReviewI was struggling to find the right web hosting company until I find MDDHosting. You might have already noticed that I was praising them on social media. It’s been almost 3 years I have been using their services on my niche sites and I am extremely happy with their uptime & performance. I am writing this MDDHosting Review to share my experience with my blog readers. In this review of MDDHosting, I will share everything about MDDHosting including MDDHosting pros & cons in the MDDHosting Review.

Introduction

The Internet is swamped with numerous of web hosting service providers, and it is quite explicable that finding the right service provider for any business owner who wants to gain powerful online traction can be a bit bemusing. I had been facing the same thing a few months back when I was thinking from where to start to find out the right web hosting service provider. Personally, if you ask me, then I would say that my experience with the company has been so far good.

Well, like any other website owner even I tried to look for reviews about different hosting companies on different forums like webhostingtalk and believe me it was of great help for me. Asking few questions from the community moderators I shortlisted MDDHosting and did more search which I would certainly like to share in this post.

Are you even looking out for a hosting company that promises to offer speed and service with a better approach? Which among so many options is worth to take a leap of faith? If such questions are keeping you away from the MDDHosting services, then you are on the right page to clear your doubts. Here in this review, I am sharing my personal experience with MDDHosting and have tried my level best to discuss several parameters that will definitely answer most of your doubts.

Before I start unfolding different layers of truth about MDDHosting services to know whether they can live up to your expectations or not, let’s have a quick brief review of its establishment.

About MDDHosting

MDDHosting is becoming the effectual choice for the business owners, who always want to go extra miles for hi-tech, yet guaranteed services. It was established by a rock-solid web hosting expert, Michael Denny in 2007. Since its humble beginning, the prime goal of Michael has always remained the same- to provide remarkable services with round clock customer support service to the clients. The company’s customer support team is known for troubleshooting the problems. MDDHosting so far has been successful in gaining the trust of the newbie and established entrepreneurs in the market.

MDDHosting is becoming the favorite on the webhostingtalk forum. Although they charge little extra for their services than other web hosting companies in the market, you will find it worth paying after experiencing more and more potential visitors to your website and increased revenue. Some of its well-elaborated plans are shared premium, reseller, virtual private and dedicated servers.

Let’s have a look at each of its featured services, and figure out what MDDHosting has in its bags to offer to its clients. So let’s start this MDDHosting Review with MDDHosting pros.

Pros of MDDHosting:-

Web hosting services and their plans

This emerging web host company is gaining new heights of popularity and achieving expertise in web hosting market with their improved services and lightning speed powered servers. Let’s have a fleeting look at plans and pricing offered by MDDHosting:

Shared hosting services

Under this service, the MDD offers three plans to the users, which covers both uncommon and common features of shared hosting.

  • Full access to all the e-mail features, SSH, private SSL, and DNS zone editor.
  • Provides compatibility with Magento and E-commerce apps
  • Unlimited cron jobs and FTP accounts.
  • Automatic Daily Backups.
  • CloudLinux reliability
  • PHP version selector

Below are the details of shared hosting plans offered by MDDHosting.

Features / PlansBasicIntermediateAdvanced
SSD Storage5 GB10 GB15 GB
Monthly Data Transfer250 GB500 GB750 GB
CPU CoresOne, full accessOne, full accessOne, full access
Addon DomainUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
MYSQL DatabasesUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Control PanelcPanelcPanelcPanel
LiteSpeed PoweredYesYesYes
CloudLinux ReliabilityYesYesYes
Money Back30 Days30 Days30 Days
Uptime Guarantee99.9%99.9%99.9%
Let’s Encrypt Free SSLYesYesYes
Monthly Price$7.50/mo$11.50/mo$15.50/mo
Annual Price (15% OFF)$6.38/mo$9.78/mo$13.18/mo

Premium Hosting Services

The servers used for providing Premium hosting services to the users are equipped with Pure SSD storage to ensure speedy processing throughout the day without any glitch. Some of the common advantages that all the three plans of premium hosting services include are:

  • Unlimited domains and sub-domains
  • Instant Setup
  • 2 Full CPU cores
  • Unlimited e-mail features
  • cPanel for all the accounts
  • Unlimited FTP accounts and cron jobs
  • SSL Secured Control Panel and Webmail
  • Automatic Daily Backups

Have a look at MDDHosting’s Premium Hosting Plans

Features / PlansBasicIntermediateAdvanced
SSD Storage5 GB10 GB15 GB
Bandwidth300 GB600 GB900 GB
CPU CoresTwo, full accessTwo, full accessTwo, full access
DomainsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
MYSQL DatabasesUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Email AccountsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Control PanelcPanelcPanelcPanel
Cron JobsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
LiteSpeed PoweredYesYesYes
cURL LibraryYesYesYes
Monthly Price$25/mo$50/mo$75/mo
Price (Annual Subscription)$21.25/mo$42.50/mo$63.75/mo

Reseller Hosting

If you are looking for the plans which can give the much-needed boost to your website then reseller hosting services are the right choice for your website. The MDD offers three plans under this service. Its basic plan starts from $34.50 per month. The user can get following services with every plan:

  • Zero setup fees
  • CloudLinux reliability
  • Private DNS server
  • Automatic daily backups
  • SSL Secured Control Panel and Webmail

Have a look at MDDHosting’s Reseller Hosting Plans

Features / PlansBasicIntermediateAdvanced
SSD Storage25 GB50 GB75 GB
Bandwidth500 GB1,000 GB1,500 GB
cPanel Accounts Limit255075
BackupDaily Daily Daily
Overselling Enabeled YesYesYes
Private NameserversYesYesYes
WHMCSYesYesYes
Monthly Price$34.50/mo$59.50/mo$84.50/mo
Price (Annual Subscription)$29.33/mo$50.58/mo$71.83/mo

VPS Hosting Services

If the increasing number of visitors on your website is surpassing your shared hosting services limit then more bandwidth, storage space, and security, you can switch to simply upgrade your plan to VPS hosting services. Even for the VPS hosting services, the MDD provides three different plans with following advantages:

  • RAID10 SSD Storage ( maximum up to 50 GB)
  • Full root access
  • 2 IP address
  • Instant reboots are available
  • Automatic daily backup services

Have a look at MDDHosting’s VPS Hosting Plans

Features / PlansBasicIntermediateAdvanced
SDD Storage20 GB35 GB50 GB
Premium Bandwidth500 GB1,000 GB1,500 GB
Dedicated RAM1 GB1.5 GB2 GB
vSwap (Burstable RAM)1 GB1.5 GB2 GB
Network Port Speed1,000 MBPS1,000 MBPS1,000 MBPS
CPU Cores (2+ GHz)124
IP Addresses222
Automatic BackupsDailyDailyDaily
Monthly Price$49.50/mo$74.50/mo$99.50/mo
Price (Annual Subscription)$42.08/mo$59.60/mo$79.60/mo

Dedicated Server Hosting services

If your website has outgrown all of the above services or you want to push your website to the next level, you can switch your plan to dedicated server services.

Here is a screenshot of the plans offered by MDDHosting: 

Added features of the hosting services:

  • LiteSpeed Powered Servers- These servers are 9 times faster than Apache web hosting, processes PHP 50% faster, and 3 times faster than SSL Apache Hosting. It supports .htaccess and mod_rewrite.
  • Other facilities: MDDHosting’s servers are made from Dual Xeon Quad Core+ (8+ cores) and a minimum of 24 gigabytes of ram.
  • SSD Storage– It is used to ensure uninterrupted performance and speed.
  • Spam Filtration- Spam filtration for a single domain by SpamExperts – up to 99.9% Effective.
  • Daily Automatic backups- Another added advantage of MDD hosting. These people take up daily backup and keep backed data on their server for 7days which you can back up anytime by logging into your cPanel.

Powerful Datacenter

MDDHosting has a private N+1 data center facility on 4,000 square feet of raised floor. Its database is equipped with powerful servers; each of them having a minimum of 24 gigabytes of ram and Dual Xeon Quad Core processors (8 cores). The data center is well-equipped with 7 air-control system units, each underlining N+1 redundancy that helps them in maintaining the overall humidity and cooling level. These HVAC units are capable of maintaining an environment in the data center at 70 degrees within 45% humidity. The overall variation in temperature and humidity can be more or less around 4 degrees. Moreover, the fire detection is meticulously managed by prompt detection alarm system and other powerful fire suppression system.

Going forward, they make use of Internap, Level3, tw telecom, Comcast, XO, Hurricane Electric, Savvis, Global Crossing, RMIX, and UUNET to maintain the connectivity of the datacenter. So much of security and facility the loss of data in any case reduced to a minimum. With such state-of-the-art infrastructure, we can believe MDDHosting to keep our data safe and secure.

30 Days Long Money-Back Guarantee

There are many web hosting companies out in the market who promises to return every single penny after 30 or 90 days, provided the customer isn’t satisfied, usually, they do not. But it is not the case with the MDD. They offer 30-days money back guarantee with most of the plans and the refunds will be given on the prorated basis of unused time.

Compensation for the Downtime

Most of the renowned web hosting companies promise to return your money in one or another way, but by imposing technical issues on the user’s end, they escape from the situation. It’s a fact that there is no web hosting company which has never faced a downtime. As no one is perfect, when I informed MDD about their not up to the mark 99.78% uptime (it’s not that major one, but still I did to check their efficiency) they immediately replied me with a mail including a complete explanation of what and why it happened. Plus, in return, they offered me free services for a month. It was really a smart move from their side. Due to their server update, the downtime I faced was gone and got free services as well. So, all in all, I didn’t claim my money but still get some benefits.

Freebies

Though MDDHosting is a growing web hosting company, it knows very well what to offer its customers, like free dedicated IP address, zero set-up, one-time installers, free domain and sub-domains, free daily backups for 7 days during disaster recovery, and much more.

No Migration fee up to 750 GB

Within 30 days of sign up MDDHosting allows you to transfer your data from another host at FREE of COST. You can transfer up to 750 GB of your data per month.

Performance of MDDHosting servers

To get a clear picture of their server performance, we run few checks on different online tools that helped us to analyze the real load time and speed of a website on MDDHosting server. Below is the screenshot of the result of the test conducted on bitcatcha.com, LoadImpact and Pingdom:

Bitcatcha Performance Test Results 

mddhosting performance

LoadImpact Test Results

MDDHosting Load Performance

Pingdom Results

MDDHosting Website Speed Test

With the above screenshots, it is crystal clear that the load time of the MDDHosting servers of 2.6MB page is around 2.39 sec. So if your web page is lighter, it will load even faster.

MDDHosting Uptime

Below is the screenshot of MDDHosting uptime. The site hosted with MDDHosting was up for continuous 30 days. That means we received 100% uptime during the month.

mddhosting uptime

Below are more details about MDDHosting Uptime & Response time month to month.

MonthUptimeResponse Time
January 2018100%343 ms
December 2017100%501 ms
November 201799.96%380 ms
October 201799.85%368 ms
September 201799.68%411 ms
August 2017100%401 ms
July 201799.99%382 ms
June 201799.91%332 ms
May 201799.85%388 ms
April 201799.93%522 ms

Customer Support Service

Though the MDDHosting does not provide online or live chat support, its round the clock active Phone and e-mail support has outperformed our expectations. The customer support team also answer those queries and clear customer’s doubt of which they are not liable (Obliviously the valid queries related to services or technical issues).

Until now in this MDDHosting review, I have discussed the good things about MDDHosting, let’s discuss some things that I don’t like about MDDHosting.

Cons of MDDHosting

Like other web hosting companies, the MDDHosting is also not perfect, it also has some weaknesses. Some of the weaknesses of its services are enlisted here:

Limited SMTP mailing limit

While using MDDHosting services, the only pain point that annoyed me about their services is limited SMTP mailing limit which is close to 200 emails/hour or 2000 emails per day. Technically speaking, SMTP emails are requisite for open source software like WordPress and SMF to shoot emails to users to notify about various different actions taken such as email confirmation when a new user registers on the website and service or product update to different clients. In such cases, this limitation becomes a bottleneck.

Marketing Gimmick:

This is a small dot if you see the overall picture. Not a big deal. But this can annoy any customer who comes to their website. On MDDHosting’s homepage, they have a section that displays in bold, “The coupon code “25OFF” gives 25% off on a one-time basis…. Hurry up! Some code is given and that will expire at some indicated time”. Then, there is a countdown timer (counts down from 3 days) details about the server. This coupon offer doesn’t go away. It’s quite obvious that this is a marketing gimmick used by the company to lure the customers.

Final Take- The Conclusion

In my opinion, MDDHosting is preferably suited for the businesses who own small to medium-sized websites, with some extent of technical expertise. On the whole, the knowledge base and overall support system provided by the company is outstanding, and the company ensures to deliver seamless migration service from other hosts. If you’re comfy operating your own website single-handedly with little support and are looking for a reputable hosting company that’s speedy in resolving any type of technical issues, you could think about going ahead with MDDHosting.