midPhase Services, Inc. is a privately held web hosting and Internet services company based out of Chicago. midPhase provides budget, shared, advanced and other types of web hosting services to a wide range of clients ranging from small business to individuals. Providing a robust technological base, and reasonable pricing, midPhase is able to offer customers an unbeatable value.

midPhase attributes their success to their exceptional customer service, wide range of value-added services and affordability. This combination of offering and affordability has helped midPhase retain a record breaking growth pattern, faster than the industry average every month since inception.

Besides the standard features, midPhase plans come with several free web marketing package for promoting your site, for eg. PPC manager, competitor list, keyword generator, search engine submitter, traffic monitor etc...

If you want to have your own website design but do not want to outsource the work, you can try out midPhase SiteStudio which is a very powerful program that will guide you through the creation of your website.

midPhase plans offers unmetered bandwidth, but please be informed that not all sites are eligible for this special feature.

To be eligible for the unmetered bandwidth, your site must not fall under the following categories :

1) Download/File Archives - Websites that have a large number of downloads available.

2) Image Gallery Websites - Website that is used to display mostly images.

3) Adult Websites

If it falls under the above category, your bandwidth would be limited to 60GB/month.

CPanel is our favorite control panel software. To learn why we favor CPanel, please read our LunarPages review . midPhase's customized version of CPanel has a different layout than the ordinary CPanel, but has exactly the same features.

All trouble tickets, customer support requests and/or e-mails to their technical support team will be responded to within 24 hours of being received.

If you need to reach them urgently for technical support, you can call their toll free number which is open 24/7/365.

You can also use their flash tutorial section for help on certain issues.

Another popular help is through the midPhase Talk which many of the questions you have may already be answered even though midPhase forum(<5,000 members) is still new and is not as active as our other top 10 hosts such as PowWeb(>24,000 members) and Lunarpages(>15,000 members).

WebHostMagazine Highest Level of Recommendation
For the second time, Web Host Magazine has awarded them the highly regarded Editor's Choice Award. This is by far the highest level of recommendation from one of the toughest hosting reviewer in the industry!

MidPhase's hosting solutions carry two forms of uptime guarantees. The first is a 99.98% server uptime guarantee and the second is a 99.999% network uptime guarantee. Both carry pro-rated refunds for downtime.

MidPhase hosts at the Equinix IBX Center based in Chicago, Illinois. Network redundancy is provided for by several Internet backbones such as Internap and Bell South. Security and backup systems are also top notch.

Your site will be hosted at the Equinix IBX Center . Network redundancy is provided for by several Internet backbones such as Time Warner, Internap and Bell South. Security and backup systems are also top notch.

MidPhase provides you with 2 types of guarantee , 99.9% server uptime and 99.9% of network uptime. If midPhase fails to provide 99.9% uptime, you will receive a credit of one month. For full guarantee details please see their Terms of Service agreement.

Their servers use 100Mbs internet connection speed.

If you wish to terminate the contract within the 30 day money back guarantee, you will be refunded the full amount less any incurred setup and configuration costs , like most web hosts . midPhase charges you $21.95 for the domain name and $29.95 for the setup fees, which is very expensive.

If you would like to take advantage of the 30 day money back guarantee, I would suggest you to try out Host Gator, please refer to Host Gator review.