Hosting Website is not planning on a Jumpline.com test and review any time soon, but I feel compelled to jump around and point at them, nevertheless. Why? Because they offer something that no one I’ve found in the shared hosting business offers: a choice, via plans, of how many people, generally, are on your shared server. In fact, their graduated scalability is astonishing.
They are also very honest in their marketing, brutally so. Actually, I think they gravitate toward outright pessimism. If I had an idea for a site and, having no idea about hosting, showed up at Jumpline.com, I’d probably give up all hope and look for a tall window to leap from. I’m sure Jumpline just feels like they are being up-front and wanting to make sure that their customers have a solid idea of what they are getting into. They want you to be happy and get what you expect, as most hosting companies do. And, really, you’ve got your shot here because of the innovative way in which they work.
So if you’ve read my drivel before, you realize how much I like scalability. I like to be able to start at a very low point with massive power as a top potential and many spots to move in between. I don’t know of anyone who appears to offer this better than Jumpline.com.
Why They are Special
The basic shared hosting plan costs you $7.95 per month. That would be a premium price for shared hosting. I can’t say whether they are worth it or not. Certainly great shared hosting is worth that price, but we haven’t tested them yet.
So let’s say you start there, and you are doing fine, then suddenly you are getting more traffic and your site begins to slow down. So you call them and tell them that you want to move up to the next hosting plan. At most shared hosting companies, that wouldn’t get you anything. Seriously. You’d be stuck on the same server and be just as slow. You’d just now get the extra benefit of things like more databases, which you don’t need.
But Jumpline.com is different. When you move up in shared hosting plans, you actually get moved to a less densely populated server. This means that now you have more server resources.
Not only that, but you have three options for this: Starter, Basic, Advanced. As you go from Starter to Advanced, you get more and more resources.
Just as cool is what happens next. So you’ve finally outgrown what may well be the best shared hosting on the planet, the Advanced plan with few other sites on your server, so now what? Now they do the same thing with VDS, virtual dedicated servers, and they do it without sticker shock.
So you were paying $14.95 for extreme premium shared hosting. Now you make the move to VDS, selecting the standard VDS for $19.95. Run out of room there? Go for the Plus plan for $29.95.
Still running out of space, VPS starts at $39.95. Fully dedicated hosting comes after VPS. Beginning to get the picture?
What Jumpline.com has done is really quite remarkable. They’ve created a virtual ladder for your virtual real estate. You can start at the bottom rung and gently climb your way to the top as your website needs more elbow room. They even move your site for you as you go. It’s almost like being carried up the stairs.
Hosting Website won’t be reviewing Jumpline.com until 2010, but they are a very intriguing company. That’s as close as I can get to an endorsement until I try them out for myself.
