LayerOnline is a Canadian cloud and web hosting provider with head offices in Toronto. Since being established in 2008, LayerOnline has grown steadily to offer hosting solutions to businesses in over 200 countries. It offers a complete line of hosting solutions including shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, and cloud dedicated hosting.
Features and Ease of Use
LayerOnline’s website hosting solutions include the following standard features:
- Free SSL certificate
- One-click installer with over 370 free scripts
- Easy-to-use cPanel control panel
- Unlimited MySQL databases with phpMyAdmin access
- Unlimited email accounts
- Free DDoS protection
- Unlimited domains and subdomains
- Unlimited website transfer
- PHP 5 support
The hosting solutions have the Cloudflare CDN built in, and they include free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates. Other security measures include advanced real-time malware and DDoS protection, traffic storm protection, anti-virus, anti-spam, and protection against viruses, hackers, and common cyber attacks.
Daily and weekly backups are performed (and retained for a year) to keep your data safe. These backups are powered by Amazon S3 cloud backup that triple-replicates data to guard against disaster. Dedicated server customers get a one terabyte backup disk for free.
LayerOnline has equipped its data centers with cutting-edge IBM and Dell PowerEdge servers. This vendor has also implemented industry-leading web hosting technologies, including Nginx/Apache hybrid servers, AnyCast DNS, SSD RAID, and CloudLinux, to ensure faster loading times.
Pricing and Support
The hosting plans are particularly expensive, but they come with advanced features and very few restrictions. You get either a 30-day money-back guarantee or a 45-day money-back guarantee (depending on the plan you purchase). The 99.9% uptime guarantee is welcome but is lower than the industry average.
For self-support, LayerOnline provides a well-stocked knowledge base. Alternatively, customers can contact the 24/7/365 technical support team by telephone, ticket, email or live chat. Response times are generally rapid, and I received a reply to my test support ticket in just over two hours:
