WebsiteSource is an Austin, Texas web hosting provider establishment. With close to 7 years of experience in the web hosting industry, they ensure that your website is well managed and supported by a team of very talented hosting professionals.

Their expert team of technical support personnel assists thousands of businesses and individuals around the world. The company is a recipient of many hosting awards and honors. This definitely gives the customers a peace of mind as their websites are in the hands of veteran professionals.

Although they offer many plans, the Budget Hosting plan offers many key features that you need for cheap and effective hosting. It is easy to get started with your account. The Budget Hosting plan is the most popular and economical offering 25,000 MB and 50 GB bandwidth for $7.96. This complete plan includes Hosting, Builder, Content, Marketing and E-Commerce Software in one location. You can save money and host 5 websites with just one account. This is as very good option if you have many small websites that share the un-used sources.

You'll get the Site Builder tool to start your new site's design. If your site requires online transaction, you can get your site e-commerce ready with features such as shared SSL and shopping cart. When it comes to the final step of promoting your site, WebsiteSource offers several marketing tools.

The Budget Hosting plan also supports important e-commerce features including SSL secure server, Authorization Certificate, Verisign, Authorize.net, and Cybercrash etc. For these features offered the other web hosting providers would charge many extra bucks.

WebsiteSource uses proprietary Control Panel made by 4Site Internet. It comes loaded with huge number of features and navigation menus that are easy to understand and use.

There are several ways you can seek their help from general to technical issues. If you can't find the answer in their FAQ section as well as in the general knowledgebase section, you might want to send them email request . We tested their email response time and normally the reply gets back in 24 hours. The quickest way is, of course, through their live chat , which is open 24/7.

Once you sign up as one of their customers, their quick start tutorial proves to be very useful for beginner. If you encounter problems with your account, not to worry, their extensive video tutorials and help manuals will walk you through the configuration process. If you are a lazy person like me, opening a support ticket and/or having your question addressed by their live chat staff might be the best choice.

Even though there are so many support channels, you won't find many support staff here. We tested their email support and is quite surprise to have our general question answered by the marketing manager himself. We think this is not a good practice as he should leave the general enquiries to the sales department and focus more on promoting the host.

There are so many positive reviews about WebsiteSource in the web hosting industry that you can be sure they know what they are doing.WebsiteSource has been acknowledged for its great service and receive numerous awards such as
- one of the most popular hosting companies by CNET
- Editor's Choice Award by WebHostMagazine.com
- Top 25 Web Hosts by TopHosts.com
- Top UNIX hosting company by Webhosters.com

The traffic of WebsiteSource has been very stable for the past 6 months. Compare to other hosts in our top 10 list, WebsiteSource Alexa ranking is one of the lowest. They really need to step up their marketing effort in order to secure more market share.

WebsiteSource has two data centers. Shared Hosting is located in the Austin Data Center. They connects using Time Warner TELECOM directly from their network to Time Warner Telecommunications' nationwide fiber network that delivers the local last mile of connectivity to their customers.

• Reliability
  The NOC constantly monitors power, fire, and HVAC (high-capacity heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems) using automated applications under the direct supervision of the NOC staff. Equipment is kept in high-tech locked cabinets. Redundant, state-of-the-art fire detection and suppression systems are used to keep equipment safe.

• Speed
  Their connections to major backbone providers utilize direct super high speed OC-48 connections and OC-192 capabilities with Time Warner TELECOM, UUNET, AT&T and Digex.
  

WebsiteSource offers a reliable service and a great control panel to work with giving you minimum of the problems.

Website Source's Budget Hosting plan is a complete web-hosting plan that guarantees to meet your entire web hosting requirements. The multiple domain feature allows you to host up to 5 websites into a single account is a huge cost savings especially when you host several websites with Website Source. Effectively, you are paying only $1.59 ($7.96/5) per month per site. 

Nevertheless, if you do not require extensive customer support on the setup and maintenance of your websites and you need the e-commerce features on multiple websites, Website Source is a good economical option.