EIG Review

EIG, Endurance International Group, this might not be a popular name at the first glance. However, you might be quite familiar with iPage, FatCow, EasyCGI and many other web hosting companies on the market. EIG is the new owner of more than 30 hosting companies.

EIG Introduction and Story

So who is EIG and how it's doing? EIG is actually not a hosting company itself but running business by acquiring other successful hosting companies since 2003 and seems will never stop. As of powerful financial support, it's quite possible EIG will become the largest hosting provider in near future if they continue with the fast buying.

How is EIG doing from hosting?

Since EIG is so big, how're they doing? Yes I have to say they do have advanced technologies to manage such amount clients with different hosting requirement and even developped their own Control panel Vdeck, however they're not doing as well as expected. Since their purchasing started, several well-known hosting brands were broken by the "HostingTransition" and things become worse and worse after that, EasyCGI is the best example.

Generally speaking, linux hosting is well done with this company and promoted all products to be "green", this is a big step forward; but their windows hosting is another story, we're not sure what kind of technology they applied but it's super unreliable. You can't run a basic .net project on the server and no fast solution by their India support team. It's most not recommended provider if you want to deal with windows hosting solution from EIG.

What're the hosting brands under EIG?

The fastest way to determine if the hosting managed by EIG is to check domain whois record, if you find the domain owner contact address is **@maileig.com then it is. Since there're over 30 companies under EIG name, we just list out some well-know brands:

FatCow, Powweb, iPowerWeb, IPOWER, dot5hosting, HostClear, Startlogic, Globat, Easycgi, Serverbeach, virtualave, Choopa, Webhost4life, iPage, BizHostNet

I have to say, EIG does have strong financial abilities among many other hosting companies. If they can pay more attention to customer feedbacks they should get better reputation on the internet. I believe EIG will do this to serve their clients better since they manage such huge business in the industry. Also, since it's such a big company, they can't avoid various problems and complaints. For such huge business, we do hope they can seriously treat people's concerns and offer good services.