Da-Manager Review: Everything you should know before buying it
Finding a good web hosting service can take a lot of time and if not selected properly, can waste your money.
At HostingPill, we are passionate about studying every minute detail about the hosting service provider and it is always our effort to give an honest, impartial opinion to all.
Here is our review process in detail.
So, here we give a full review of Da-Manager from a user’s perspective.
What is Da-Manager?
‘Da-Manager’ is the UK based hosting service provider. They started their operations in 2014 with its headquarters at Telford, UK.
Catering to small and large businesses they have plans for shared hosting, WordPress hosting, Reseller hosting, VPS hosting and Dedicated hosting.
They support only Linux hosting.
They have servers in France and London with administrative offices in the UK and Nigeria.
Apart from the hosting services, they also provide services for web design, web development, designing & printing, and social media marketing.
They have auto installed applications for WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, and Joomla.
Da-Manager: Uptime
They have an uptime guarantee of 99.9%.
Just a quick recap for those who are new to the hosting world. Uptime refers to the time during which your site remains up and accessible to the general public.
Using HostingPill’s SLA Uptime calculator, we derived what an uptime of 99.9% means.
It indicates the number of times a website goes down.
As far as ‘Uptime’ is considered, we think that they do have scope for little improvement but overall 99.9% is also not bad.
Pricing and Features
Da-Manager offers 4 different packages for Linux Shared Hosting plans starting from $1.00/month and according to us, all plans are reasonable..
All plans have similar features which include:
- SSD Storage
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Unlimited emails
- Data Backups
- FTP/Database
- Free SSL
- cPanel
- 24*7 Customer Support
- Free Domain Name
The free domain is not available for the basic plan.
One unique feature which we noticed is that they offer huge storage space. If you consider the basic package, then it is a 5 GB SSD just for $1.00/month.
They claim on their website of the service being 16X fast, so we decided to probe more into it.
We inquired with their Customer Support executive and came to know that they offer “StackPath” as a Global CDN on ‘Gold and Diamond shared hosting plans’, which makes the service 16X faster.
They offer ‘Railgun’ for free with Cloudflare on high-end packages.
Also, to prevent any accidental loss of data, it is backed up every four hours to a secured off-site location and every hour if you opt for a high-end package.
Da-Manager: Ease of Use
What kind of a website can you expect from the people who are professionals for web development?
‘Da-Manager’ themselves do web development and web design for their clients, so obviously their site had to be the BEST ONE to use with very easy navigation.
Customer Support
“Customer service should not be a department. It should be the entire company.”―Tony Hsieh
We chatted with their customer support executive at several different times in a day and found it to be excellent.
They have got really good email support, whatsapp support and a live chat option.
In case of a doubt, a ticket can be raised to get the query resolved and they are FAST at resolving the issue!
We tested their ‘live chat’ option and found it to be perfect.
We asked them about their server locations, about terms and conditions, about operations of the company and found satisfactory answers.
When we clicked on the ‘contact’ tab, we found informational blogs in the ‘knowledge base section’.
Also, you can know the current status of the server by logging into your account.
Da-Manager: Security
Data breaches often cause devastating losses to organizations. They affect the goodwill of the company as well as result in the loss of customers.
According to digital guardian “In the U.S. a data breach costs a company on average $8.19 million, an increase from $7.91 million in 2018, and more than twice the global average. The cost per breached record, $242, is steeper too.”
Da-Manager uses Railgun and Cloudflare for protecting the data.
Data is backed up every four hours off-site to prevent accidental deletion and for premium packages, it is backed up every hour.
It also provides free SSL, HTTP/2, and QUIC for your website which enhances the security features.
Pros:
- Excellent customer support
- Good uptime
- Easy navigation
- Nice security features
Cons:
- Videos would have been a better option for the ‘knowledge base’ section instead of just the blogs.
Da-Manager: Conclusion
Overall, we found that Da-Manager offers the best at the lowest possible price. It has good uptime and good security features.
We recommend Da-Manager and as an icing on the cake, you get 30 days money-back guarantee.
In case, you aren’t happy with the services you can claim a refund.
Not much information about the server stations and the safety features for the data centers could be obtained from the website.
According to us, it would have been better if they could mention it in brief on the ‘about us’ page.
We could gather information about data centers from the customer support executive.
The customer support executive was a very knowledgeable person and responded to all our technical as well as general queries quickly.
So, what are you waiting for?
Sign up, test them for 30 days and we bet you won’t be dissatisfied.
Do let us know in the comments section your views regarding ‘Da-Manager’ as a hosting service provider.
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