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Funio Shared Hosting Review 2020

Item: Funio
Rating: 7.8
Author: Jonathan Kerns

Funio is a Canadian company that was part of iWeb, one of the largest web hosting companies in Canada. They separated in 2012 and use the experience and knowledge they have to continue to provide their own web hosting services. However, that separation may have done more harm than good, as their service is riddled with shortcomings. The service suffers from subpar page load performance, additional support is expensive, and the huge discounts won’t even last you an entire term. Still, they offer big discounts for new subscribers, good uptime, numerous features, and some freebies thrown in for good measure.

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Jonathan KernsFebruary 26, 2019

Pros

Big Discounts – Funio offers big discounts to help make their already enticing products even more appealing to potential customers. Each Funio subscription comes at a 50% discount for new clients, and they even offer a 30-day money back guarantee so you can get a refund if you find their service unsatisfactory.
Good Uptime – Funio offers a 100% network uptime guarantee that compensates customers with credits for whatever downtime they experience. Also, for the most part, uptime is consistently good – and sometimes even better than other more popular shared hosting services.
Features – You get a host of really useful features, regardless of your chosen plan. These include a site builder, ecommerce features, CMS, free security updates, free SSL certificate, one-click installs, free setup and more.

Cons

Separated from iWeb – Though they still carry the knowledge and experience they acquired when they were still part of iWeb, the resources of Funio are now significantly less than if they would not have separated. Sadly, this translates into a little decline in the quality of service that they provide.
Performance – Because datacenters are located in Canada, users from other locations and in some regions of the US are not guaranteed speedy page loads. While the speed is not the worst, it is not exactly fast either.
Basic Subscription – Although Funio throws in a lot of features into the mix, their basic plan’s features is still pretty limited. This pales in comparison to other companies’ feature-rich basic plans.
First Month Discounts – Unlike other hosting providers that offer introductory prices that are good for an entire year or two of service, Funio only applies the huge discounts during your first month. And this holds true even if you go for the longer subscription terms.
Customer Support – While Funio’s customer support resources are good, requesting for additional request is quite expensive. The hourly rate is around $125CA, which roughly equates to $99.5USD.

Pricing

Funio offers 4 different pricing plans, the Economic, Unlimited, Start Up and Small Business. The Economic plan only allows you to host one website with 20 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth. It also only allows you 100 email accounts and 10 databases without a free domain name and SSL certificate. You also get up to 48 hours of backups. While this plan is very affordable, it lacks in features compared to basic plans of other companies that offer features like unlimited bandwidth. This plan starts at $1.99 for the first month of the 1-month term, which will then revert to $3.99 per month after the promo period. If you want to avail of the 3, 6 or 12-month terms, then you would have to pay $1.99, $1.90 or $1.80 per month for the first month, after which the prices will revert to $3.99, $3.79 and $3.59 per month, respectively.

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The Funio Unlimited plan is true to its name as you get unlimited websites, disk space, bandwidth, email account and databases, which is a huge step up from the Economic plan. You also get 7 days of back up, 1 free domain name and up to 256 MB of RAM. Costing a mere $7.99 a month (on sale for $3.99 for the first month), this subscription is great to have. If you want to avail of longer terms, it will cost you the same for the 3-month term, $3.80 for the first month of the 6-month term ($7.59/mo regularly), and $3.60 for the first month of the 12-month term ($7.19/mo regularly).

Funio also has the Start Up and Small Business subscription plans which have the same features as the Unlimited plan with the exception of a few additions. The Start Up plan has an increase of RAM with up to 512 MB and up to 1.5 cores. The Small Business on the other hand has an increase of RAM with up to 512 MB and up to 2 cores. Both plans come with a free domain name, SSL certificate and email marketing.

The Start Up plan would only cost you $17.99 per month normally, and $8.99 for the first month of both the 1 and 3-month terms. The Small Business plan, meanwhile, costs $28.99 per month normally and $14.99 per month for the first month of both the 1 and 3-month terms. So depending on your web hosting needs and budget, there are various options to choose from. They even come with a 30-day money back guarantee so it is practically risk-free to subscribe and check out their services.

Other Features

Funio throws in a lot of features into the mix, which everyone can enjoy regardless of which plan they are subscribed to. You get one-click installs, an eCommerce website, an easy-to-use website builder, free cPanel, free 24/7 monitoring and security updates, free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, and many more.

Infrastructure

Funio gives a zero downtime guarantee and back it up with a quality infrastructure and data centers. They have 3 data centers with real-time replication on a secondary server, hard drive redundancy with RAID-10 configuration. Funio does a backup every 24 hours on an external server with other 7 days of recoverable back up for each website.

Customer Support

The company offers an extensive knowledgebase you can peruse for answers, as well as 24/7 customer support via the customer hub. They also offer live chat as well as a telephone number accessible by Skype from Monday to Friday 8am-7pm EST. Funio even gives you their mailing address to their main office and their fax number.

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Funio Shared Hosting Review 2020 – Conclusion

While Funio is commendable for offering very useful features, their overall service is just lackluster compared to other shared hosting providers’ offerings. It’s good that they offer really impressive uptime, as well as big discounts for newcomers, but the shortcomings are really hard to ignore. The introductory pricing, for starters, only applies to one month of service, regardless of which plan you get. The basic subscription, meanwhile, really lacks compared to other services, and their page load performance isn’t anything to write home about. There are lots of better options out there, but if you are currently on a tight budget and are in a hurry to host a website, then Funio’s cheap introductory prices and good feature-set should be able to serve your needs.