Websouls and SilkHost are both leading firms for web hosting in Pakistan. Both companies offer you web hosting, VPS hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, dedicated server hosting, shared hosting, WordPress hosting, Cloud hosting or dedicated hosting along with domain registration. But when it comes to experience, you can say that Websouls is one step ahead in this category compared to SilkHost as it has been serving its customers since 2002; on the other hand, SilkHost was founded in 2012. Yet SilkHost has never stayed back in providing its customers with top tier hosting services. Let us compare the two in terms of hosting, domain registration, packages and the extras it has to offer.
Domain registration
The first step for running a successful website is registering your domain name from a reliable company. When it comes to registering your cheap domain in Pakistan, Websouls provides you a wide range of options and assists you in choosing the best suitable domain name for your website from. From the best top level domains to the local .PK domain, Websouls will not stay back in finding you a domain name that is catchy and unique.
Same is the case with SilkHost. SilkHost is there to offer you over 1000 different types of domains from the latest Tlds to the popular old ones and the ccTlds. So both the firms can be accounted the same for the wide variety of domains. However when we compare the prices, we see that SilkHost happens to be just a little cheaper than Websouls. For example, SilkHost’s .com extension starts at RS.1240 per year, whereas if you go for Websouls, you will find the same domain in RS. 1520.
Both firms are going to offer you the option of transferring your domain, but with SilkHost for every domain that you buy, you can avail free email accounts. This includes up to 2 email accounts with fraud, virus and spam protection; forwarding or redirecting your domain to another website without any hassle along with theft protection which will protect you from any unintentional domain transfer by default. So we can conclude that for this category SilkHost has an upper hand compared to Websouls.
Web Hosting Packages
If you are a beginner starting up a blog and are not looking for traffic floods on your website, Websouls might be the right choice for you with their reasonable hosting bundles for Linux or Windows servers available in both shared and dedicated hosting. But once your website starts getting more visitors than usual, it might prove to be a little problematic for your website to keep up. Moreover, if someone discovers your website through a referral link and your website happens to be down during that time, then it may have a negative impact on your ecommerce business. So if you are ok with it then you can proceed or else you will have to take some measures.
SilkHost understands that every business has its own unique requirements for which it provides you with a number of ready-made to customized hosting plans, suiting your needs. All hosting plans for both companies include cPanel hosting control panel, SSL certification, one-click free installation of software, email accounts, free domain for one year, 99.9 % uptime guarantee and virus and spam protection.
SilkHost however has the option of a 30 days money back guarantee, which means if you do not like their service you can ask your amount back. The bandwidth and SSD disk space will vary from package to package. When it comes to prices, there is not much difference in the two firms. However Websouls may have more options in ready-made hosting packages which mean you have a variety to choose from. But SilkHost offers you customized hosting packages that you cannot ignore. Moreover SilkHost again has a slight edge over the prices as they are a little cheaper than Websouls.
Technical Support
Websouls offers customer support over the phone, through live chat and email. However, there are chances that their responses can be delayed for some time. Moreover, there are chances of your website being offline due to the updating of the DNS system.
For SilkHost, you can also ask for guidance through their email, live chat or phone customer support. But again there are some reviews of customers that claim that the company might be slow in responding to the queries and so may delay the procedures. So for this section, we can say both the firms stand on the same ground.
Extras
Both Websouls and SilkHost have speedy servers so you do not have to worry about your website taking a while to load. Both companies offer you SEO and marketing tools to spread the name of your website. The Server management system will not require you to deal much with any of the technical things. The privacy protection policy helps to keep your personal information, passwords and credit card details. Both companies have antivirus solutions in their hosting packages to protect your home and office networks from possible virus threats.
There are business plans, ecommerce solutions, standard plan, basic plans and premium plans available for both the companies. However one drawback on Websouls is that you have to face hefty restrictions placed on its premium hosting bundle, with the limitation of one database and no extra add-on domains. So in this category as well, both the companies are more or less on the same page except SilkHost seems to have a little edge in the premium offers.
Conclusion
In the end, we see that both Websouls.com and SilkHost.pk are a good option for web hosting in Pakistan. Websouls seem to be one step ahead in experience though, because of its early establishment in 2002. However SilkHost seems better when you compare the prices as it gives you a little edge in the amounts with their additional 30 days money back guarantee. So if you want a web hosting package at a more reasonable price, then side with SilkHost out of the two but if you want more hosting package options then Websouls is the choice for you.
