Netim.com review

First impression

Netim is an independent French-based ICANN domain registrar and hosting services provider based in Lille, France. Established in 2004 by Bruno Vincent, who serves as the CEO, the company specializes in Domain Name registrations, offering more than 1228 available TLDs (Top-Level Domain Names), Shared Hosting, Email, and SSL Certificates to clients worldwide.

Trial Period

All of their hosting plans come with a 30-day, no-quibble, money-back guarantee, ensuring you can evaluate their services risk-free. If you decide to cancel your plan within the first 30 days, they will provide a full refund without any hassle.

Billing Cycle

Hosting plans are only available on an annual basis and come standard with a 25% discount already applied.

Valid payment methods include all major Credit Cards such as Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express, UnionPay, and Diners Club, Prepaid Accounts, allowing you to top-up your Netim account to make transactions easier and to reduce bank charges, PayPal, Bank Transfers, Crypto Currencies (Tether USDt, USDC, TrueUSD TUSD, Tether EURt), and PaySafeCard, a leading online prepaid payment service, allowing customers to pay as safely as they would if they were paying with cash.

Control Panel

Netim has developed its own control panel, the Netim Direct, that is available on all their hosting plans. This extremely user-friendly interface, free of all the clutter most panels have these days, allows users to manage all aspects of their domain names, hosting services, email addresses, and more with ease.

Limits

Netim Shared Hosting plans, all running on SSD drives that offer greater access speeds and higher bandwidths than their HDD counterparts, come in 5 options to choose from. Their entry-level plan, the Lite, which is free of charge, comes with 250MB disk space and 1x 1GB POP/IMAP email address. One should note though that this plan doesn’t include a database, which means websites using Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress or PrestaShop cannot benefit from the Lite plan, it’s meant for beginners or to try out their services.

Next up is the Start plan that features 10GB SSD space, 10x 2GB POP/IMAP email accounts, and 1 x MySQL 8.0 database. Moving on we have the Web+ plans and the Mail+ plan. The Web+ comes with 100GB SSD space, 25x 2GB POP/IMAP email accounts, and 10x MySQL 8.0 databases, whilst the Mail+ plan has 10GB SSD space, 50x POP/IMAP email accounts with 100GB allocatable mailbox storage, and 1x 2GB MySQL database, and 30x 5GB MySQL databases.

Lastly, they offer the Premium plan that boasts 300GB SSD disc space, 250x POP/IMAP email accounts with 500GB allocatable mailbox storage.

All plans come standard with unlimited traffic and a free SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt.

Website Builder

Regrettably, Netim does not provide website creation tools or builders in their plans. However, except for the Lite plan, all other plans include a one-click install option for WordPress or Prestashop. These widely used CMS platforms enable users to swiftly create websites, blogs, or e-commerce stores without the need for coding expertise.

Security

Netim security comes in the form of a Web Application Firewall (WAF), that enforces a set of security rules to govern what types of communications are allowed on their internal network, DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack protection, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Anti-Malware filtering, as well as a complimentary SSL certificate by Let’s Encrypt. Sectigo SSL certificates (formerly known as Comodo certificates) are available at an additional cost should you need a more advanced SSL.

Additionally, they provide full site backups with a 7-day rolling period. In the event that your files are compromised, Netim offers file restoration services for a one-time fee.

OS

Their shared hosting plans are all Linux-based and give users the flexibility to switch between NGINX and Apache using the Netim Direct control panel. NGINX is an open-source web server software known for its reverse proxy, load balancing, and caching capabilities, while Apache is a free and open-source web server used to deliver web content over the internet.

Support

They offer Email support between the hours of 8 am to 6 pm (UTC +1), Monday to Saturday, with a promise of an answer to your issue within 4 business hours. In my case, I got a response in less than 5 minutes on multiple occasions while testing them out, which is impressive. Their agents are friendly and eager to assist, and if I had to fault their support in any way it would be the noticeable lack of Phone or Live Chat support.

Conclusion

Netim is a solid choice if you are in the market for a new shared hosting provider with a wide array of premium domain extensions. Their hosting plans are affordable, performance-optimized, and secure. If you don't mind the limited support options, you should definitely give them a try.