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Cheap is a tricky concept. It's not monthly fee its the total cost of ownership that matters. It site and slow or unreliable it does not matter what it charge per month. This is a warning for those who want to squeeze the last dollar from the hosting fees :-)
Shared hosting with SSH access should probably cost more that "basic" (C-panel or whatever web interface only) as it double the troubles and headaches for the provider ;-). That means around $6-12 a month is reasonable. Here I think it is simply dangerous to select the lowest cost provider. Promotions that cut cost in exchange for longer contract (for example three years contract are OK.
For basic plan traffic should be "medium" and that means less the 50G a month. The rule of thumb is that you can't get more the 10G of bandwidth per each dollar of monthly payment (or $0.1 per gigabyte). That means that for $6 per month you can't exceed $60G quota on a regular basic. If you double that the chances are that are abusing hospitality and bumping you out is not reasonable for a "cheap" hosting provider :-). Forget about traffic in the 1000G a month in this price range range and this type of accounts. That range needs a dedicated server (real or virtual) and should cost you around $200 a month for a real server, less for virtual. If you truly want reliability and good uptime, you need either to raise your budget, or to lower your bandwidth requirements. Unlimited bandwidth advertisement is just a sign of cutthroat competition in this segment and you should not believe them one bit.
Note that SSH access attracts various "deviant" users and to cater to this user segment is a dangerous decision. Requesting additional documents about you before providing SSH access is just a common sense. And the demand for this type accounts is high: it is really difficult to maintain a complex or large (over 100M of content or several similarly sized databases) website without shell access even is you do not need a lot of server side scripting; it is definitely close to impossible with Cpanel or Vdeck). That means that a lot of successful sites quickly outgrow "basic" model and need an upgrade to "shared hosting".
Among providers that you might consider to investigate further I would like to mention:
If you are looking for the cheapest deal, with the most web space then you have come to the wrong place. We pride ourselves in offering a high level of technical support and providing our customers value in this way rather than ridiculous offerings of space which could under no circumstances be offered for that price. Don't get caught up in marketing gimmicks which offer large amounts of space just because they think you won't use it!
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I’ve been burned by "low cost/cheap hosting" before, so the first thing to state is that to select the right provider is tricky and might require several iterations. Different sites have different demands and what will work for one will not work for another. Also qualification of webmasters doffer. Some are accomplished Unix administrators, some are professional programmers and some are just HTML writers. As for low price, you need to see the whole price range and remember that free cheese is usually a sign of a mousetrap.
It is generally safer to select the plan in the midrange that closer to the minimum. Unless you sign for two or three three years I would avoid plans below $6 per month. Each additional year brings usually $1 per month discount. So you should not sign three year contract for less then $4 a mount.
Forget about 1000G per month on shared accounts like some providers advertise. That's a ream of dedicated servers with dedicated connections and costs are completely different. Such traffic means ~33G a day or around 2G per hour during 10 hours a day with real traffic (usually 80% of traffic is concentrated during just 10 hours, something between 8am and 6pm). That requires having your own 5-10Mbit connection to Internet. Assuming $50K per month for such a connection and $10 for hardware, rent, electricity and labor and you get $60 per month which is about right for a dedicated server. You can get this price by hosting server at office and using Optonline or similar cable service business plan. Most providers charge more and provided limited hardware, for example Rackspace charges $199. In other words there in no free lunch.
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Business Name:Domain Registry of AmericaDomain Registry of CanadaDROABusiness Address: 2316 Delaware Ave
Ste 266
Buffalo, NY 14216
See the location on a Mapquest Map
See the location on a Google MapOriginal Business Start Date:
9/9/2002 Type of Entity: Corporation Principal: Alvin Chen, Relations ManagerPhone Number:(866) 434-0212(866) 434-0212(905) 479-2533Fax Number:(866) 434-0211BBB Accreditation: This business is not a BBB Accredited BusinessType of Business: INTERNET SERVICES
Website Address: http://www.droa.com
http://www.domainrenewalgroup.com[Jan 18, 2012] Domain Registry of America Scam
Today I got the second USPS mail from this scammer. Like one commenter to Droa.com - Domain Registry of America Hosting Reviews Exposed noted: "I’m a fairly sophisticated in terms of domain name registration and hosting, and these notices almost fooled me. If they almost fooled me, then I can only imagine the incredible amounts of money they have made scamming tens of thousands of unsuspecting dupes." In my case they use a return address of 2316 Delaware Ave. #266, Buffalo, NY.
This is very deceptive letter domain transfer masked as a warning about domain expiration. I searched Google and found multiple notes about this scam. The earliest is from 2001. They were prosecuted by FTC in 2003 ( http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/domainreg.shtm )
So they are still in business after more then a decade of scamming people. This is definitely mail fraud.
Domain Registry of America Scam
DROA serves as a reseller of domain name registration services for eNom, Inc. (“eNom”), an ICANN-accredited registrar of second level domain names. DROA’s domain name registration services enable its customers to establish their identities on the web.
In the course of offering domain name services, DROA has engaged in a direct mail marketing campaign aimed at soliciting consumers in the United States to transfer their domain name registrations from their current registrar to eNom through DROA.
In many instances, consumers do not realize that by returning the invoices along with payment to “renew” their domain name registrations they are, in fact, transferring their domain name registrations from their then-current registrars to eNom. DROA’s renewal notices/invoices do not clearly and conspicuously inform consumers of this material fact. 16. Defendant’s renewal notices/invoices also fail to inform consumers that DROA charges a processing fee of $4.50 for any transfers of domain name registrations that are not completed, even if through no fault of the consumers. 17. In many instances, DROA promises credits to consumers who request them, but fails to transmit the credits to the consumers’ credit card accounts in a timely manner.
Despite the FTC ruling again DRoA (located online at: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/12/031219stipdomainreg.pdf) IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, in connection with the advertising, marketing, promotion, offering for sale, selling, distribution, or provision of any domain name services, Defendant, its successors, assigns, officers, agents, servants, and employees, and those persons in active concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from making or from assisting in the making of, expressly or by implication, orally or in writing, any false or misleading statement or representation of material fact, including but not limited to any representation that the transfer of a domain name registration is a renewal. II. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, in any written or oral communication where Defendant makes any representation that a domain name service is expiring or requires renewal, Defendant, its successors, assigns, officers, agents, servants, and employees, and those persons in active concert or participation with it who receive actual notice of this Order by personal service or otherwise are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from failing to disclose, in a clear and conspicuous manner, in advance of receipt of any payment for services: A. Any cancellation or processing fees imposed prior to the effective date of any transfer or renewal; and B. Any limitations or restrictions on cancelling a request for domain name services.
June 27, 2010 | Website Design, Content Management System And SEO Blog
A few days ago we received a statement in the mail from Domain Registry of America. The invoice gives us the impression that a couple of our domain names are up for renewal and are about to expire. The letter actually states that, "Your domain name registrations will expire November 19, 2010!” Even though the dates they have on file are correct, we’re not falling for this type of direct mail scam and you shouldn’t either! This type of marketing scam is aimed at consumers who do not realize that by returning the invoices along with a payment, their domain names are in fact transferring from their current domain registrar to DROA.
If you received one of these letters, please ignore it! Do NOT complete the payment slip at the bottom or make any payments to this company. To add insult to injury, the letter has their address listed as: 2316 Delaware Avenue #266 Buffalo, New York. With some quick help from Google maps, the address comes up the same as the UPS Store, so guaranteed it’s just a mail box!July 7, 2006 | Lucid Design
We have discovered that a company called “Domain Registry of America” or “DROA” has been emailing domain name owners with deceptive messages about domain transfers. The goal of the emails is to trick people into transferring their domain names away from their existing domain name provider. The emails falsely claim to be a response to a transfer request made by the current owner and should NOT be acted upon. This has been going on for over a year and several of our clients have been duped by this scam. Once DROA takes over ownership it can be somewhat difficult to regain control of the domain. This is in addition to the phenomenally high prices they charge (they make it sound like you get a good deal with them).
This scam seems to be targeting .com domains only and I haven’t seen any cases yet for other domains.
If people wish to express their concern, they can contact The Federal Trade Commission (in the US) at www.ftc.gov or the Ministry of Consumer Affairs’ scam watch (NZ) at www.consumeraffairs.govt.nz/scamwatch/
[May 04, 2011] HostGator Web Hosting - FACT SHEET
HostGator (also known as Host Gator) is a world-leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas with a full in-house support team of 150 industry veterans. Customers are not required to sign up for any contract longer than month-to-month service. There are no setup fees on any of their plans.
HostGator provides over 150,000 customers with innovative products and services to complement their existing businesses, from freelancers to Fortune 500 companies in more than 170 countries worldwide. In 2008, they were recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America.... ... ...
Verdict:
Host Gator is worth considering for anyone looking for a web hosting service that offers a wide range of features at a reasonable price, along with superior customer service.
[Jul 21, 2009] Web Hosting plans for only $1.99-mo by webhostingpad.com
A very interesting promotion ;-). That's $24 a month with a free domain ($10 per year), Dollar hosting ?
[Jul 21, 2009] Hosting Review Web hosting comparison site rates, reviews best web hosting companies
In the race to the bottom nay sites now offer $3.99 hosting plans.
[Jul 7, 2007] 1&1 Internet Inc. - Sign up
It's average or worse provider. Bad if you need tech support. $10 per month with ssh access.
1&1 Business : Includes 3 domains; 250 GB web space; 2,500 e-mail accounts; 2,500 GB monthly transfer volume; 50 MySQL Database
Limited Time Offer! 50% off for 3 months with a 12 month minimum contract term[Jul 6, 2007] Web Hosting, Unix Hosting and Dedicated Hosting by Aplus.Net
Solo XP $7.46/mo plan with ssh. BSD-based.
Aplus.Net is a facilities based provider located in San Diego, CA since 1995. We provide Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Domain Names, Web Design, and E-Commerce solutions. We offer to our customers the power and stability of the FreeBSD Operating System with our Web Hosting and Dedicated Servers. Aplus.Net, everything for your online business.
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$10 per month - 24% off with one year prepayment option. SSH, but no CGI
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With the annual billing option you get two months free! You pay for 10 months at $14.95/month and get 12
[Jul 2, 2007] Hosting Reviews at Hostjury.com - Blog 3500+ Dreamhost accounts exploited!
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According to an e-mail sent out to many Dreamhost clientele earlier today there have been over 3,500+ hosting accounts exploited at Dreamhost.
The suspected entry point into the accounts was most likely password sniffing however there are many other rumors surrounding the event.
This exploit quickly followed a recent exploit of IPowerWeb that resulted in the defacement of over 35% of the IPowerWeb clientbase. Earlier this year exploits affected Hostgator & many other large providers whose systems were rooted.
A copy of the e-mail sent out by the dreamhost team is below:
From: DreamHost Security Team
Subject: URGENT: FTP Account Security Concerns…
This email is regarding a potential security concern related to your ‘XXXX’ FTP account.We have detected what appears to be the exploit of a number of accounts belonging to DreamHost customers, and it appears that your account was one of those affected.
We’re still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears that a 3rd party found a way to obtain the password information associated with approximately 3,500 separate FTP accounts and has used that information to append data to the index files of customer sites using automated scripts (primarily for search engine optimization purposes).
Our records indicate that only roughly 20% of the accounts accessed - less than 0.15% of the total accounts that we host - actually had any changes made to them. Most accounts were untouched.
We ask that you do the following as soon as possible:
- Immediately change your FTP password, as well as that of any other accounts that may share the same password. We recommend the use of passwords containing 8 or more random letters and numbers. You may change your FTP password from the web panel (”Users” section, “Manage Users” sub-section).
- Review your hosted accounts/sites and ensure that nothing has been uploaded or changed that you did not do yourself. Many of the unauthorized logins did not result in changes at all (the intruder logged in, obtained a directory listing and quickly logged back out) but to be sure you should carefully review the full contents of your account.
Again, only about 20% of the exploited accounts showed any modifications, and of those the only known changes have been to site index documents (ie. ‘index.php’, ‘index.html’, etc - though we recommend looking for other changes as well).
It appears that the same intruder also attempted to gain direct access to our internal customer information database, but this was thwarted by protections we have in place to prevent such access. Similarly, we have seen no indication that the intruder accessed other customer account services such as email or MySQL databases.
In the last 24 hours we have made numerous significant behind-the-scenes changes to improve internal security, including the discovery and patching to prevent a handful of possible exploits.
We will, of course, continue to investigate the source of this particular security breach and keep customers apprised of what we find. Once we learn more, we will be sure to post updates as they become available to our status weblog: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/
Thank you for your patience. If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.
[Jul 2, 2007] Lies, Damn Lies and 99.9% Uptime Hosting by Glen Kendell
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
-Benjamin Disraeli, popularized by Mark Twain
... Convinced you can do better than 99.9%, you search for another hosting provider. You finally settle on one that offers an additional "nine" or 99.99% uptime per month. No more than 4 minutes of downtime.Before you get too excited, let's see where that extra nine comes from by examining the concept of monitoring interval. The monitoring interval is how often your hosted server is checked to make sure everything is working A-OK. Think of it as the lines on a ruler. It's going to be pretty hard to measure down to one eighth of an inch if your ruler only has one inch lines on it.
Suppose your application is monitored every 15 minutes. Now say your server is rebooted. If the monitor runs while the server is down, your server will show as down for 15 minutes, even though it only takes 3 minutes to reboot. If the monitor misses the reboot window, it won't show as being down at all.
A provider that offers 99.99% must have a small enough monitoring interval that it can measure down to the nearest .01%. How small is that exactly? Let's break it down using the shortest month:
28 days x 24 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x .0001 = 4.03 minutes
A service provider must provide a monitoring interval of no more than 4 minutes to provide a 99.99% uptime guarantee.
... ... ...
Always make a distinction between business hours and after hours. You should have different availability requirements for each period, even if your application is used 24x7. Next, create your goal using words and whole numbers, not percentages. For example:
- Zero downtime during business-critical periods.
- No more than 2 unscheduled downtime incidents per month of no more than 5 minutes per incident during after hours periods.
- No more than 1 scheduled maintenance period per month of no more than 30 minutes during after hours periods.
- Monitoring interval of 5 minutes.
- Monitor key aspects of the application, not the server.
- Independent third-party monitoring from multiple locations.
After defining exactly what your availability goals are, you can now strive to achieve it. The difference now is that your goal is 100% achievable. That's a statistic you can count on.
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Quote:IMO, there's a difference between resources and features. Your VPS approach results in more features/control over the hosting environment (certainly a plus), but the $4 will (on average) entitle the customer to ~$4 worth of server resources.
WestHost offers a lot more than "the resources of an average $4 shared account"...
Dreamhost may look tempting, but their whole business model is a lie. In reality, you do not receive anything near the number of bandwidth or storage space they offer because they will start limiting you either
1) directly(by email and then placing a cap on you) or
2) indirectly(by moving you to another server where it's incredibly slow, it took upwards of 17 seconds for anything to appear. And then another 10 seconds just for you to finish downloading the page).I have used the $9.95, $39.95, and $79.95 plan that dreamhost offered. If you try to contact support, they will just tell "everything's fine" as your site slowlyyyyyy loads up.
- If you have a small website: There are cheaper alternatives than dreamhost.
- If you have a medium sized website: You can use dreamhost, but expect very slow pageloads because dreamhost crams well over a thousand virtual servers on one machine.
- If you have a large sized website: Forget it, go elsewhere. Dreamhost is nothing but a dream, and at best a nightmare at that.
Well, I've been with Dreamhost for over a year now (almost 15 months I think) on their cheap "Crazy Domain Insane" program, and I never got around to thanking this forum for helping me find a host provider.
So I thought I would post my review of Dreamhost in hopes that it will be useful to someone out there, much like many of the posts were useful for me when I was searching for a host.
The summary: Dreamhost has been great for me, though I might not be your typical user. If you know what you are doing and don't have heavy MySQL (I've heard from others that can be slow) Dreamhost will likely be great for your needs.
OK on to the details...
Uptime
Uptime has generally been great. They got hit with a huge DDoS attack the first few months I was there which took them down for 8+ (24+ maybe?) hours. Their response to this was what first made me think that these guys were great. Not only did they have a detailed explanation of what went wrong, they also listed the steps they were taking to prevent it from happening again and learning from the experience. Also, if nothing else, they haven't gone down due to a DDoS since.
One of the things they promised was an offsite status page so customers could get updates even if the main Dreamhost network was offline. Two days later, this site was up and running. Big deal, you say... getting a web site up is something I do in my sleep. Well, me too. But I'm not a big corporation with lots of red tape. I appreciated the fact that Dreamhost could implement changes quickly.
Other than that one period of extended downtime, uptime has generally been good. They had a problem at one point where my server was crashing every night, but that was resolved within a few days. I ssh into my account, and it's not too uncommon for my shell to remain connected for over a week. (Eventually something will come up, either general net latency, I need to reboot, etc.)
Customer SupportI haven't had much need for their customer support, but I have contacted them a few times. Here is the full list of why I contacted them, including initial (non-automated) response time. The first line is me to them. The second is them to me:
Feb 12th, 2004 - 11:59:04 :: My weblog stat script didn't run
Feb 12th, 2004 - 14:55:52 :: DB problem, should be fixedFeb 26th, 2004 - 18:36:40 :: My server has been rebooted 4 times today
Feb 27th, 2004 - 05:32:17 :: We're looking into the problemMar 14th, 2004 - 17:13:55 :: My server is rebooting daily
Mar 14th, 2004 - 21:02:50 :: We know there is an issue, trying to fixMar 29th, 2004 - 17:46:18 :: I can't access my machine at all
Mar 29th, 2004 - 20:39:18 :: We got DDoS'd. Sorry about that.Jan 21st, 2005 - 17:16:03 :: Billing question
Jan 21st, 2005 - 17:23:39 :: Billing answerJan 31st, 2005 - 16:39:18 :: Web server crashed
Jan 31st, 2005 - 17:03:11 :: It got rebooted and should be working nowFeb 7th, 2005 - 10:41:44 :: New site access logs aren't being written
Feb 7th, 2005 - 12:01:23 :: There was a synch issue, should be fixed now.Feb 22nd, 2005 - 16:27:44 :: I need a perl module installed
Feb 22nd, 2005 - 16:31:40 :: OK, installed.Looking at the customer support logs, you might wonder how I can say that uptime is great given the tickets I created. One of the things to realize is that I'm on that shell account almost all the time -- all during the day, and many nights as well. If it's on the weekend or while I'm asleep, I won't notice right away, but I'll notice the broken connection as soon as I get back to my computer. The Feb 26 and Mar 14 incidents didn't cause extended downtime. I was more annoyed at my shell being dropped and losing httpd for the 2 min or so it took the machine to reboot. The Jan 31 incident resulted in under 2 hours of downtime.
I'll leave it for you to judge whether the response time is adequate. It was fine for me, but I'm not the most impatient person out there.
FeaturesThis is where Dreamhost really shines. Their control panel is nice, but that's not what I cared about. Full shell account, emacs, cron, perl scripts, full .htaccess support -- everything I wanted to do I could do. When I needed a CPAN perl module installed, they installed it quickly with no hassle.
I did have a minor problem where after I created a DB user, I was unable to change the password via the control panel. But that's a pretty minor problem.
Reponse TimeNone of my sites or scripts rely heavily on a MySQL database, and I've heard some people complain of MySQL slowness. Personally I haven't had any problems. I keep track of load average fairly often (especially when I am writing new scripts to make sure they aren't too draining on CPU), and even at peak the load average on my machine is around 2-3, spiking to 5 once in a while. I've never seen it sustained in the double digits, though of course, I might just be on a lucky machine.
Caveats / A Little about MeI know there is a tendency to not trust people with low post counts (like me). I posted a bit a year or so ago when I was looking for a host... and then I found one, and didn't really have much of a reason to post again.
I run several different scripts/sites. Almost all of them are accessible by going to my domain at:
These scripts run either on PHP or Perl and many of them connect to a MySQL database in some way.
As a caveat, I don't come anywhere close to the 120gig limitation on bandwidth. I consider myself a "power-user" in terms of taking advantage of the features that dreamhost offers, but I'm also careful to play nice and not hog system resources. I don't need a lot of customer support (as an aside I did find Dreamhost's Knowledgebase very useful) and I'm happy to be just left alone with good connectivity.
In summary, I love Dreamhost. If you have similar needs to mine, I think you'll love it too. If you have different needs, I still hope this post has been informative for you. I won't go out there and proclaim that any one host is the end-all-be-all for all people. But I certainly have nothing negative to say about them.
I hope this helps someone. I'll monitor this thread for a few days, so if anyone has specific questions post away and I'll answer.
Thanks again for providing a great forum -- when I was searching for a host, the sheer number of host providers out there was seriously daunting, and this forum really helped me narrow down my choices.
They provide simething like jails.
At WestHost, we provide SSH Web Hosting with each of our web hosting plans. Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket Shell, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. SSH commands are encrypted and secure in several ways. Both ends of the client/server connection are authenticated using a digital certificate, and passwords are protected by being encrypted.
With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) Technology, also known as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided into multiple isolated environments. Each environment has its own server software providing independence for that website. Any compromise to a site would only affect that WestHost VPS and could not affect any other site on the same server. As with a dedicated server, each WestHost VPS has its own independent operating system with it's own web server, mail server and independent software instances. A crashed application (Apache, Sendmail, MySQL etc.) in another client's WestHost VPS has no effect on your WestHost VPS.
What may be even more appealing is that with WestHost VPS web hosting, you have nearly full control over the most common areas of a website/server. This includes:
- Full control of the web server configuration (Apache), including PHP, mod_perl, and other server-side technologies and modules.
- Full control of the e-mail server (Sendmail) configuration.
- Full control of MySQL configuration.
- Full control of most Perl modules.
You also have access to other miscellaneous configuration files within your account and a greater ability to install and run custom software (should you choose to).
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Hosting Reviews at Hostjury.com - Home -- interesting information
SSH hosting provider selection
The Web Hosting Guide looks like an advertising site.
Bluehost is a great service when it works, however it doesn't seem to have worked for me so far! ... Shortly afer I signed up with them (a few weeks ago) the server which was holding my account crashed, resulting in a fragmentation problem and a long period of downtime and broken stats. The stats problem still haven't been fixed over a week after bringing it to their attention, apparently they have "other issues that have taken precidence" (sic). If a company has a good customer service, then surely ALL customer problems should take precedence? ... Then I learn that people cannot send any messages with attachments to my bluehost account without having them returned by the bluehost mailserver, yet funnily enough, when someone attempts to send me a virus there, it gets through! ... Overall, very poor so far, hope it improves!
In fairness to them, they did solve my problems fairly swiftly initially, however that was before they received my payment!
...Paul
Bluehost enters the arena by offering rich features and low pirce, just like what midPhase
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, LunarPages
, Globat, and StartLogic. BlueHost offers 1 GB web space, 50 GB bandwidth trasnfer, 1000 pop accounts, 150 virtual hosts, 20 subdomains, 10 MySQL databases, PHP, CGI, SSI, Cpanel control panel, Free search engine submission, Free domain name, free setup fee, and Toll-free support. All these features are only $6.95 per month. Compare with LunarPages
offers more space and bandwidth, but Globat
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Bluehost offerse everything I wanted at a low price. They give you 5 add-on domains but the downside with that is that only the main domain can have fantastico, email, and custom error pages. Another downpoint is that their online live support is never up. Also they only offer one plan. Everything else is absolutely great! Overall they are better than Total Choice Hosting and startlogic.
This host is great. They let you host multiple domains under 1 account for no extra charge. They also answer their phone right away. No huge wait times like I got from Ipowerweb.com. Highly recommended.
BlueHost takes a one-plan-fits-all approach to hosting, and it will certainly fit many. There are the usual ammenities (Perl, PHP, MySQL, SSI, etc.), the Fantastico script library, commerce features such as a choice of shopping cart and SSL support, and secure email. You also get a free domain registration with a one-year or longer pre-payment. On top of it all, BlueHost has a solid reputation for good service, unlike some other inexpensive providers out there.
If their plan fits your needs, BlueHost is a fantastic choice.
Note: If the convenience of one-plan hosts appeal of you, you might also check out our reviews of SimpleHost and PowWeb. Other decent one-plan hosts are Servage, iNovoHost, and 4CheapHosting.Net.
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