Comments on: Best hosting deal?

By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett

Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:20:46 +0000

So, you’re not biased or anything ?!

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:23:14 +0000

Hostgator.com. is better than all of you guys’ sites. Im not kidding. And good support too. I work there All reseller plans have better stuff than anything you have posted here..

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:04:45 +0000

If you want free hosting, try HostMe123 – 300 MB Disk Space, 10 GB Monthly Transfer, 7 MySQL Databases, 5 Add-On Domains, POP3, Webmail and a lot more. For $7 you can pay to get rid of the footer ad for the lifetime of your hosting account.

By: Kurt Weiske

Kurt Weiske — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:47:47 +0000

I’ve been on dreamhost for the past year – they add new tools pretty regularly, I haven’t had any tools break my site or crash, and his subjective comments regarding usability should be taken with a grain of salt.

I tried going to Walker’s site, but there’s just a placeholder there.

You’d think people would take bargain-basement shared web hosting with a grain of salt, but I suppose some people have different realities.

By: Walker

Walker — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:04:24 +0000

Be wary of Dream Host. I fell for the blurb and signed up yesterday. Twelve hours later I got a refund — minus $9.95 for the inevitable free domain that I’m now unable to transfer elsewhere for sixty days (I mean, to take advantage of free hosting again for that domain). Their configuration panel is the most unintuitive I’ve used in ten years (seriously, TABnet had something better than that in 1996), every kind of configuration option seems likely to cause errors or downtime (just changing an email account’s password results in the account becoming inaccessible for several hours, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg), and of course, on that price-plan, the telephone support is non-existent. (See the blurb, it states that you’re not entitled to it.)

I chose this host not only because of the WordPress rec, but because I thought I was finally giving something back to them ($97 USD for being referred). Now I’m convinced that the $97 USD incentive is the only reason WordPress recommended Dream Host because I doubt anybody with experience of them would endorse them.

Various Webserver diagnostic sites also judged my pages to be loading 3-5 seconds slower than on my original modhost server. (And I was in a position to compare identical sites, having just transferred a WordPress blog to Dream Host.) Never again.

By: Usayd

Usayd — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:32:39 +0000

I highly unrecommend Netfirms. They have crappy support and they don’t even support mod_rewrite so you are extremely limited with what you do regarding websites especially WordPress. I switched to site5 and use my netfirms account as a file dump.

By: jafer

jafer — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:15:04 +0000

I’ve been using netfirms for years and their best selling point is their technical support – you always get to talk to someone. Only in this past year has my site had any downtime at all, and I was pretty pissed off about it, but for over 5 years of hosting, I’d have to recommend them.

By: Alexandru

Alexandru — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:48:05 +0000

Hi,

I reccomend to try this fantastic offer from Servage, I am their client for 1 year and 3 months by now, http://www.servage.com, where you get 25 domains to host, unlimited emails, unlimited mysql databases, and a whole bunch of features, for only 7.5 USD/month. Also includded one domain or transfer for free and 25 GB space. If you sign up with this coupon: cust10293 you get another 500MB free.
They have also a good support team, with short response time. Also, from time to time, they increase the space for hosting. For example, I have signed up last year with 7GB now I have 35GB.

Best,
Alex
ps. you can contact me