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bgj202005 15 years ago

Originally Posted by patlondon

huh..? That really is crazy. How could they afford a support staff or anything..?

They may offer this now, but I don't think they could stay in business very long. Sounds like fly by night.
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summerm

15 years ago

i think they are just trying for market domination-- after all, once you are with a hosting provider, most people don't switch.
it's also a continuity product; if you forget to cancel before the year is up, your hosting will continue for over $100/year or whatever

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Andy Fletcher

15 years ago

Yeah. It's a continuity thing. Hardly anyone moves their sites. It's too much hassle. So once they've got you, you're locked in.

Oh and be warned. The prices they list on their package page are the setup fees. The per month charge is higher. So when it renews in a year it costs a lot more than you expect.

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Kezz

15 years ago

I'd be afraid. 9 times out of 10 if hosting is cheap there's a good, or bad as the case may be, reason for the low price.

Quality hosting underpins your viability as an online business person. I think it's important to choose your provider carefully.

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NiceBlogger

15 years ago

Kezz have a point.I have seen too many cheap hosting deals that eventually caused only problems or they turn to be a scam,just stick with the well known providers if you wanna be safe.

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Web Hosting Choice

15 years ago

Originally Posted by NiceBlogger

I have seen too many cheap hosting deals that eventually caused only problems or they turn to be a scam,just stick with the well known providers if you wanna be safe.

- absolutely agree! It same if someone will come to sale mercedes 1000$...

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mediadealer

15 years ago

yep, i would never trust any $5 hosting, or any lifetime hosting either... for me it's hostgator all the way.

--Corey

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BurgerBoy 15 years ago

Originally Posted by mediadealer

yep, i would never trust any $5 hosting, or any lifetime hosting either... for me it's hostgator all the way.

--Corey

It's HostGator for me all the way too. I can run any kind of scripts that I want to there without any problems at all.

I went through 5 different host and had trouble with all of them until I found HostGator. I haven't had anymore trouble since I moved all of my sites to HostGator.
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Raydal

15 years ago

When 1and1.com first came to the US market they had a
3-yr free hosting and they are top of the line. So I wouldn't
assume low price mean low quality here.

-Ray Edwards

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Cash37

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

When 1and1.com first came to the US market they had a
3-yr free hosting and they are top of the line. So I wouldn't
assume low price mean low quality here.

-Ray Edwards

And 1and1 is complete shit service excuse my French.

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The Pension Guy 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Cash37

And 1and1 is complete shit service excuse my French.

I will have to second that. I know of websites that were completely lost on their servers; their "own" WP installation is a nightmare (you cannot move it or back it up) etc.
Avoid it.
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Clayton Jolin

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

When 1and1.com first came to the US market they had a
3-yr free hosting and they are top of the line. So I wouldn't
assume low price mean low quality here.

-Ray Edwards

Thats so really true. I'm currently with a host I got a deal for one year free and hardly I ever had a problem with them!

CJ

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rlrlphs 15 years ago

Incredible I just visit the site and all I can say is amazing because they have nice testimonies and good costumer service.
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GarrieWilson

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

When 1and1.com first came to the US market they had a
3-yr free hosting and they are top of the line. So I wouldn't
assume low price mean low quality here.

-Ray Edwards

1and1 is not top of the line. The interface is horrid, the support is worthless and it's hard to run certain aps. For a one page sales letter, they are fine but nothing else.

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Good News Now

15 years ago

Guys,
I have been using 3ix.org for several years for many of my domains. They offer 700 GB for very cheap price. I am not sure if anyone can beat that.
I tried different hosting in my years of marketing and this one is the best for me. So far did not have any problems.

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Kevin AKA Hubcap 15 years ago

It's five bucks for a year.

Give it a try. If you like them great if you don't it's only five bucks.
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- RedMatrix 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Kevin AKA Hubcap
  
  It's five bucks for a year.
  
  Give it a try. If you like them great if you don't it's only five bucks.
  
  If something ever goes awry, it may cost you more than $5 to fix it. I'd stay away.
  
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  CliveG 15 years ago
  
  Try telephoning the support line at 10pm and see what sort of response you get. Uptime and support is nearly always more important than price if you are relying on your website for your income.
  
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  clbeav 15 years ago
  
  $5 a year? When it comes to hosting I always go by the "You get what you pay for."
  
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  MikeHumphreys 15 years ago
  
  Website hosting is the lifeblood of every online marketer or copywriter.
  
  If your websites and/or email are down, then you're basically out of business until they come back online. That's zero sales... zero emails from potential JVs... zero emails from customers with questions and may get ticked off that you haven't answered them after 12, 24, 48 or more hours.
  
  I would strongly caution anyone using dirt cheap hosting for any reason. Like the OP mentioned, it may be fine for non-critical stuff but personally I still wouldn't do such a cheap plan. It's too risky to me.
  
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jdr0411

15 years ago

I agree with Kevin AKA Hubcap. It's only $5. Who knows, it might be descent. Worth a shot I'd say.

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thewizard

15 years ago

I think netfirms is pretty good. I have been using it and the pricings are not bad, and the servers are pretty stable!

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Kezz

15 years ago

It's true that it's only $5, but if you're going to test out the service on that basis, make sure it's in a way that can't lose you business if there are problems. If you put a revenue generating website on the service and you get significant downtime, that's when you can lose more than your initial investment. Also, you may have to factor in time spent dealing with support - time is money, and I've lost a fair bit of it on hosts with rubbish support.

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geolt7

15 years ago

If you want to try it out, I suggest putting sites that are not your bread and butter and test it out for a few months. It does not hurt to also have a backup clone of your site on another hosting provider so that you can quickly switch over if things go bad.

However, if you are hosting blogs and forum, things won't so straight forward.

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yaji

15 years ago

$5 a year? The catch is after 1 year they may charge a lot more and at that time you are just lazy and pay whatever they charge. Their web site did not mention if this is only for the first year and what the rate will be after that.

BTW, using your affiliate link in a post is against the forum rule.

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summerm 15 years ago

Affiliate link? You really think "http://www.pronethosting.net/" is an affiliate link?

I hope you're not talking to me, but if you are, please realize I'm just trying to share a really good deal with my new buddies here. I'm not getting any kickbacks.

Originally Posted by yaji

BTW, using your affiliate link in a post is against the forum rule.
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yaji

15 years ago

Guys, we need some research here. I went to their web site and do a test booking, the cheapest one is about $96 a year. $4.95 is the set up fee.

That means their rate is $8 a MONTH after one year. You can only host 1 domain and up to 5 MySql database which are very restrictive indeed.

Why not pick other hosts like hostgator plan which is cheaper and proved to be reliable by many folks here? $5 a year is just a marketing trick.

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$5 a year? The catch is after 1 year they may charge a lot more and at that time you are just lazy and pay whatever they charge. Their web site did not mention if this is only for the first year and what the rate will be after that.

BTW, using your affiliate link in a post is against the forum rule.

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keephead

15 years ago

For hositng,quality is first,if you aren't familiar with it,don't buy low price hosting.
I use several low price hosting,setup database backup to my own computer everyday automatically.So for me,it is safe.
Find low hosting deal in this site Special Offer Online

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actionplanbiz 15 years ago

has any1 heard of Justhost ? i think thats the name. any good or bad reviews on that?
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Jon Steel

15 years ago

you get what you pay for...

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Will Edwards

15 years ago

Originally Posted by summerm

Hello folks,

Pronet is currently offering crazy cheap hosting at just $5/year

They've got a couple bad reviews online, but so far I've experienced some quality customer service. It seems they have cleaned up their act. For something non-mission-critical, this would be perfect.

Just go to:

Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Free Domain Name | Pronethosting.net

But they are not as affordable as my site - see sig below ...

EDIT - Oh - per year - yep, that beats me - at least on price (lol)!

Will

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GeorgR.

15 years ago

It COULD be very well the case that they provide good hosting for the price.

For me, "good hosting" is not determined by the price...but by running my sites and see what problems i run into..if you have a simple sales page or XSP site...well sure, no problem. But if it gets more complex like wordpress or PHP scripts..you never know unless you tried.

As Mikey says, your sites are your bread and butter! If someone is that cheap there is a chance that a LOT of script-kiddies and bad neighborhoods host there too...which could result in down-times...bandwidth problems, things like that which could also affect your site. (Since you're on shared hosting). I try to avoid such mainstream hosters usually. One buck or two a month or a year..shouldnt be a criteria for an IM to host their sites.

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Jesus Perez

15 years ago

I used to subscribe to cheap hosting with Dreamhost about 3 years ago. I learned (the hard way) that my sites were up only about 80% of the time. Up until I discovered that, I was telling everyone how "great" they were despite the occasional bad review online.

I recommend you setup a free account with SiteUptime - Website Monitoring Service like I did 3 years ago.

If your host can keep 99% uptime, recommend them. If not, move your sites ASAP!

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rashamba

15 years ago

I love hostgator online support. Worth every penny

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summerm

15 years ago

i'm using my $5/year account for site development -- so that my engineers and I can communicate about the project-- as a way to host on something that I own instead of my developers' servers... plus the developer will have access to this sandboxed area only, instead of giving him access to my production server with whatever else I have going on there. (actually this last point is theory-- my production server doesn't yet exist-- which is great; i don't have to pay real money yet.)

edited to add: i need some features not provided by free hosts (as far as i know) such as emails for my domain

don't dismiss a good deal so easily; you could find great uses for it

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Steve Campbell

15 years ago

Probably going to wait this one out. Let other people try it and if they can vouch for it maybe I'll give it a try. $5/year...can't beat that as far as I know.

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Eric Lorence

15 years ago

One domain only...

This is not a bargain... forget about it.

There are plenty of free hosts that offer more.

And for much more try $9 a month for a basic Hostgator account.

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stevenbrandon411

15 years ago

That just sounds too cheap to me. I would be worried about hosting something that important for so cheap and I would be worried about what the price would go up to when the $5 was over.

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Michael Motley

15 years ago

$5 a year? I wouldnt touch that with a 10 foot pole. Its probably someone just splitting up a server they have. so yeah you'll get it for 5, but you'll end up sharing a server with like 90 other people and by the time all is said and done, your site will spend more time down than up and when its up it will move like mud because of all the sharing of resources.

An online business is similar to your a brick and mortar when it comes to a host. You wouldn't set up shop in the real world in some place that only charged like $20 a month in rent would you? hell no, you would run screaming into the night thinking (and probably rightly so) that there is obviously a catch.

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eddywebs

15 years ago

guys I had been thinking to give pronet a try has anybody tried it yet?? as for the hostgator guys at BHW had been claiming that hostgator's server got infected with trojans all over , resulting in getting flagged as bad sites by mcaffe and other security sites

Steer clear, youll pay for it in the long run and their banking on that id.. Its to much work to change hosting companies, so after that first year youll be screaming for help Im sure theyll start hitting you with some hefty fees. Just go with hostgator, you cant go wrong there!

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JWB

15 years ago

Remember the old adage...you get what you pay for... Personally,
I would never get something important as hosting for such a low price.
I use Host Gator and am very happy with them.

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Kay King 15 years ago

It possible they are rebuilding the business after some bad experiences by customers.

I had a host I used for several years and was exceedingly happy with. Then the hosting company was bought out (not announced but wasn't hard to see what happened) and both service and quality deteriorated rapidly. Did I move my sites - darn right I did.

To rebuild a reputation requires a lot of work. If a host with complaints was bought out, new owners might well run great specials to build a new customer base.

I wouldn't use it because I don't need more hosting right now but it's a great deal for someone trying to get started in IM on a very small budget.

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Geopentagon

15 years ago

I have a bad experience for cheap hosting.I purchase hosting 4.95$ but its a bad experience for me server always down,support not good.Always study reviews for hosting provider before purchasing.

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Arted4Life

15 years ago

I already have some great hosting with unlimited everything. However like most people I am a little wary of 5 bucks a year for hosting. Especially if you need the site up and running at all times.

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Rezbi

15 years ago

Actually, I can do better. How's free sound, without any adverts?

And it's reliable.

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tj

15 years ago

Originally Posted by summerm

Hello folks,

Pronet is currently offering crazy cheap hosting at just $5/year

They've got a couple bad reviews online, but so far I've experienced some quality customer service. It seems they have cleaned up their act. For something non-mission-critical, this would be perfect.

Just go to:

Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Free Domain Name | Pronethosting.net

Simply - you will get what you pay for.

Timo

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Rezbi 15 years ago

Originally Posted by tj

Simply - you will get what you pay for.

Timo

Not always.
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ToddK

15 years ago

I have been out of the game for the past few months and this was the first post I saw when I jumped back on Warrior.....my first thought was holy crap!!

But as others have mentioned just becareful. If they decide they can't afford the bandwidth anymore....or just as bad, they oversell the bandwidth you and your customers won't be happy.

I think I will stay with the like of Hostgator....and dare I say it, GoDaddy.....for the time being.

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Josh Anderson

15 years ago

Spend just $100 a year and you can have a reliable, reputable, economy hosting solution with a ton of trusted companies.

Aplus.net
Powweb
Dream Host
Host Gator

Just make sure when using economy hosting that you have your domains registered elsewhere so you can move fast if things go south.

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bwh1

15 years ago

Well that initial poster must be a newbie to IM or has plenty of time to spend/risk.

While $5.- a year is obviously cheap, and the host might be OK, to say "use this to build stuff you can afford to loose" - or so is ridiculous.

Heck, if I wanna only test things, I go right away with Blogger or WP or Weebly - for FREE.

Why should I spend countless hours building something on a host which maybe make me lose my business if he has a bad day ?

There is no time to play games in IM, at least not for me.

So IF you like to build something, use a reliable host, and if you wanna only play around, go right away with free stuff.

Imagine you build some on that $5.- bucks host, and you make a KILLER with it ?

Each day yo run to church and pray that it will stay online. No way.

G.

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BloggerDownUnder

15 years ago

Hi Summerm

I'd be cautious, as I believe that generally (and I accept that there will be exceptions) you get what you paid for. I tend to go with reputable providers Hostgator; Go Daddy, etc) , as my time is too important to deal with hassles of providers who do not offer 24/7 service, or other support etc.

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InternetMarketingIQ

15 years ago

There is a very old quote which I am about to butcher... made by the Late Jonny Carson.

"I would not want to go on a Space Shuttle built by the lowest bidder".

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summerm 14 years ago

wanted to give everyone an update.

they have been fantastic as a development server and i'm grateful for the cheap offer-- WHICH IS STILL RUNNING. in fact a friend of mine is now hosting his company website here.

- customer service has been excellent. my engineers often need new things installed by root-- they take care of it, no problem. in fact i've sent them several lame issues and they haven't lost patience yet. (there is one outstanding problem we've been having related to server memory problems occasionally causing one of my apps to crash, but it's not reproducible and difficult to pinpoint the problem.) they haven't been totally upfront when there is downtime for me, but when i probe they will give me the reason etc.

- uptime has been great. not 100% consistently, though, according to my monitoring service. there have been several week runs with no downtime at all. and then a few minutes down, resulting in 99.99% uptime. twice total it has been down for a few hours, one of those nearly a day. one was a denial of service attack.

considering i don't have much experience with hosting, i'm not sure whether the two points above are standard. especially the second-- would you expect 100% uptime over nearly a year, for a low cost hosting provider? i doubt it.

now for a public server, i'm still on the hunt for a good solution. i want something that can scale up fast and even support traffic spikes (maybe something quick to move to a cloud infrastructure when the scaling starts ), but have an initial very low monthly price. drupal awareness would be even better. i hesitate to host on this dirt cheap host because of the rare downtime--not sure if I am being unreasonable though.
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prettyboy

14 years ago

It's great if you can find a low-cost company that does not go down often. That's the problem you run into sometimes. Hostgator is pretty good, it's like $9 a month.

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