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[impact309 Friend impact309Join date: August 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#353551

I am shocked no one has mentioned about a very popular hosting site http://www.ipower.com.
Even I agree that when it comes to choosing a hosting site, the quality and the timely customer service should be more important than the price.
It’s wrong to base your decision on the fact that a particular hosting site provides a bunch of features as “UNLIMITED” ya that’s the luring word.
Your decision should be based completely on your hosting needs and your future plans. Moreover, you also need to do a little research about the customer reviews and the company’s reputation before trusting them with your website.

I am using http://www.ipower.com for almost 3 years now and I did not have a single issue with them. I am not a tech-savvy guy but whatever questions and issues I had has been answered instantaneously by their awesome 24X7 online chatting help.

Their Most Popular Plan is available for only $5.95 per month

Basic Features
Disk Space Unlimited
Transfer / Bandwidth Unlimited
Personalized Domain Name – One Free
International Domain Name – Included
Domains Allowed Unlimited

Marketing & Promotions
$50 Google AdWords™ Credit.
$25 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit.
New! $50 Facebook Advertising Credit
New! Free YELLOWPAGES.COM Listing
Google Webmaster Tools.
Carbonite Online Backup.
New! Google Custom Search Engine
RatePoint 60-Day Free Membership

Advanced Settings
FrontPage 2000 / 2002 Extensions.
Error Pages.
URL Redirects.
Customizable MIME Types

Software and Scripts
CGI-BIN + PHP 4 & 5 Support.
Perl Support.
MySQL Databases. – 25
Server Side Includes.
Web Hosting Control Panel (vDeck 3.0).

Power Plugins
Form Mail Script.
Guest Book: GBook.
Bulletin Board: phpBB.
Blogging Software: WordPress, Joomla, etc
Chat: X7 Chat

For many more features you can visit the site – http://www.ipower.com

[jagirakallis Friend jagirakallisJoin date: September 2010Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#355562

I would agree with Yerg… I’d rather pay a few extra $’s a month for a good service.

[merrina Friend merrinaJoin date: September 2010Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#355857

Most of my sites are hosted on hostmonster.com
and i also recommend justhost.com.

These two are my choice!

[xannonbourne Friend xannonbourneJoin date: October 2010Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#359636

Thnaks for sharing your wonderful tips those are really very useful to me at least these time only.

[greyhatde Friend greyhatdeJoin date: October 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#359776

Getting the cheapest hosting sure will help people a lot. But, if there is no quality with the hosting service then it is no use too.
What I will do is search for a hosting company that offer me many features with (Not the cheapest) but modest monthly fee. I think people got to have profit too… otherwise what for they doing business if they have to sell their service so cheaply?

[shelley89 Friend shelley89Join date: October 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#360377

The baby plan at hostgator works great for me. Although I’m looking at going into autoblogging and there seems to be issues with hosting these on hostgator. I know several people who’ve had their accounts banned. I’ll check out some of the others mentioned here. Thanks!

Shelley

[angelscrocher Friend angelscrocherJoin date: October 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#360384

I recently came accross your great informative post about hosting and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. .Its a really very impressive post.

[toymaker Friend toymakerJoin date: April 2010Posts: 123Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 45 times in 32 posts]

#363903

Well… I recommend,… Toymaker (http://www.toymaker.cl) 😎

We have a huge server farm inside iWeb (http://www.iweb.com) and provide a service similar to Mediatemple, but with the newest version of Plesk Panel and Virtuozzo. (We are Parallels Silver Partners http://www.parallels.com)
We have everything you might need, from shared hosting to dedicated VPS server on Virtuozzo Containers.

We are also NetworkSolutions Partners (http://www.netsol.com) and provide Domain registration and administration for excelent pricing.

All our hosting plans include at least:

• All the classic tools, scripts, and services
• Plesk 10 Control Panel
• Free domain name for one year
• Online paymant and instant upgrades/addons directly from your Business Manager control panel
• Payments through PayPal
• The best Joomlart Support available (besides Joomlart itself ofcourse :))

Pricing goes from $5/month for shared hosting and $20/month for dedicated VPS.

We also have reseller plans and accounts available for you to manage your own hosting service and clients.

Please send your requirements to sales@toymaker.cl while we make our new site available. 😉

Peace,
Gabriel

[fitness expert Friend fitness expertJoin date: November 2010Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#364129

Hi all. I am trying to look for a good hosting/domain name plan – it’s for a fitness/rowing site, set to music, so something with good accessebility and easy to use would be good. I’m relatively new at web design and all this kind of thing, so any tips would help! It’s a rowing to music company, if that helps to inform anyones decision!:)

[toymaker Friend toymakerJoin date: April 2010Posts: 123Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 45 times in 32 posts]

#364155

<em>@fitness expert 205141 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi all. I am trying to look for a good hosting/domain name plan….</blockquote>

PM Sent 😎

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#364157

I can’t say enough positive things about SITEGROUND – http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting.htm

😀

[nihues Friend nihuesJoin date: December 2009Posts: 69Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 17 Thanked: 15 times in 5 posts]

#364164

I’ve used to pay for shared hosting plan, got one reseller account for some time but got tired of almost daily slowdowns and reboots, and problems with permissions/php/apache and Joomla. So I changed to a VPS server, and I am REALLY HAPPY.

The main problem is build your server, but there are plenty of online tutorials covering everything about servers. After that, you can install things like APC cache, PHP FCGID, and tweak your server settings, this can really boost the page load time and it’s normally not found in shared hosting.

You can install free panels like webmin/virtualmin to manage your hosting accounts, so it’s as easy as CPanel, or do the geek way, all by hand!

For those who want to test for 7 days for free, go to Linode VPS and test it!

You get a dedicated 512RAM, 16Gb of really fast HD and 200Gb/month of transfer and you can choose the location of the datacenter, there are 4 in USA and 1 in Europe now, the price is U$ 20 for the smallest plan and if you pay yearly you get 1 free month.

And the support is awesome, like sub 1min ticket response! Crazy!

[garbagegirl Friend garbagegirlJoin date: November 2010Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#364723

I have used bluehost, fatcow and hostgator and I seem to get better communication with bluehost.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#364730

<em>@nihues 205194 wrote:</em><blockquote>The main problem is build your server, but there are plenty of online tutorials covering everything about servers. After that, you can install things like APC cache, PHP FCGID, and tweak your server settings, this can really boost the page load time and it’s normally not found in shared hosting.</blockquote>

For those who may struggle to do their own linux build then my host of choice – http://www.bytemark.co.uk – offer an open source package called symbiosis that takes away all of that work for you. Details can be found here – http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/docs/ch-overview.html

[jckunle Friend jckunleJoin date: August 2012Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 2]

#469982

Thanks, I think I will go for host gator, I like the Unlimited Bandwidth stuff, my site is really growing fast with visits

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