Hi, For what research I have done, Manashosting, net4india, zdnetindia, rediff hosting, indiatimes hosting... these companies should be avoided like disease. Frankly I never have had any experience with any one of these but with what I have read online(100's of websites) I assume that these companies have the worst possible customer support and if your site needs any amount of uptime and support you would want to look else where. Even I am going to launch a social networking site soon and i would need atleast a VPS. After my research, I have zeroed in on Hostgator for their VPS package. I have heard that they are pretty reliable and responsive companies with good prices. In the long run u will always appreciate the quality. One more suggestion - never ever buy your domain from an Indian company or as a package deal with your hosting plan(not even from Hostgator). You would have nightmares when you want to move domain any where else. GoDaddy is the best place for Domains. However if you do insist on Indian hosting you may try brainpulse or netmagicsolutions.
This is correct, but then there are more non-Indian names that you should avoid, more companies in USA/Europe goes bust before you blink your eyes, the companies you named above are at-least still operating. So you can not blame or mark all Indian companies as bad. Are you sure HG is good for a VPS, as far as I know they are quite good for a highly oversold shared account for almost nothing, try their reseller account and you will see those are neither cheap nor do they allow their reseller to oversell. That's a universal truth and stand correct for everything, not just hosting and not just for any country specifically. Do you know that DirectI/ResellerClub is an Indian company, do you know they are the most sought after company after Enom, do you know they have more than 50K of happy resellers under them powering around 3000000 domains in 236 countries through their global network, and do you know their are many registrars using their platform. And do you know even Godaddy has horror stories. Indeed they are good names, but then you should be knowing that they are not cheap kind of companies. Every company targets different market, and there is market for every company. You as a customer can get services that you are looking for, but you should be aware of the fact that you get what you pay for. If you are looking for cheap hosting, you will get cheap hosting and I am sure you know what cheap means, if someone is looking for quality hosting they know they will be paying for quality.
Hey Vinsar first of all, all good comments by you. My point is simple, companies like ManasHosting, Net4India, znetIndia etc are the most advertised hosting companies in India. An innocent customer is most likely to begin with one of them and get ripped of. The horror stories of people posted on forums and blogs sound terrible. So frustrated they sounded like they wanna rip their hand off and beat the Hosting company guys to death. I am an Indian too and I feel terrible knowing what quality do we provide as an Industry. I remember a site selling Valentine day gifts in India, that site was hosted with one of the biggest hosting providers of India(don't wanna name it) and it was down just a day before Valentines day. I checked the poor site to find out who the hosting company was and voila an India Company. Agreed there are good providers too but they are expensive(as u pointed out) and that's why I pointed hostgator. They will meet the economy criteria and also the reliability. They only advantage through an Indian hosting is that you get low ping time(~60ms) which is an important thing. But I would be more comfortable with a good quality service even with 4 to 5 (~350 ms) times high ping times. And yes, GoDaddy has it's horror stories and so do have many USA companies but in the end you have to select lesser Evil of all. Just like Political elections.
Aditya, I can understand your point and feeling. What I am trying to home in is that you can not malign the entire country or all the providers based their on the basis of few bad providers. There are good and bad providers everywhere, also one host can be suitable for you but not for someone else. Just for example, the kind of clients we have will never go to Host Gator or any similar highly oversold provider, also just to mention we have clients who transferred their domains from names like Network Solutions, Register.Com, Godaddy and many other big players, why, because they have trust in us and in the 10 years of our business we have never hold any one's domain for any reason whether they host with us or not.
In that I case I appreciate that you are trying to make the difference. But again looking at you signature "Quality WebHosting Services at Economical Price USA & UK Servers" proves the point even you are opting for USA/UK servers. I guess you are a reseller company, which by no way is a bad thing. All I can hope for is that you provide good customer care to your customers. Can you name some customer of yours with their websites?
Majority of hosting companies from USA, UK or around the world rent servers from established and reputed data centers, mainly from USA or Europe as they have better infrastructure, capacity and better rates, just for example even Host Gator rent from The Planet. We do the same, we rent servers from various DC's and manage them ourselves, we do not buy and resell hosting from other companies. Hosting on Indian servers is quite costly, we don't have the kind of capacity that should be there, if you do online banking you must have experienced most of the banking sites become sluggish in the morning office hours, that is mainly because of network capacity, and if we talk about the cost, few days back a major DC in New Delhi quoted me Rs. 20,00000 for a DS3 line (45 Mbps). For sites hosted with us and any other details that you may be interested in, I would suggest you to contact our sales department, I am sure you will be surprised to know the kind of sites hosted on our servers.
Hey Vinsar, I have bookmarked your website and I guess I would contact you guyz in future seeing your persistence on hosting quality. Just a suggestion, your site looks too basic and may be you should change the design. I may have a dedicated server req in future and I hope we do business together. TC till then.
Thanks Aditya for considering us. Well basically we have never done active business through our website hence never got a decent one made for the same, here we have very close knit relations with our clients where I remain in direct contact with them. But soon we will have a decent site (or a group of sites) as we are planning to diversify and branch out. Feel free to contact me any time.
They, who? If you are referring to us, we are a small player here, there are bigger companies here. But we are happily serving our clients and our clients are happy with us.
How about the company called esds.co.in? They appear to be rather reputable indian provider, aren't they? Maybe someone knows more of this company to let know?
No one is the best with their services in Indian hosting. Better is go for brand hosting like godaddy, hostmosnter, lunar etc