Help : Is this plan costly or cheap!?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by admans, Sep 24, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hey people,

    Rite now im confused.

    See i am planning to take up paid hosting and my budget is 10$/month

    I surfed the net and came across hostgator web hosting plan.

    There current plan i.e Baby Plan includes following :

    5gb diskspace.
    75gb bandwidth.
    Unlimited domain hosting.
    Cpanel + all the standard features + unlimited databases and unlimited pop3 accounts.

    Im getting this for 9.95$/month which is well in my budget. + its monthly payment.

    So my question is : is this kinda offer Cheap or Costly!?
    Also howz the reputation of Hostgator as such.


    Ne help would be much appreciated!
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    admans, Sep 24, 2005 IP
  2. GRIM

    GRIM Prominent Member

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    Not sure about hostgator, never used them although I have been tempted to before.
    The price is good, but sorry I can't reply if the hosting is good or not :(

    Currently one host that I've had nothing but good luck with, 'good tech support, etc' is http://www.pro-net-hosting.com which offers a reseller account in your monthly budget.
     
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    mightyb Banned

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  5. mightyb

    mightyb Banned

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    Even though i am on Omega and it tends to go down every two months or so for the whole hour!
     
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  7. GRIM

    GRIM Prominent Member

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    Never heard of them, but with so many saying they like it I'm tempted to get a test account.
     
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  8. admans

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    Thanx..ill give it a try...ne1 else know abt hostgator..?
     
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  9. maro

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    Well I don't know about hostgator, I am using lunarpages and I am happy with them.
    The price is good and I think this is the average most hostings charge for
     
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    asmallorange is good
     
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    I'm currently hosting with solhosting.net and i couldn't wish for a better host and better service.
     
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    asmallorange definitely has a good reputation around digital point. I can't say that I've ever used hostgator, but I seem to remember them having a not-so-good reputation for customer support. Check webhostingtalk.com - they've been a good place for info and research for me in the past.
     
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    ASmallOrange for sure. Fastest tech support I've ever seen!
     
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    ferret77 Heretic

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    host gator is good, i have a bunch of accounts with them
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Another vote for ASmallOrange. Defo the bast in the States as far as my experience goes.
     
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    I have one account with ASmallOrange.. no problem so far..
     
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  17. admans

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    Wow.....then i think i should go for asmallorange ....
     
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    #18
    They are over-selling for sure

    if they actually reserved the entire 5 gigs per client...
    On a standard 80g hard-drive, the actual space is always less, then you subtract OS and software, that might leave 70g of space, they could probably fit 14 of these packages at 10/month... $140 revenue per server.
    For sure it costs them alot more than that, to keep the server running.:)

     
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    I am the 10th vote for www.asmallorange.com ...I have a lot of sites with them and they are by far the best I have ever had.
     
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  20. Discreet

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    I use HostGator for most of my sites and I'm very happy with them.

    They're support team is awesome, even if you email them you'll get a response in less than an hour usually. But they also have 24 hour live chat and call center setup.

    Best customer service I've seen in a web host so far.
     
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