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Ritho · 22. Jan 2010, 07:36 AM

After my ordeal with 1&1 I began to do some deep research into the "bigger" companies many that have already been mentioned. I was probably a little shell shocked, so I was leery of another mega-budget-host provider. Though I found some that had pretty good ratings among their customers, I was looking for a near perfect score. I began to look into some of the smaller companies that had been around for good number of years, but most of them came a with a premium price.

Then I ran across a small to medium size company that looked interesting. Began to look for customer reviews, and I could not hardly believe all the positive things being said about them. Out of hundreds of reviews I only found 5 or 6 bad ones. Most of the reasons the complainers gave were lame and sounded like it was their first hosting experience. I saw that they had on-line chat support so (call me evil if you wish) I started a session and began to ask all kinds of irritating and stupid questions, and really gave the guy a hard time. You could tell he was a little exasperated, but was polite and helpful with every answer. After doing this for a while I told him I had done it on purpose to test the quality of the customer support, and that I had come from a bad situation with my last host. He thought my method was humorous and original. Every experience with customer support since then has been exactly the same. In fact if you go to the forum and make a post or complain about anything, the owner of the company himself often answers and helps you resolve the problem. I have had 99.9% uptime over the past two years.

So here are the details of the hosting account I use.

I use their Personal Pro Hosting Account.

Linux Hosting $7.00 a month
First Domain Name registration Free Forever
99.9% Uptime guarantee or the month is free
Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwith
Unlimited Domains - Subdomains - Domain Aliases
Unlimited FTP accounts - Mail Boxes
Unlimited Databases
Just about everything else I could ever want.

They also have a $4 per month Personal account that is the same as the above, the only difference being you are limited to 6 domains.

Can anyone beat the above? Does anyone want to know more?

22. Jan 2010, 07:36 AM	#9 (permalink)
Ritho Foundation Editor Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 1,391	As Cheap as the Mega Hosts - Quality of the Premium After my ordeal with 1&1 I began to do some deep research into the "bigger" companies many that have already been mentioned. I was probably a little shell shocked, so I was leery of another mega-budget-host provider. Though I found some that had pretty good ratings among their customers, I was looking for a near perfect score. I began to look into some of the smaller companies that had been around for good number of years, but most of them came a with a premium price. Then I ran across a small to medium size company that looked interesting. Began to look for customer reviews, and I could not hardly believe all the positive things being said about them. Out of hundreds of reviews I only found 5 or 6 bad ones. Most of the reasons the complainers gave were lame and sounded like it was their first hosting experience. I saw that they had on-line chat support so (call me evil if you wish) I started a session and began to ask all kinds of irritating and stupid questions, and really gave the guy a hard time. You could tell he was a little exasperated, but was polite and helpful with every answer. After doing this for a while I told him I had done it on purpose to test the quality of the customer support, and that I had come from a bad situation with my last host. He thought my method was humorous and original. Every experience with customer support since then has been exactly the same. In fact if you go to the forum and make a post or complain about anything, the owner of the company himself often answers and helps you resolve the problem. I have had 99.9% uptime over the past two years. So here are the details of the hosting account I use. I use their Personal Pro Hosting Account. Linux Hosting $7.00 a month First Domain Name registration Free Forever 99.9% Uptime guarantee or the month is free Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwith Unlimited Domains - Subdomains - Domain Aliases Unlimited FTP accounts - Mail Boxes Unlimited Databases Just about everything else I could ever want. They also have a $4 per month Personal account that is the same as the above, the only difference being you are limited to 6 domains. Can anyone beat the above? Does anyone want to know more? __________________ The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention. Last edited by Ritho; 22. Jan 2010 at 07:38 AM.