Archive for October, 2005

InovoHost Review

Friday, October 28th, 2005

• 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed
• Free domain name
• Free 24/7 technical support
• Accounts activated within 1 hour
• Easy to use control panel
• 30 days money back guarantee

iNovoHost offers one complete solution that will accommodate all your hosting needs. At only $7.95 per month, you’ll receive an eCommerce enabled shared hosting account boasting 3GB of disk space, 30GB of data transfer and 500 email accounts.

Their hosting package include all the most popular and standard web tools such as CGI, MySQL, PHP, Tomcat 4, SSI and FrontPage and also several eCommerce tools you can use to maximize your online business.

Within your accounts, you will receive a Getting Started Guide. They also have a free call support (for US & Canada customers) and also email support.

iNovoHost offers a 30 days money back guarantee to all clients. If you are unhappy with their service, they will refund your money with no questions asked.

Features:
Hard Disk Storage 3000 MB
POP3 Email Accounts / Web based 500
Data Transfer 30 GB
Your-name.com Yes
International Domain Names Yes
Sub-Domains Yes
Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam Yes
Forwarding Accounts Yes
Autoresponder Yes
CGI-BIN Yes
MySQL Yes
CGI Library Yes
PHP Support Yes
Tomcat 4 Support Yes
Server Sides Includes Yes
Log Files + Detailed Site Stats Yes
FrontPage 2000/2002 Extension Yes
Account Control Panel Yes
FTP Access Yes
Anonymous FTP Accounts Yes
Browser Based E-mail Yes
30-day Money Back Guarantee Yes
Site Builder

OSCommerce Shopping Cart and E-commerce Solution Yes
PHP-Nuke Content Management System Yes
PostNuke Content Management System Yes
PHPOpenChat Chat System Yes
Gallery Photo Album Yes
Formmail PHP Script Yes
PHPBB2 Discussion Board Yes
Invision Power Board Yes
Blog Yes
PHP Support Tickets Yes
Crafty Syntax Live Help Yes
Mailing List Announcement System Yes
Website Search Engine Yes
Online Calendar Yes
Mambo Yes

Price:
6 Month Price : $7.95/month + $30 Setup
12 Month Price : $7.95/month + FREE SETUP + FREE DOMAIN

Original post by lemon tea

SimpleHost Hosting Review

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Free Domain Name
$7.50 /month
No Setup Fees
Unlimited Storage Space
Control Panel
No Annoying Ads
Same Day Account Setup
Money Back Guarantee

Started in web hosting business since 1996, SimpleHost is a fast growing member of the hosting community. They provide a reliable hosting solution for hundreds of clients around the world.

They offer one hosting plan only with unlimited storage and generous 50 GB bandwidth. On every hosting plan you purchase you will get a free domain name, with unlimited email accounts. And there’s no set up fee.

They are so confident that you will be able to get your website online, and they even offer a no questions asked 30 day money back guarantee.

SimpleHost is a recommended web host to people seeking an established hosting provider at a budget price not to mention you can’t beat the free domain name they throw in just for signing up with them which is most definately a nice perk.

Features:

Unlimited Storage Space
50 GB of Bandwidth
Free Domain Name
Unlimited Sub Domains
Unlimited Parked Domains

Site Builder
24×7 FTP Access
FrontPage® Extensions
Online File Manager
Web Mail
Custom Error Pages
Hot Link Protection

50+ Installed Scripts -New!
Guestbook
Bulletin Boards
Form Mail
Counter
Blogging Software
Shopping Carts
Complete List

Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Forwarding
Unlimited Email Aliases
Catch-all Default Account
Unlimited Mailing Lists
Unlimited Auto responders
Spam Protection

Shopping Cart
SSL Certs
Your own CGI-BIN
Detailed Web Statistics
Free Search Engine Submission

Unix/Linux Servers
Multiple OC-3 Connections
Apache Web server
Cisco Switches and Routers
Battery Backup (UPS)
Diesel Backup Generator
Redundant HVAC system
Video camera surveillance
24×7 Network Monitoring
24×7 Server Monitoring
Weekly/Monthly Backups
99.9% uptime

Customer Support
24×7 Online Support
Telephone Support
Simple Flash Tutorials
Simple Documentation

Original post by lemon tea

StartLogic Web Hosting Review

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

all plans are include:

Unlimited Email Accounts
eCommerce Enabled
FREE Setup & FREE Domain
CGI, PHP, and MySQL Support
Web Builder
Front Page 2002/2003
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
30 Day Money Back Guarantee

Click Here to see their latest promo!

StartLogic offers an outstanding amount of storage and bandwidth for a reasonable price.
They have several hosting plans starting from $7.50/month come with 5 GB storage and
100 GB bandwidth. They also offer dedicated server plan for large web site.

Customer Support
Toll free phone support
Knowledge base
Ticket based email support
Live Chat

Money-Back Guarantee:
StartLogic offers a 30 days money back guarantee.

Features:
Startlogic’s 5000 MB of Storage Space
Web Traffic Transfer 100 GB
Unlimited E-Mail Accounts
VDECK 2.0 Control Panel
Setup Fee

Software Support:
CGI-BIN and Library
PHP Support
PerlScripts
MySQL
SSL Secure Server
SSI Management
Log Files + Site Stats
Frontpage 2000 / 2002 / 2003 Extension
Shopping Carts
Web Hosting Control Panel
Browser Based Email

E-Mail:
POP3 Emails Unlimited
Forwarding E-Mails Unlimited
Autoresponders Unlimited
E-Mail Filtering Unlimited
Web E-Mail Unlimited

More…


Original post by lemon tea

PowWeb Hoting Review

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

$7.77 per month
- PHP, JSP, ASP, Perl PHP, JSP*, ASP* & PERL
- 5000 Megabytes Storage
- Toll-free Telephone Support and Live Chat
- 10 Gigabytes Bandwidth per DAY ( 300GB/Month)
- FTP Access FTP Access
- 5 Free MySQL Databases
- FrontPage Extensions supported
- Free Domain when purchasing 1 yearly/bi-yearly service

Started their hosting business in 1999, PowWeb is one of the few older generation hosting companies that’s survived the internet business fall. They have their own infrastructure, built and developed in-house, with a great customer support team. Their reputation as one of the top hosting companies is proven with their massive community and hosted sites.

Rather then other web hosting company with a variety of plans and features, PowWeb has only one plan, PowValue Package. This plan gives you 5000MB disk space, 10GB transfer per day and 1000 POP3 email accounts. You will get this generous hosting plan in a low price, as follow:

3 Months $30 Setup Fee $53.31
1 year No Setup Fee! 1 Year FREE Domain Name*
2 years No Setup Fee! 2 Years FREE Domain Name*

Customer Support:
Powweb delivers at that level by providing quick and responsive email, fax, live chat and toll free phone support. Customers also can read the FAQ’s, Walkthroughs, and a members’ help documentation on their website. They also have a forum to help the customers to get assistances and keep up to date with the server and network updates.

Money Back Guarantee:
Powweb ensures customers a risk free, 30-day money back guarantee.

PowWeb Complete Features:
Disk Space (Raid Storage) 5,000 MB
Data Transfer / Bandwidth 300 Gigs/Month (10 Gigs/Day!)

Website Access / Control
Member Operations Control Panel
DNS Management (A records, Cnames, MX records)
Sub-Domains (something.yourdomain.com)
24/7 FTP Access, 10 FTP Users (separate directories)
Web-Based FTP File Manager, Site Manager
Password Protect Directories
Custom Error Pages (403,404, and 500)
SnapShot Instant Click and Restore Daily Backups
Rock Solid Unix Platform

Scripts:
Wordpress
phpBB
osCommerce
Gallery & Gallery 2
PHP-Nuke
More…

Supported Software
FrontPage 98/2000/2002 Extensions
PHP4 & PHP5 w/Zend Optimizer, Perl5, Sendmail
CGI-BIN, SSI, .htaccess, Cronjobs
Flash, Shockwave, Midi, Multimedia Support

Database
MySQL Database 5
phpMyAdmin
Daily Database Backups

Web Statistics & Logs
Webalizer & AwStats Web Statistics
Bandwidth Report
Access, Error, Referral Logs, Raw Log Files
Real-Time Logging

Original post by lemon tea

LunarPages Hosting Review

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

FREE Domain Name For Life
UNLIMITED MySQL Databases
Up To 3000 Megabytes Storage
100 Gigabytes Data Transfer
E-Commerce
Easy to use Web Builder
Blog, Forum & Photo Gallery
Microsoft® Frontpage® Compatible
Spam Protection

LunarPages offer several web hosting plan. Shuttle and Voyager (shared hosting), LunarPages Dedicated Hosting Plan, and LunarPages Reseller Hosting plan. On this page I will only review their basic hosting plan, Shuttle hosting plan. You can see other hosting plans on LunarPages web site.

LunarPages Company Overview:
Lunarpages was founded in the summer of 2000. With superior customer service in mind and rock solid hosting platforms Lunarpages currently has a very large client base hosting over 50,000 websites and growing. Lunarpages offers industry leading infrastructure built with the best equipment, including: Dell, Sun and Cisco Network Devices. Their state of the art datacenter, located in Los Angeles, California, provides the highest level of security, safety, redundancy, reliability, scalability and technology. Their internal gigabit fiber network is multi backboned with Mzima Networks, NTT/Verio, Global Crossing, Genuity and Cable & Wireless.

Customer Support:

LunarPages has the best customer support on hosting industry. Their support team are the brightest people on this industry. Lunarpages provides toll free telephone support to the United Kingdom as well as Canada and the US. They also has a customer support forum.
Money back Guarantee
Lunarpages offers a 30 day money back guarantee, so if for some reason you are unsatisfied with the service you recieve, you will recieve a full refund for the package you signed up for. Please note that all setup fees and domain costs are non-refundable.

Special Features

1. Unlimited Sub-Domains - LunarPages standard plan comes with unlimited sub-domains.
2. Free 1 Add-on domain. - This allows you to host another website at no cost under same account.
3. Mailing List - you can create 1 mailing list.
4. CPanel - LunarPages useds CPanel, one of the best web hosting control panel.
5. PHP and MySQL - You can use PHP to create dynamic website. Or you may use MySQL database to create a database driven application with this hosting plan.
6 . 30 days money back guarantee.
7 . ASP or JSP/ Servlet available at $2 extra per month.
8 . Fantastico Installer. - All hosting account comes with Fantastico script installer, this tool comes with many freeware/shareware script installer. eg. Blog, Crm, Chat, Phpnuke and etc.
9 . Dedicated IP, SSL can be purchase as an add-on

Shuttle Plan Features
- 100 GB Transfer
- 3000 MB Disk Space
- unlimited Pop e-Mails
- CGI, PHP, Frontpage..
- e-Commerce enabled
- 1 add-on domain
- 24/7 Support
- Daily Backups
- $50 Overture credit
- Free Setup
- Free Domain For Life
and more…..

Original post by lemon tea

IpowerWeb Hosting Review

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

- 50 GIG Transfer
- 3000MB Disk Space
- 500 e-Mails
- Free Domain
- e-Commerce enabled
- 99.9% Uptime
- 24/7 Support
- Free Setup

Starting their web hosting business since 1999, Ipowerweb have hosted more than 250,000 websites which make them one of the largest web hosting company. Many website owners recommend iPowerweb for their great features, good supporting staffs, and their reasonable prices.

New features added. When you purchase their service, you will receive a free $50 overture advertising credit you can use to drive quality traffics to your website from Yahoo! and MSN search engine. A great advantage.

Money back guarantee
IPowerWeb, offers an unconditional 30 days money back guarantee on all hosting services. If you are not satisfied with the services offered by IPowerWeb, you can ask your money back before 30 days of your registration.

IpowerWeb Complete Features

Disk Space: 3000 MB
Bandwidth/Transfer: 50 GB
Money Back Guarantee: 30 days
Server Sides Includes: Yes
Log Files + Site Stats : Yes
Frontpage 3000/2002 Extension: Yes
Account “Control Panel”: Yes, VDeck.
FTP Access: 15 accounts
Anonymous FTP Accounts: Yes
30-day Money Back Guarantee: Yes
SSL Secure Server: Yes
Password Protected Directories: Yes

Email Accounts: 500
Forwarding Accounts : Unlimited
Autoresponders: Unlimited
POP3 Email Accounts / Web Based : Yes

Platform OS: Linux
Control Panel: vDeck
Web Stats: Webalizer
MySQL Database: 3
PHPMyAdmin: Yes
Perl MySQL DBI: Yes
CGI-BIN: Yes
PHP: Yes
Perl: Yes

Server Configuration:
High Performance Dell PowerEdge Servers
Customized Apache Web Server Software
Dual OC-48 Connections on Diverse Backbones
Cisco Routers Using BGP4 Protocol
Daily Tape Back-ups
UPS Power Back-up, Diesel Back-up Generator
24/7 Network Monitoring

Original post by lemon tea

Globat Hosting Review

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

FREE WITH ALL WEB HOSTING:
Unlimited Email Accounts
Spam Guard Security
Shopping Cart
Toll-Free 24/7 Support
PromoPak™ Marketing
$50 Yahoo!® Credit
Globat Gallery Photo Album
Globuild™ site Builder
Globat Command Console ®
SSL Encryption Security
NEW Globat Support Center
Peace of Mind

Globat has just reduced their hosting package price to $4.95/month if you prepay for the first year. With this such low price, you will get a hosting plan with 5000MB diskspace, 75Gb bandwidth. READ THEIR LATEST PROMO

Data Center
Globat current utilitize a OC-12 connection to the internet and is located in Los Angeles. Their data center currenty holds over 50 servers and they have a fully redundant power supply. They also host customers on a fully redundant, state-of-the-art infrastructure of brand name equipment such as Cisco Systems, Network Appliances, Foundry and Sun Microsystems.

Customer Service
Globat offers support not only via telephone, but also live chat through its control panel interface. It seems that the only way of getting a hold of them was through email and trouble tickets. On a positive note, they responded to trouble tickets quickly and activation time for account was less than 5 minutes, which is a big plus. Out of the all the web hosting companies, they provided one of the most comprehensive online help documentations. Their FAQ’s, online web tutorials, online ticket system are of top notch quality.

Features:
5000 MB web server space
Generous 75 GB data transfer
Geographical domain hosting
Support for Multiple Domain Pointers
5000 POP e-mail Accounts
Your very own cgi-bin directory
MS FrontPage 2002, Flash, MYSQL, PHP4, PERL5 and SSI Support
Unlimited e-mail forwarding, alias & autoresponders
Web based e-mail
Web based account management center
Real Time Tech Support
Money back guarantee
More….

Original post by lemon tea

How to Host 10 Domain Names

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Globat have launched yet another deal today with their 10-for-1 Hosting special offer. Host up to 10 domains on our Terabyte Hosting packages and only pay for 1 account. To make this deal too good to miss we are charging…

Original post by Andrew

Web Package Hosting - Researching Different Alternatives

Friday, October 21st, 2005

One of the best ways to find a good web host package is to listen to what others say about companies that provide web hosting. Whether you’re a business owner or an individual, you are likely looking for reliable web hosting at a competitive price. Finding the company that can best meet those needs can be a real challenge. But once you’ve found a company that does provide the service you expect with a price you can afford, you’ll realize that the time you spent doing research in an effort to find a good web host package was time well spent.

Obviously, online sources for web hosting are one of the most convenient ways to search for the service you want. Any search engine will offer plenty of results on how to find a good web host package. If you don’t consider yourself to be computer savvy, you might also want to talk to friends and colleagues who have experience with web hosting and web hosting packages.

For a good list of reviews of web hosting service providers, you might start with a site such as the Web Hosting Inspector site (www.webhostinginspector.com). By following the links to their reviews, you’ll find a list of web host service providers. The reviews on this website are broken into sections with ratings given for each. Even if this site doesn’t include a review of the company you are considering as a web host, you might try using their categories to create a rating system of your own. Comparing bandwidth, web page space, reliability, customer service and speed, along with any factors you personally consider to be important, will help you find a good web host package.

Remember that you are a potential client and any web hosting company should view your questions as important. Whether you know a lot about web hosting or you’re a novice with little idea of how the process works, a company should be able and willing to answer your questions promptly. If the company isn’t able to quickly communicate answers to questions, you should question their ability and willingness to provide reliable customer support once the company has your business. As you consider how to find a good web host package, remember your first impressions.

As you work through the process of finding a good web host package, you should also keep a log of your search. While it will probably be easy at first to remember that you’ve already looked at Company A and discarded them because their customer service seemed weak, or that Company B didn’t offer free set up as part of their web hosting package, it probably won’t take long for the names and your impressions to begin to run together. Keeping track of which company you were and were not excited about following up on should be an exercise requiring paper and pencil (at the very least). Tangible numbers are a good indication of which companies will and will not likely be good web host providers, but remember to include your first impressions of the company as well. Was their website easy to navigate? Did they answer questions? Do they provide other services that you might need in the future? All are good questions to ask as you consider how to find a good web host package.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Thorn is a professional writer for Webhostpacks. For more information and tips about hosting visit: web package hosting and cheap package hosting in the web.

Original post by lemon tea

How To Transfer Your Web Site To a New Web Hosting Service?

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

There are various reasons why an online business owner like you has decided to switch to a new web hosting providers. Your old web hosting provider probably has very poor technical support, or their web server is always down, or may be your old web hosting provider cannot meet your hosting requirements anymore or you could have discovered a cheaper web hosting service…and etc. Regardless of the reasons, now you have found a new web hosting service and you need to transfer your website from your current web host to the new web host. Below is the steps-by-steps guide that you can follow to achieve a painless and error free of moving to a new web hosting provider.

Transfer Schedule
Ideally, you should plan the transfer one month before you terminate your old web hosting plan in order to have sufficient time to perform a smooth transfer. Doing the transfer in less than one month time frame will put your website in risk of inaccessible.

New web hosting service registration
Now, sign-up your new web hosting service once you have decided the termination date mentioned above. Depending on your new web hosting provider, your new web hosting account usually will be set up within 24 hours.

Files Backup
While waiting for your new web hosting account to be created, it is time to backup all your web files on the old web hosting provider. In most cases, you already have all the files of your website on your local computer. However, it is still a good idea to backup all your files from the old web server. In addition to the normal HTML files, you may need to backup any script files, databases files, and even server logs files if it is necessary. You should create a directory structure that is similar to the directory structure on your web server and download the files into the respective directory.

Files uploading
Once you are notified that your new web hosting account has been created, you will receive a notification email from your new web hosting provider. In that email, it contains all the information required to set up website, this including the FTP server information. With that FTP information, you can now FTP to your new web hosting server and upload all your files. You should start by first creating the directory structures on the web server, and then upload all the files to the respective directory.

It is the time to install any script files or databases if there are used in your website. Likewise, it is a good time to set up all the email accounts through the administration panel.

Once you have finished uploading all the files and installed the script files or databases, you can now use the temporary URL to test your site. The temporary URL can be found in the notification email from your new web hosting provider. The temporary URL could probably in this format:
http://viola.lunarpages.com/~your-web-account-name

Testing
Using the temporary URL directory, you can now test your web site online. Due to the fact that different web hosting server may require different server environment to execute. Therefore, you need to verify all the scripts (such as CGI, Perl) are working accordingly. In addition, you should test all the hyperlinks in the normal web pages if possible to ensure no broken links. While you are testing through the temporary URL directory, your website hosted on the old web hosting provider is still continue operating.

Transfer domain name
Once you have finished testing your new website on the temporary URL and verified it is working perfectly. The next step is to contact your current domain name registrar (i.e. the company where you register your domain name) to change the old DNS (Domain Name Server) to point to the new DNS of your new web hosting provider. Usually, the DNS information is sent to you through email after you register successful with the new web hosting provider. Alternatively, you will be able to find the DNS information from the website of your new hosting provider.

Domain name servers control how a domain name is resolved. Typically, the domain name servers are in following format:
NS1.YOUR-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COM
NS2.YOUR-NEW-WEB-HOSTING.COM

Some domain name registrar requires the IP addresses of the DNS, in this case you have to provide the IP addresses of your new DNS. For example:
NS1: 216.193.194.212
NS2: 216.193.207.106

Typically, it will take about 24-72 hours to get the DNS record changed and propagated through all the WHOIS servers. You can use Whois tools on the Internet such as whois.com to monitor the status of the DNS transfer. Once the transfer is completed, you will notice the change to your new DNS. Alternatively, you can make a minor modification to your home page (for example, adding a new image or symbol) and upload to the new web hosting server. When you access your home page through the normal domain name (www.your-website.com) and you notice the new home page, then you are sure that the DNS has been transferred successfully.

Final Testing
Now, your website on the new web hosting provider is officially transferred. You should repeat all the tests to ensure it is fully functional. Once you are confirmed the new website is working correctly, you can go ahead to terminate your old web hosting account.

About the author:
Andrew Loh is the owner of “Cheap Web Hosting Review”, a website that provide complete and detail reviews on low cost web hosting providers. You can visit his website at http://www.lowest-price-web-hosting.com/

Original post by lemon tea