Doteasy...yay or nay?

[Karl Hungus]

Does anyone know if hosting from Doteasy is reliable enough to use to host sites intended to be optimized for Google?

I know it's super cheap but i've heard good things. Anyone have sites hosted there? Do the servers ever go down?

Thanx a million

[Douglas Rasor]

Originally posted by Karl Hungus
Does anyone know if hosting from Doteasy is reliable enough to use to host sites intended to be optimized for Google?

I know it's super cheap but i've heard good things. Anyone have sites hosted there? Do the servers ever go down?

Thanx a million
Howdy Karl

I have a web site at doteasy and am working on 3 others for friends there. My site has been up for over a year and I am not aware of any problems.

BUT I am not an expert by any means.

The only warning I will give on the free hosting is that the emails you send from the domain you host there will have a couple of lines of doteasy advertising.

The payed service does not have that problem.

In the past year they did send me emails warning about a few hours downtime for server maintanence. I guess that was responsible of them to notify me of that 3 to 4 hours of downtime.

[ihelpyou]

http://www.doteasy.com/Services/WebHosting/Unlimited/

Hi Karl, That would certainly put up red flags for me.

20 gigs of space? LOL Show me "one" site out there that needs that much space.

Unmetered trafiic? Yea right. No such thing. So if I use the same number of gigs that all websites combined on the internet use, this is fine and dandy? LOL

Do you see what I mean? Their marketing spin is enough to make me go elsewhere. It's pure BS. :bs: The average gigs per site on the internet is something like 1 gig per month. And they say it's okay if I use 50 Billion gigs a month? :D

And unlimited for everything for 9 bucks a month?

Each "NOC" allocates the bandwidth. It has to buy the bandwidth that is used.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/N/NOC.html

To think "any" site can use unlimited bandwidth is simply wrong. You pay for bandwidth.

[Florence]

'unlimited bandwidth' is like 'as much as you can eat' - of course it's only a marketing ploy but clearly the package is aimed at small businesses and equally clearly it averages out so the hosting company wins (no worrying about accurate monitoring and having to upgrade customers plus most customers will get nowhere near the breakeven on bandwidth point, if some exceed it then that's a calculated risk) and the client wins (knows exactly what the fee will be and it isn't too high) and everyones happy.

All servers get planned maintenance. I would worry if your hosting company never has planned downtime, either they're doing stuff without telling you or the server's and other hardware are never being upgraded :)

What you do need to check is whether the support provided is good enough for you. Some people need a lot more support than others. If you tend to need help a lot and have to pay per minute for assistance you might want to look at a more expensive package which has more inclusive support.

[Douglas Rasor]

I may be taking back the nice thing I said about them.

I am not sure about the technical details but two of my friends that signed up with them in november are having problems with the mailserver. They are on different mailserver than mine is on and mine has been fine. But the mailserver they are on has had a lot of problems recently.

Sorry
:o:

[Quadrille]

All servers get planned maintenance. I would worry if your hosting company never has planned downtime, either they're doing stuff without telling you or the server's and other hardware are never being upgradedI would worry about ANY downtime. I would expect the company to have sufficient resources to be able to do maintenance without closing my site and my services. They should have more than one server, right? :rolleyes: I would make an exception for a major upgrade or the company moving from Alaska to Hong Kong ... but such events should be as rare as Hen's Teeth with a quality company.