DOT5HOSTING REVIEW

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All the budget web hosting plans of Dot5Hosting are backed up by a money back guarantee for up to 30 days. This means that their customers can get a full refund in case they are not fully satisfied with their web hosting service for any reason and cancel it within 30 days.

The power behind the shared web hosting servers of Dot5Hosting are high quality components. All their shared web hosting servers are either IBM or Dell machines featuring Intel dual core Xeon processors having a minimum of 2 GB of memory as well as ultrafast SCSI hard drives with RAID-1 redundancy. They never compromise on the quality of the components because they well know it that the more high-quality the components, the greater the reliability will be.

Dot5Hosting provides their customers with professional technical support 24x7x365. Their customers can rest assured that they will always find a solution irrespective of the nature of the problem they are encountering because Dot5Hosting staff is ready to answer the queries of all their customers whenever they need help.

The Dot5Hosting control panel is your one-stop guide to efficient website management and is also jampacked with website marketing tools that can give their customers a clear-cut edge over their competitors by driving highly targeted traffic to their websites. The website promotion section also includes free search engine submission for up to 40 engines, $50 worth of free advertising in Overture as well as a ranking check for the top search engines.

Dot5Hosting offers their customers AWStats to get in-depth information about visitor activity on their websites. AWStats is a state-of-the-art website statistics program that enables site administrators to know important visitor data about their websites such as the number of unique visitors to their site each day, countries from where the visitors, IP addresses of the visitors, Robots/Spiders visitors (such as Googlebot and MSNBot), the visits duration, visitor's operating systems, search engine keyword activity, visitors arrived at website from external links and a whole lot more information.

Dot5Hosting believes in delivering their customers the maximum possible level of service at the lowest possible cost. Consequently, while many other shared web hosting services charge their customers an extra cost for any e-commerce features they might need, Dot5Hosting plans include all the e-commerce features at no additional cost.

Dot5Hosting servers have a connectivity of 7.2 Gigabits because they utilize AT&T Local Services ring which is the backbone of a redundant and diverse network capacity. Multiple AT&T IP backbone nodes are linked to IDC through dual access routers via dual OC-48/OC-192 redundant links. Furthermore, there are lots of other options available for network services as well as back-end connectivity such as ATM, private line, Frame Relay, circuit-switching services along with IP and local-switching. The major local access providers are AT&T and some other local services.

Dot5Hosting realizes that in today's competitive world, a web host must be able to provide the latest shared web hosting technologies and their customers can rest assured that they will get all these technologies such as CGI, PHP, Perl, SSI, mySQL, FrontPage extensions as well as lots of other Perl modules bundled with any budget web hosting plan they may buy.

Dot5Hosting cares about the changing needs of its customers. Realizing that their customers might not always have access to a mail client, they offer a state-of-the-art web-based e-mail client which their customers can access through a browser anytime they are away from their desks. Additionally, they can also access their e-mail via POP3 e-mail clients like Microsoft Outlook as well as send e-mail using SMTP.

Dot5Hosting state-of-the-art control panel Vdeck enables their customers to have total control over their websites and offer them all website administration options such as installation of CGI scripts, addition/deletion of subdomains, addition/deletion of email accounts, altering their catch-all email preferences, sending e-mail as well as management of their mySQL databases. Additionally, customers also have access to 78 other functions through this amazing control panel.

 

Like BlueHost, Dot5Hosting's plan can also be referred to as unlimited because it removes all the limits giving you unlimited disk space, unlimited transfer as well as unlimited email accounts. The plan also gives a Free domain name, unlimited MySQL databases and superb ecommerce functionality with 3 shopping carts. Best of all, these great features are available for a very low price of only $4.95 per month. Dot5Hosting packages include the vDeck control panel which is one of the most functional and versatile web site managers on the Internet. Keeping in view the price per month, Dot5Hosting is undoubtedly the cheapest web host after 1&1. Netfirms also offers a starter package for $4.95 per month with far less features than those of Dot5Hosting.

 

Despite the fact that Dot5Hosting is comparatively a new web host on the budget web hosting scene, the number of support options they offer is amazing. They have a detailed FAQ section, a huge knowledgebase and tutorials relating to the operation of the control panel. Their distinction in the support area is the direct support they are able to offer such as e-mail support, toll-free support and above all live chat. Their live chat support is very responsive and it's quite certain that you will get a solution to your problem within five to 10 minutes.

The great thing about all this is that you will never get that kind of a support from any other shared web hosting provider for a price of only $4.95 per month. The support options available at this price are often text-based with no toll-free technical support. On the contrary, with Dot5Hosting, if you have problems setting up your web site or issues concerning scripting, you can contact the support staff directly who is very friendly to help you resolve them.

 

Dot5Hosting is a reseller of iPowerWeb whose servers seem to be above average as regards the speed and reliability in comparison with the other budget web hosting companies. This is because iPowerWeb runs four state-of-the-art data centers which are monitored 24 hours a day by their highly skilled network engineers thereby ensuring the highest security and uptime for their customers’ servers. This is also endorsed by the fact that they use best of breed equipment like Dell™ PowerEdge and HP ProLiant™ Servers, Cisco™ & Foundry™ Firewalls and Routers and premium bandwidth through their partnership with AT&T and Cable & Wireless.

 

Dot5Hosting is a reseller of iPowerWeb, so it's definitely a smart web hosting option giving you the same features at a much lower price. They are relatively new on the shared web hosting scene, but with the passage of time they are gaining more and more popularity and their customer base is increasing exponentially. Their support is excellent which serves a great part in retaining their existing customers. Sign up today!

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