Hosting survey

[8Freak8]

Hey guys :)

I was just wondering what hosting plans you are on, how big your site is, and what your hosts name is.

If you use a free host, tell me if you would ever consider using a paid host, or do you only have a free host because it is free?

This is how I would like you to set out your reply:


Space: 10 Megabytes
Bandwidth: 2 Gigabytes
Other features: 10 FTP accounts, 10 subdomains etc
Cost: £Amount
Hosts website: www.host.com
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes or no

Thanks for your help :)

[iRoss]

Space: 700mb
Bandwidth: Not Sure
Other features: 100 FTP accounts, 100 subdomains etc (100 Everything)
Cost: Free
Hosts website: www.webmanage.org
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes (Although not alot)

[Mentor]

Space: 5 Gigabytes
Bandwidth: 10 Gigabytes
Other features: Cpanel, fantasitco, unlimted databases (mysql and psql), unlimted subdomains, unlimted emial accounds, unlimted addon and parked domaoins, unlimted ftp accounts etc etc
Cost: £22 per year
Hosts website: Ax-hosting.com
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes, athogh since take over hasnt been to bad, just the occasnal reboot of which i get notifed of

[Luckyrare]

Mentor you own Ax Now? :o

[splintercell!]

no ax got a new manager
Space: 1gb
Bandwidth: 2.5gb
Other features: unlimited everything! (databases, emails etc.)
Cost: £12 yearly
Hosts website: www.ax-hosting.com
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes (Although not alot)

[Buzz]

Space: 4.5 Megabytes
Bandwidth: 9 Gigabytes
Other features: unlimited sql, email accounts, ftp account etc etc
Cost: £4.00 monthly
Hosts website: www.lc-hosting.com (http://www.lc-hosting.com)
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes: only once as they had a ram upgrade and server needed to be taken offline so the ram could be put in

[Homesrfan]

Mentor you own Ax Now? :o

If you mean that he owns the company... no...
he just has hosting there...:s

[xxMATTGxx]

Space:1GB Gigabytes
Bandwidth: 2.5GB Gigabytes
Other features: Cpanel, fantasitco, unlimted databases (mysql and psql), unlimted subdomains, unlimted emial accounds, unlimted addon and parked domaoins, unlimted ftp accounts etc etc
Cost: £12 per year
Hosts website: Ax-hosting.com
Ever had any downtime on any service?: Yes, athogh since take over hasnt been to bad, just the occasnal reboot of which i get notifed of.

[habbox-superstar]

Ppl like ax hosting. Lol.

[xxMATTGxx]

Yes, Its a Very Good Hosting Site.

[8Freak8]

Yes, Its a Very Good Hosting Site.
Actually, it's terrible. I dont understand why people say they dont have much downtime with them. You realise that when FTP, POP3, Webmail, or anything isnt working, that is still classed as downtime? Its not just when people cant access your site.

In my opinion, It doesnt matter if you are notified or not, there should be no downtime in the first place (where downtime is considered longer than 2 hours). Does your computer go wrong if you dont reboot it? No it doesnt. The same goes for servers, unless something new is added, they dont need to be rebooted. And when they are rebooted, it doesnt take as long as Ax take.

I could write an essay of bad things about Ax. The only advantage of Ax is that they are quite cheap.

On Habbox we used to go down for days on end with Ax. There is never any need to do that unless you dont know what your doing.

I am curious. Have any of you guys using Ax tried another paid host ever? Im not saying you should, Im just curious.

Edit: Before anyone says downtime is unavoidable, Mediacatch seem to avoid it.

[iRoss]

Wasn't that with the old Ax though freak?

[8Freak8]

Wasn't that with the old Ax though freak?
Yeah it was, but considering someone was telling me just the other day that Ax FTP wasnt working, it doesnt sound much better.

[iRoss]

Oh, I See :)

[splintercell!]

Lol I agree it is much improved and I only went with it because it seemed really reliable at the time but it does have such a laggy server :l

[Anderman]

Bag hosts me on ThyBag - Wich is hosted by Ax and theres never really been terrible downtime
The site would occasiony go down for about half an hour and same with the ftp

[Mentor]

Ive had other payed host than, Ax and for price and what you get the others made **** sound good in comaprison, Ax has downtimes, but its not crippling.

PLus teh reboots are there due to the adition of new / more fetures, also, optimsing the server for faster loading times, which have deffitaly improved.
Old page load time, was about 2 seconds now its about 0.1314 :D

[BlueTails]

Hosting package StarterPack
Shared Ip Address 67.159.26.189
Subdomains 0 / unlimited
Parked Domains 0 / 500
Addon Domains 0 / 500
MySQL Databases 5 / unlimited
Disk usage 19.76 Megabytes
SQL Disk usage 3.04 Megabytes
Disk space available 480.24 Megabytes
Bandwidth usage (current month) 5.87 Megabytes
Email Accounts 0 / unlimited
Email Forwarders 0
Autoresponders 0
Mailing Lists 0 / unlimited
Email filters 0
Ftp Accounts 0 / unlimited

Speaks :D www.this-host.com

No Downtime/ect
Cost : 1.50 Per Month = 18.00 Per Year

[Tomdarkness]

Space: 2.5GB
Bandwidth: 20GB p/m
Other Stuff: DynamicSiteCreator, SiteCreator, eQuisto Merchandising, PDF2Web, In2Site Live Dialogue, 3 free domains, 700 pop3 email boxes, 200 sub-domains, and some other stuff i cant be bothed to list.
Cost: £8.99 p/m
Edit: Host: 1and1 - www.1and1.co.uk
Ever Had Downtime?: Nope never

[xxMATTGxx]

Well Ok I would move but i need a host site with good Costs

[xxMATTGxx]

Space: 2.5GB
Bandwidth: 20GB p/m
Other Stuff: DynamicSiteCreator, SiteCreator, eQuisto Merchandising, PDF2Web, In2Site Live Dialogue, 3 free domains, 700 pop3 email boxes, 200 sub-domains, and some other stuff i cant be bothed to list.
Cost: £8.99 p/m
Ever Had Downtime?: Nope never


Whos Your Host?

[Tomdarkness]

oops i will edit it

[xxMATTGxx]

Thanks Mate i will check out that site. Also 1and1 has VAT