Do you work for a web hosting company?

[pzkpfw]

I'm looking to get set up witha domain name and web site - but I'm finding the information available on most of the hosting company sites really useless.

They'll tell you the price but not specifiy if they are all LAMPS or MS or both (i.e. I need ASP.Net not PHP...).

Or they'll give you a sign-up form but not tell you how to pay.

Pisses me off.

Sending enquiry emails is useless as nobody ever gives a complete answer to anything.

Get your company a new (small) client...

(I'm needing a low-volume low-usage site, running on pretty much any version of ASP.Net, and with a database behind it (prefer SQL Server but MySQL or even Access will do). One or two email addresses.).

Cheers,

[crazyv]

Hi,

I recently set up with kiwihosting.co.nz (http://www.kiwihosting.net.nz) - already had a domain name registered, so signed up for the shared hosting "Lite" plan (http://www.kiwihosting.net.nz/shared-hosting.html).

It was the cheapest I have found and their support seems quite fast.

Server is located in USA but has good speed from what I have seen so far.

Like you, I was also looking for a low bandwidth site with ASP or PHP. This had both.

HTH

[pzkpfw]

Hi,

I recently set up with kiwihosting.co.nz (http://www.kiwihosting.net.nz) - already had a domain name registered, so signed up for the shared hosting "Lite" plan (http://www.kiwihosting.net.nz/shared-hosting.html).

It was the cheapest I have found and their support seems quite fast.

Server is located in USA but has good speed from what I have seen so far.

Like you, I was also looking for a low bandwidth site with ASP or PHP. This had both.

HTH

Geez, that's cheap.

All up and running now?

Their page on registering a domain name seems to want a username/password login. Odd!

Who'd you register through?

Cheers,


[I've always been a bit suspicious of these web hosts who are basically resellers of other web hosts services, and who in turn resell hosting. It all ends up looking like an IT-based pyramid scheme! Someone who has used their services and can vouch for them is very useful...]

[stfuok]

hey, www.hostingnz.co.nz are a good crowd. I've been their customer for about 5 years now and have had no dramas the whole time (unlike the hosts I was using prior...) The apache servers are in the US, but they have a local ASP set-up as well. However, they are a reseller of a hosting service, but it doesn't really take the shine off the end result. If you need a domain name, they can register it for you (if available) and include it in the monthly cost.

They send me an invoice every three months and I pay online. Simple.

[crazyv]

Geez, that's cheap.

All up and running now?


Yea got the DNS changed and it just has a 1 pager at the moment as the site has not been setup yet.

Have not run into any issues. They are using HELM for Administration. I had not used it before but proved to be easy enough.



Their page on registering a domain name seems to want a username/password login. Odd!

Who'd you register through?


I had registered the Domain name through :
http://www.discountdomains.co.nz/





[I've always been a bit suspicious of these web hosts who are basically resellers of other web hosts services, and who in turn resell hosting. It all ends up looking like an IT-based pyramid scheme! Someone who has used their services and can vouch for them is very useful...]

I had similar thoughts. But budget plus good feature set led me to this. I have purchased only about 1 week ago so no solid proof etc...

I don't plan on running a anything special just some pages with queries to a DB (they run MySQL, SQL Server 2K, Access) which is good enough I think.

Good luck with the hunt!

[Jeaves]

http://www.net24.co.nz/

[Slyer]

I'm with these guys from my clan's website: http://www.cleverinternet.co.nz/
Has been mint so far, cheap too.

[disenfranchised]

I sorta do...
CallPlus Ltd ...the company behind the Slingshot ISP
Our business brand acts as a reseller of www.webdrive.co.nz who seem to have a nice setup.

In this instance I'd recommend you go to webdrive direct, as we only offer the product so that businesses can get all their services on a single bill

[Pascal]

I go with www.hostgator.com. 100GB of disk space, unlimited traffic, unlimited domains (You still need to register them though) all for a low price. I pay anually - works out to about $300 per year. You probably don't need it, but their setup is easy, you pay by credit card, have CPanel with Fantastico for installing a wide variety of packages and I believe they have recently started offering a choice of *nix / Windows based hosting.