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Here are some must read
tips about the hosting industry, and how you can avoid being taken for a ride!
- Will they give you some time to test their service? Are they price/value competitive? how?
- The truth as to why many hosting plans are scams. info?
- Never pay yearly! why?
- Never purchase your domain name from your host. why?
- A few tests you can run to check how good a host is. info!
- Why hosting directories lie, and the truth to customer testimonials. info!
- The truth to a hosts uptime and guarantees. info!
There are literally thousands of companies that will offer to host your website. A great many are mere months old. They'll offer fantastic amounts of space and bandwidth, particularly if you pay in advance. Many will go into - and out of business.
Imagixx has been in the webhosting business since 1995 - over a decade of providing quality and value webhosting services to entrepreneurs - worldwide.
Imagixx offers a 30 day no-questions-asked money back guarantee. And, finally, if you believe that you have found a host with similar credentials who offers a better value for your particular web hosting needs, we will match or beat their offer. Just e-mail sales@imagixx.net, let us know your needs, provide us with the URL of the other hosting program that you're considering, and we'll do the comparison analysis - and quote our price.
That's how confidant we are that you will find Imagixx to be, simply, the best web hosting provider on the Net today!
If it sounds too good too be true it usually is! All hosts have the same basic
limitations when it comes to server resources and specs. There is no magic
server that has a never ending supply of RAM and CPU. If a host ever claims to
give unlimited space or bandwidth DO NOT JOIN THEM. The thing to remember
is that the average web site uses about 50 Megs space and less then 1 gig
bandwidth a month. So what hosting companies do is they lie! They make up scam
plans with tons of space and bandwidth for around $8 bucks a month. It's a
numbers game.... Only one or two of every 100 people that signup on the plan are
going to use all the bandwidth advertised. So what do they do? They usually
terminate the sites that use it saying "your site is using too many resources."
They aren't lying about the resource usage. IT'S the truth! Most people don't
realize that bandwidth and space used have nothing to do with the server
resources being used. Resource usage has to do with the amount of CPU and RAM a
site uses. If a site uses a lot of bandwidth they aren't kicked for using their
bandwidth they are kicked for using up most of the servers cpu and ram. Another
thing to remember is that the cheaper the plan is, and the more space /
bandwidth included the more sites per server the host will have to pack in to
make their money back. So the lesson here is don't shop for a host based on
their plans! You should shop based on recommendations and experience!
Another thing you'll notice is that most of these incredible scam plans force
you to pay for a year up front to get the good pricing. Why would a hosting
company care if you pay monthly or yearly? After all if you're happy with them
you’re going to end up staying much longer than a year. Merchant fees aren't
that much so why? It's because most have horrible support, slow servers, or even
tons of downtime. If you were paying month to month you’re not going to stick
around, but if you paid for a year up front what are you going to do? You won't
get your money back so you have no choice but to stay with them. ONLY PAY
MONTHLY! Remember paying yearly to anyone new is always a bad idea (unless you know the company, its history and its reputation), but the choice is yours.
Do not join a host that includes a free domain name with their hosting package,
and never purchase your domain name from a hosting provider, unless you are
positive they will be putting YOUR ownership information in the WHOIS (We do, most don't). If you're not listed as the owner, you could be blackmailed into staying with an unscrupulous host.
A domain owner doesn't go by who paid for it; it goes by whose
information is on the whois. To
check a whois on the domain go there and type "domainname.com" and click submit.
Whoever’s address, email, and phone number shows up is the domain owner.
Do a whois on their domain
name. Then look for the creation date of the domain name. If the domain name was
created less then a year ago it's more of a risk to join that hosting company.
They could be a great host, but considering more then 95% of new hosts go out of
business within a year that really isn't something you should be taking a chance
on. It's too easy to become a hosting company. All someone has to do is join our
reseller plan and they are now a host. Sure the hosting may be good, but that
doesn't mean they are going to provide good support nor does it mean they are
going to pay their hosting bill. We end up kicking resellers of ours all the
time for not paying their bills (after many warnings) and in many cases their
unsuspecting customers lose their site.
You could also test the speed of a host's network to your location by...
Clicking start > run > type in "command" enter, and then type "ping
hostdomainname.com" wait for it to finish and look for the average ping. The
lower the number the better, and chances are the faster your site will load if
you should host with them. Any number around an 80 average would be good.
Anything over 100 is very bad (unless you're living in another country from
where the host is based.)
Don't believe anything you read on the hosting directories. They don't care who
they recommend as they are all paid listings. The highest bidder gets the spot.
What you should do to find reviews is search
google using the company’s name. If they have been around a year you should
find many real reviews of people who use their hosting.
If a hosting company claims 100% uptime they are lying. All servers need to be
rebooted every now and then for security and software updates. If they never
reboot that means their server is insecure and they will eventually be hacked.
When a company guarantees an uptime, that doesn't make it true. A host has as
many uptimes as they have servers. It all depends on what server they put you
on, and how well they manage it from the time you're put on it. We guarantee a
99.9 uptime but that does not mean we will hit it every month for eternity. Our
guarantee means we give you a 100% refund for the month if we should not hit it.
Many hosting companies will give you a prorated refund based on the amount of
downtime. So say you pay $10 for a month of hosting and your site is down for 24 /
hours. They will refund you for one day of downtime which ends up being about 33
cents. A guarantee is worthless! What is worth something is how they define the
guarantee, and if they do in fact honor it.
Conclusion: For these reasons, and others, we're confident that you'll find Imagixx to be, simply, the best hosting company on the Net!