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Offering web hosting services for over five years now, Freehostia is slightly different from the rest. A new customer can start out with a free web hosting account to try out the services and move up to a paid account accordingly. Sure, there are a few hosting companies out there that offer similar free accounts, but Freehostia does it without forced advertising.
Accounts offered
Freehostia offers five different account levels – Chocolate, Watercircle, Lovebeat, Wildhoney and Supernatural. These plans range in pricing from free to $9.95 a month.
Chocolate – 250 MB in disk space, 6 GB bandwidth, 3 PHP3/IMAP e-mail accounts, 1 MySQL database, 10 MB database space – free
Watercircle – 500 MB in disk space, 12 GB bandwidth, 100 POP3/IMAP e-mail accounts, 2 MySQL databases, 25 MB database space – $2.95 a month
Lovebeat – 12000 MB in disk space, 150 GB bandwidth, 300 PHP3/IMAP e-mail accounts, 8 MySQL databases, 60 MB database space – $4.95 a month
Wildhoney – 35000 MB in disk space, 400 GB bandwidth, free domain name, 15 MySQL databases, 90 MB database space – $7.95 a month
Supernatural – 90000 MB in disk space, 900 GB bandwidth, free domain name, 50 MySQL databases, 120 MB database space – $9.95 a month
1-Click installer
Elefante is offered with all accounts (even the free account). The Elefante installer is a software platform that enables web site owners to quickly install a variety of programs with a single click of the mouse button. Over 40 PHP scripts are offered in categories such as wikis, blogs, CMS, e-commerce and more.
Some of the more popular blog software offerings are Movable Type, WordPress, and b2evolution. The CMS programs within Elefante are a bit more impressive of a list – Drupal, Mambo, Moodle, Joomla and eight other popular CMS programs are available. In the category of e-commerce, Elefante offers osCommRes and osCommerce. All in all, Elefante is a great added feature to all Freehostia accounts.
Support
Freehostia has a customer care department at work 24×7. All hosting customers (with the exception of those using free hosting) can expect to receive an answer within 1 hour of contacting the support department. Free hosting customers are not completely disregarded but aren’t given priority – expected support answer waiting time is 6 hours.
The hosting company offers video tutorials, FAQs, a knowledge base and a ticketing system for support as well. The online contact form is easily found within Freehostia’s support area. While not the most expansive of support areas, Freehostia offers a good solid range of options when one is in need of assistance.
Conclusion
With most free hosting accounts offered by web hosting businesses requiring that advertising be present on all web pages, it’s nice to find a company that not only offers ad-free accounts for no charge but also gives free hosting clients the standard features one would expect from a paid service. Add in the ability to upgrade to accounts that are very economical, Freehostia is a web hosting service worth checking out.
“Free” is one of those misleading terms that gets thrown around quite a bit these days. By the time you read the terms and conditions of the product or service in question, more often than not, you find that is it not free at all. You may assume that free domain names is just another trick designed to toy with your emotions but believe it or not, they do exist. We have compiled a list of services that can help you establish a web presence with your very own domain without paying a single penny.
Dot TK
Dot TK is a domain registrar that offers free domain names in the .TK extension. Millions of users have being using this TLD since 2001, which makes it more recognizable and powerful than you might think. There are some advantages to having a .TK domain name, especially if you plan to use it with a short secondary domain. In addition, it can be used with any type of website you may have, whether it is a blog or e-commerce site.
.CO.NR Free Domain Name
This is another service that offers free domains with a variety of extra features to boot. Your name comes with the .CO.NR extension, a project designed to help those who are strapped for cash obtain a unqiue domain that can establish a degree independence similar to premium domains. Some of the features that come along with the service include domain forwarding, URL cloaking and meta tag support, all of which are free with your domain name.
Afraid.org
Afraid.org offers a host of free services. On the menu are domain names with the .afraid.org extension and several more, sub-domains, URL cloaking, dynamic DNS support and full DNS management. In order to reap the benefits of Afraid.org, you must first sign up as a member, which can be done for free. There are also paid packages that provide a greater level of flexibility as more capacity is available to you.
UNI.CC Network
Here you have one of the most popular free domain name services available today. UNI.CC Network allows you to build your web presence with the unique .uni.cc extension. The service provides a variety of domain registration tools along with a DNS Setup Wizard that makes managing your identity a breeze. This service is provided at absolutely no cost. All you are required to do is keep your contact information up to date and abide by the site’s terms and conditions.
Fadlan
Fadlan is another great site that offers a free URL redirection and DNS service. Domain forwarding is free, so you get a domain such as mysite.fadlan.com as well as path forwarding and three types of directs. Because it also specializes in free DNS services, if you have dedicated IP address, you have the ability to run your own web server on a sub-domain. Fadlan isn’t the best looking site, but it has come become very popular and offers a few services you may find useful.
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – September 15, 2009 – Web hosting firm, MochaHost.com, has instituted some promotions for the new Fall Season, designed for new and existing customers.
The new Fall SALE includes: 30% off from its Mocha hosting plan + 6 months of free hosting and 2 free domain names for its Business and Mocha shared hosting plans. A separate special of 15% OFF is also available for the SoHo and Business plans.
Other season specials include: a free domain name with a 10% discount for all reseller plans, special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package (including free static IP).
In addition, starting in September of 2009 all Linux plans (including reseller and dedicated servers) come with an extra 33 free one-click-install tools such as: Magento shopping cart, MediaWiki, and phprojekt – making a total of 77 free tools.
MochaHost is a privately owned, financially stable company located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs – from personal use/small businesses to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.
For more information about the company, please visit: www.mochahost.com
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – September 15, 2009 – Web hosting firm, MochaHost.com, has instituted some promotions for the new Fall Season, designed for new and existing customers.
The new Fall SALE includes: 30% off from its Mocha hosting plan + 6 months of free hosting and 2 free domain names for its Business and Mocha shared hosting plans. A separate special of 15% OFF is also available for the SoHo and Business plans.
Other season specials include: a free domain name with a 10% discount for all reseller plans, special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package (including free static IP).
In addition, starting in September of 2009 all Linux plans (including reseller and dedicated servers) come with an extra 33 free one-click-install tools such as: Magento shopping cart, MediaWiki, and phprojekt – making a total of 77 free tools.
MochaHost is a privately owned, financially stable company located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs – from personal use/small businesses to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.
For more information about the company, please visit: www.mochahost.com
You thought Yahoo! was a Search Engine?
Yep, Yahoo Web Hosting. That’s www.yahoo.com, one of the biggest search engine companies on the world wide web, now provides small business web hosting for companies that are just getting started on the web and want a way to communicate with their customers online, attract new customers, and sell their products using the internet. This Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting review should give you a feel of the options that Yahoo Small Business Hosting provides.
The Yahoo Small Business Hosting site is well organized and gives you the ability to select from different areas of service to small businesses, such as:
- Web Hosting
- Merchant Solutions
- Sponsored Search
With the Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting packages, the idea is to make it possible for small business owners to easily create a professional web site and have secure reliable service that allows them the benefits of a free domain name, unlimited email storage, virtually unlimited web pages and 24-hour toll free customer support.
The starter plans that Yahoo Small Business Hosting offers start from around ten dollars a month, making them ideal for someone who is just getting started on the world wide web and wants to test the waters. The Yahoo Small Business Hosting site is designed to make the entire web site design process easy – you can select the look and feel of your new site from lists of templates provided by Yahoo Small Business Hosting, start entering content, and see what it looks like live on the web right away. If you are just beginning to take your business online, this feature makes it a lot easier for you to set up your web site, especially if you are not particularly technically oriented.
As you progress to higher levels of disk space and bandwidth requirement you can upgrade from the Starter plan to the Standard grade plan and the Professional level plan. Most of the basic features such as the scripts, tools and support are offered for all plans – the only major difference is in the amount of bandwidth and disk space that the plans provide.
Merchant Solutions from the Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting provider allow you to quickly set up an ecommerce site, allowing you to make sales over the world wide web and sell your products online at any time of the day or night. The Merchant Solutions from Yahoo Small Business Hosting include a store design wizard that lets you put together an ecommerce site to your own specifications, add your products, set up an online shopping cart system and you can even get support from Yahoo Small Business Hosting in marketing your products online.
Sponsored Search from Yahoo Small Business Hosting works together with the Web Hosting and Merchant Solutions that they offer to give you a full package for creating a site and promoting your business online. With sponsored search results you can pay for impressions on customers who enter a search term related to your business and receive listings in the sponsored search results when someone looks for information.
These plans offered by Yahoo Small Business Hosting make it easy for people without technical skills to quickly put together a professional site, all without spending massive amounts of cash.
Web Hosting Finds’ Review of StartLogic offerings that include Linux shared, Windows shared, virtual, and dedicated hosting
StartLogic is a web hosting provider that offers a lot: Linux shared, Windows shared, virtual, and dedicated hosting, along with some other services such as search engine optimization. A StartLogic employee said the company was independent, but it seems suspicious that PowWeb and StartLogic have the exact same “additional services” pages at the time of writing. The two companies also offer essentially the same services. Other pages on the two companies’ web sites are also very similar or exactly the same.
For essentially the same price, StartLogic provides double the space and bandwidth that PowWeb does. With their Linux hosting package, StartLogic includes:
- A free domain name
- Use of their vDeck control panel
- A 30 day money back guarantee
- PHP 4 and 5
- Web templates and site builders
StartLogic also offers virtual and dedicated servers. Virtual servers can be hard to find and StartLogic offers three different types of virtual private servers starting at around $30 per month. They offer a wide range of dedicated servers ranging from $99 per month at the low end to $349 per month at the high end.
The company offers 24/7 technical support over the phone and live chat. There are plenty of tutorials and knowledge base articles if you find yourself needing additional help as well.
StartLogic hosting provides a wide range of services at a fairly reasonable price.
Web Hosting Finds’ Review of PowWeb Hosting, a provider of nearly 10 years:
PowWeb (PowWeb.com) is one of the largest web hosting companies out there. They entered the web hosting scene in 1999 and have grown to become one of the most prominent names in the web hosting industry.
PowWeb claims to utilize load balancing technology. When applied, this technology has the potential to eliminate single points of failure, thus resulting in a more reliable web site. The use of the “grid” makes it so a single server can have a problem without it affecting the web sites on the server.
PowWeb prides itself on its “one plan, one price” mantra. The plan costs $5.77 per month and has no setup fees if you decide to signup for two years. The minimum contract length (3 months) is $7.77 per month with a $30 setup fee.
The one plan includes more than enough space and bandwidth for any web site and makes use of PowWeb’s load balanced technology. Other nice features include with the plan are:
- SnapShot Instant Click and Restore Daily Backups
- DNS management
- Script Instant Installer (which PowWeb says is better than Fantastico)
- Free domain name included
- Easy to use site builder
There are plenty of support options at PowWeb. They have 24/7 email, phone, and live chat support. Their community forum has more than 20,000 members. There are lots of tutorials and helpful knowledge base articles for customers to browse and learn.
In addition to regular web hosting, PowWeb offers exchange hosting, which is fairly pricey ($12.95 per month for a 500 MB email account). Other services offered by the company include marketing services and e-commerce services (credit card processing, etc).
PowWeb is a typical budget web hosting provider. They offer fairly good hosting at a reasonable price. If they can really deliver with their load balancing service, the company has the potential to really deliver a superior web hosting service.
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – August 12, 2009 – Web hosting summer specials are available at MochaHost.com, to new and current customers including 30% off from its Mocha hosting plan + 6 months of free hosting and 2 free domain names for its Business and Mocha shared hosting plans.
Other season specials include: a free domain name with a 10% discount for all reseller plans, special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package (including free static IP).
MochaHost is a privately owned, financially stable company located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs – from personal use/small businesses to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.
The offer will be valid through: 08/31/2009. More details, as well as how to sign up, can be obtained at: www.mochahost.com/specials
For more information about the company, please visit: www.mochahost.com
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – August 12, 2009 – Web hosting summer specials are available at MochaHost.com, to new and current customers including 30% off from its Mocha hosting plan + 6 months of free hosting and 2 free domain names for its Business and Mocha shared hosting plans.
Other season specials include: a free domain name with a 10% discount for all reseller plans, special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package (including free static IP).
MochaHost is a privately owned, financially stable company located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs – from personal use/small businesses to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.
The offer will be valid through: 08/31/2009. More details, as well as how to sign up, can be obtained at: www.mochahost.com/specials
For more information about the company, please visit: www.mochahost.com
San Jose, California – (The Hosting News) – June 4, 2009 – Webhosting company, MochaHost.com, has developed for its new and current customers, new summer specials, including 6 months of free hosting and 2 free domain names, for its with Business and Mocha hosting plans.
Other season specials include: a free domain name with a 10% discount for all reseller plans, special pricing on dedicated servers, and special discounts for non-profit organizations or military personnel, as well as a special SSL package (including free static IP).
In addition, starting in July, MochaHost will offer free Google AdWord credits for all current and new clients.
The offer will be valid through June 30, 2009.
MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California, specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, e-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHost’s plans are designed to tailor to specific needs, from personal use/small businesses, to sophisticated e-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.
To learn more about the new offers, please visit: www.mochahost.com/specials.
For more information about MochaHost, please visit: www.mochahost.com.
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