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A Review of This Registration and Hosting Company

By Tim Graham, published Jul 14, 2005
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Domain registration through Doteasy is a few bucks more expensive than some other registration services, but the free hosting they provide compensates for this increased fee. One year domain registration costs $25, while two year and five year registration terms will run $45 ($22.50/yr) and $90 ($18/yr) respectively.

Doteasy provides free web hosting that will fit the needs of a basic startup website. Free hosting provides 100MB of space for storing your website's content and 1GB of bandwidth per month. Free hosting, however, lacks support for scripting languages such as PHP, MySQL, Perl, and ASP. In addition, if you wish to develop a secure website for e-commerce, you will need to upgrade hosting as free hosting lacks support for secure web pages using SSL. 10 email accounts with 5MB of storage are provided with your freely hosted website. Your personal email "whateveryouwant@yourwebsite.com" can be accessed via POP3 using a program such as Outlook Express or Mozilla's Thunderbird, or online using Doteasy Webmail. Each time a user logs into either Webmail or the "member zone" - where the account's website features are accessed - he is prompted with a mildly annoying ad to upgrade hosting - however, the free hosting is well worth this inconvenience in my opinion. The member zone provides access to a variety of features including your disk storage as well as a bandwidth monitor so you can ensure you don't exceed your monthly bandwidth limit.

Despite the scripting restrictions of the free hosting service, Doteasy provides free Javascript-based web plug-ins to help build your website. The eight plug-ins include web directory, web polls, tell-a-friend, guestbook, FAQ, mailing list, hit counter, and email form. These tools are fairly well designed, however, you will have to settle with a small "doteasy.com" graphic displayed at the bottom of each tool displayed on your site.

Takeaways
  • Free hosting provides domain registration and basic hosting for just $25/yr.
  • Advanced webmasters will need to upgrade hosting according to their needs.
  • Doteasy�s service and support is excellent.
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Posted on 07/26/2008 at 8:07:41 PM

 
Doteasy are terrible. I have been trying to get Doteasy to release my domain to my new registrar since the 22nd February when I entered the correct authorization code (it is now the 11th March). I would advise anyone who is with them to allow at least two months to avoid any transfer problems. My business website and e-mails are now down and I have had to contact them numerous times. I have not been able to activate the DNS transfer either.They are now stating it may be another five days and as they are not open over the weekend, this translates in reality to seven days! I transferred another domain name at the same time from another provider and the process took four days and was completely painless. I cannot urge people strongly enough to keep away from Doteasy. I have also noticed that KingKoopa is very active on noticeboards trying to dispel the negative comments by actual users of Doteasy. He or she seems to work either for Doteasy or its PR company, both need all the help they ca

Posted on 03/11/2007 at 6:03:00 PM

 
Agree with the author, Doteasy has been great in both quality and support. The best thing is they are expanding their support with Phone services now. I love their script support department as they are always here to help with my shopping cart website.

Posted on 02/06/2007 at 12:02:00 PM

 
Our web hosting packages are suitable for everyone, from novices to technically advanced experts. The High Corporation Co all-inclusive web hosting service consists of fast and stable servers (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz E6600 with 4MB Cache; 4 GB RAM; 2x500 GB SATA in RAID1 configuration.), a user-friendly web hosting Control Panel, dedicated 24 x 7 customer support (via the phone or ticket), and last but not least, a few useful FREE bonuses such as the SiteStudio (a web design tool included only in Enterprise) and the Elefante Installer (management, e-commerce, etc. tools).

Posted on 01/12/2007 at 10:01:00 PM

 
Indeed, the free hosting is a bit limited in features. Upgrading to Ultra Hosting for $8/month provides many more features such as PHP.

Posted on 10/31/2005 at 10:10:00 AM

 
The only thing I'd be concerned about with this hosting service is their bandwidth, support and add-ons. For instance, does DotEasy support ColdFusion or PHP? Do they support shopping cart systems?

Posted on 10/30/2005 at 10:10:00 PM

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