DOT5 HOSTING REVIEW

Dot5 Hosting is a full-service, discount web host that has really stepped up with what it offers: free domain name, marketing features, host six domains on one account, and an award-winning vDeck control panel. Dot 5 Hosting's servers are located in California and linked to the internet using fiber optics that span over seven well-known providers like Time Warner, Congent, and Sonet.

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Price Value

For starters, Dot5 Hosting gives you hosting for up to 6 domains on one account for only $3.95 per month. With unlimited disk space and unlimited monthly transfer between them, it's great value, even if you don't need to host additional domains. This package gives you all the features required to host your personal web site or small business site and gives the flexibility and room you need to expand at no additional cost.

This Dot 5 Hosting plan includes a fully-equipped marketing center, a web site creator, as many shopping carts as you need, a search engine submitter and reports, a keyword and meta-tag generator, a web site link checker, and $50 Overture credit. You'll get CGI-BIN, MySQL, and Perl and PHP support.

Your Dot5 Hosting package also comes with server side includes, FrontPage 2000/2002 extensions, web site statistics, a guest book, bulletin board, chat rooms, and a blogger.

Reliability

Dot5 Hosting backs up its 99.9% uptime guarantee with full hardware support and advanced server monitoring, 24/7 system reboots and real-time reporting. You get total backup software included as well. The all-inclusive Dot5 Hosting plan now comes with a full 90-day money back guarantee. Dot 5 Hosting obviously plans to deliver for its customers because 90 days is almost unheard of in the hosting industry.

Dot5 Hosting uses Dell and IBM servers with Dual Intel Xeon processors, 2GB of DDR-RAM, fast SCSI hard drives with RAID-1 redundancy. Dot5 Hosting gives you access to 7.2 Gigs network capacity on a redundant and diverse AT&T Local Services ring.

IDC connects to multiple AT&T IP backbone nodes using dual access routers with dual OC-48/OC-192 connections. ATM, Frame Relay, private line, IP, and local-switched and circuit-switched services are your options for back-end connectivity and network services. AT&T and other local service providers handle local access.

Dot5 Hosting's security systems include a high power UPS generator for electrical backup, 24/7 closed circuit monitoring, and redundant air-conditioning systems.

Control Panel

Dot5 Hosting uses the popular vDeck control panel, a state of the art, leading edge, hosting management solution that has received global acclaim for the ease with which it facilitates virtual eBusiness management. It's a versatile, intuitive, icon-based interface with help info embedded in, along with more detailed tutorials on each function available directly from the function's main window. It shows you progress bars on how much of your disk space and bandwidth quotas you're currently using.

The vDeck Host Manager makes uploading web pages and files, and performing backups a breeze. A Database Manager with password protection is included. Over 150 templates help you build each web page to fit your (and your visitors') tastes. VDeck's shopping cart allows you to accept all kinds of credit cards and alternative payment methods and its email center gives you unlimited email addresses and access to your inbox from anywhere on the web.

Customer Support

Dot5 Hosting runs a thorough support Center equipped with troubleshooting tours, tutorials, a searchable FAQ knowledgebase, a trackable email query ticket system, an announcement board, and live web chat. Dot 5 Hosting keeps a sufficient ratio of support staff to customers on-duty at all times and it is available 24/7.