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Review by tschmidt See Profile

  • Location: Milford, Hillsborough, NH, USA
  • Cost: $5 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 5 days
Great tech support, no downtime
Nothing the last few years
Extremely satisified with choice
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December 2022 update
15th year anniversary. I increased memory allocation from 400 to 500 MB. This was partly due to posting more stuff on the site but also due to email spam. If I was unable to download email for several days would get a disk usage warning. This has been another uneventful year. Having your own domain name is not as important as it was years ago (1998) when I first registered my domain and signed up with a hosting service but it is nice having a web presence and email that I control.

December 2021 update
As to be expected SSL traffic as a percentage of total traffic continues to increase. No problems with web site or email.

December 2020 update
Another uneventful update. This has been a great year, the virtual web site has not even had problems with being email blacklisted due to to bad behavior by one of the virtual web sites. In addition cost has not been increased in years.

December 2019 update
Another uneventful year, have not had any hosting service issues the past year. As I've mentioned multiple times I like having my own web site where I am able to post whatever I want and count on search engines to discover it. As a geezer I enjoy when someone asks me for my email address I'm able to use my domain email. While creating your own domain and using a hosting service is less important now a days than it was twenty years ago it is a cheap way to create your own presence on the internet.

December 2018 update
Had a couple of minor hiccups that were quickly resolved. For unknown reason daily stats stopped being collected for a 10 day period midmonth. Service was rebooted and has been working correctly ever since. The second problem was of my doing. I changed some of my DIY home automation gear and fat fingered the email login for it to phone home. After multiple failed login attempts the hosting service blacklisted my home IP as a preventative measure. Everyone except me was able to access my site and email. After the usual initial finger pointing it was determined my DSL IP had been black-listed. It is now white-listed so as long as it doesn’t change I can be as stupid as I want without causing problems.

It has been twenty years since I first registered my domain and I’ve never regretted it. It was a result of frustration after multiple changes of dialup ISP with commensurate change of my email address. I like having my own web site where I’m able to post what I want and able to manage email for myself and my wife.

December 2017 update
Celebrating a decade this month with my hosting service. Except for email being flagged as spam, being virtual many domains share the same IP, it has been another uneventful year. Just paid the $40 annual hosting fee and another $15 for domain registration. For that I get my own web site and email addresses for myself and my wife. Nice having control over my Internet presence.

I registered a domain name back in 1998 after tiring of playing the ISP of the month club game and wanted a stable email address so I did not loose contact with former colleagues. That is less of an issue these days but I don't regret registering a domain name.

December 2016 update
9th year using the hosting service. No problems to report, has been smooth sailing. At the end of each year I get a PayPal domain registration bill (eNom) for $15 and a separate $40 bill for the virtual server, storage and bandwidth. Site averages 3,000 to 5,000 page views and 2-2.5 GB of traffic per month.

It is interesting to look at the stats and see what postings are generating the most views and the ever changing popularity of competing web browsers.

April 2015 update
I keep finding more things to post on the site so increased storage from 200MB to 400MB.

December 2014 update
Nothing to report, service has been stable. Hard to believe it has been 7 years. I originally registered my domain in 1998 to maintain a stable email address and have not regretted the choice. Nice having my own web site to post what I want when I want and not having to deal with the ever changing access rules and security of social media sites.

April 2014 update
Had occasional problems with companies rejecting email as spam even though outgoing SMTP server is not on any black lists. Hosting service found some to reverse DNS configuration issues. Problem is much reduced but still shows up on occasion.

November 2013 update
Hosting service cut in a new server with a different IP address. Should have been transparent but experienced problem being unable to access site depending on which ISP I used. Hosting service of course blamed it on my ISP blocking access even though traceroute showed access all the way to internal hosting service routers. Verified with my ISP they were not blocking anything. Luckily my ISP was able to document the problem. Internal to the ISP they were able to connect sometimes and not others depending on which transit provider hit the hosting service. Armed with those traceroutes the hosting service was able to correct the problem.

November 2012 update
I had been using FrontPage 2000 to build my site. It has been end of life for years but they finally pulled the plug on support so I was no longer able to upload changes. Rebuilt the site and now using FTP to update it.

October 2012 update
Price for storage was reduced so annual cost is now $40 per year plus $15 for domain registration.

February 2011 update
Site is generating more traffic, upgraded account from 2GB per month to 10 and increased storage capacity from 100MB to 200. That increased annual cost from $30 to $50 plus $15 a year for domain registration. All in all smooth sailing.

December 2007
I had been using a local hosting service since 1998 (INR.net/ITZA.net). They were failing so wanted to move domain before I was left high and dry. Was going to use a nationwide hosting service until I discovered another local company through a member here at BBR:
»www.hollishosting.com/

Transferred domain registration and activated site move. I�m still using FrontPage (too lazy to change) so it was convenient it is still supported. Previous hosting service did not use cPanel so there was a short learning curve. Now that I�m comfortable with cPanel regret not making the move years ago.

My site is simple low traffic, a few hundred hits a day and no active content. Signed up for Standard plan: 100MB disk space, 2GB monthly transfer limit, and multiple email accounts for $30 per year, plus $15 for domain registration. It is significantly cheaper than previous service. As with other hosting services they take care of domain registration transfer and DNS setup. They use eNom as domain registrar and handle renewal billing for the site and domain registration via Paypal.

Site has been very stable. Only problem I�ve run into is having SMTP mail server marked as spam. This is a virtual site with many customers sharing the same outgoing mail server. If anyone abuses email the server gets blacklisted, requiring notifying the blacklisting entity to remove it.

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