Another new cheap host cost only $14 set up fee

[TC Tan]

Besides discount-host, I just find another new cheap host which only cost $14 one time set up fee. But the company quite new. So anyone would like to comment? The following is their features offered. But their offer end on June 29th 2001. Please check it out at
http://www.directoris.com/ser/int/host/index.html

Features included
250MB UNIX Disk Space
50 POP3 Mailboxes
50 Autoresponders
Unlimited Email Addresses
Subdomain Names
Web Based Control Panel
Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Server Extensions
CGI Scripting in Perl, C & Python
Server Side Includes
PHP4 Scripting
mySQL Database Server
SSL Secure Server
Sever Side PGP Encryption
WAP Server
5000MB Monthly Data Transfer

and their simple FAQ

Please find below the answers to the questions you may have about our Website Hosting Plan only. Alternatively, send us an email for more information. Thank you.

Q: Can you please tell me if that the deal you are running till the end is $14 US for a one off or is that recurring on a monthly basis?
A: No. After you open an account, it goes for life, as long as you don't request more than 250MB of space or 5000MB bandwidth.

Q: Is this fee per domain hosted with you?
A: Yes.

Q: How much does it cost to transfer my domain name to and away from your company?
A: Nothing

Q: When I sign up, how long does it take for the account to be active?
A: Whithin the next 24 Hours. Even if you pay by cheque.

Q: Also are there any type of reseller deals you have?
A: No, not yet.

[Global Spider]

I`m not to sure what to make of this one.

[meow]

TC Tan - they have been mentioned a couple of times recently. So far we know that it's OK to change domain name later and that they will keep the UNIX hosting together with the NT.
Yes, it's hard to get what it's all about Either something big or something fishy.
I'm going to give them a try anyway. I'm just waiting for them to answer a couple of questions.

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by meow
TC Tan - they have been mentioned a couple of times recently. So far we know that it's OK to change domain name later and that they will keep the UNIX hosting together with the NT.
Yes, it's hard to get what it's all about Either something big or something fishy.
I'm going to give them a try anyway. I'm just waiting for them to answer a couple of questions.

Post the questions and their answers once you get the reply.

[meow]

:D OK. I've hit the signup button but I haven't got the confirmation email yet.

Here is what I know.

The company is in Clapham, England. Their business idea seems to be some world wide directory thing. Not much is ready at their site, so it's hard to tell if it's good . The server also seems to be in UK. I've pinged them. Either they are pretty fast or there is a cork somewhere on the way in UK. I've just done it a couple if days so it doesn't really show anything at all.

lastactionhero found out that you can later use the account with another domain without any fee for making the change.

Me they have told this:

UNIX will still be available once they install NT. They will run parallel systems and it will be possible to sign up for UNIX later on too. For the rest I'll quote them:

meow: How many sub domains am I allowed?
directoris: It's unlimited. We will give you 50 megs per
subdomain. Also, you will be able to choose the amount of bandwidth you wish
to allocate to each of your subdomains. Don't forget that the total amount
of monthly bandwidth is 5000 Megs per month. New since 2 days, we also give
you a free control panel per subdomain.

meow: Are there any file type restrictions? Is it OK to put any file up for
download? (I'm not referring to illegal or
porn.)
Directoris:- No file type restrictions but please avoid files larger than 1Gb.

Support has been fast and friendly.

And you guys wonder why I wanted to sign up before I told you? ':p' ':p' ':p'


This does seem too good. For all I know they can be down in a month. On the other hand this is a time limited offer. Maybe next month they will charge a more normal price. At the price of 2 pizza's with coke I'm willing to take the risk. They MUST be better than Portland. ;)



[Edited by meow on 04-30-2001 at 03:39 PM]

[jiminsd]

I believe they are with Donhost in England. That usually means they are "fair" on speed and uptime... about the same as one of the earlier f2s accounts.

[meow]

Just want to keep you updated...
Signup was in fact confirmed immediately. I didn't ahem...notice the mail so there I was, checking and waiting all night. Today I managed to get the domain released from Portland in less than an hour. That must be a RECORD. :rolleyes:

So far so good. Love the control panel. No blahblah. Clean and nice. Excellent help file with no nonsense and easy to understand. From the look of things in there they are not planning on leaving. They have some ready made scripts lying about but I haven't checked them yet. PW protected directories and error pages. For the lazy I guess. URL submitter to major search engines. Nighly updated stats. Don't see no raw log file but I haven't been everywhere yet.

I must say my impression is very good so far. Things have been smooth. Everything, both the site and support is informative and no hype at all. They haven't even tried to sell me additional services. I LOVE IT!!!!

One happy meeeeeeeooow!! '':p'':D'':D'':D'':p''

[jiminsd]

meow,
Please keep posting on speed and uptime. I've been tracking an account that someone has with them for about a month now. So far it has shown about 96% uptime and netmechanic checks have rated them "fair" and "poor". I'd like to know more on your experience before I transfer a domain to them. Also, have you noticed if setting up subdomains are in the control panel or do you have to e-mail them?
Thanks.

[Edited by jiminsd on 05-02-2001 at 10:51 AM]

[meow]

Funny, I was in there digging around searching for exactly that when I saw your post.

I haven't found anything yet, But from their answer above doesn't it seem likely that they should be managed in the CP? Maybe not added yet. They ought to have raw log too, don't you think?

I'm glad to keep you updated. I will use the account just as a playground for now though. When I have read through everything I'll ask them about what may be unclear. So please feel free to add to my list.

BTW when I pinged them I noticed they seemed either speedy or the transfer hanged somewhere on the way. If it hanged there were also some packets lost. Oh, and it is Donhost. :-)

[jiminsd]

As far as having a raw log and other features it looks too good to be true... I figure, like you, it would be just an extra fun area for $14. I can't imagine someone running this particular server ongoing with support for nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if it get's slower and support fades away. I do know that when I saw their original post on WebHostingTalk he was talking about this being an introduction to their service. Supposedly, we would all be so happy with them that we would refer others to their paid hosting.

[Edited by jiminsd on 05-02-2001 at 11:45 AM]

[meow]

*lol* You have been holding out on this, haven't you? ;-)
Thanks for mentioning that they have said it's an introduction offer. I've been suspecting that (well, they say time limited). From the look of their site they are definitely in this for business.
For me this is ideal. I've never paid for hosting in my life. My thing is plain HTML, mostly poking my nose in other peoples boring stuff. Now I want to do something for myself and learn some scripting. Playground is the word. If it turns out to be a hit - fine. If not- sad but hopefully it was fun and I won't shed tears over the money.

I even love the colors in there! Thank heaven for England. Some sense and moderation is sooo refreshing. Have you noticed that you can choose "lord" as your title in the sign up form? God save the queen! :D

[Coalesce]

Quoted from http://www.directoris.com/ser/int/index.html:


Until 29 June 2001, host your own domain on our Unix server, FREE OF CHARGE. No banners, no ads.

[Coalesce]

BTW I just signed up about an hour ago, and I am still waiting for my email with the acct info.

[Haze]

Just remember that you get what you pay for.

[TC Tan]

Meow, I just wondering whether they provide you the detail analysis of the web site traffic? By the way, do you think their service is good in term of serive and support?

[jiminsd]

You might run a server check through NetMechanic or someone before you sign up.... they have not been looking so great lately. The latest tests have been showing constant "poor" ratings. You might be throwing your $14 away.

[meow]

The site statistics are detailed about what files have been hit and so on, but there are no user details as OS, browser, domain. I'm not sure this is the final state though. I used support only before I signed up and as said they answered fast and gave clear answers.

I and a friend of mine in US who also got an account there have kept pinging them to and fro. The impression from before I signed up remains - either they are fast or there's a cork somewhere. About the same result from US and Europe. Only one really bad day so far.

The other day pinging them was disastrous (the bad day)- but the pages were still accessible fast enough with the browser. I also used NetMechanics. They reported excellent result, when my own pinging was relatively bad for the same hours.
I don't know about this whole ping business - I've noticed that when f2s is slow as molasses they still can ping good. Anyone has an explanation?

Bottom line - not that I have used the account enough to be sure about anything, but I like them and feel comfortable so far.

[CrashWire]

They have great support, but right now I have the feeling they are just a fly by night company like some others. They've been down since yesterday.

The only problem is that they have to set up subdomains for you as opposed to wildcards. Duh.

[meow]

That's funny - I was pinging them as I wrote the above. Were up then. But are down now. Well let's see how they handle it. ;)
BTW do you have an account there?

[CrashWire]

Yep I signed up there just to try out their accounts, seemed they had some weird practices, but as I said, they "had" good support until they kept going down.

[meow]

What weird practices? Peculiar you say they have been down. For me they went down sometime after 04.05 GMT, that's about 2 hours ago.
They are a little mysterious though. Hard to figure out what it's all about. I think about it as a lottery ticket - let's hope we win. ;)

[Cael]

LoL

[Coalesce]

Well last night I couldn't log into my control panel (auth error even though I checked my login 100 times over), couldn't access my FTP, and this morning I can't access my site or even directoris.com.

[CrashWire]

Weird practises? Just some trivial things, like having no "real" pop3 servers, no SMTP servers at all, no wildcard subdomains, a mySQL database without any way to access from outside (security reasons, they say), a mySQL manager that isn't as good as phpMyAdmin (but you can install it).

At least it's just a one time $14. Yeah I hope we win the lottery.

[meow]

Sure we will win!
What you say about mySQL is sounds bad, but I wouldn't know. But subdomains, come on, some cheap hosts don't allow them at all or they are limited or come at an extra cost.
Yep, now they are down all right. 15 hours. Thinks they are in Rio sipping on drinks with little umbrellas? ;)

[Sick N Twisted]

in there Terms and Conditions it states the following:
"2.6 In the case of an individual User, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and if the User is a company, you warrant that the Services will not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years."

just thought this might be interesting for companies

[Coalesce]

Site's back up, mine and directoris, although very slow. MySQL access is fine; I don't know what you mean by being able to access it from outside; all I know is that I installed phpMyAdmin and my vBulletin runs fine. The no STMP server kills, but oh well. It's $14; maybe they'll get one when the $14 offer ends (June). All I really care about is the speed. WAY too slow.

[meow]

My friends site works but mine redirects to Directoris. I can see the files with ftp. :(
I'm mostly interested in how they will handle this. I'm waiting for an email...
Anyway, I don't think one can pass a judgement on their service, good or bad, before everything is finished. Remember f2s has been "experimental" for close to a year! ;):p

[Coalesce]

Wow, big improvement...I don't know what they did but they just got ALOT faster.

[LastActionHero]

Well this thread has grown! Directoris seems to be a good host, but i'am waiting and watching. 21st june is a far far away. How did you guys pay?

[meow]

Visa. I live i a country where the banks want us to bother them as little as possible, so any other way would have cost me more than the account.

Coalesce,I wonder if the speed problems you had before could have been a routing thing? I pinged them at about 220 ms before the downtime and at about 205 now. Maybe that old UK problem isn't over after all?

Would be nice if they put a board up.

[gyrbo]

OK, verry easy question: Are they good or not?

[meow]

Ask me in 6 months. ;)

[gyrbo]

I just signed up for them. Waiting for the dns to point right. We'll see or they have what thay say!

[Cael]

We will wait. :)

[meow]

Hey! Welcome neighbor. :)

[gyrbo]

As soon as I get to design my new site the true power of directoris will come up (I hope). Well, the design may take some time.

[Coalesce]

meow: I'm not sure. I live in the US, all that matters is I'm getting fast speeds now. I pinged my site at 138ms and directoris at 140ms, so everything seems good now.

All I know is that the speed now is great...for now, these guys seem great. I'd pay $30 a month for what they offer. The only thing I don't like is the 5 gig bandwidth limit...oh well, no host is perfect. Anyways if these guys continue the service I'm getting now they should become one of the best hosts out there.

[angeth]

I just signed up with them. How long do they generally take to set up your account?

[meow]

Don't remember. Think it took 5-6 hours. Anyway well within the time limit they state. And hat was on a Sunday.
Coalesce - maybe they will offer upgrades later. They should want the money.

[Coalesce]

Took me a day or two to get the activation mail, then another cuple of days for my domain to go live.

[martinng]

Did u check out Web Host AZ? $40 per year for hosting 3 domains and unlimited space!

[Cael]

I will never head for an unlimited host

[meow]

Wasn't that one up when we talked about several domains on the same account? Was something fishy I think, but I don't remember.

[Tobyn]

what is all this stuff about
'i never heard of unlimited' and
'when was the last time you saw a unlimited hdd'?

Unlimited means.. ah.. oh WHOA NO LIMIT
Imagine that, now that means there is no limit on how much information you can upload. If there harddrives get full, they get more. Why have a limit when you dont need one?

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by Tobyn
what is all this stuff about
'i never heard of unlimited' and
'when was the last time you saw a unlimited hdd'?

Unlimited means.. ah.. oh WHOA NO LIMIT
Imagine that, now that means there is no limit on how much information you can upload. If there harddrives get full, they get more. Why have a limit when you dont need one?
If they say ulimited, they say it to cover up the real thing. I ran into a small problem recently, but I fixed it now. They say that your full path is /home/%username% but my path is /usr/home/s/i/%username% kinda strange.

[Tobyn]

But they can't just not honour their service features. Whether they have the space or not, its not your problem.

~Tobyn

[gyrbo]

I would advise everyone to go to directoris.com They have been greate for me the past couple of days. Replies to support mail come within an hour. Currently I host my friend on my account(PLenty of space).
Theirs only 1 prob. I think the 250megs is for webspace+MySQM+Mailboxes. Well, hey it still is a lot for 14$
Haha, I just found out directoris is a donhost reseller!

[Edited by gyrbo on 05-18-2001 at 06:16 PM]

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Tobyn
But they can't just not honour their service features. Whether they have the space or not, its not your problem.

~Tobyn

Tobyn, if there is one thing I've learned from the forums it is this:

You sign up for an unlimited transfer hosting account, the site does well, uses too much of something (generally hidden in the TOS somewhere) and gets shut down without notice.

And whose problem is it now? Hmmmmm.

With unlimted anything, eventually it will be *your* problem, no matter if you *think* it is *their* problem.

Anyone who thinks that they are going to get $100's or $1,000's of services for $5/mo. is just not thinking straight. Think about how much it costs to build and run a dependable server, that isn't overloaded with accounts, hooked to a dependable, reduntant connection and equipment, backed up, utilizing dependable power sources/alternatives, and knowledgeable sys. admins and support reps.

Anything below *that* cost either is crap now, or will be very soon.

[Tobyn]

I understand.

~Tobyn

[curiousity]

Originally posted by gyrbo

Haha, I just found out directoris is a donhost reseller!




Gyrbo, or anyone who knows,

Is that good or bad?

[meow]

Sorry Gyrbo, it was mentioned early in this thread that they were on Donhost. :p
Check out their reseller deal. Trace new hosts with cheap plans and compare with Directoris trace and you may find some things out.

I don't know, but I don't think it's bad. Donhost seems to have fairly good rep (I've read up at the forums). Then I guess it's up to the reseller if he can make ends meat, that he doesn't put too many accounts on and so on.

[laurie]

Their page loads very fast!

Pings to them low too ;)

Pinging directoris.com [195.10.228.132] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 195.10.228.132: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.10.228.132: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.10.228.132: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=248
Reply from 195.10.228.132: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=248

Ping statistics for 195.10.228.132:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 18ms

[jiminsd]

What you need to do is find a site that someone has hosted with them to check out. Sometimes the host site is on a different server and it can be misleading.

[meow]

Don't think so. Same traceroute and same ping.

[laurie]

Originally posted by jiminsd
What you need to do is find a site that someone has hosted with them to check out. Sometimes the host site is on a different server and it can be misleading.

That can be true. If anyone can give me a URL to their site they host on this webprovider I will ping it and post results.

[TC Tan]

First I would like to apology for misposted new thread 2 days ago which supposed to be posted here regarding setting up the subdomain . Sorry for the mistake and I already delete the thread I misposted.

OK, come back to the question, I just wonder how fast they can set up the subdomain for us, anyone try it before? If I not mistaken, they don't have wild card and we need to ask them to set up the subdomain for us (based on what I read in this forum)

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by TC Tan
First I would like to apology for misposted new thread 2 days ago which supposed to be posted here regarding setting up the subdomain . Sorry for the mistake and I already delete the thread I misposted.

OK, come back to the question, I just wonder how fast they can set up the subdomain for us, anyone try it before? If I not mistaken, they don't have wild card and we need to ask them to set up the subdomain for us (based on what I read in this forum)


I need to do a website for a club, and cause I have a verry nice domain, I'll host a sub of mine. I'll keep you up-to-date about this.

[GordonH]

Think about how much it costs to build and run a dependable server, that isn't overloaded with accounts, hooked to a dependable, reduntant connection and equipment, backed up, utilizing dependable power sources/alternatives, and knowledgeable sys. admins and support reps.

Anything below *that* cost either is crap now, or will be very soon.

Right on!

I have this discussion every day with potential customers, but heres the maths:


Leasing one server plus IP's and 100GB bandwidth@ $400 per month (low end - most of ours are much more than this)
= $4800 per year.

Max number of sites per server 240 (this is the most we have ever put on the one server - small plans)

=$20 per year cost.

This assumes a maximum usage of 100GB per month bandwidth across the server.

There is no way you could sell these packages at less than $20 per year and make a profit. If you are not making profit you will not be in business, letalone employing people who can keep your systems reliable.

Gordon

[zazoo]

I dunno they may host it on there own computer or somthing depending on how many customers they have

[meow]

Hello!! Doesn't anyone read the thread? ;) We've known all along where they have there server and here's how much it costs them. http://www.donhost.co.uk/products/reseller.htm

[meow]

:( OK. First bad thing. They have no longer any .htaccess support at all.

:mad: I would like to ask the others that have accounts there if you have configured mail boxes and if you have noted an increasing amount of spam to them?

The spammers could of course just chance on sending to anyone@domain.com, but I have had than domain for a year and had catch them all email earlier too and have never got a single mail to my domain before. I never use the addresses.

[programmer2k]

It's not cheap at all

It's 56.79 US dollars + pay around $34 US dollars per extra gig over 50 gigs per month


let's say you use about 100 gigs per month
with users


about $1757.00 US dollars per month...

[YUMAMA]

So has anyone got a site hosted there yet? It would be nice to put up your URL if you have them hosting your site so that we can check out the speed.

[GeneK]

I just moved my site there, and I have nothing but good things to say so far. Speed's great, support responds within a few hours, all Perl scripts and Java servlets work perfectly. They even said it wouldn't be a problem to host mp3s (legal). Meow, they do have .htaccess support, it is automated through their control panel... much more convenient than fiddling with .htaccess manually, in my opinion.

I can't say anything about spam as I have not configured my mailboxes yet... but I really don't care about a few more spam messages, cause it's pretty unreal so far...

[meow]

programmer2k - what $56.79 are you talking about?

GeneK - They do NOT have .htaccess support. This is conformed by Support. You are referring to setting up PW protected directories in the control panel. .htaccess can be used for a lot of things, PW is just one of them. ;)

[programmer2k]

The money shown on donhost.co.uk
is in British

You have to convert that to US

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by programmer2k
The money shown on donhost.co.uk
is in British

You have to convert that to US
1$=+/-7.5£

[meow]

OK. I thought you were talking about what WE pay Directoris.

[GeneK]

I understand, on my old host I've used .htaccess only to protect dirs, and it didn't work when I moved it, but it worked through the cp... there's still much for me to learn I suppose :)

I hope this lasts though... for $14 the space and features are unbelieveable.

[programmer2k]

Originally posted by gyrbo

Originally posted by programmer2k
The money shown on donhost.co.uk
is in British

You have to convert that to US
1$=+/-7.5£

huh?
What are you talking about?

Go check here for currency

http://www.expedia.ca/pub/agent.dll?qscr=curc

[meow]

Yeah, .htaccess is fun. I't looks like it's the Donhost reseller plans that don't support it. I was hoping to learn all in and outs at last. I just assumed it was supported since it's a Linux host :(

[YUMAMA]

Originally posted by GeneK
I just moved my site there, and I have nothing but good things to say so far. Speed's great, support responds within a few hours....

Can you put up the URL of the site that you have hosted with them for us to test the speed to see how fast it is? Thanks.


Meow....did you buy their hosting plan yet?

Gyrbo....did you buy their hosting plan yet?

[meow]

I bought it at the end of last month. Sorry, I don't want to post my URL, you just have to trust me. My site and Directoris' own has the same ping and traceroute. Same with my friends site. My friend also gets the same result for all three sites.

[YUMAMA]

So are you saying that it is FAST?

Is it reliable? Have you notice any down time?

I am interesting in signing up also so I just want to be sure. How do you rate this host on a scale from 1-10 overall? Thanks.

[meow]

If you read this thread from start, I think you will find everything we know. ;)
Yes, they seem fast. Support is fast and friendly. There has been no problem with the few scripts I have installed. Can't tell much more since I haven't used it much yet. I just decided that I wanted to take this chance since the offer is time limited and unlimited subs is a great feature for me. I actually was thinking of getting another one for future use when I discovered they no longer had .htacces, and I want that. But rumor has it they are getting their own servers and then it will be supported. :)
The stats were a disappointment since you don't get any user data like domain/OS/browser. File stats are OK though.

Just now:

Starting ping - May 24, 2001 03:51:28
Looking up 'www.meow's site'...

Ping Successful
30 packets received/30 transmitted : 0% PACKET LOSS
Round Trip Time (in milliseconds) Max/Min/Av: 233/199/211


Starting ping - May 24, 2001 03:52:15
Looking up 'www.directoris.com'...
Pinging www.directoris.com [195.10.228.132]....

Ping Successful
30 packets received/30 transmitted : 0% PACKET LOSS
Round Trip Time (in milliseconds) Max/Min/Av: 228/195/211

[lucifer]

Hey meow, how come you're so shy about your url?

[YUMAMA]

O.K. I think I will sign up. It is a pretty good deal for $14/year. I really like a host that is fast and reliable and has such option as php and MySQL. I think I have found this as a good one. The only bad thing about it is the 5 gig/month limit but for that price, I cannot complain. :D


By the way, how many dbase of MySQL do you get?
Hopefully, it is unlimited, meaning that I can create many names of databases.

[lucifer]

Originally posted by YUMAMA
By the way, how many dbase of MySQL do you get?
Hopefully, it is unlimited, meaning that I can create many names of databases.

you can run loads of stuff with one db- just lots of unrelated tables as long as you name them differently you should be OK :)

[meow]

I'm shy about everything. :o

YUMAMA!!! You have misunderstood - it's not $14/y. It's $14 for life. Time limited offer. What it will cost in a couple of weeks no one knows. That's why I was planning for another one. ;)

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by YUMAMA


Can you put up the URL of the site that you have hosted with them for us to test the speed to see how fast it is? Thanks.


Meow....did you buy their hosting plan yet?

Gyrbo....did you buy their hosting plan yet?
Allready some weeks. My site: www.site-32.com (Dutch)

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by YUMAMA
By the way, how many dbase of MySQL do you get?
Hopefully, it is unlimited, meaning that I can create many names of databases.

I think the db space is shared with the webspace, so you could get 250MB of db space!!!!! I ran some nice scripts on them: www.site-32.com/phpBB www.site-32.com/bp www.site-32.com/index.php

[Coalesce]

Hey guys, coming back to post a followup on directoris services...everything is just as great as last time. Just as fast, just as good. The only problem I've had at all is the bunch of mysql errors I get from vbulletin (always "Link-ID == false, connect failed" or "too many connections")...may just be a misconfiguration though. meow, I'm wondering how I the .htaccess works in my directory fully if the reseller plan does not offer .htaccess access...? You can't just give parts of .htaccess access. It's all or none I believe. And the password protection works by .htaccess and .htpasswd, so if the reseller plan did not support it, how does that work? Anyways, the service is still great, simply unbelieveable at $14. Not counting the price, I'd give directoris an 8. But since its so cheap and you get so much, I believe it deserves a 10 (for now). As long as I they stay this consistent they may be one of the best virtual hosts out there.

[Coalesce]

You get one mysql db, but you really only need one. You can use many scripts and such with the same db. And yes, all space is shared, db and all.

[meow]

No, it doesn't need to be full support or none at all.
I don't know if you still talk about the PW protection through the control panel or have you actually managed to drop a .htaccess file in a directory and it worked? In that case what commands work?
For me the simplest ones doesn't work and Directoris explicitly says that they have no support at all for the moment.

[YUMAMA]

Originally posted by meow


YUMAMA!!! You have misunderstood - it's not $14/y. It's $14 for life.

Holly cow!!!! $14 for life? That is great! Oh, yeah, the $14 is for set up fee. I hope for life means that it will be around for the next 50 years because I plan to live that long :D

[meow]

Got your credit card out now? :D

[Coalesce]

well I'm just sayig meow that the following files are under my php directory and it is pw-protected:


.htaccess

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthUserFile /xxx/d/c/xxx/xxx/xxx/.htpasswd
require valid-user

.htpasswd

xxx:/xxx


I x'd out the sensitive info :)

[meow]

Yeah, PW works, but have you managed something else? I don't see why they would say they don't have support if they do. And fact is that even the simplest thing like setting the charset makes the directory unusable until you delete the .htaccess. Guess they should have said no support other than PW. ;)

[Coalesce]

Yeah, I don't use htaccess for anything other than that...I didn't mean to get on your case about that. I'm going to try a few more just because I am picky like that, though.

[meow]

Don't take me wrong. I just want to be sure since Directoris hasn't been totally clear about this earlier.

[gyrbo]

Damm, MySQL went under this afternoon, it's up now. You would say that it's not sutch a big prob, cause only your BB would not work, but my entire site is MySQL and PHP powred! ([url]http://www.site-32.com[url]

[Coldice]

hey guys, can I ask you what mySQL setting do you use?
I am having trouble setting phpBB,
username: username
password: password
database: username
server: localhost
I know I can get support from them, but it's easier to hear from other users. :)

[Coldice]

By the way, gyrbo have you fixed the timezone problem with phpBB?

[TC Tan]

The offer is only few day left, so I just wonder any user of Directires have any more comment about it's service because I'going to sign up. Actually, I try to sign up, but facing some problem when I click the sign up form. I will try it later.

[Coalesce]

All I have to say is that I've been with them since the beginning of this thread, and at first I thought it may be too good to be true. I was wrong. My site has been fast and I have had no problems with them. When I emailed tech support they emailed me back within the next 48 hours. I'd have to say these guys are a great host and I definetley recommend them.

[gyrbo]

Originally posted by Coalesce
All I have to say is that I've been with them since the beginning of this thread, and at first I thought it may be too good to be true. I was wrong. My site has been fast and I have had no problems with them. When I emailed tech support they emailed me back within the next 48 hours. I'd have to say these guys are a great host and I definetley recommend them.
Yeah, They have verry good support, but my site has been down, but that's donhost. I'm also from the begining from this thread with directoris, but I think about moving to one with less probs.

[meow]

That was the same problems that took YUPAPA down. They are on the same server. In the long run it's hard to tell how good Directoris will be since they won't stay on donhost forever.

[TC Tan]

Anyone having problem to sign up with them? I have try fotr the last few day,but until now was not successful. Just send a request for help to their support. Just wondering anyone facing the same problem when you are directted to the order page?

[meow]

A friend of mine bought an account 2 or 3 days ago. Was fine then. Didn't you have one already? Buying another?

[LastActionHero]

These seems interesting

http://www.trade-asia.i12.com/
http://www.directoris.i12.com/
http://www.tradepost-chat.com/co/directoris/

I12 is a free ISP.

This is particularly interesting
http://archive.develooper.com/modules@perl.org/msg01753.html

Again! at a different forum
http://discuss.foresight.org/critmail/crit-help/0279.html
Again!
http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-developer-list/2000051/0041.php

Premiere partner: http://www.internetact.com/affiliates/premiere-partners.html

http://www.fanhost.co.uk - Are they reselling directoris?

CEO's original email address vhirth@x-stream.co.uk

I stopped after looking at 21 pages.

Your comments please?

[meow]

Yepp. He's a spammer alright our Vincent. Have you seen the threads at webhostingtalk? Gives a better impression there. Maybe he has learnt?

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?action=showresults&searchid=36500&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[LastActionHero]

One thing is sure Vincent has put in a lot of hard work.

Can any directoris user post a screenshot of the control panel here? I would like to see that.