Anyone try hostiva before?

[TC Tan]

I just come across this new host at other forum. Below is their feature

http://www.hostiva.com/products.htm

The common features of hosting plans include:

- domain hosting (i.e. www.yourdomain.com)
- subdomain hosting (i.e. yourdomain.hostiva.com)
- unlimited subdomains with domain hosting
- support all international domains
- free unlimited domain parking/forwarding with all hosting accounts.
- no setup fee / 24-hour setup
- 30-day money back guarantee
- control panel (User: "demo", Pass: "demo". Mail disabled)
- unlimited email accounts
- unlimited ftp accounts
- unlimited email forwarders
- unlimited mailing lists
- support CGI, PHP
- support SSI
- support SSL
- support FrontPage Extensions
- comprehensive site statistics
- access to raw logs
- backup utility
- protected directories
- network monitoring
- email customer support
- Akopia e-commerce platform
- access to our state-of-the-art help desk system.
- MySQL databases (with phpMyAdmin).
- Telnet and SSH access
- Own IP address
Virtual Hosting 100 - $2.95 monthly
100 MB disk space
1 hosted domain name
5 GB Data Transfer/month
payable $35.40 annually

Virtual Hosting 200 - $4.95 monthly
200 MB disk space
Up to 2 hosted domain names
10 GB Data Transfer/month
payable $29.70 semi-annually

Virtual Hosting 300 - $7.95 monthly
300 MB disk space
Up to 3 hosted domain names
15 GB Data Transfer/month
payable $23.85 quarterly

Virtual Hosting 400 - $9.45 monthly
400 MB disk space
Up to 4 hosted domain names
17.5 GB Data Transfer/month
payable $28.35 quarterly

Virtual Hosting 500 - $10.95 monthly
500 MB disk space
Up to 5 hosted domain names
20 GB Data Transfer/month

Additional Disk Space - $1.50/month for 50MB
50 MB
payable $9.00 semi-annually

Additional Bandwith - $4/month per 1GB
1 GB
payable $4.00 monthly

Reseller Option - $25/year -- starting 8/1/2001
second IP for a name server
ns1.yourdomain.com & ns2.yourdomain.com
control panel demo account (SH20)

Shared Hosting 20 - $5.95 yearly
FOR EXISTING RESELLERS ONLY.
All other orders will be voided.
20 MB disk space
shared IP
no shell access
1 hosted domain name
1 MySQL database
2 GB Data Transfer/month



Their package sounds interesting especially for the Shared Hosting20 package. I just wonder how fast they are and their support ?

Can anyone help and ping them for their speed and post the result here?

Thanks


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[Michael-MS]

The hosting plans look good. Their selling you bandwidth at a price of $0.50 / GB. (They pay $3.50 / GB) Kind of cheap. If you go with them, you just better hope their still making profits and in business a year from now. ;)

I know webhostingtalk.com has some reviews of them, as I've seen the name their before. Try using the search feature and see what people say about their services and support.

The server speed is kind of slow... from where I'm located anyway. Other people might have different opinions, but their page took a while to load for me. (on a cable connection atm)

I would guess their hosted by a dedicated server at burst.net based on their traceroute.

Good luck if you decide to go with them. :)

[Darin]

Honestly their package seems too good to be true. And you know the saying, "If it looks and sounds too good to be true, it probably is!". I'm currently considering Aletia Hosting, and when I came accross Hostiva today, kind of made me think again, but with the amazing support Aletia has, I think I'm going to go with them.