Hi there
Less than a year ago,
i signed up with www.sgdomain.com
Reason being that it was the most afforable web host in my home country, Singapore.
I was thinking if the host is in my country, then loading times will be faster?
Just checked the PING for sgdomain, it is 16ms average with 0 data packets lost.
Question 1) What are Ping times exactly? How do they affect speed? Are they the most important factor?
Anyhow this is the plan i signed up with :
iPresence
Specifications:
- 50 MB Disk Space
- 5 POP Email Accounts
- Unmetered Data Transfer
- Unlimited Hits
- 1 FTP Account
- 5 Mailing Lists
NO SETUP FEES
MONTHLY CONTRACT
30 DAYS MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Features:
- Web Based Control Panel
- Web Mail
- FrontPage 2000 Support
- Detailed Site Statistics
- Access to Raw Log Files
- Telnet/SSH
- Anonymous FTP
- Your Own CGI-BIN
- Preinstalled CGI Scripts
- PHP4
It costs US$6 a month in addition to the yearly domain costs.
Question 2) Is this a reasonable deal?
OUR HARDWARE
Pentium III 866MHZ CPU (Dual CPU Capable)
Minimum 512MB RAM (expandable up to 4GB)
Hot-Swap Harddisk Drives
Raid 1 (Disk mirroring for data security)
DUAL Intel PRO/100+ Ethernet
Rack Mount Casing
Red Hat Linux
Apache Web Server
NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTRE (NOC)
Our servers are hosted in StarHub Internet's Data Centre, Singapore. StarHub Internet is an established Tier-1 Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Singapore.
Question 3) Don't really understand the hardware and network set up. Question is when i choose a web host, do i look for low ping times or their internet connections which i don't really understand. T3? T1? OC3? (newbie)
I'm attracted to the unmetered bandwidth due to the fact that i'm running a message board (ikonboard
)
Other than that, the 50MBs is a little too small as i'm also hosting
a very large and growing personal photo album.
Things are so bad that i have to shift my photo galleries to a free host. BLEH!!! Sorts of defeating the purpose.
I would very much prefer if i had Mysql and subdomains (for the forum)
Question 4) How do reseller plans work?
Is it, MR X has an account with abc.com and buys another account at 30% discount then sells it to MR Y at 10% profit?
So MR Y has a price 20% below the retail??
What's the catch?
I have decided to change recently as firstly, i think i can get a better deal off the net since increasing web space for my plan is expensive.
Secondly there are some problems recently.
Quite a lot of downtime and scripts are not working properly.
Question 5) How is readyhosting.com recently? Cnet.com seems to rate it very highly.
Thank You!
Less than a year ago,
i signed up with www.sgdomain.com
Reason being that it was the most afforable web host in my home country, Singapore.
I was thinking if the host is in my country, then loading times will be faster?
Just checked the PING for sgdomain, it is 16ms average with 0 data packets lost.
Question 1) What are Ping times exactly? How do they affect speed? Are they the most important factor?
Anyhow this is the plan i signed up with :
iPresence
Specifications:
- 50 MB Disk Space
- 5 POP Email Accounts
- Unmetered Data Transfer
- Unlimited Hits
- 1 FTP Account
- 5 Mailing Lists
NO SETUP FEES
MONTHLY CONTRACT
30 DAYS MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Features:
- Web Based Control Panel
- Web Mail
- FrontPage 2000 Support
- Detailed Site Statistics
- Access to Raw Log Files
- Telnet/SSH
- Anonymous FTP
- Your Own CGI-BIN
- Preinstalled CGI Scripts
- PHP4
It costs US$6 a month in addition to the yearly domain costs.
Question 2) Is this a reasonable deal?
OUR HARDWARE
Pentium III 866MHZ CPU (Dual CPU Capable)
Minimum 512MB RAM (expandable up to 4GB)
Hot-Swap Harddisk Drives
Raid 1 (Disk mirroring for data security)
DUAL Intel PRO/100+ Ethernet
Rack Mount Casing
Red Hat Linux
Apache Web Server
NETWORK OPERATIONS CENTRE (NOC)
Our servers are hosted in StarHub Internet's Data Centre, Singapore. StarHub Internet is an established Tier-1 Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Singapore.
Question 3) Don't really understand the hardware and network set up. Question is when i choose a web host, do i look for low ping times or their internet connections which i don't really understand. T3? T1? OC3? (newbie)
I'm attracted to the unmetered bandwidth due to the fact that i'm running a message board (ikonboard
)Other than that, the 50MBs is a little too small as i'm also hosting
a very large and growing personal photo album.
Things are so bad that i have to shift my photo galleries to a free host. BLEH!!! Sorts of defeating the purpose.
I would very much prefer if i had Mysql and subdomains (for the forum)
Question 4) How do reseller plans work?
Is it, MR X has an account with abc.com and buys another account at 30% discount then sells it to MR Y at 10% profit?
So MR Y has a price 20% below the retail??
What's the catch?
I have decided to change recently as firstly, i think i can get a better deal off the net since increasing web space for my plan is expensive.
Secondly there are some problems recently.
Quite a lot of downtime and scripts are not working properly.
Question 5) How is readyhosting.com recently? Cnet.com seems to rate it very highly.
Thank You!
