Dot5 Hosting Review

Dot5 Hosting is a full-service, discount web host that has really stepped up with what they offer: free domain name, marketing features, now host 25 domains on one account, and an award-winning vDeck control panel. Their 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.

Dot5 Hosting has quickly risen from relative obscurity to a top player, hosting over 20,000 domains at the iPowerweb datacenter (with whom they are a "Power Partner"). They also now offer an unprecedented 90-day money-back guarantee.

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Hosting Ratings:
Price Value	9 / 10
Performance	8.5 / 10
Reliability	8 / 10
Customer Support	8.5 / 10
Control Panel	8 / 10
User Feedback	8 / 10

Overall Grade: 83%

Hosting Review Top Pick:
Best Budget Hosting '06 & Editors' Pick '06
Dot5 Hosting is the winner of the Hosting-Review 2006 Best Budget Hosting Award. In addition, they were named an Editors' Pick in 2006.

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 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 website or small business site and gives the flexibility and room you need to expand at no additional cost. This hosting plan includes a fully-equipped Marketing Centre, a Web Site Creator, as many Shopping Carts as you need, a Search Engine Submitter, Search Engine Submitter Reports, a Keyword and Meta-Tag Generator, a Website Link Checker, and $50 Overture credit. You'll get CGI-BIN, MySQL, and Perl and PHP support. Your package also comes with server side includes, FrontPage 2000/2002 extensions, Website Statistics, a guestbook, bulletin board, chat rooms, and a blogger.
Reliability Dot5 Hosting backs up their 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. They obviously plan to deliver for their 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. Their 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 Centre equipped with Troubleshooting Tours, Tutorials, a searchable FAQ Knowledgebase, a trackable email query ticket system, an announcement board, and live web chat. They keep a sufficient ratio of support staff to customers on-duty at all times and they are available 24/7.

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