Is this too good to be true?

http://www.hostdime.com/orders/step_one.php?gid=1

Look at those hosting packages. For $6/month you get 1000MB space, and 30,000 MB transfer!

Someone warn me before i make the switch...

Nos.

I've seen mixed reviews about them over at WebHostingTalk. Generally people were happy, but not all. They were having network problems, but I'm unsure if they've gotten it straight yet.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=274023

Any time I wonder about a host I just go over there and plug the name, or even the URL, into their search.

It always seems sooner or later you get what you pay for...

Yep... They are skimping on something and also over-selling buttloads. Be realistic. If you have clients that rely on your servers to be up, don't skimp on them just to save $10 a month on hosting costs. There are plenty of very reliable hosting companies that have plans that start out at $8-10 a month. You might not get all the space and bandwidth as that offer, but come on, I bet if you consumed 30GB of bandwidth in one month on that server you'd make every site on there come to a crawl and most likely the server would be resourced out and you'd get lots of Error pages. Ask Pank, he had to move this site to a semi-dedicated server because it was consuming too many resources.

The thing that will happen more than likely is it might be all good for a month or two, then you might start having problems. Since they charge so little good luck in getting thru to tech support. You can't hire decent tech support for minimum wage. Just ask CompUSA :P

But if you just want a place to host your own site go ahead and use them. You may have outage problems or weird issues, esp. once they cram 300 people onto one server, but at least you can go to town and put as much crap on there as you want =)

The disc space isn't as big a deal as IDE drives are getting a lot faster and space is cheap. They probably stick the server OS onto a scsi drive and the actual sites onto a raid of IDE drives. Cheaper and still just as reliable. But the 30GB bandwidth is just to get you to sign up. It's not realistic.

Sorry... I am ranting again...

Hey Marble - you're right. I use http://ehostpros.com right now (have for the past year), and i have NEVER experienced downtime. Everytime i have a question, i get the answer on their support forum within minutes. They have 24 hour support via a chat or phone number, etc.

I don't mean to plug ehostpros, although they certainly are a great hosting company, but basically - like pank said - you pretty much get what you pay for. I pay $6 right now for the typical 200MB/5GB, and i am not even using half of it.

Here, here!

Nos.

If you like them I would just stay with them... Esp. since you've been with them for a year. It's better to get a good relationship going with a hosting company than to bounce around between them.

I am currently working on this guys site and noticed his server is slow as molasses, so I checked the cpanel stats and got this:
http://john.mardala.com/jeff.gif --> now notice he's got 1 CPU and the /usr account is almost maxed out, so that means one thing in my mind, the server is crammed to the limit and only 1 CPU to handle all that load. No wonder it's slow.

Then I checked the server I have my sites on at www.insiderhosting.com and this is what it's at:
http://john.mardala.com/john.gif --> 4 CPU's and /usr it at 32%. These guys cost a little more, but the servers are so fast and don't go down. Tech support is almost instantaneous. You can't get that for peanuts.

Think you should be more concern about /home instead ;)

[QUOTE=sidez]Think you should be more concern about /home instead ;)[/QUOTE]

Yep =), but I've been on BSD too long. :p It's got /, /var, /root, and /usr ... /home is used but not the way Linux uses it. Ooops!