Dot5Hosting Web Hosting Review

Dot5Hosting is the # 7 choice on the
Worlds Best Online Business Resources Hosting Top 10 Reviews List.

Dot5Hosting has been providing affordable web hosting services since 2002, as a reseller of Ipowerweb which utilizes the Vdeck platform. Over the years they have won many awards, including "Best Budget Host" by Hosting-Review and "Best Web Host" by Top-10-Web-Hosting.

Price Value

Dot5Hosting offers a single affordable web hosting service package at their regular price of $4.95 per month that won't break your web hosting budget. Their web site hosting package is backed it up with a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.

Included in the package is the professional customized Vdeck control panel which is easy to use. The package provides ample disk space, bandwidth, email support and now features Google Webmaster Tools. In addition, their lower consumer cost web hosting service package includes most of the features offered by other web hosting services including CGI-Bin, Perl, PHP, MySQL, FTP and more..

Server Reliability

Despite the many great qualities Dot5Hosting's web hosting service plan provides, we failed to find an uptime guarantee on their web site which has resulted in their lower ranking overall. Investigation of other review platforms has assigned them an overall reliability standard of 99.9% due to their use of the Ipowerweb platform. They do note that they use High Performance Dell servers, Dual redundancy routers, Mirrored Storage Backups, and Dual Big Iron load balancers. Servers undergo 24/7 monitoring.

Control Panel

Dot5Hosting uses the Vdeck control panel for their sites. Reputed to be the 'next generation' in the field of web site management, Vdeck is noted for its easy of use and deeply integrated site building and management tools.

Supported Software

Software: CGI-Bin & Library, Server Side Includes, Frontpage 2003 Extensions, Professional Templates, Web Page and Document Editor, Publishing Program, Site Builder by CM4all, Bulletin Board, Form-mail Script, Content Management System, Web Calendar, GuestBook, Photo Gallery, Online Chat, WordPress, PHP 4 & 5, Perl 5, Python, Javascript/DHTML, Flash/Shockwave, FTP, Override .htaccess Support, Web File Manager, Customizable Error Pages, and Custom Cronjobs.

Email: POP3 Secure Email Boxes, WebMail (Browser Based Email) and Spam Protection.

Multimedia: Real Audio and Video, Flash, Macromedia Shockwave, MIDI File Support and Add own MIME Types.

E-commerce: ShopSite Online Store: 15 Products (Starter), SSL Secure Server, osCommerce Shopping Cart, Agora Shopping Cart, Password Protected Directories.

Site Promotion: $50 Google Adwords Credit, $25 Yahoo! Search Credit, Best of the Web, Constant Contact Email Marketing.

Customer Service

Dot5Hosting prides itself on providing a quality Web hosting service to their customers at an affordable price. They offer friendly, high-quality technical support through a toll-free support system which is available 24/7. They also provide a trouble ticket and live chat support by their helpful staff.

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