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[Anish]

Hi friends, planning to buy a domain and hosting space.
I centered upon these:
domain: bigrock (a .com for 10 years @ 4890INR)
hosting: outpowerhosting (not yet planned may be the beginner plan)

Is it worth spending the above money?

Please throw in some valuable suggestions

PS: My english is bad.

[Nipun]

^^Not sure, but if you get domain from bigrock and hosting from someone else, you will have to pay an yearly transfer fee.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

What type of transfer fee you are talking about??

There is no need of any extra fees. You just need to point/setup the DNS Server's of your Hosting from your Domain Control Panel.

[Nipun]

Thanks for info.

Whats this transfer then:

Domain Registration Prices: Affordable Domain Name Rates, Transfer ?

[coolpcguy]

Domain transfers are transfer of a domain from one domain registrar to another

[Nipun]

Domain transfers are transfer of a domain from one domain registrar to another

Ok, thanks!

[mrintech]

Hi friends, planning to buy a domain and hosting space.
I centered upon these:
domain: bigrock (a .com for 10 years @ 4890INR)
hosting: outpowerhosting (not yet planned may be the beginner plan)

Is it worth spending the above money?

Please throw in some valuable suggestions

PS: My english is bad.

if you can pay in USD, I highly recommend you Namecheap and Hawkhost (Basic Plan)

Search for max discount codes before buying

[clmlbx]

could not reply before as I was busy so not active here, here is agian with answering a question

domain .com
minimum space: 500mb-1GB at least

Budget: 5K max yearly,including everything, I don't know rates but this is best I can spend on this. but as cheaper as possible.

for now I am looking for just one year plan

My friend recommended me hostgator which looks good with unlimited domain and unlimited bandwidth support

[mrintech]

could not reply before as I was busy so not active here, here is agian with answering a question

domain .com
minimum space: 500mb-1GB at least

Budget: 5K max yearly,including everything, I don't know rates but this is best I can spend on this. but as cheaper as possible.

for now I am looking for just one year plan

My friend recommended me hostgator which looks good with unlimited domain and unlimited bandwidth support

your friend gave you the best suggestion

Go with Hostgator US (hostgator.com), not HostGator India (.in)

If you wanna host/use only one domain name, than go with their Hatchling Plan. If you wanna add more than 1 Domain Name to your Account, Baby Plan is the best bet

Their Site normally shows 20% OFF Coupon, but you can use HGFLAT25OFF for 25% discount

I am using HG for more than 2 years and never had any problem with them. HG is highly reliable Webhost

[clmlbx]

Do they(hostgator) support joomla too ?

[krishnandu.sarkar]

^^Yup

[mrintech]

Do they(hostgator) support joomla too ?

Here's the full list for your reference: http://support.hostgator.com/article...e-technologies

[clmlbx]

How is bigrock?

[dreatica]

is outpowerhosting dead or something? I dont see people recommend it anymore.

I am looking for a domain and hosting plan for basic usage. Cant pay in $$. suggest some providers?

[mitraark]

Need to host a website , initially need a free service to test site , will later shift to some cheap domain (not much traffic expected) , please suggest

Please suggest


1.A Free Web Hosting Service , will be using it right now to test .

2.A cheap web hosting service [ maybe Rs 50-100 per month ]

I have previously used 0fees.net

How is co.cc ?

[cute.bandar]

^ freehosting : x10hosting.

[vicecaptain]

suggest any good place to get domain appraisals friends?

[thetechfreak]

suggest any good place to get domain appraisals friends?

Try these=
www.estibot.com/

www.valuate.com

[montsa007]

Try these=
EstiBot.com - Free Domain Appraisal and Domain Productivity Tools

Valuate.com - Free domain name appraisals

Actually, those are 'rubbish'
Go to namepros.com or dnforum.com where pros can appraise your domain.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Need to host a website , initially need a free service to test site , will later shift to some cheap domain (not much traffic expected) , please suggest

Please suggest


1.A Free Web Hosting Service , will be using it right now to test .

2.A cheap web hosting service [ maybe Rs 50-100 per month ]

I have previously used 0fees.net

How is co.cc ?

1. DeluXe Host - 100MB Free Webspace - Home It's free, but you won't believe, it doesn't gets down and extremely reliable. (NOTE : I don't recommend it if it's for business / serious purpose. For casual purpose you can consider it. Besides it have many limitations)

2. HostSo - Reliable, Affordable Web Hosting and Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Reseller Hosting by HostDime are two cheapest hosting providers.

[clmlbx]

^^ Is Hostso Good.. I am planning to purchase one, friend and here too recommended hostagator us site but it seems little costly to me..

Is Hostso reliable for business purposes?

And Hostdime will be one of most Expensive not cheapest starting at $14.95/month

[krishnandu.sarkar]

I have used all Hostgator, Hostso and Hostdime. (Still using them)

So as like others I'd also recommend Hostgator over other two. It's most reliable provider to go for.

Now as you said

2.A cheap web hosting service [ maybe Rs 50-100 per month ]

, I named Hostso and Hostdime.

You need to check Hostdime India : Dedicated Servers, Reseller Hosting, Web Hosting, VPS Hosting

Their price is lower. Sorry, I provided you wrong site (That's US Price)

Now, to your questions...
Yes Hostso is reliable. I'm hosting my 5 domians (of my clients) from 3 years, no problem yet.

Hostso is better than Hostdime. Hostdime gets down sometimes, but I never saw Hostso got down. Their Customer Care support is also great. Always available. (But nowadays they declined a bit)

But yes, again lastly, Hostgator is always recommended over other two if you can afford.

[clmlbx]

At last I believe I will go with Hostso. It will be my First Website so it should be ok.

FYI Website I will design, build and host on hostso will have my portfolio. so lot's of Images(photoshop images ,web & print layouts and designs)

Price difference is huge in hostso & hostgator.

Where hostgator is Rs 6K+ for multiple domains , on hostso it is just Rs 1600K

finally Decided then I guess, any major difference in hostgator and hostso.

I will choose Achieve Plan from hostso.

I will run wordpress, joomla, drupal on it.. well First is it possible to run all at once. I will do that to learn those CMS and blog.

Will price change from second year.

Any major difference in Windows and Linux host, advantages or disadvantages.

And does unlimited bandwidth actually mean unlimited or there are some restrictions.

sorry if it is too many questions, but I wish to learn this all, so can actually do so. tight on budget but need website badly for portfolio.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

At last I believe I will go with Hostso. It will be my First Website so it should be ok.

FYI Website I will design, build and host on hostso will have my portfolio. so lot's of Images(photoshop images ,web & print layouts and designs)

Price difference is huge in hostso & hostgator.

Where hostgator is Rs 6K+ for multiple domains , on hostso it is just Rs 1600K

finally Decided then I guess, any major difference in hostgator and hostso.

I will choose Achieve Plan from hostso.

Hmm..!! Ok..!!

I will run wordpress, joomla, drupal on it.. well First is it possible to run all at once. I will do that to learn those CMS and blog.

Yes. Ofcourse.

It's just a matter of path. For Eg.
www.yourdomain.com/wordpress
www.yourdomain.com/joomla
www.yourdomain.com/drupal
www.yourdomain.com/some_other_cms

You can also create subdomain to access then easily and map them. For Eg.
wordpress.yourdomain.com
joomla.yourdomain.com
drupal.yourdomain.com

Will price change from second year.

Hosting Price..?? No. Never. They doesn't change hosting fees. But yes, domain fees can alter anytime.

In that case you may like to shift your domains to Mitsu / Some other Domain Provider.

In my case, I have domains from Mitsu (As domains in mitsu is much lower priced, and hostso charges much higher than that for domains) and hosting from Hostso, Hostdime and Hostgator

Any major difference in Windows and Linux host, advantages or disadvantages.

Yes, everything is different. The whole platform is different.

You can't host ASP / ASP.NET + SQL Server in Linux.

Whereas Windows prices are much higher than that of Linux.

Well, but if you are hosting Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and all go with Linux hosting. Pocket friendly.

Almost every other site you see is Linux Hosting, with PHP + MySQL..

So if you are not using ASP / ASP.NET + SQL Server no need to invest in Windows hosting.

And does unlimited bandwidth actually mean unlimited or there are some restrictions.

No never..!! That's marketting gimmick..!!

sorry if it is too many questions, but I wish to learn this all, so can actually do so. tight on budget but need website badly for portfolio.

It's ok..!! I can understand. Everyone must judge and verify everything before making a decision

Anyway, I hope you are viewing the Indian version of hostso, the prices are really lower in that case. Just make sure you change from US to India at top.

[clmlbx]

I am not a developer so don't care for asp or asp net,

My website will just have my portfolio for now at least

us or India version prices are almost same. Rs 1617 or $33 yearly..

Achieve plan also offer Free domain so am gonna Register from them, unless you-some one suggest some thing better.

At last Decided, thanks a lot krishnandu.sarkar

Now need to wait to get my pan card, to use paypal to pay it. still waiting

Where hostgator is Rs 6K+ for multiple domains , on hostso it is just Rs 1600K

Just Noticed.. 6K>1600K

[krishnandu.sarkar]

It's ok, if you are going for achieve plan, the domain will always be free as long as you use Hosting. So no need of renewals..!! So you don't need to think about renewal price..!!

[montsa007]

It's ok, if you are going for achieve plan, the domain will always be free as long as you use Hosting. So no need of renewals..!! So you don't need to think about renewal price..!!

Its a bad idea to keep domains with the hosting company, they throw tantrums when you wish to shift out...

[mrintech]

Its a bad idea to keep domains with the hosting company, they throw tantrums when you wish to shift out...

+1

Register domain somewhere else and host somewhere else

[clmlbx]

Its a bad idea to keep domains with the hosting company, they throw tantrums when you wish to shift out...

so what to do?

If I choose linux do I need to be familiar with linux OS..

hopefully next week will buy it .. Paypal problem almost resolved, now just waiting for verification.

[mrintech]

so what to do?

If I choose linux do I need to be familiar with linux OS..

No

You just need to get familiar with cPanel. Check out the demo here for Domain owner panel: Demo - cPanel Inc.