How is the manashosting webhost?

[aditya.shevade]

Hi

I just took a look at the following website. It seems ok to me but is there anything cheaper and better than this? Is the manashosting good? I read in this months fast track that no indian hosting company meets their req.s

Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I go for this?
http://www.manashosting.com/hosting.html

Aditya

[tuxfan]

Hmm. Their prices look very competitive!! 2GB for 1500 a year. I have never given or taken hosting at such low prices.

Ask them a few pre-sales questions. For example:

1. Do they offer cPanel, if not whats their control panel? Can they give a demo?
2. What if you want more email addresses or databases?
3. Whats the config of their servers and where are they located?
4. Do they give any free trial period?
etc.

Think of things that you want to know and ask. BTW, IMO these rates seem too low to me. And in hosting we usually follow one rule I have mentioned this at many threads now If something is too good to be true, then probably its not true. So take your time, ask questions and then decide.

As for Digit's fast-track, I really wouldn't read too much into the statement that all Indian hosting companies are bad! Thats simply a myth.

[Choto Cheeta]

my views about this hosting is,

• Price...
  its dam Cooool...
  
• Dedicated IP Address
  no way... are they sure what they are writting...?? with this feature the usual price is $35 per month...
  
• You can host only one DOmain
  well thats a let down... big let down...
  
• Custom DNS...
  Thats cool... means u may take the service of Gmaiol for ur domain or MSN email for ur domain...
  

[tuxfan]

Dedicated IPs could be somewhere around $2 per month and not $35 per month! Even MTNL Triband takes about Rs. 1000 a year for dedicated IP. The rates are similar in case of hosting. In hosting, you need dedicated IPs if you want to have your own DNS and/or SSL or want to have anonymous FTP. If not, dedicated IP may not offer you any major advantages.

Yes, only one domain in 2GB space is a let down. But this could be to avoid clandestine reselling and could be considered a good point as well. You can logically assume that their servers are not overloaded if they don't allow too many add-on domains

Custom DNS for shared hosting is useless! How does it benefit you? If you use their DNS for hosting or have your own, how does it matter in shared hosting? If its reseller hosting, then it surely matters!! For example, if I am a reseller from say xyzhosting then instead of giving ns1.xyzhosting.com and ns2.xyzhosting.com to my clients, I would prefer to give ns1.myhosting.com and ns2.myhosting.com. Thats more professional and convenient in case one needs to shift hosting. But in shared hosting, its somewhat useless. We visit so many sites. Do you ever bother to check their DNS?

But looking at their prices, they may either be over-selling or may have got a server damn cheap! We assume they have got it cheap and they are not overselling, then their server config isn't too good. Here's why!

If you consider a server with 100GB space and no overselling then they are at max selling 50 accounts of 2GB each at Rs. 1500 a year. So they are getting 75000 a year. We assume they make 10% profit, so their cost is Rs. 68000. At Rs. 46 per $ it comes to US$ 1478 per year. So their monthly cost is approximately US$ 125 per month. In that price, you really can't get a very good server!!

So they are either overselling or they don't have a good server! Hope I have made it clear. This is the reason for that golden rule of hosting

EDIT:
manashosting seems to be a reseller of DirectI (http://www.website.ws, http://www.resellerclub.com) at least for domain. If even for their hosting they use DirectI servers don't even think about their hosting. From whatever I have heard, DirecI is pathetic for hosting! The way they have structured their hosting packages (email space, database space, etc. separately) I feel they are reseller of DirectI for hosting. I may be wrong.

Plus, they give domain+2GB+dedicated IP in Rs. 1500 a year! Thats simply unbelievable! There's got to be some catch somewhere.

[Choto Cheeta]

by the way...

there Reselling Plans are also very attractive... ....

anyway yeah . i agree they r over selling other ways seems unbelievable! ...

but i feel... 1500 not much na... whats wrong in taking a risk?? lol.. even with the reseller plan...

4GB, Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Emails with POP, Unlimited Domains... 6k for a year... ?? also they have a office Kolkata... Not far...

[tuxfan]

BTW, before taking it, try a pre-sales chat with them or send them a mail. Try a chat. See the time taken in responding to questions.

Ask a few questions. I have already mentioned some questions. Their answers will let you know which other questions to ask. But from the feel of it, I will stay away from them!! Their prices look unbelievable. Follow the golden rule They are hiding something.

Plus they are not offerring cPanel. At least it isn't mentioned anywhere on their site. They don't even mention what control panel they are offerring! All those who offer cPanel will surely mention it because its the most popular and well-known

As for reselling, their reselling price is more than shared hosting ROFL. Bulk buyers pay less, not more. They are simply unusual.

[aditya.shevade]

Hi

Thank you for the support. I think they have mentioned a control panel and also give free sample webspace for 7 days to try the features.

Aditya

[tuxfan]

They have simply mentioned that they provide "Advanced Control Panel" but not mentioned which one!! There are many of them, some are great, some suck! The most popular of them all is cPanel. Then there is also HShpere, Helm, Plesk, etc.

7 days free trial is good. Try it out. You can get a cPanel demo from cPanel's site. See which is better. IMO cPanel is the best!

[vaidyasp]

Yes its completely fake

They give you the space and bandwidth but with so slow speed that it takes months to upload 1 gb.

I bought 2gb webspace and domain name with manashosting, after paying by credit card for 2 days i didnt got any official mail from them, enven they didnt replied my emails except auto responders. After 3 days finally they activated my hosting and domain but didnt gave me control panel for domain. The domain was registered with their name only.

The next process was to upload my content, the claimed uptime and performance didnt worked out in my case it took about a whole day for uploading my 20 mb content of website. The website is offline for about 1-2 hours a day.

After a long time the website started working but with a very slow processing and data speed. It takes about 4-5 seconds for generating a page from php script as compared to .1 - .2 seconds in my previous hosting. And now the dont pick up my phone, dont reply to my emails and no technical support. They also refuse my online chat request.

So this is the fact, no body give anything for low price. Be far from them.

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

well i think Tuxfan can give u a very good n reliable deal , although his rates may seem high but they r the REAL rates n no overselling .

n if u decide to go for a host with HUGE(read Oversold) resources , then there's godaddy , dreamhost , site5 .

[Choto Cheeta]

@vaidyasp

you bumped up all most one 8 moth old thread

anyway,

Thats why many say, dont look in to one deal which looks to good to be true... ManasHosting is one which looks too good to be true !!

[Sukhdeep Singh]

^ Yep, agree with saurav_cheeta.

I had some client who used Manashosting for few days and very upset like you are at the moment

What i can suggest is, dont fall for oversold plans, you are not going to use it Anywayz.

Setting up PHP Fusion with Manashosting? << This was the thread where he was upset with Manashosting. He later settled with my Hosting

[ahref]

Support is a must part of any web hosting deal. And one should look the support system before buying hosting.

[Choto Cheeta]

at the point i think we have 8/10 people over here at this forum providing hosting

by the way, are you all guyess have dedicated servers ??

[ahref]

Originally Posted by sukhdeepsinghkohli

Yep, True. I hope i live to your expectations Ashok

8/10, this is the marks, which I will give to your support. All ticket answered within one hr. Max tickets within 10 min.

Recommended.

[Choto Cheeta]

Max tickets within 10 min.

thats great.. where as some time DH takes 10days to reply a question ... lol...

Originally Posted by aditya.shevade

Hi

I just took a look at the following website. It seems ok to me but is there anything cheaper and better than this? Is the manashosting good? I read in this months fast track that no indian hosting company meets their req.s

Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I go for this?
http://www.manashosting.com/hosting.html

Aditya

Currently, am one of their customers... i hate this hosting and am looking for a new one.... My reviews abt this hosting

+ve :
===
(1) large space and bandwidth for cheap rates... ( but we wont use that much in real time)

- ve :
====
(1) Uptime is very bad and their servers are not reliable.
(2) Support is realllllllly bad.. They wont reply to our queries other than sales...

Kindly go for some hosting which provides good support....

[Choto Cheeta]

^^^

U seee consider that +ve point as the most -ve point...

See for ur self as they are overselling !!!! as u dont really know ur boundary, as how far u can go... use full resource, they will shut ur account down by saying u have violated CPU usage rule in Share hosting...

also there is no CPanel...

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by Choto Cheeta

^^^

U seee consider that +ve point as the most -ve point...

See for ur self as they are overselling !!!! as u dont really know ur boundary, as how far u can go... use full resource, they will shut ur account down by saying u have violated CPU usage rule in Share hosting...

also there is no CPanel...

Cant agree more.

[navjotjsingh]

Originally Posted by Choto Cheeta

^^^


also there is no CPanel...

There is Cpanel! Check again: http://www.manashosting.com/hosting.html

[Choto Cheeta]

Then they haved added is later on as last time i saw there want any

[web_host_analyser]

If you are going to buy Any service from Manashosting. Stoppp for a while..!!
Let I tell you what they provide
·Hi-speed and connectivity [A perfect Lie, I can bet on this. They are heavily overselling their space and so their servers are tightly stuffed.]
·Unlimited webspace and bandwidth [With so slow speed that 1 MB takes 10 Minutes to upload]
·Free Java, ASP.Net and All Database [You will die in frustration after sending them 10-15 mails for activating each service]
·Money back Guarantee [Don’t assume them so genuine, you are not going to get even a penny back]
·99.99% uptime [Actually around 70-80%]
·High Security [Actually No Security]
·FTP Access [Just error you may face; Control connection Closed ]
·Quality Services [Sorry the term Quality is not in their dictionary]
·Email Support [Only 1-2 out of 10 Email ID’s work, where you can send your problems through e-mail ]
·Tech Support [You problem have very few chances to sort out within the week you reported]
·Phone Support [Only 2-3 people are handling calls of customers from all over the India and abroad, You can imagine that you call is not going to be connect in first chance. If connected you will be speaking with a personal who knows pathetic English. Moreover, Mon- Friday and 10am-6pm is actual time you will get support]
Their Unlimited and Free kind of stuff are purely marketing gimmick. Everything on their site is just to allure you and as you will pay the money, you feel trapped. They are BIG CHEATS. The Worst you can imagine has already happened to me. They just deleted his personal website and all content without any notice.
Now a Question will be bugging in your mind that If they have so many faults, then why the people are going for them. Though I don’t know the answer exactly but some can points explain it better
·Indian Public/market is Prices oriented, So, if things get good marketing with low cost they are more likely to sell more.
·Novice People who don’t know much about webhosting makes a great contribution to their customer base.
Please Feel free to spread the word and help to SAVE others.

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Originally Posted by aditya.shevade

Hi

I just took a look at the following website. It seems ok to me but is there anything cheaper and better than this? Is the manashosting good? I read in this months fast track that no indian hosting company meets their req.s

Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I go for this?
http://www.manashosting.com/hosting.html

Aditya

[itsrakeshsingh]

I agree completely that manashosting is a group of incompetent people. I even don't find them to be global in their technologies as well. They even don't specify the reason for shutting down the website. Look for the example of http://www.rakeshkumar.in I have been the victim of manashosting at the core level. They deleted the whole website without taking a backup of the website. Everything seems to be unorganised. They have lots of false promises and once you become their client.. you are choked. If cheapness is the critirea of choosing the hosting company, then I would like to say that you will regret about it because in the long run you will find it too costly because you will find yourself shifting the website to another hosting company within their alloted time, so you will be paying twice for the same domain registration and hosting....
I would suggest to stay away from this lucrative hosting company...

[victor_rambo]

I don't have any personal experience about manashosting but all I can say is my host(www.IGChosting.in, cancer10 on Digit forum) is giving everything they promised. Even after sales support is very quixk. There is no ticket submission hassle. You can speak on phone and they are available.

Once accidentally, my /blog sub-directory was deleted. When I informed them
on phone, they immediately gave me a back-up and when I asked them some questions regarding this, they were very straight in answers. No mumbo-jumbo or golmaal.

Also uptime is good.As on nowm I am with them only for about 36 days but I never had anydowntime or slow speed

And yes, as per price, I think their shared Linux hosting, which I am using is good. I have paid Rs.500 for 1 year with cPanel and FantasticoDeluxe

[ravi_9793]

^^^^^^^^^
the site http://www.igchosting.in/ itself is shut down...how can it give reliable hosting.

Yea..it is wise to ask your host provider about backup.You must buy a hosting who keeps atlest weekly backup of all hosted website.

[victor_rambo]

^ Oh yes, its down. This is the first time I am seeing them down. Must be some upgrade or some problem.

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

^ Oh yes, its down. This is the first time I am seeing them down. Must be some upgrade or some problem.

LOl
dont mind, but are you its salesman.

Even your own website http://www.biologyformhtcet.com/ is not working.

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

LOl
dont mind, but are you its salesman.

Even your own website http://www.biologyformhtcet.com/ is not working.

Me, salesman?

Look dude, I get nothing for promoting them. I still have to pay what every other customer of them is paying.

The only reason I recommend them is that people should know which web host is good and which is cheater. Otherwise, we would have lot many people in future who would be ditched by companies like manashosting and other cheaters.

When a company is not keeping up its promise, everyone blames them and writes bad about it on every blog and forum. But when somebody is doing their job satisfactorily, why don't people openly praise and promote them? Don't they deserve it?

Heard of something like this quote:'Bad politicians are elected by good citizens who don't vote'. Thats exactly what is happening.

If you don't appreciate the good things, they will eventually die out.

And far as my website is concerned, I know its down but even the most popular companies ought to have atleast some downtime? Isn't it ? So what the big fuss about a downtime?

Ofcourse, if this downtime continue for too long, I will speak negative about IGChosting? Is that fair? or would you say that 'You have change the company you worked for.'

[ravi_9793]

^^^^^^^^^^^
dont mind body........ I was little kidding with you.
Yaa..agree with you.If your host is good , than you must appreciate it. It is good to give feedback for their service.

[victor_rambo]

^ See my website is up again withing 45 mins of we entering into this discussion.

Thats impressive!