Top Pick
Dot5 offers 90 days money back guarantee, quality hardware from brands like Dell, IBM, Intel Xenon, round the clock support, statistics generation, marketing help, e-commerce features, reliable connection, webmail, software modules, and user friendly control panel are some of the best reasons to choose Dot5 Hosting. Their customer feedback has shown that support and reseller assistance is excellent.
Price Value
For beginners, Dot5 Hosting offers 6 domains in one account for only $3.95/mo (for 2 yr membership. For 1-3 months the price is $7.95). With 10 GB space and 500 GB monthly transfer between them. This package gives you all the features required to host your personal website or small business site and gives the flexibility and space you need to inflate at no extra price. This hosting plan includes a Web Site Creator, equipped Marketing Centre, any number of Shopping Carts, a Search Engine Submitter, Search Engine Submitter Reports, a Keyword and Meta-Tag Generator, Agora Shopping cart and $50 Overture credit. You'll get CGI-BIN, MySQL, and Perl and PHP support. Your package also comes with FrontPage 2000/2002 extensions, Website Statistics, a guestbook, bulletin board, chat rooms, and a blogger.
Reliability
The servers of Dot5 Hosting are situated in California. These are linked to the Internet via fiber-optic connections that span more than seven diverse backbones and well-known providers including Congent, Sonet and Time Warner. At Dot5Hosting they take your data security very seriously. Their systems include a high power UPS generator electrical backup, closed circuit monitoring and redundant air-conditioning systems. Their wide spread hardware infrastructure and additional systems enable them to provide solutions that are of the highest possible speed and quality.
Their Mailing Address
Dot5Hosting Inc.,
2800 28th Street Suite 205
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Their hosting solution comes with a unique 90 days money back guarantee, in the unlikely case that you are not satisfied with their service.
Control Panel
Dot5 Hosting uses vDeck control panel-- a cutting edge hosting management solution that has been proven and won the confidence of the world for the simplicity with which it manages virtual eBusiness management. It's a customer-friendly, icon-based interface with Help information rooted in, along with detailed Tutorials on each function. It shows you how much of your disk space and bandwidth allowance you're currently using. Included is a Database Manager with password protection. Over 150 templates to choose from; according to your taste and requirement. VDeck's shopping cart allows you to accept credit cards and other payment methods and its email center gives you unlimited email addresses and access to your inbox.
Customer support
Dot5Hosting offers 24/7 customer support in a number of customer-friendly ways. Their call center number is 1-877-378-5349. Besides calling, you can preferably have a live chat with their technical support executive, and sales support team. Else, you can send your queries, and problems to them via email using their ticket system, which they reply shortly, by email (within 30 minutes—that’s what they say!). Before that you can preferably check out the ‘knowledgebase’ question-answers for your type of problem and it’s solutions, and there are good chances, that you will find your solution. ‘Troubleshooter’ goes one step ahead and offers you a step-by-step series of question-answers to tackle your trouble. If you enjoy downloads, then there are plenty to be done by way of software, manuals besides getting company-news and announcements.
Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plans
Professional Hosting Plan: 10000 MB disk space, 500 GB bandwidth at $3.95/month (hosting up to 6 domains).