Cyberwings web hosting, 50% off sale. 110mb, 6GB transfer $3.90 a YEAR!

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junthin

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Same here....I ordered Tuesday, and no sign of anything Today. :( I hope they are just swamped with new accounts and are a bit slow...instead of just running for the border. ;)

Oh..and I did sign up for another account with the second 50% off sale. :D
 

mrbass

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Sep 13, 2001
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maybe this should be called 50% off going out of business sale scam or something. I ordered tuesday..have my domain waiting and ready to go parked at Collect 20 Do Not Pass Go. I paid $12.50 for plan 6 half off of $25.00. I guess this really is too good to be true.
 

manko

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<< Their prices are PER YEAR. And whatever you sign up for, you pay for the rest of your time there, no matter how many years straight. >>



Can anyone confirm this: If I sign up today for a couple P5 $3.90 accounts, I can renew at the same price (50%) discount next year?!

Or does this mean I can only order multi-year hosting at this discount price right now (and pay full price next year) ? I'm not sure if I want to go multi-year, since I don't know if they'll (he'll ?) even be around next year...
 

Z_1

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I registered my domain through them and looks like they did it, just waiting for my account to be set up. I ordered it 2 days ago.
 

Cessna172

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For $3.90 a year, I'm willing to be patient. They are probably swamped with account signups. Plus, worse comes to worse, if they don't activate your account, simply dispute the charge on your CC. No big deal.
 

straubs

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Jan 31, 2001
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Just received this email from Cyberwings. My site is hosted there

"For the second time in a row.... within 1 week.... Cyberwings does it again.....
50% off at Cyberwings - LIMITED TIME ONLY!

YOU ARE NOT SEEING DOUBLE!

YES, we did run this sale a few days ago, but we decided to run it one more time
to give people who didn't signup the chance to
signup during our sale - tell your friends, tell your colleagues, tell the whole
world about this sale, it won't be back again
for quite a while!

Cyberwings is slashing their hosting prices AGAIN by ANOTHER 50% on ALL PLANS!
This offer is ONLY GOOD for a short time!

NOTE: PayPal payments are HIGHLY preferred! Our PayPal Address is
sales@cyberwings.com! PayPal payments will receive an
extra 20% of Space or Bandwidth, YOUR CHOICE! Free! We will ask you which you
prefer after your account is setup!

http://www.cyberwings.com/hosting/

BANDWIDTH AT OUR DATA CENTER WILL BE *DOUBLED* THIS WEEKEND, and then DOUBLED
periodically thereafter! New servers are coming
online, new accounts, new everything at Cyberwings!

Some people think I've finally gone off the deep end with this Sale :) ACT
FAST!

NOTE: We MAY need a bit more than 3 days to setup all of these accounts, we're
shooting to add 2,000 accounts in 2 weeks, and
we're over 30% of the way there - we are bringing on extra staff to help with
the load. Please bare with us. We are a widely
known and very reputable company, bringing you the LOWEST cost hosting in the
industry. Just remember how much money you will
be saving with Cyberwings while waiting for your welcome email - our servers &
services are TOP quality.

Onward & Upward, hope to see you on board! Spread the word to your friends,
SHARE the gift of Cyberwings!

Cyberwings Price Slasher"



And YES, if you sign up now, that is the price you pay forever until you terminate your site.
 

azdevil

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May 5, 2001
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Does anyone know of a good site, for begginers, on what it takes and what to do to start hosting.
For something this cheap, it could be a fun little project, but where do I start?
Maybe a link to a good tutorial?
Tanks
 

ghoul

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Jan 8, 2001
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Cost of web hosting for one year: $3.90

Cost of the look on your face when they go out of business: Priceless


For everything else, use mastercard.
 

manko

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<< And YES, if you sign up now, that is the price you pay forever until you terminate your site. >>



Well, this is a great deal then! Let's hope he's around for a couple years. And hope he isn't swamped to death.
 

manko

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May 27, 2001
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<< Cost of web hosting for one year: $3.90

Cost of the look on your face when they go out of business: Priceless
>>



ROFL

...that joke was almost worth $3.90 (what's you Paypal account name?)
 

richd111

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Dec 18, 2001
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Anyone get this yet? I'm dying to signup, but I'm real concerned about the lack of response thus far.
 

rootaxs

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If i had my way and if things weren't so different i'd have gladly just took all of you in myself for next to nothing. I've done it for the past 2-1/2 years to countless Non-profit, Consumer, Student, Hobby groups but after relocating it was hard getting a similar data line for the price i paid before. :(
 

jalaram

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Aug 14, 2000
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Here's an auto-reply from their sales dept. to my query.

>---
Thank you for contacting Cyberwings. Due to the overwhelming response to our sales this week, we are responding to most sales emails with this email which will answer most of the questions we are getting in relation to this sale.

...

3) When will your account be setup? Cyberwings is an EXTREMELY reliable, legitimate and reputable company. If you do searches for our name on some of the most popular web hosting forums you will find that we have very good feedback, as well as our feedback on HostSearch, in our own forums, etc. During this past week's sale our new accounts have gone through the roof! Our CEO, Shawn White, has personally been jumping in to assist with new account setups as well as working to hire more staff this week to assist with our overwhelming load of new accounts. While we normally ask for 3 business days for all new accounts to be setup, in this case we are asking for up to 1 week since our sales have been overwhelming this week! Cyberwings is doubling the bandwidth in our data center this week and we are actively hiring New Account Managers this week to help pickup the extra work. WHEN YOUR ACCOUNT IS SETUP, you will receive a welcome email from Cyberwings which will include a!
set of primary & secondary DNS servers that you will need to point your domain to in order to get it working on our servers. If you registered your domain through www.cyberwingdomains.com, our registration service, you can find instructions on how to do this Primary & Secondary DNS server change at:

http://forums.cyberwings.com/showthread.php?s=9836360a0b95ef9c1eb2393987f3019e&threadid=615

... If you registered your domain ELSEWHERE, you will need to check with that specific registrar to find out what their instructions are for changing Primary & Secondary DNS servers.
>---

So, I'll check again tomorrow with crossed fingers. It might be understandable that the AT effect would bog them down. :)

 

Oblivion989

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Dec 11, 2001
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Don't worry guys, I have a domain hosted with these guys already (grabeck.com if you want to see speeds and whatnot)... They are a very reputable company, I also took advantage of this sale and got the highest plan, It hasnt been set up yet, but Its not supposed to be until tomorrow, but as others said, I'm sure they are swamped with requests with this sale.

Marty
 

brtspears2

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Nov 16, 2000
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I was just in their support chat room, they said they are swamped with new accounts. There was also a family emergency, so Shawn, the CEO had to jump shop for a few days. Whoever is left now is just watching the helpdesk and other tech support related positions.

I'm sure they'll find a way to compensate anyone who signed up, let it be some extra disk space, or more bandwidth, or just the fact that we get to have cheap hosting.
 

aphex

Moderator<br>All Things Apple
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Jul 19, 2001
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Just got my setup email!!!!!! wooooooohooooooooooooo :)

Their giving out an extra 2 months because of the delay... Wow, these guys ROCK! :)
 

dc

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Nov 26, 1999
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nice. 2 extra months... so that's like (3.90/12)*2 for free. :D seriously though, yay for cyberwings low cost hosting. :)
 

Rooster286

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Dec 20, 2000
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Guys, it's 3.90 a month, not yearly......Unless I just payed for 12 years of service heh!

3.90 a year seems too good to be true...3.90 a month seems realistic.