*DEAD* 8-95.com webhosting 3 for 1 sale

[beatle]

Bump for Gary and his team. In the rare instances where I've needed support in the past 2 years, they've been prompt and nice about it. Maybe I could save a buck or get a few extra megs going somewhere else, but that's not worth risking proven service.

 

[RossMAN]

Gary,

Question for you.

If someone signs up for a resellers account using 123.com domain

A few months later they want to change their resellers domain, is that possible?
I suppose you could delete the existing resellers account then re-create it, are you ok with that?

 

[imported_Grimmy]

The only thing the reseller himself can't change himself - is his actual control panel login name - the domain names/etc are all deletable and changeable later without our intervention at all.

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: Dixiesys
The only thing the reseller himself can't change himself - is his actual control panel login name - the domain names/etc are all deletable and changeable later without our intervention at all.

Too bad - that's what I want to change most! HATE HATE HATE the 00 at the end instead of the last 2 letters...

 

[OldPro]

<bump> Deal extended thru October 15

Can anyone clarify the difference between the reseller account and one of the other multi-domain accounts? I don't want to get involved in reselling, but have more than one domain name I'd like to get online (mostly for personal satisfaction right now).

Also, how much bandwidth is enough? Any kind of rule-of-thumb?

Thirdly, did anyone see any eMail limitations? Or users per domain, I suppose would be another way to say it.

Thanks!

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: OldPro
<bump> Deal extended thru October 15

Can anyone clarify the difference between the reseller account and one of the other multi-domain accounts? I don't want to get involved in reselling, but have more than one domain name I'd like to get online (mostly for personal satisfaction right now).

Also, how much bandwidth is enough? Any kind of rule-of-thumb?

Thirdly, did anyone see any eMail limitations? Or users per domain, I suppose would be another way to say it.

Thanks!

I have the *.95/month "Once a Month Plan" (i.e. the one that allows the most storage space).

There are basically 2 big hosting plans, the medium one, and the small one. I'll just comment on the differences between the 2 big ones (both are $8.95 a month). Basically, the difference is the reseller plan has more hosted domains than the other big one but the other big one has more storage than the reseller plan. The reseller plan allows 36 hosted domains but only 1.8GB of space and 24GB/month bandwith where the other big one allows 12 domains but 2.4GB of space and 30GB/month bandwidth. Which is more important to you - more storage and bandwidth or more domains? For me, 12 domains is plenty, so more storage is much more important.

How much bandwidth do you need? This TOTALLY depends on how much traffic you get to your website. A place like CNN.com would be different than MyPersonalWebSiteDomainAddressThingiemajiger.com. I have observed that most hosting companies offer 10x your entire storage as your monthly bandwidth limit. These guys give you a little bit more than that. For my web site, I use it mostly as an image gallary for family and friends. I've never came anywhere close to using 10% of my bandwidth limit.

Email limitations: Unlimited number for the non-reseller big plan (that's what I have signed up for). Basically, your limit is your storage space - if all of your email users need more space then you have available, then you have reached your limit.

 

[Jaxidian]

Oh, and yes, deal has been extended to 10/15 because PayPal is dumb.

 

[Delbert]

Back when I started my sister had two domains and the cost for a reseller was only a bit more than two singles. I?m so glad I did go for the reseller account though. I will never make real money selling (reselling) web space but it?s fun to have. My sister has a small business and their sites pay for the whole thing. I just talked her into letting me pay half because I use it for things other than their sites..
The rest have been;
Given to friends and neighbors with small business as a gift.
Given to friends and neighbors who want a personal site.
Given to community (kids PTA, and local church).
Hosting personal photo gallery?s for personal use (example-keeping grandma in touch with what we are doing).
Hosting pics for forums and ebay stuff.
Blogs.
Just playing with web site development.

It?s fun and easy.
If you wanted I?ll bet you know or could find a couple mom and pop businesses that are looking for a web presence or wanting a custom email address that would cover or supplement the costs.

 

[Dealster]

The key difference between reseller and non-reseller is with reseller you have full control to slice and dice your pool of space and bandwidth across domains however you want. Each domain is completely isolated from the others. With the non-reseller plan you can divy the space/bandwidth up across multiple domains but they are not really isolated. Which one is best for you depends on your needs... if you personally have multiple domains using the non-reseller can be nice because it simplifies administration. However if you are going to give some space to your kids or family members, you probably don't want them having access to all of your stuff and the reseller account would be better.

I personally finally moved up to a reseller and will never go back!

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: OldPro
<bump> Deal extended thru October 15

Can anyone clarify the difference between the reseller account and one of the other multi-domain accounts? I don't want to get involved in reselling, but have more than one domain name I'd like to get online (mostly for personal satisfaction right now).

Also, how much bandwidth is enough? Any kind of rule-of-thumb?

Thirdly, did anyone see any eMail limitations? Or users per domain, I suppose would be another way to say it.

Thanks!

You want a resellers account, trust me. Just because it's labelled as a "resellers" account doesn't mean you have to "resell" web hosting to anyone. How you use your resources is up to you. If you only want to host 1 domain, or 5 of your domains that's totally ok. So again a resellers account is the best way to go.

Bandwidth varies but 24GB should be PLENTY unless your site becomes very popular or is graphic intensive.

Unlimited e-mail.

 

[Roguetech]

I've used Dixiesys for awhile, and no real complaints. Solid uptime and speed, and a pretty good deal, though their service level isn't what it's cracked up to be (though their community forums, which most hosts don't even provide, is excellent, with some real pros, as well as closely watched by the support staff). Since 8-95.com is basically sans service, I switched to save some bucks. I'm not happy with the xx username, and I didn't get my All Set email, though they took care of that with a quickness.

Originally posted by: alm99
What is the possibility of being able to transfer my current personal site from the free 1and1.com account to 8-95.com hosting plan without having to rebuild it all by hand? 1and1 does not use cpanel or directadmin.

This is the ONE bad thing I can say about Dixiesys/8-95.com; no SSH. But 1and1 has SSH, so just tar your site, open an ftp from 1and1 to 8-95, and drop the tar. Install Gossamer Threads' Fileman on 8-95.com, un-tar your site. Databases can be a bit trickier. Feel free to get with me on this, since I have to do a similier task (though mine will involve going through 1and1 to go from Dixiesys to 8-95.com ).

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Roguetech
I've used Dixiesys for awhile, and no real complaints. Solid uptime and speed, and a pretty good deal, though their service level isn't what it's cracked up to be (though their community forums, which most hosts don't even provide, is excellent, with some real pros, as well as closely watched by the support staff). Since 8-95.com is basically sans service, I switched to save some bucks. I'm not happy with the xx username, and I didn't get my All Set email, though they took care of that with a quickness.

Originally posted by: alm99
What is the possibility of being able to transfer my current personal site from the free 1and1.com account to 8-95.com hosting plan without having to rebuild it all by hand? 1and1 does not use cpanel or directadmin.

This is the ONE bad thing I can say about Dixiesys/8-95.com; no SSH. But 1and1 has SSH, so just tar your site, open an ftp from 1and1 to 8-95, and drop the tar. Install Gossamer Threads' Fileman on 8-95.com, un-tar your site. Databases can be a bit trickier. Feel free to get with me on this, since I have to do a similier task (though mine will involve going through 1and1 to go from Dixiesys to 8-95.com ).

how do I tar my site?

 

[Roguetech]

The shell command to tar is TAR -cf archive.tar *. To un-tar, it's TAR -xf archive.tar. If you don't know how to do the SSH connection and/or the ftp connection, PM me, and we'll work out a more convient mode of communication

 

[ichi]

First post....

I've tried to find the answer to this in FAQs etc, but no go, so:
We are a few (4) friends who want to share an account for simple home pages with photos etc. We would like to have our own domain names. Normally it seems it possible to point a domain name to a different directory only if you get a reseller's account. Is that true at 8-95.com too? If it is true, then could we simply set up the home page to redirect based on the url that the client used to access the page?

Like this:
If client.typed.url = "www.foo.com" then
render("foo.com")
else if client.typed.url = "www.bar.com" then
render("bar.com")
end if

Thanks!
- ichi

 

[Extrarius]

ichi: On DirectAdmin (the control panel used by 8-95.com), you can have entirely seperate directory structures for each domain. The reseller account offers the ability to not only have different content for each domain, but also to have different logons entirely for each domain, so you can setup different accounts for each person so they can't mess with other people's domains. Without a reseller account, each domain can have its own content but the control panel login allows access to all of them (you could make different FTP logins without a reseller acount though).

Also, if you had asked before the sale was so close to over, you could have asked them to give you a reseller account on the $3.95/mo plan or something like that and most likely they would have. (You might still try asking for that but I doubt they have time to respond now).

 

[ichi]

Thanks for the reply. I have signed up for a non-reseller account. DirectAdmin is so easy to use! Things work great so-far.

- ichi