E-rice or Cernax?

[danklumpp]

Dilema: Go with Cernax or E-rice?

e-rice.net: 100MB, 3000 MB Transfer - $10 / year

cernax.com: 100MB, 1500 MB Transfer - $25 / year

 

[danklumpp]

Eh?

 

[mordantmonkey]

what's important? reliability or price?

 

[George P Burdell]

Telnap.com - 300MB, 5000MB transfer $25/year
HostPC.com - 600MB, 10000MB transfer, $30/year

remember, you get what you pay for. but Telnap is reliable

 

[danklumpp]

Is e-rice fairly reliable? If it is, I will probably go with them.

 

[danklumpp]

I looked at Telnap.com and it said a monthly rate of $2.50 on top of the $25. Is that right?

 

[George P Burdell]

paging RossMAN!!!

 

[danklumpp]

HostPC.com looks pretty good for the price. Anyone have any experience with them?

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: danklumpp
I looked at Telnap.com and it said a monthly rate of $2.50 on top of the $25. Is that right?

I don't think so. I think it's either $25/year OR $2.50 a month.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

If the uptime is bad, what's the point of having a web hosting service?
If the support isn't good, you will ultimately regret even bothering with a company.

If you have a good experience, you won't mind paying a few extra dollars

 

[dartworth]

I can hook you up with a free account if need one. I host a few other ATers...

Shot me a PM

 

[danklumpp]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
If the uptime is bad, what's the point of having a web hosting service?
If the support isn't good, you will ultimately regret even bothering with a company.

If you have a good experience, you won't mind paying a few extra dollars

I've decided e-rice is out of the question, but I need to decide between cernax and hostpc. Ultimately, it comes to: how much bandwidth do I need for a small online computer store? If 1500 MB is enough, I will probably go with cernax.

By the way, Agaboogaboo, does cernax offer a secure page (SSL) with that hosting?

 

[danklumpp]

Why would telnap offer $2.50 / month instead of $25 / year? If someone was on that tight of a budget, they shouldn't be messing around with websites.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: danklumpp
Why would telnap offer $2.50 / month instead of $25 / year? If someone was on that tight of a budget, they shouldn't be messing around with websites.

Actually, I believe Telnap requires an annual payment on all plans below $5.00 per month (hence the "$24.95 Annual rate (required)" portion shown here).

Annual prepayments general receive a two month discount, if memory serves.

 

[rml]

I had been using e-rice for last 3-4 years. I had 3 sites with them, very stable and reliable. Price is excellent!

 

[danklumpp]

Originally posted by: rml
I had been using e-rice for last 3-4 years. I had 3 sites with them, very stable and reliable. Price is excellent!

Do they include a secure page with that? I think I saw they had it advertised

 

[danklumpp]

Now I'm not sure what to do, although I have to remember, you get what you pay for (usually).

 

[rml]

100MB - 3GB/mo transfer - 10 Emails - 1 DB
Standard 2 : $20/yr
200MB - 6GB/mo transfer - 20 Emails - 2 DB
Standard 3 : $30/yr
300MB - 9GB/mo transfer - 30 Emails - 3 DB
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Apache 1.3 Web Server
.htaccess Access Control
PHP 4.3.x + MySQL 4.0.x
PhpMyAdmin 2.6.x
Secure FTP w/ SSL
Central Mail Service
POP3 & IMAP & SMTP w/ SSL
Catch-all & Email Forwarding
Virus Scan & Spam Filtering
SquirrelMail & Horde Webmail

 

[danklumpp]

Thanks rml, I'll look into it. Does e-rice have any tech support (not that I'll need it, but you never know)?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: danklumpp
Now I'm not sure what to do, although I have to remember, you get what you pay for (usually).

Yep.

When your web host dies or support tickets take 12 hours to respond to, don't come whining to us because I'll just say told ya so

If I were you, I would contact dartworth and accept his offer for free web hosting which includes cPanel and Fantastico

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: danklumpp
Eh?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: rml
I had been using e-rice for last 3-4 years. I had 3 sites with them, very stable and reliable. Price is excellent!

ditto.

keep in mind with the bandwitdh and such your languages are limited.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: danklumpp
Why would telnap offer $2.50 / month instead of $25 / year? If someone was on that tight of a budget, they shouldn't be messing around with websites.

I'm sure they require annual payment, but I have had to make sites that only need to be online for a couple of months before the information is 100% useless to anyone.

 

[Ketteringo]

I used e-rice for about 2 years and I never had a single problem that wasn't fixed within an hour or two.

I'm on 8-95 now, Dixiesys, and haven't have any problems there either.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: danklumpp
Why would telnap offer $2.50 / month instead of $25 / year? If someone was on that tight of a budget, they shouldn't be messing around with websites.

I'm sure they require annual payment, but I have had to make sites that only need to be online for a couple of months before the information is 100% useless to anyone.

Telnap.com has had a few specials, they're usually $15/yr for 300MB/5GB which is very generous.