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[patr]

Watch out for Hostonce.com. They charge you $60 per year for web hosting and domain registration... Not a bad price, however, they say they will register your domain name through hostonce but in within two weeks it will be registered in your name. It's been three months now and my domain is still registered to them. They will not respond to my inquiries about this. They also say FrontPage extensions are supported. What they don't tell you is they will not configure their server side so the extensions will work. Certain configuration changes have to be made in order to specify an SMTP server so a forms contents can be sent via email - they refused to do this. They also do not tell you that their URL security not will work with FrontPage. I'm sure there are other "got ya's" I haven't found out. If you use Hostonce... don't use FrontPage and don't expect your domain to follow you if you leave their service.

Edit: I meant to put this in brag and moan - my first post - sorry

 

[jamrev]

When I heard of their service, I sent them a note asking that question, to whom does the domain belong. Until I read your note I had not received an answer. Now I know.

 

[guttertech]

Hostonce was posted here as a Hotdeal for webhosting, and it is a hot price.

But be aware that this is an Aussie comapny, and if you are located in North America like most Anandtech users, you may have problems working with them due to the time zone issues, as well as the fact that their Help Desk app on their website is perpetually broken.

I did sign up with them, and had good experience for about 2 weeks..

but they seem to have no tech support on weekends, and my site kept tanking on weekends. As I was using it to host my Ebay pages and pics, and all my auctions end on weekends, this was a big problem.

For a Hot Deal on webhosting, Geocities Pro/Webmaster is pretty good. It may not have every Unix/Perl feature, but management is via FTP or the Web interface, it offers lots of ease-of-use features, and it is very reliable. I am paying $11.95 per month for 50mb and a 20gig transfer limit. I could get a better price, but probably not with a large provider.