Dot5 Hosting Review

Based in sunny Santa Monica, Dot5Hosting is an award-winning web hosting provider that now gives you 6 domains in one account and the impressive vDeck control panel for deftly managing all of them. A "Power Partner" of the acclaimed iPowerWeb, Dot5Hosting hosts over 20,000 domains at the iPowerWeb data center, with a fiber optic network that draws from seven of the most acclaimed providers - such as Sonet, Time Warner, and Congent.

As they boldly state in their slogan, Dot5Hosting is keenly aware that, "We look after our customers, or someone else will." And that's quite true -- so keep up the good work Dot5Hosting.

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Dot5 Hosting
Hosting Ratings:
Price Value 9 / 10
Performance 9 / 10
Reliability 9 / 10
Customer Support 8.5 / 10
Control Panel 8 / 10
User Feedback 9 / 10
Overall Grade: 89%
 

Price Value
For just $3.95 per month, Dot5 Hosting gives you unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth (check their T&C for exceptions) to share amongst as many as 6 domains on one account. With Dot5Hosting web hosting service you'll also get free setup, a free domain for a lifetime, a free SiteBuilder website builder, free scripts for eCommerce shopping carts, 5,000 Pop/Imap email addresses, FTP, SSL security, Microsoft FrontPage extensions, live website statistics, and all the scripts you'll ever need, including Perl, Javascript, PHP, and CGI.

Plus, they give you unlimited forwarding email accounts, unlimited email autoresponders, unlimited add-on domains, unlimited parked domains, unlimited subdomains, unlimited additional FTP accounts, and unlimited MySQL databases.

You'll have complete creative and administrative versatility over your site with a slew of multimedia features (streaming audio and video), Shockwave and Flash support, MIDI file support, as well as the freedom to add your own MIME types), forms, blogs, bulletin boards, guestbooks, chat, polls and surveys, image galleries, Moodle, Mambo and Joomla.

Reliability
Web hosting with Dot5 Hosting comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, backed by advanced server monitoring and full hardware support including complete backup software. You'll also enjoy real-time reporting and 24/7 system reboots on demand.

And recently, Dot5 Hosting extended their money-back guarantee period from 30 days to 90 days, giving you 300% more time to try out their services and make sure you're satisfied.

Thanks to top-of-the-line IBM and Dell servers with Dual Intel Xeon processors, RAID-1 redundant SCSI hard drives, and 2GB of DDR-RAM, Dot5 Hosting provides you access to a network capacity of 7.2 Gigs network on a diverse and redundant AT&T Local Services ring. For your utmost security, Dot5 Hosting relies on a high-powered UPS generator, redundant environmental controls, and around the clock monitoring by live, trained security personnel.

Control Panel
Dot5Hosting's use of the popular and consistently praised vDeck control panel is a testament to their commitment to high quality service and user-friendly functionality. vDeck allows you to control every aspect of your website's operations with built-in walk throughs, tutorials, and its own help centre. A pair of progress bars shows you clearly and in real-time precisely how much disk space and bandwidth you're currently using.

From the simplest task of uploading your pages to the web to more advanced tasks like password protecting your site and managing database files, the vDeck control panel uses colorful and convenient icons to make every aspect of web management as easy and obvious as can be.

In the vDeck you'll find over 150 perfectly customizable website templates, whether your site is for business, family, an organization, or your own personal uses. You'll also find a slew of Power Plugins for adding to the vDeck's already broad-sweeping functionality.

Customer Support
With a 30 minute response time, Dot5 Hosting places customer support at the pinnacle of its priorities. They host a completely searchable support centre, empowering you to search through Troubleshooting docs, FAQs, and downloads. You can also contact support directly through a totally trackable email support ticket system and, best of all, live web chat.

Hosting Plans
Linux/Unix Hosting Plans
Personal Plans: Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth @ $3.95/month (host up to 6 domains)