I'm looking at their "Plan I", details below. The price seems right, but I'm a believer in the "you get what you pay for" mantra, so I have reservations...but for $20, what have I got to lose?

Currently, I use a DNS re-direct which goes back to the space my ISP gives me. It more-or-less meets my needs, but this (with more functionality) is about 1/2 the price.

Any opinions?

http://www.hosturbo.com/

100 Megs Disk Space
Unlimited POP3 Boxes
1GB Bandwidth Per Month
Cpanel3 Control Center
10 Sub Domains
Unlimited FTP Accounts
1 mySQL Database
Free Unlimited Support
$0 Setup + $19.95 Yearly

RedHat Linux 6.x (Latest Stable Build)

Free Chat Support

Garanteed Uptime at or above 99.5%

Regular Tape Backups

Online E-Mail Support

Security Usernames

Unlimited Aliases/Forwards

Unlimited Auto Responders

Free Domain Name Registration

MySQL Support

Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Support

Multiple Mailing Lists

PHP4 Support

Perl5 Support

ASP Support (Comming Soon ...)

Telnet/SSH Access

Access to Raw Log Files

Pre-Installed CGI Scripts

Shopping Cart

Unlimited FTP Access

Multiple Sub-Domains

SSI Support

SSL Support (Available On Select Plans)

Cold Fusion Support (Comming Soon ...)

Cpanel3 (Complete Control Panel)

Multiple POP3 Boxes

Mulitple FTP Accounts

Processor Speed - 700 Mhz or more

Memory - 128 MB or more

Web-Based File Manager

Web-Based Email

CGI-BIN Directory

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

Servers Housed in PA,Scranton DataCenter

Excelent Connectivity To the Server

Well, I never heard of them. The features for the money looks pretty good, and if they have a refund policy, like you said, not much to loose to give it a try. Give them a call, see if they answer, and if they are helpful. That would be one step.

I think the people is or are based in India, since they have an Indian address there. Although they have a 646 number, but anyone can get a U.S. number for free.

ebird

CWIhosting,

They don't (yet, they say) have a "x day money-back guarantee", but if all I'm out is $20...well, I can live with that.

And as ebird states, their business office is located in Dehli, India, but their server is located at Burst.net's Scranton, PA NOC.

Any opinions, experiences, thoughts, etc?

Well, if you give them a try, then you'll know as your not worried about the $20. If things do go wrong, it may be much harder as they are out of the USA. Have you called them already?

The Hosturbo owner is a member in the forum here (koolguru). :)

CWIhosting,

By the time I called India and got enough answers, it would probably run me at least $20, so I'm thinking about just throwing down the money and hoping from the best.

Kiwi,

Yeah...that's how I found out about them...but would like to get some opinions as numerous web searches turn up nothing, probably as they are a newer company.

But apparently this forum is more directed to (or populated by) web hosts, rather than the users, so it will probably be harder to get opinions.

Thanks again.

Actually, we used to have very few hosts here, but over the past year more hosts have come, and members who used to be regular users have become hosts, so now we're pretty well stocked with both.

so far so good! I just signed up with them. great features. The shopping cart doesn't work right but I contacted them and received a response within an hour or two that they are working to fix the problem.
:homer:

so what is the upload and download speed you are getting if you are hosting on hosturbo, it seems awfully slow, i mean there site is slow to load up for me, just want to know if you are getting proper speed, let me know.

and i only got 43.3 kb baud rate and they seem to only have one-two server, currently, their bandwith seems to be slow to me. looks like another tacidhost in making.

you get what you pay for

well 80 dollars for plan V should have better services. and 80 dollars U.S Converted Into Indian Currency is $4000 Indian Currency. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Originally posted by joshivivek
so what is the upload and download speed you are getting if you are hosting on hosturbo, it seems awfully slow, i mean there site is slow to load up for me, just want to know if you are getting proper speed, let me know.
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I'm just got 50k/s (on my dsl connection) downloading a large image on the ftp site. I havn't downloaded any files from the web server yet. I'll try uploading/downloading an mp3 tonight and let you know how it goes.

i could tell you it is slow as accessing your site which is hosted with hosturbo is slow when loading it up, i think they should take the turbo out of hosturbo, and then that name will fit there hosting speed :D

Nothing wrong with the bandwidth:
http://www.tracert.com/cgi-bin/ping.pl

Eyy joshivivek why don't stop that horrible and patetic attitude to attack at everybody that have a server here?
You're boring me.
Stop that ****'s attitude

no need to get pissed off, is this is how you deal with your customers, shame one you :(

No.. that is not the way that i deal with my customers.
but you piseed me off attacking people with no reason.
You can ask to my costumers.. and you'll see that I'm nice with them.

Listen joshivivek...

Jedito had a very good point. Almost every single post I see that came from you is an attack on someone in some form or another. Please read your own posts!

Originally posted by joshivivek
no need to get pissed off, is this is how you deal with your customers, shame one you :(

okay i guess i will put the rest of the booze in the freezer and call it the night :D

I'm with Jedito, only thing I've seen you do on these forums so far is attack hosts. Calling them a Tacid in the making is pretty bad.

hey i'm happy with it... and the price was right. it doesn't seem to be loading slow on my connection. are you on a 14.4 or what? stop blasting everything. I've never seen your posts but from what it sounds like, you're not a very positive person.:mad:

I Dont think I need to clarifo anythink now, or do I ?

how much longer to setup my account, I signed up with them yesterday, but the account is still not activated. it usually takes one hour to 6 hours. Calm down people, i was drunk yesterday and I apologize to my comments earlier.

Please contact support directly, danke.

sorry my fault, it works, thanks Hosturbo

Dont want to be rude but if you enter your Lastname instead of your email address in the signup form where do we send the welcome message to ? the account was actually created within 15 minutes of the time you signed up.

I am Extremly Sorry If You Think I am A Bit Rude.
I Dont want to Be Rude At All.


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I still want to know if my domain was regsitered, you guys did register the domain, correct? that's what it said, on the features included, it says that you include regsitration for one domain. also give me more bandwith :D :D

ask him for more...and make sure you tell him your from webhostingtalk :D

Like I asked, please email directly and do not use the forum as a support forum. Danke.