They are a very new company...I've read a lot of posts in FreeWebSpace.net saying how their services are up and down, when they're up, they're excellent, when they're down, obvously not excellent.

Does anyone have a site hosted with them? Just curious. 14 bucks aint' half bad...22 bucks CDN a year, (They claim it's a one time setup fee, and free from then on..)should I just test them out?

Thanks.

It seems as if they're trying to get as many customers as possible over the next month then start charging you. So basically the $14 will cover your first month of apparent "free hosting" which you'll have to renew as of July anyway.

<snip>
Until 29 June 2001, host your own domain on our Unix server, FREE OF CHARGE. No banners, no ads.
</snip>

I'd beware of getting caught up in anything permanent.

Yeah, I know...I've emailed them twice asking them how much I will have to pay to renew my services...Apparently, it's free for life as long as I sign up before June 29th.

Apparently, they will not charge a penny if I sign up before June 29th.

I'm quite skeptical too, but they appear to be telling the truth. Then, again you can't trust everyone...

Here are 2 e-mail I received as a responses.

First

Thank you for your email.

> Apparently, it's $14 a year, until June something.
- No, it's not. The $14 is a single setup fee.

> I'd like to know what the price will be after that date in June when your hosting services cease this promotion?
- After the 29th June 2001 we will offer different hosting plans formula, based on a monthly/yearly rates. But if you signup before this date, your hosting plan(s) will remain free. If you stick to the 250MB of space and 5000MB bandwidth, there will be no additional costs.

> How many MySQL DBs can I have?
- One database per account with unlimited tables. But you can setup a subdomain name to get another database.

> And do you have SMTP services?
- No.


Before you ask, for additional space/bandwidth we charge:

Additional 100MB web space: $2 per month
Additional 1000MB bandwidth: $3 per month


Thank you again for your enquiry.


Kind regards,

Directoris Support
support@directoris.com
http://www.directoris.com


second



If you signup with us before June 29th, you won't have to pay any further
cost in the future Your hosting plan will remain free for life!
You will only have to pay something when you request additional web space or
bandwidth.

Kind regards,

Directoris Support
support@directoris.com
http://www.directoris.com

It's hard to understand how a host could possibly host you for life with a one time setup fee of $14 offering 250mb of web space and 5gb of bandwidth per month.

They are guaranteed to lose out offering this. Have a look at their terms of service. No host out of their right mind would be able to offer such a deal without some sort of "escape".

If Directoris.com can confirm that they aren't going to post ads or banners at a later stage (I've just enquired about this via email), then I'm definitely going to take the $14 gamble. I'd be interested to hear what is the latest news from the members of this forum who signed up.
Cheers
Anders

I signed up with them and at that ime I thought it was 14.00/year. It's only a one-time fee and then it's free for life

Does anyone know about using the e-mail there. After creating an account is the @"location" the name of your url address?

I did a whois lookup on their domain name...the contact info is:
sales@easily.co.uk
Wich provide reseller services...theyr resellers. :(

Originally posted by Billy
I did a whois lookup on their domain name...the contact info is:
sales@easily.co.uk
Wich provide reseller services...theyr resellers. :(

06/28/01 13:20:18 Fast traceroute directoris.com
Trace directoris.com (195.10.228.132) ...
1 24.1.xxx.x 50ms 30ms 50ms TTL: 0 (x.home.net ok)
2 24.1.xxx.x 40ms 40ms 0ms TTL: 0 (x.occa.home.net ok)
3 10.0.242.77 100ms 20ms 20ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
4 10.0.242.73 40ms 30ms 40ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
5 24.7.74.73 71ms 40ms 30ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos5-0.anhmca1.home.net ok)
6 24.7.65.177 90ms 50ms 50ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos2-0.lamstx1.home.net ok)
7 24.7.65.126 110ms 40ms 40ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos7-0.dllstx1.home.net ok)
8 24.7.64.182 120ms 131ms 261ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos1-0.nworla1.home.net ok)
9 24.7.64.202 60ms 50ms 160ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos3-0.brhmal1.home.net ok)
10 24.7.64.233 80ms 70ms 120ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos4-0.clevoh1.home.net ok)
11 24.7.65.237 120ms 140ms 90ms TTL: 0 (c1-pos2-0.cmdnnj1.home.net ok)
12 24.7.72.110 100ms 90ms 100ms TTL: 0 (bb2-pos1-0-0.nap-nj.nap.home.net ok)
13 192.157.69.44 131ms 90ms 100ms TTL: 0 (fddi2-0.sprintnap.nacamar.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
14 213.200.81.101 130ms 101ms 111ms TTL: 0 (atm6-0-13.nyc3.net.tiscali.com bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
15 213.200.81.189 110ms 90ms 100ms TTL: 0 (nyc10.net.tiscali.com fraudulent rDNS)
16 213.200.81.202 261ms 130ms 90ms TTL: 0 (nyc20.net.tiscali.com fraudulent rDNS)
17 213.200.81.206 220ms 180ms 160ms TTL: 0 (so-6-2-0.lon11.net.tiscali.com bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
18 213.200.77.38 351ms 201ms 211ms TTL: 0 (pos4-1-0.lon1.worldonline.net.uk ok)
19 212.74.111.169 220ms 310ms 171ms TTL: 0 (fe2-0.lon6.worldonline.net.uk bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
20 194.162.224.35 181ms 160ms 230ms TTL: 0 (fa0-0-5.lon1.gemsoft.net fraudulent rDNS)
21 195.10.228.132 240ms 180ms 180ms TTL:234 (server6.donhost.co.uk ok)

looks like, they are a donhost reseller.