www.featureprice.com

Seems a bit too good to be true.

Does anyone here know anything about this webserver? Any prior experience or anything of the sort?

Thanks a lot.

Never heard of them, but Unlimited disk space for $24.95. I don't think so.

When you see unlimited it really means they are not telling you.

I would be very leary

here you go.... BS BS BS again =)

"Featureprice does also offer unlimited storage with the Platinum Elite Package. The intention of Featureprice is to provide a large space to serve web documents, not an offsite storage area for electronic files. All your downloadable files or files stored on the server have to be available for download via a HTML document stored on the Internet in a publicly or privately accessible area. This policy does ONLY apply to websites who are considered to be abusing services - HTTP and disk space utilization in particular. It is NOT applicable to photo galleries, even if several hundred megabytes of web space are in use. PHOTO galleries and / or any kind of presentation websites are more than welcome to host on Featureprice and are only bound to above utilization policy. Web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the sole discretion of Featureprice management."


"Featureprice's customers are privileged to be offered an unmonitored account in terms of bandwidth. This means Featureprice does not pro-actively monitor bandwidth usage of our customers. Featureprice's bandwidth policy is similiar to the common Laissez-Faire model in politics. Customers are entitiled to use as much bandwidth as necessary as long as they (a) do not harm other customers located on the same machine or on other machines of Featureprice's network and (b) do comply with all other terms & conditions. All domain / subdomains account do have a moderation throttelling utility applied to their throughput. This moderation throttelling utility measures the accounts usage based on averages derived from various server tasks and services such as average CPU utilization, FTP utilization, HTTP bandwidth utilization, Email utilization - et cetera. On basis of the meaningful average value the moderation throttelling software decides if a delay of an offending account is determinded to be necessary in order to assure 100% service uptime, reliability and performance for other websites of moderate usage on same machine. HTTP moderation is set to 16 million bits per millisecond (in numbers: 16,000,000 / millisecond), other limitations are determined depending on average usage of the server by all clients on same machine and hence depend."

Always be leary of any host offering "unlimited" disk space or bandwidth, at any price, but especially for $25. there will always be some sort of fine print that negates the "unlimited" offer. There has to be, otherwise they'd put themselves out of business pretty quickly.

Ok, I understand that I should be wary if they do indeed say unlimited.

Here's my situation. I currently have a site that generates about one gigabyte transfer per day, and my current server allows only 20 gigabytes per month.

Now, if I were to move to that server over there, no matter how many times I read over their policy (yes, I know its not really unlimited), I can't really find anything too negative about this plan itself.

So unless someone out there's been scammed by them or something, I'd like to hear about some people's experience or some investigations about them (you guys are better at it than I am anyways).

Or, if there's something else I should know, please tell me.

Thanks a lot, everyone. Sorry if its sounding like I'm rambling on, but I have a lot on my mind right now and I'm tired.

:)

I went with thier UNLIMITED plan and it seems pretty good.


However, they don't offer shell access, not even through PHP. And java is offline on thier servers.

Arisu,

Before signing up send them an email saying "I will be doing 20 GB of transfer and using this much disk space is that ok?". If they say "Yes." print that and save it in a nice cozy spot next to your computer (between computer and lawyers phone #).

=)

Ok, thanks a lot for the advice!!

:D

Originally posted by Epsilon
Always be leary of any host offering "unlimited" disk space or bandwidth, at any price, but especially for $25. there will always be some sort of fine print that negates the "unlimited" offer. There has to be, otherwise they'd put themselves out of business pretty quickly. Just to clarify my last post, I should note that you're not likely to have problems if your site doesn't draw a huge amount of traffic. If your disk space and bandwidth usage are close to the norm of what the hosting company expects, you'll be fine. People that should proceed with caution are those who plan to use large amounts of resources on an "unlimited" plan.

i love featureprice.com! they used to host my website (www.vintagestars.com). believe me, they are awesome! whenever i had a problem, i'd email them and get a response within 10 minutes. i've emailed them at all times of the day and on everyday of the week and always got help within 10 - 30 minutes. really!

i had to leave them because i was getting over 20 GB of traffic a month! i was on the platinum plan and the data transfer limit per month was 20 GB. one month i got 30 GB and the lady said i had to pay for the extra bandwidth, which amounted to $200! i told her i couldn't pay it, so she said i could leave her as my host and not pay for it. thank god!

the site has a new layout, wow... new to me.

anyway, my current host is www.*****.com and i love them too. featureprice.com is really a great host (at least when i was with them).

I have been hosting a site with featureprice.com for about a year and a half. Figured that for the price a little slow loading here and there was expected. Also, they registered my domain for me when I signed up, but in "whois" it was stated that it was owned by me.
But then all the data in my links directory (using a links indexing script) just disappeared. I got it back up and a few months later it went away again.
After contacting support they said it was the server I was on and and that I should transfer my site to their new server. It took some doing and my site was down a few days, but it was completed.
After 2 months on the "better" server my affiliate data disappeared. I had over 100 affiliates advertising my site on theirs and their data just "went away", gone. They were all dropped and I have no way to contact them to ask them to re-join.
I decided to go host shopping. I signed up for a new host and transfer yesterday, and last night my site was gone completely. I went to my site and it had "EXPIRED DOMAIN" all over it. Now, until the transfer goes through it looks like I'm out of business, and when my visitors go they'll think it very unprofessional.

All in all they had fair tech support, but the loading was slow and they lost my data on several occasions. I firmly advise against them if you are implementing cgi scripts.

And Oh, vintagestars, although I'm glad you had no problems with *****, I decided not to try them after reading this alert:
http://www.forumhosts.com/hosts.htm

When were you hosting with them? They are using plesk servers now I think, and they also changed to FreeBSD on a lot of thier servers. I think I'm still using linux, since the Man pages for C functions are the same as those that are included in linux.

They also no longer use mod_perl unless you specifically ask for it.

My site was erased once, when the server was hacked, but I was compensated with a free month of service.

When was I hosting with them? Up until yesterday.
Yes, they transferred me to the new plesk servers, and even after that my data was lost.
Something else I didn't mention before... when I transferred over to the new plesk server and configured my scripts they wouldn't work. After contacting tech support I was told to run my scripts right from the cgi-bin, not to run them from subdirectories in my cgi-bin!!?? I'm sorry, but when you have 3 or more scripts it's hard to not them get them mixed up. All scripts might have an admin.cgi for example. I know 2 of my scripts also have a sub-directory for "templates" too. Not running scripts from sub-directories in the cgi-bin is unheard of.
Of course I am mainly upset with them for cancelling my domain and now it's expired. They did this the moment I signed up for a new host. They were paid in advance per year, and I still have many months already paid for. Revenge maybe?

I was also tempted to apply an account but as usual it sounds too good to be true so I asked if they could host a site with 20-30GB/month transfer. And here's the reply:

"Since all our domains have a 5gb / mo limit, we cannot host your
website."

So their "unlimited bandwidth" is only 5GB?!?! :(

Anyway not applying it anymore... 5gb only... ... ...

Hmmm, they never notified me of this limit. Maybe it's the reason they dumped my data.... :mad: