Looking at doteasy.com, does anyone have any recent experience with this company?

Thanks

Sounds too good to be true

No, I don't, but not recomended. Why wouldn't I? $35 for transfering a domain if you can't get 2 people? jeez... I rather pay $9 for domain registration, sign up at mydomain.com and redirect it to other freeweb. They don't even have CGI, for pete's sake.

P.S When they just opened, they spammed my email --> I would never go with them.

Hi,

$35 isn't so bad for a one time charge. After all, pay once and after that it's free. I'm not currently using doteasy, but I AM using microworld.com. Similar deal - $29 one time fee, and you get 50MB, high bandwidth, ftp access, and more. I'm very happy - It's reliable, fast, and pretty much glitch free so far (no, I don't get a commission). As far as I know, they haven't spammed me. (If you're afraid of spamming, open up a web email account and register your host account using this new web email address)

The disadvantage of just doing a redirection to a free host (such as Tripod) is that the search engines won't be able to find you properly. I prefer setting up domain hosting and doing it right. I use nomonthlyfees.com for my main site, but for my "extra" sites, I use Portland (they have CGI, mySQL, PHP, subdomains, and more) and Microworld.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Abu Mami

Originally posted by Abu Mami

The disadvantage of just doing a redirection to a free host (such as Tripod) is that the search engines won't be able to find you properly.

According to what I've known, many people think that only domain name can get listed in Search engine. But that's not true, many experts say none-domain name still can get listed easily, do a search on Yahoo and you'll see tons of them are not fully domain name.

i was spammed as well by doteasy

Originally posted by Nam
According to what I've known, many people think that only domain name can get listed in Search engine. But that's not true, many experts say none-domain name still can get listed easily, do a search on Yahoo and you'll see tons of them are not fully domain name.
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Well, you are right of course. However, the problem isn't whether you have a domain name or not, the problem is how the search engines "process" your site. If you are redirecting, then the search engines aren't able to properly spider your site. I know this from experience... I had a site on Crosswinds and had redirection for my domain name. No matter how many times I submitted to the search engines, it just didn't show up. One of the search engines (I don't remember which, maybe go.com), even pointed out that sites that have redirection won't be spidered. They request that you submit the site with the host address as opposed to your domain name.

Anyhow, I moved the site to Portland with domain hosting, set the DNS settings to point to Portland, submitted the site again, and voila! I now show up in the listings.

I hope this helps (I also hope that the above was accurate :-)

Easy,

Abu Mami

I think what Nam meant is that although you couldn't subit your domain name to the engines, you still can submit the longer URL that your domain redirects to. I know, not exactly what you want but...

You got me, Chicken :)

I was hosted with Doteasy for a year. It is a really good service if you are jkust starting out with this stuff. However, as time went on and as my site grew and I became more and more comfortable with HTML and such, I realied that I wanted and needed to have the stuff that doteasy didn't offer.

They are a good company, I felt. They always alerted me of when a possible downtime might be coming up and in the whole year I used them (my service is up in a month), they were only down 2 or 3 times for a couple of hours each.

So, I would recommend them if you are just stating out, you don't have a lot of money to spend, or don't need a lot of fancy features :-)

Originally posted by GlitterChris
I was hosted with Doteasy for a year. It is a really good service if you are jkust starting out with this stuff. However, as time went on and as my site grew and I became more and more comfortable with HTML and such, I realied that I wanted and needed to have the stuff that doteasy didn't offer.

They are a good company, I felt. They always alerted me of when a possible downtime might be coming up and in the whole year I used them (my service is up in a month), they were only down 2 or 3 times for a couple of hours each.

So, I would recommend them if you are just stating out, you don't have a lot of money to spend, or don't need a lot of fancy features :-)

Just about to say that! Although I think there bandwidth is dodgy with there packages. :eek:

A couple of my friends used to use doteasy and didn't like it because it didn't offer any room for there site to grow. They also would complain to me about downtime, and email not working for there domain. I suggest godaddy.com ($8.95 a year and COMPANY that offers hosting for a low price.).

I just signed up with doteasy a few days ago. I used to have a website with them over a year ago and I liked it well enough even though the services are a little thin. What made me leave that time were the outrageously priced add-ons.

Now with this website, I really can't stand doteasy. Here's why:

-It takes 48 hours just for them to email you after you sign up
-No support on weekends
-at least 48 hours before they respond to help requests
- FAQs and "knowledge base" are patheticly anemic. here is a sample directly from the FAQ:

Q: My e-mail program is prompting me for the user name and password, but I am certain it is correct.

A:The most common mistake is that you are not entering the user name correctly. You should also ensure that your email settings are correctly entered.


AAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

-and finally, after two days with them, I am completely locked out of my administrative "control panel". If I try to login, I just get the *EXTREMELY HELPFUL* "Login failed" screen. That's all it says. "Login Failed".

Of course I sent them a few emails, but lucky me it will be wednesday before they get back to me.

I can't reccommend them. Noy unless you're a mosochist. I hate the term, but you "get what you pay for". With doteasy, it's $0 for 0 service.

--DW

I used Dot-Easy for about a year, they always informed me about downtime, although I never experienced any myself. Their service was quite good but it's targeted towards beginners, although they do offer CGI etc, as add-ons to the account (if you pay!)

We have a non profit client (www.legalfox.com) at doteasy, and its been up for over a year with no downtime, no e-mail problems, and no trffic problems.

Although they offer basic bare bones hosting, the server seems pretty fast and its affordable @ the $25.00 they pay yearly.

They are however moving to server space sometime this year as they need scripting capabilities to further develop the website.

Over all it's great for very basic hosting, but keep in mind it will not suffice if you would like to have forms on your website or any scripting or server side programming.

i have been with doteasy and had no troubles at all i am not one of there affiliates and think they are a very honest trustable company.

I have an acquaintance who has their site hosted on doteasy. We haven't really spoken of their customer support (but considering it's free, what do you expect?), but I do know that it's not a service for a site with high traffic. I'm not sure how much traffic her site was getting, I'm estimating maybe a couple hundred visitors/day - but the site was frequently unavailable for half the month due to exceeding the allotted data transfer for that month. When the site *is* available, though, it loads pretty well.

i hate doteasy! it wont allow me to transfer my domain!!!!

coz the admin email address is theirs!!!

i didn't know that it had to be mine a year ago.:angry:

in doteasy, once u go over 1 gb of traffic, the visitor will be sent to a doteasy advert page instead of your index. what a bunch of............ aarrgh!.:angry:

You know, I still stick by my doteasy slam.

But to their credit, they did send me a reply to my questions today (I guess they do have weekend support)

BUT

It was an automated reply that really offered no help. All it said was to check my settings again. Well DER!


I actually figured it out myself. I changed my password which let me back into my account options. Then I deleted all the email accounts I created and then made them again, and voila, she worked. I guess my final opinion is that of almost everyone else here. It's okay to start out on, or for a personal page, but don't try to run a business off it.


_DW

:angry: DotEasy
last year i hosted with them ten domains. Four month later someone frauduently (?) use my same credit card info and doteasy charge from my credit card USD 823, i mailed to them for refund my money. six weeks later doteasy send to me an email : you cannot cancel these accounts (lol which accounts !)
And i call my bank. My bank cannot refund my USD 823 .

Happy Customer Services:angry:

I have an account with doteasy.

Is it down right now? Im in Asia.

i use doteasy too....it's not bad if you want a very basic, very cheap site...been using it for about 1 year. I haven't submitted any support questions, as everything is pretty basic. I haven't noticed any large downtimes.

If you're having a static page without a lot of traffic, i would recommend it...it's cheap and decent. Not the best....but it's good enough for what i need. I'm thinkin of moving it later when i need more traffic or features. It's really expensive to get extra features with doteasy (i.e. php, mysql etc...)

My experience with dot easy based in two years being with them.

Pros
-Uptime unbelievable

Con
-Basic fee doesn't include any of the scripting languages...and it gets expensive quickly if you add any of them

-They don't even offer SMTP, not even if you pay them, way too paranoid about spamming IMO

The reason I have stayed for the over two years is the uptime and the 'small-ness' of my sites.

When I made my first website (Jan. 2001), I ordered a DotEasy hosting account. It took a while to get it setup. Once it was setup, everything worked as promised. It is a very bare-bones host, however, so I eventually ended up switching to one with many more features. Their uptime was always pretty good. I only went down once or twice that I noticed. The server speed for my site was awful though. I have a cable modem and average about 300kbs from a regular website. On my DotEasy account site, the highest I ever achieved was about 20kbs.
Just my two cents...

I am currently in doteasy, and I think it is good if you dont want to use nothing more than simple HTML, so now Im looking for something a little more powerful but not so expensive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this actually the cheapest webhosting site??? I think there is nothing cheaper.

Oh by the way, I heard a rumor that dot easy was not doing well economically and where considering shuting down, could somebody tell me if this is true?:confused:

I have 2 accounts with them that require no scripting that has had great uptime and no problems whatsoever, one is listed #1 with yahoo, but I would never host my "real" (money making) sites there do to space, bandwidth, scripting limitations

I've actually taken doteasy.com into consideration, only because this will be my first time getting hosting. After reading so many horror stories online, even here on WHT, I'm somewhat scared to actually go get hosting with a company that will give me tons of problems. I've been looking around for sometime now and I'm honestly "stuck". I have no idea who I will end up getting hosting from, so for $35/yr to transfer my domain doesnt' sound too bad since it's basic website (portfolio mostly).