Any negtive experience with http://www.hostdime.com/ Reseller Hosting? A friend of mine has used them for a couple of years, but he only has 2 or 3 very small accounts (only a few html pages) that he hosts on his account.

I have become very impressed with http://www.rshosting.com/ customer service but today realized that I may get far more space and bandwidth for my $30/per month if I go with HostDime.

My main concern is speed for my own website and page display - although I have come to appreciate the importance of support also. The 2GB of space and 35GB of bandwidth from RSHosting might be kind of skimpy for my website (compared to 30GB and 300GB from HostDime), let alone if I allow a couple of other small sites to use my space.

Point is that I have been researching RSHosting for a bit over a week and have had some positive feedback about their service. I only have my friend Nathan's limited experience concerning HostDime. Any help?

Well the real question is, are you going to have regrets when hostdime's server goes down and you can't get ahold of support? If not, go with them, if so, stick with rshosting. Also, there are many other hosting companies out there which I'm sure that can provide you with good support and better resources for the money.

are you going to have regrets when hostdime's server goes down and you can't get ahold of support?

Is that a problem that they have or are known for? I guess that is what I'm trying to find out.

I never said its problem their known for, but you have to be prepared for the worste....because when your sites go down your customers are going to be all over you.

Do you really have the need for 30GB storage / 300gb transfer???

Do you really have the need for 30GB storage / 300gb transfer???

That is the problem - - - I do.


My current website is almost 2GB in size. But I am doing a major rebuild and plan on keeping the Preview Websites from each of my jobs, on my server permanently (to benefit from future print sales) - where now I take them down after 2 weeks, so only have 8 or 10 on at any given time. Each Preview Website is roughly 10MB to 12 MB. I also plan on incorporating more video and multimedia clips for embedding in my webpages. I doubt that I will need 30GB - but 3 to 4 GB won't last long.

Bandwidth may be a different issue. I probably don't require 300GB Transfer. I just checked my control panel at Netfirms and my

Bandwidth used this year (2006) is 166,935.41 MB



Bandwidth for November was:
Graph Summary:
Total Bandwidth for Month: 11,738.62 MB




but I am sure that will increase with any video, flash or podcast media I may use in the near future. RS Hosting who I was planning on using have only 35GB transfer per month.

Then I guess you're better off with HostDime since space/bandwidth is a concern for you. Let us know how that goes :)

Most importantly for me though - and the reason I am moving from Netfirms - - - is that I just want decent page load speed, and a reliable email service for my domain name email.

As I have posted previously, my photography website that is hosted with Netfirms Advantage Plan, has become almost unusable as a result of almost dial up speeds and dropped pages from timeouts. It is very discouraging and an irritation to the 600 to 700 visitors on my site each day. I have compared with other similar photography sites (many even have heavy use of flash) and they load quickly compared to mine. Netfirms says there are no issues and that mine is loading normally.

I became more disheartened when I had a direct comparison of - what was my PPF photography forum up until I sold it a month ago. The new owner has finally got it transfered to a new server and online - and it is blazing fast - - - - unlike how it was when I hosted it on my Netfirms site, where everyone complained about the slowness and the inability to post images and messages so much of the time. PPF forum pages ( www.prophotoforum.com (http://www.prophotoforum.com/) ) - even with many images on a page, now load right up on Corts new server. Although I'm not sure where he put it, I believe it is GoDaddy - - - which is strange being I have heard negative reports of overselling similar to Netfirms.


I'm not wanting to spend $30 or more a month if I am not going to get significant results - or if other shared plans can provide the normal good speed that I am after and that most seem to have. I'm not after a reseller program - RShosting was recommended even if I was only using my website on the space.

I have to say, your site's loadtime is pretty slow. If you're going for a shared account then it's possible you could find a host for your requirements. I am seeing a few that offer the specs you're looking for in the offers section. Have you looked in there yet?

30GB storage / 300gb transfer???
Probably you don't need that much, after read your calculations, maybe 5-7 GB of space are enough and 100 GB of bandwidth too.
I suggest you to do a search for the real usage that you expect to have and not for how much can you buy for the money.
I mean, for $4.99 at 1and1 you can get 100 GB of space and 1000 GB of bandwidth but I'm not sure that if you want to go there :).

If reliability is important to you, I would re-calculate your needs

Probably you don't need that much, after read your calculations, maybe 5-7 GB of space are enough and 100 GB of bandwidth too.


I agree - - - that is the area that I have calculated to roughly be my needs. And that is what started to worry me about the quality providers I was looking at - I had to pay as premium for those kind of resources. On the other hand, I am left wondering if a good quality shared provider will satisfy my needs. I guess the only way I'll know is to try one - what a pain though transfering everything over just to find out that the new server is no better than what I left - - - and then transfering to another and maybe another. That's kind of why I am asking some questions here and valueing your responses and the feedback.

If you chose a Cpanel host, to move from one to another (cpanel), is pretty easy, although I understand the pain of search for a new host because the actual is bad.

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It would be easy to transfer your files/databases over if you had cPanel but since you're with Netfirms, that's another story. You'll have to do it the hard way which is manually uploading everything to your new host via ftp.

I have become very impressed with http://www.rshosting.com/ customer service but today realized that I may get far more space and bandwidth for my $30/per month if I go with HostDime.

Don't risk value over price. If you are happy with customer service friendliness and response times...there most certainly is a reason for that.

Remember most hosts will have the option to upgrade if need be. Have you searched other sites for reviews on HostDime?

Robert,

Do a quick search for hostdime here on the forums.
The latest word on them is that they've improved quite a bit over the years. I've hosted some minor pages on their network and uptime/speed is exceptional.

These days they're almost never mentioned and that's generally a good sign. :)

I've never used the other provider so I can't comment.

Whew - I found it. (the thread was moved without my knowing - I thought it was deleted cause I was a bad boy :evilb:)

Do a quick search for hostdime here on the forums.

Yes - I have been.

Actually I was hosting with my friend through his HostDime reseller package, for a short period of time a couple of years ago - and after quite a few problems that weren't resolved quickly, and then my account being suspended for unknowingly going over my bandwidth allowance and website taken offline in the middle of the month while my buddy was out of the country (and I nor anyone else could reach him) - - - I immediately switched to Netfirms (about a year and a half ago) to get my site back online. It does appear from some of the stuff I have just read about HostDime, that they were going through some problems during that time period when I was on their server (some of the problems were also probably the fault of an inexperienced reseller) - - - and that many of those issues have been resolved (according to their people that are posting, anyway)