Hi all,

I am new to the hosting arena. I am looking to host a small site, which will probably not grow to more than 30MB. I do, however, need CGI support and POP email accounts. Most of all, I need a reliable service. I have gone through some of the Web sites offering hosting services and came across "your-site.com". They offer the package below for $60/year.

Can anyone share their experience with this service? It seems to offer what I need at a reasonable price, but I would really like to be sure before I go into this. If you have had any bad experiences with them and/or can suggest other sites that would better suite my needs, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jacob.

The package offered by "your-site.com" for $60/year:

Support: 24/7 Pager, 7 Day E-mail, 5 Day Phone Support
25 POP3 accounts, 50 Megs space, 6 GIGs monthly transfer.
E-mail Control Panel
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
CGI and SSI Application Support
25 POP3 Mailboxes
Automated Statistics
Access to Raw Log Files
Unlimited E-mail Aliasing and Forwarding
No Pop-up Advertisements or Banners
Daily Backups
99.9% Uptime Guarantee

There are many reputable hosts on this board including
http://www.wizardshosting.com
http://www.site5.com

to name a few. They may have the specs you are looking for

Hi,
I've personally used your-site.com in the past and can say that they are a good host. The lack of MySQL and PHP in the basic price may concern you if you ever want to run software or scripts that use them. Also, I believe, they do not yet offer a control panel for basic account functions (you do get a email control panel). Overall though, they are a fine choice for a host. :)

Regards,

Thanks Jim for your honest input. Did you require any Technical Support from them? If so, how was their response time & quality?

Jacob.

Hi,
The few times that I needed to contact them, they were prompt and helpful. I can't remember exactly what my problem was though. I just remember it worked out well :)

Regards,

I had a domain hosted with them for over a year and other than some minor delays in email, I found them to be very good, uptime included.

Their telephone support is always answered by a human and all issues resolved promptly and courteously.

Email support is always within 24 hours. They accept payment via personal/business checks and even when I was late in paying (I had forgotten to update my email address with them, thus resulting me in not receiving their invoice until I called them 2 months later), they did not suspend or cancell my hosting services.

The only reason I stopped hosting with them is because of the extra they charge for databases and I wanted to start using MySQL.

I do highly recommend them if they have the features you want and their prices are within your budget.

Good Luck!

I can add a strong recommedation for your-site.com, while my experience is quite a while back. I had my own site hosted by them for a while, and then resold through them for a few months. We only left after outgrowing reselling.

It's probably not important, but worth noting, that they use Suns and Solaris, not the more common Linux.

PepsiCoke's right, there are a lot of fine hosts that maintain a presence here. But that group in no way represents all the good hosts that are available, and posting here doesn't make a host "good" by itself. Your-Site impressed me as being hard working, direct, and honest; one of those rare hosts that actually sent out an explanation when they experienced brief downtime, instead of just hoping that the customers didn't notice.

[Edited by JayC on 04-11-2001 at 04:43 AM]

Thank you all for your honest feedback. It looks like your-site.com has just earned themselves another customer.

Jacob.