What's the catch?

[shaungtp]

I have been looking to switch servers for a while now and I stumbled across HostRocket. I almost fell out of my chair at the prices. I currently pay $7.95 a month for 25 mb of space and 500mb of bandwith. Hostrocket's economy plan blows this out of the water. So what I am wondering is what's the catch? There's got to be a snag in the silver lining. I've browsed these boards and I don't see too many people complaining but I am still leary. Is this place all it's cracked up to be?

[SnakEyez]

For the most part the service is good. But as with any place there are always exceptions. For a shared hosting service on a Linux based server this is one of the best deals there is out there.

[Mahmoud]

Originally posted by shaungtp
I have been looking to switch servers for a while now and I stumbled across HostRocket. I almost fell out of my chair at the prices. I currently pay $7.95 a month for 25 mb of space and 500mb of bandwith. Hostrocket's economy plan blows this out of the water. So what I am wondering is what's the catch? There's got to be a snag in the silver lining. I've browsed these boards and I don't see too many people complaining but I am still leary. Is this place all it's cracked up to be?

Your Host take alot of money more than what it deserves, Hostrocket takes what it thinks it deserves for their services. (However, HR deserves more but do not tell them ;) :p)

Same as NetworkSolutions and Registerfly or other registrar

NetworkSolutions : $35 per year to register your domain, no additional service and very hard time to change the nameservers or any information

RegisterFly: $9.99 per year (some days : $8.99/year and some days : $7.99/year ), Instant registration, Automatic Nameserver changes, free redirection, free email forwarding, free 3 MB Hosting, free Pop Email, free Limited DNS server, good support ...etc

However both companies takes the domain for about $6.5 from ICANN.ORG

I currently pay $7.95 a month for 25 mb of space and 500mb of bandwith

You can get such a package in Barrysworld.com for free with good speed ..

[RobertJ]

I too have been looking at Hostrocket.com. I'm a PHP hobbyist who has written a fairly extensive webtracker. I'd like to offer remote tracking to a fairly small number of paying customers. The advantage of Hostrocket is the amount of memory and bandwidth it offers for the money. I've noticed some other companies which also offer good deals. However, the ones I've seen have one basic plan. Hostrocket has higher level plans and even has dedicated servers. Therefore, a person could grow with Hostrocket, as he needed more space and bandwidth.

My question, is Hostrocket reliable enough to use for offering such a service? How is the uptime? Has anyone had any problems running PHP scripts? This bulletin board is written in PHP and it seems to be running quite well. Does PHP run this well on the other servers hosted by Hostrocket?

Thanks

[petesmc]

Hi,

Remote tracking is against the ToS, locatable by sending a blank email to tos@hostrocket.com.

-Peter

[SnakEyez]

From what Brendan told me the HR TOS is only applicable to shared hosting plans for most of the stuff (basically anything that isn't illegal or against copyright). Isn't that correct?

Basically I am trying to say that if he were to have a dedicated server it would be ok.

[RobertJ]

Just curious, why is it against the terms of service as long as one stays within the bandwidth requirements?

[Brendan]

This mostly was put in place to keep people from running pretty server intensive scripts that allowed remote tracking etc. of gaming servers.

-Brendan

[RobertJ]

Thanks for the answer. However, if you ran a remote tracker for your own site only, would that be acceptable?