Website Hosting + Registrar Suggestions

[QforQ]

Originally Posted by Kaio

Lunarpage deal is completely ridiculous... Theres overselling and theres...that...wtf mate.

I guess if they provide good support and performance for those using a tera-byte or more of transfer a month it's all good but that deal is fishy, really fishy.

3.5 tera-bytes for $7 a month and each additional gig is $3.95. So if you used an extra tera-byte your bill would be $3,950 higher... even without overages that is too much transfer for my mind to wrap around for so little cost.

I've never had problems with them and yes I know they are over selling. I've been with them for close to 4 years now and their support has been great and I havent had any problems with them from support, to server outages or anything like that. It's nice to know I have that sort of BW and HD space, but I'll never use it.

[oaklanbash]

A lot depends on your intended market. If you want to reach out to Asia be careful with godaddy. Nobody in China or India can see the servers there because of shared IP. You have to get a dedicated IP and there are still problems with your mail. It has been a nightmare getting everything working for my website to be visible in those 2 countries... that is over 2.5 billion possible customers

[RiskyChris]

Originally Posted by oaklanbash

A lot depends on your intended market. If you want to reach out to Asia be careful with godaddy. Nobody in China or India can see the servers there because of shared IP. You have to get a dedicated IP and there are still problems with your mail. It has been a nightmare getting everything working for my website to be visible in those 2 countries... that is over 2.5 billion possible customers

Wow, holy shit. That is incredibly important information to know for the future, thanks!

[oaklanbash]

Originally Posted by RiskyChris

Wow, holy shit. That is incredibly important information to know for the future, thanks!

Well this is what happens... big ass companies like godaddy only have a few IP addresses in reality. So that hundreds or maybe even thousands of sites share one IP. The only thing that makes a difference is you type in your name, and it will DNS register with the godaddy servers. With Asian countries that have massive firewalls (In China it is called the The Great Firewall of China) if one person has a website the government finds offensive, they can't ban the name, they ban the IP address. Well guess what, if you have one site on the shared IP address of your site, the whole batch of hundreds to thousands all get banned....