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Quote: Therefore, to do well in local search engines, go with a local host who has their data centre in your country. No, that's not really important or necessary unless you don't use a country domain, or you want to maximize performance for your visitors, knowing that the vast majority will be from a given geographic location. Even if you don't have a country domain, In the case of Google, you can use Webmaster Tools to set...

To achieve this effect what you actually need is hosting with a failover facility. You can't do it with nameservers since they don't test if the destination server is up.

Quote: Originally Posted by mlong30 Hi, I just purchased a new hosting Economy 2yr Lunix hosting plan which I believe says I get 100 email accounts. When I logged into my domain, and set it up. It doesn't allow me to setup email accounts unless I purchase a email plan? Are there any godaddy subscribers out there who can explain this to me? Do I have to purchase a plan, or did my hosting package already inlcluding it? I did see something...

sorry to hear all! better check some alternatives

Quote: Originally Posted by simsodep I would recommend skynethosting as they are the good hosting provider in Singapore You can surely recommend or suggest that, if you are having experience with them. But as the OP started this thread in march 2009, I don't think if this do any help for him. Please read the thread before you make a post. One or two posts up ServerPoint has pointed out this thing already.

We also run free hosting service, and I tell you guys - it's harder than you could ever think. While paid hosting usually is used by people who understand web a little, free hosting is used by newbies usually. They have no idea how to upload files, create mysql database, etc. Moreover, they have no idea how to submit support requests. We get many support tickets with messages "this s**t doesn't work", "why...

Stef why don't you want to ask them about that and want people to guess?

Well, the SitePoint user has probably signed with someone and it would be a good idea to come back and post their review. However I think that all the reviews are focused in 5 - 10 web hosts which obviously are stable enough and deserve to be trusted, but at the same time most of them lacks any quality when it comes to customization of the web hosting service.

Quote: Originally Posted by ldcdc I guess this depends on a lot of definitions, but after monitoring 9 well known budget hosts (10 accounts overall), Hostgator would seem to be the "best" overall, followed closely enough by 1and1. At least, that's what the performance and uptime of my accounts suggests. Your mileage might vary. Great info, thanks! Alex

i dont know!