Here is what Dot5Hosting says about its services. All of their plans include: unlimited e-mail accounts, bandwidth, hosting space, and domains. They offer free shopping carts, domain name, and website templates and builders. They also include: being e-commerce ready, five software modules, blogs, and tools for forums. Dot5Hosting accounts have perks too such as 2GB of desktop backup, online store, advertising credits for Google and Yahoo, and search engine tools. The setup is free and there is a 30-day money back guarantee.
You can find sixty-seven reviews by users of Dot5Hosting at Web Hosting Jury and all of them I looked at were bad. For reliability they rated 1.3/5, support 1.3/5, pricing 2.6/5, and overall 12/5. One of the main complaints was that customer support was basically nil. Getting a refund is another big problem according to the reviews and down time. Of two customer reviews at Web Hosting Geeks one charged Dot5Hosting with bad ethics and another said they weren’t too bad. A user review at hostreviewindex says they offer Imap, but don’t have it. On the other side at WebHostingReviews there are two good customer reviews of the company. They say they are satisfied with them; the up time is good and they like the customer service.
Dot5Hosting states that these are some of the reasons to join: statistics, 24/7 support, the connections are reliable, and an award winning control panel. They list live chat, phone, and online forms as means of contact. The knowledgebase section seems much like those for other companies offering many of the same services, but their marketing help for promoting your site and for affiliates has a few more options than some companies offer. Their tutorial section looks adequate covering things like account management, various e-mail items, e-commerce, scripting, transition, and managing your website. The faqs offers help with Microsoft exchange, other e-mail needs, scripting, site creation, account management, and domain help.
The Dot5Hosting additional resources include: web authoring and file transfer tools, links to different web help, and links to other tutorials. They offer a deal with Web Concierge Service. This service helps you manage your account, with your support requests, and the concierge assists in setting up email applications, and the database. Dot5Hosting has an affiliate and a referral program. This is what the affiliate program is like: you get $85.00 per customer you draft for them, there aren’t an monthly minimums, cookies are good for one year, and the payment methods are flexible. The referral program pays $10.00 for each customer referred.
Dot5Hosting has received awards from Hosting Review, Top-10-web-hosting.com, FindMyHost.com, WebHostDir.com, HostReview.com, HostAZ.com, Cheap-WebHosting-Guide.com, and Web-Hosting-Top.com. HostPulse.com, and Upper host also recommend them. The Community Directory at this site covers everything from arts to science and a lot in between. Any client can submit their site to the community directory. Dot5Hosting has been in business since 2002. Their longevity implies good things about them, but consider the various opinions in the reviews before making your choice.