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Netfirms
Review ==>Our number one choice for many reasons. (This
site is hosted with netfirms) |
1 Free Plan
FREE (Basic):
Uptime: 100%
Space: 25 MB's
Monthly
transfer: 1GB Upload: FTP or FrontPage.
Supports: FrontPage , PERL
Free URL: name.netfirms.com
Email: 1 POP account if you have your own domain
Website Statistics: Limited to visitor info (where from,
how many, who referred, etc...) Only lacks advanced statistics
like search terms in search engines etc...)
Tech. support: 24H Email support
Technically: 5Star
Cons: Displays a banner above your page
NOTES:
Steady policy never popups no footer banners or games, Just the
banner above
Even though You get a lower priority PERL support than paid
hosting for dynamic content (static pages always show),
nevertheless it is not a problem since they work fine most of
the time, in the event that a dynamic page does not show up,
Refresh (F5) and it works. |
3 paid plans
Personal (PLUS):
Monthly
Cost: $4.95 USD
Space: 50 MB, Monthly
Transfer: 2 GB
Supports: PHP 4.x, FrontPage , PERL (100% reliable)
Server Side Includes
(SSI), Streaming Multimedia.
Free URL: name.netfirms.com
Email: 5 POP E-mail Accounts (5 MB Each) with webmail or POP3,
SMTP, Catch-all / E-mail Forwarding. Requires you having a domain
Website Statistics:
(Everything and anything you can imagine, it even tells you what
search terms were used in search engines to get to your website,
also supported.
Tech. support: 24H Email support, 24H Phone support.
Small Business (Advanced): Monthly Cost: $9.95 USD, Disk Space: 500 MB,
Data Transfer: 10 GB, 100 E-mail Accounts (10 MB Each),
Full SMTP / POP3 E-mail (mail.yourname.com), 1 FREE Domain
Name, 25 Domain Pointers, Domain Forwarding (with
Pointers) 10 MySQL Databases &
PHPMyAdmin, VeriSign SSL Certificate (Shared)
Largest Plan (business):
Monthly Cost: $14.95
USD, Different than
the one above with. Disk Space: 1000 MB (1 GB),
Monthly Data Transfer:
20 GB, 50 Domain Pointers, 200 E-mail Accounts
(20 MB Each) (catch
all Email included) |
If ease of use and
upload, reliability, Speed are important, if you
intend to use PERL (supported in free hosting plan), if
you wish to use PHP later on you can upgrade and get PHP
latest version support. |
If you intend to use any
database other than MySQL, and even the MySQL database is only
included in Advanced and business plans (not in free "Basic" and
personal "Plus" |
