Dot 5 HostingReview

Dot5 Hosting is a professional web hosting company based in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the well known companies in the area and in the industry of web hosting, Dot5 Hosting credits its close ties with their customers for their success. Living with the belief that their customers will basically look for someone else if they won’t take care of them, Dot5 Hosting have assured all their customers proper and personal support 24/7. Because of this philosophy, their 25,000 and growing customers are happy.

New accounts get the added bonus of:

• $30 Google Adwords credit
• $50 Yahoo Search Marketing credit
• Free Domain Name
• Free Site Promotion
• Free e-Commerce Shopping Cart/Scripts
• Free SiteBuilder with Templates
• 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
• Professional Courteous Support

Dot5 Hosting only offers one package priced at $4.95 per month. Although there is no other choice for a web hosting package, this single option can cover even large company websites and stores that requires the ability to handle large chunks of data. Dot5 Hosting offers 1,700GBs of storage space with 17,000GBs of bandwidth transfer per month. But even with only one account, customers can set up as many domain names as they can.

Setting up your site is a breeze with Dot5 Hosting since they have more than 100 templates to choose from. Dot5 Hosting is compatible with a number of web development languages such as CGI, Dreamweaver, PHP, Frontpage and Ruby-On-Rails. Once they sign up, customers can kick start their web presence with the help of Dot5 Hosting. New customers will receive a $50 credit for Yahoo! Search ads program. Making the offer sweeter is the $30 credit for Google Adwords. 

Dot5 Hosting datacenter security is supported by the leaders of the industry such as Congent and Time Warner. The data center is also well protected by a constant power source and back-up, and also with better data center conditions. Proper air-conditioning and closed monitoring ensures the ideal environment of the data center. These settings support their guaranteed uptime of 99.9%.  A 30-day money back guarantee is also offered to prove their efficiency and reliability.

Uptime Monitor

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Monitored since January 14, 2008 (171 days)
Overall uptime: 98.358%

Dot5 Hosting uses the vDeck control panel. This highly popular control panel enables web administrators to easily work with different functions for web maintenance and updates. vDeck’s layout is also very user-friendly that even those who are not very familiar with the control panel should find this control panel easy to use. The large icons are very notable as well as easily implementation of different online functions such as shopping carts and management of e-mail accounts. 

The Cpanel comes equipped with features such as:

• Site statistics
• Search engine submissions
• Script implementation
• Forums
• Database administration
• Quick access to manage all email accounts.
• Makes it a breeze to manage files and the domain itself.

The ability to maintain multiple domains with the single account in Dot5 Hosting offers an unlimited opportunity for their customers. Supporting it with a highly efficient infrastructure, 24/7 customer support and a massive storage space with even bigger bandwidth, customers could freely build the website of their choice and expect the stability they need and more from Dot5 Hosting.

Price: Cheap (Below Average Cost)
Web Space: Great (approx. 3,000,000 pages)
Traffic: Great (approx. 30,000,000 page views)
Ease Of Use: Easy interface and great customer support
General Features: Great (Host Unlimited Domains on 1 Account)
Business Features: Great ($50 Yahoo Credit and $30 Google Credit)
Money-Back Guarantee: 30 Day, 100% Risk-Free