A Great Competitor I just signed with them
I recommend ICDSoft.com, been searching for months for a frontpage server after I ran into development restrictions on my Cold Fusion host. (Restrictions as a result of my limited development aptitude).
I asked a whole bunch of questions to their customer support before I joined.
They answered each email about 5-6 of them with real people within 15 minutes per email.
Unbelievable, these guys are awesome. And for $5 dollars a month you CAN NOT go wrong.
Read reviews on them HERE:
http://www.webhostingratings.com/plans/ICDSoft-Reviews.html. Those reviews are independent and not paid for or sponsored, a few negative ones but all of those have adequate replies.
Here is what I got for $65 US (GRAND TOTAL) a year:
Free DOMAIN name (I registered empireradio.com)
333 MB of web space
5000 MB of transfer a month (5GB) which is approximately 100,000 hits a month on the average site
5 FREE Sub domains (i.e. trevor.empireradio.com or fitness.empireradio.com)
Web Site statistics
Online Control Panel
MySQL Database
Frontpage 2002 extensions
Personal CGI-BIN
24/7 Tech support and the longest I have waited to hear from them was literally 15 minutes
Pass protected directories
SSI
SSL
Graphical Hit Counter
WAP Support (for handheld computers and cell phones)
24/7 FTP access
EMAIL STUFF
Unlimited Email accounts
Webmail
SMTP, POP3 and IMAP Mail Servers
They set me up within 10 minutes and my server is active already. That was 20 minutes ago.
MY domain name is guaranteed 24 hrs or less to be active.
WOW is all I can say… I will see how it goes with them, speed wise and will let you know. Though I pinged some of their customers and it was slightly slower than 60Host.
After my IP was set up I pinged it (from Toronto Canada on DSL 1.5m).
Here was the results:
60Host.com = av ping 106ms
my server = av ping 204ms
Those results are a bit askew though as I am sure 60Host web server is on a better connection and dedicated server, as it is their flagship website.
I don't know anyone on 60Host to ping from here, if you know someone tell me so I can see, if there is ANY downside to this host.
Take Care,
Trevor