One Year's Hosting for $9
 

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I was given this info from a friend on another forum. You can get a great deal on a year's web hosting and domain registration from www.dreamhost.com.

Select the Managed Web Hosting offer, then select Crazy Domain Insane. Then enter your domain details or create a new domain name, click to procedd and then enter your server name and your initial email address, and click to continue again. Next, create a WebID - don't worry, it only takes 2 minutes.

Importantly enter the following promotion code in the "Confirm your hosting plan" section. Optional Promo Code: 777

This promo code entitles you to a $110.16 discount, so instead of paying $119.40 you will only be charged $9.24!!!

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Interesting ... a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space.

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It doesn't appear to work anymore :(

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Hmm, weird... just tested it again here, and it's still OK for me. Did it not show the 'Hosting Plan' as

12 months of L1: Crazy Domain Insane: $119.40
Your set up fee is waived because of pre-payment: $0.00
Sub-total: $119.40

...or was it the promo code that didn't work?

(ps - the details above were displayed before entering the promo code ;) )

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The promo code didnt work

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You have to select 1 or 2 year hosting plan on the Crazy Level 1

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It has to be 1 year hosting by the looks of it, just tried that and it works fine.

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Yeah it is, you can get a discount off the 2 year plan but it's no where near the same...There must be a catch but for £5 for the year I've gone for it!

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Ah, yeah, you're right.... hadn't realised. It's probably easier therefore to use the following link, and then select the 12 month option...

https://panel.dreamhost.com/signup/

Thanks for pointing out that.

Like Tricky, I'm not sure what the catch is (there has to be one somewhere)... maybe it's that they're registering the new domain names in their name, and they'll charge a fortune when/if you want to switch providers...?!? I dunno. But, for a fiver for a year, I'm not gonna complain.

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On reading their site they register domains in your name, waiting for my whois record to prove that. Found one catch, you don't get $65 for referring someone else unless they register again in 12 months time (also providing you do)

Note: The charge goes up to the full $119 after 12 months and it's recurring unless you cancel in writing - I've deleted my card details of the site and set the account to expire 364 days in - For 12 months It'll be my test site for HUGE images!!! (keep I-web happy anyhow!)

You can also resell your space for whatever you like!!! No charge etc.

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When something sounds too good to be true it usually means that,

a)They are suicidal business wise and will soon be out of business.

b)Prices will rise as soon as possible so they don't go out of business.

c)They are a scam and will be running for the hills pretty soon having conned the gullible.

Unless of course they just have a lot of capital invested and can 'bulk buy' so to speak.

I'm staying with I-Web myself.They give a really special deal to Cable Forum members after all. :tu:

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Yep, the referral not being valid for users who used the promo code isn't really an issue for me. I was only interested in getting a really cheap host for a year, not in getting income from referrals.

I too have deleted my credit card details and disabled the automatic billing option ;)

Finally, in response to Incog's comments, if I was looking for a serious hosting company, I'd undoubtedly go for i-web too. However, this is just a sandbox for me to mess about with till I get bored, or maybe somewhere to host my streaming radio. In any case, from what I've seen, they're a legit hosting company who have been around for a number of years... that's not to say that there aren't posts on the web complaining about 'em ;)

And as good as i-web appear to be, even they can't compare with £5 for a year's hosting. But if I find this worthwhile, then I might be looking to them in Jan '06.

edit: bloomin' hell, lookin' at that link, Incog, they've got some great deals too. I think I will definitely be switching to them in Jan '06 after all!

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*cough* overselling *cough*

The reason they can charge so little for so much diskspace and bandwidth is that they work in the assumption that the people using the accounts will never use up their full quota of space and bandwidth - if everyone decided to use it all at once, their company would fold straight away - it would just not be viable to provide that level for that price - a lot of hosting companies do this overselling lark (I-web being one of the ones that don't ) and often they are the ones that suddenly fold up and vanish, leaving a lot of unhappy people behind. It gives the other companies a bad name, and most of them have a real dislike for companies that do it.

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Sorry for hijaking the thread but I was having a gander at your .com prices. They seem pretty cheap, 10 quid for two years? I take it that it is there are no hidden extras?

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No hidden charges at all - that gives you full dns control, so you can pretty much do as you like - should you want it as well, we provide free email forwarding and url forwarding....

Only thing I will say is that my site is slightly out of date, in as much as the .info promotion has finished - so you no longer get a free .info domain - I need to update the site today.

Hope this helps

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So all I pay is 10 quid?? Is there a Registry Fee on top of that?

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Nope, that's entirely it - what you see is what you pay - it will cost you £10.58 for a 2 year registration of a .com name (if you buy more, or for longer it costs you less per year) - that's it - there's no hidden costs, nothing to pay to access the dns details.

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So when the registry fee is £8.60 per year for a dot com how can you charge less than this?

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Same way most other company do - basically buying in bulk allows us a discount - we can say we're going to sell x number of thousand a month, which allows us a lower wholesale price

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Just thought i'd recommend webmania as i've found them to be a superb host. 500mb/6gb £20 a year. Support is instant, never had any downtime other than the databases being offline for 10 minute.