HostRoute

I'm interested in starting up a reseller hosting site, and HostRoute looks really good value. cPanel, 2500 mb, 25 ftps etc. for £9 per/month.

Is it too good to be true? Has anyone else had experience with them?

Also, if my clients wanted to register domains, is it possible to include such functionality on my site?

 

Id go with asmallorange.com. They should also have everything you need.

 

I went with them once....a lot of downtime...you know if you use there american site you get the same deal in dollars...so it works out cheaper hehe

 

I use hostgator.com, never had downtime...

 

Same here. hostgator is great for reseller hosting

 

b-one.net kicks ass.. its much better than asmalloranga or hostgator

 

You must all be joking about no downtime with Hostgator. I've been with them for about 9 months, until the last coupla weeks my domain was unreachable for 10-20 minutes every day that I knew about. Watching the Control Panel stats, their load would go to about 13 before the site was slow. They said it was good for 20, but it tended to spiral to about 80 before the server died, and then maybe 20 minutes before it was up and running again. Their chat is generally friendly but normally useless and slow. They feed you rubbish, then pick up the pieces later. Eg, their stated cap on outgoing emails is 200 an hour, but my site was closed even at this level (the op pannicked - they told me). Hours later it was back up, told to keep outgoing under 130 an hour. Remember this wil be the total for all the sites you hosts, therefore making commercial outgoing emails an impossibility. They keep quiet about their limits, eg: I think they have a 25 maximum simultaneous connections to their MySql databases. All up, they're ok if you have a bunch of static sites each with little traffic and you only need occasional email. Their come-on sounds great, but if you want to host a number of 'real' domains, then you'll soon exceed their (secret) limits and get banned.

 

I will back him on this. I personally have never used the service, but I have many friends who do use the service and I frequently speak with the CEO online. They seem to have good service.

 

I've been having a dreadful experience with HostRoute. Really, truly appalling. Right now I'm looking for an alternative hoster, and as soon as I do I will post the full comi-tragic story of inept technical support and rude customer service they've been supplying. I don't dare risk it until I've moved somewhere else because I honestly believe they would have no qualms in wrecking my site if they knew I was flaming them.

So, recommendations for alternative hosts (ideally using cpanel to administer) very welcome!