I really know very little about hosting, i used this aplus place because they use a trellix site builder, and that’s the only one i know how to use, i haven’t tried any others because they don’t let me sample it 1st, and i don’t want to spend money and find out that i can’t use the service.
I understand not wanting to spend money first, and then finding it’s too complicated to use or you don’t like the service for some reason. But essentially you did that anyway here. Even though you did get a money back guarantee for 30 days and maybe a free trial, you still paid a year in advance and are in the same or worst position as if you paid for a shorter time wihtout a free trial somewhere else.
I recommend 1and1.com. I use them and have for a year now. I pay for 3 months at a time and it is extremely cheap and you get a LOT for your dollar. They have 24/7 support, and my sites are up 99.9% of the time.
They also have a lot of tools that are very simple to understand and use in the admin control area of your account. Even having no knowledge at all.
Although they don’t have a free trial, they do have a 90 day money back guarantee.
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You can choose to have your account hosted on Microsoft or Linux, the price is the same I believe.
They require you to pay for a minimum of 3 months at a time on the business plan or 6 months on the Home plan. They’re so cheap it’s nothing.
Starting at $4.99 a month (x 6 months) which is only $30 out of pocket total you have 6 months paid and it comes with one domain you can pick a brand new domain, any that is available of course, and not just the hosting but the registration for the new domain is included in your price. 1000 mb web space which is quite a lot especially if you’re a beginner. I’ve not even come close to filling up my space. 25 GB of monthly transfer volume, 1 ftp account, 200 email accounts, 10 subdomans, 50 external domains, software, newsletter tool, statistics, cgi scripts and a whole slew of other features.
This also includes a very easy to use site builder. There is a preview/trial that you can test from their site to test the site builder for yourself and to see just how easy it is to use. I’m not sure if allowed to leave that link here, please remove it if not but here’s the link to the site builder Preview Site Builder / Trial
They also have a DynamicSiteCreator that you can create interactive flash sites without any experience.
I use Frontpage for my sites, they support Frontpage Extensions.
My experience with them for the last year has been a good on, no problems, support has been great and I think when you see what all you get for the price compared to other hosting options, you’ll see that it’s VERY inexpensive.
An upgrade to the business package which offers 3 new domains included and a whole lot more of everything, is only $9.99 a month with a min. pmt. of 3 months. That’s what I have.
Either way your initial cost is only about $30.00. That’s a 90 day guarantee, and 3-6 months prepaid.
This was my first time ever with a host or anything like this. I knew nothing. Someone recommended this to me, and I figured for $30 I wasn’t going to lose too much if it didn’t work out or I didn’t do anything with the domains. You’re not on any contract or anything either. I think it comes with a free webcam right now too, not sure.
So even though you don’t get a free trial for their service. $30 is practically free in my opinin and a 90 day money back guarantee is better than what you got now. You can’t lose and I’m happy after a year.
I know I sound like I must work for them, but I’m just an extremely happy customer who also knew nothing about any of it when I started my package a year ago.
By the way, I started with the Home Package for $4.99 a month and upgraded later to the Business package for $9.99 a month. I really don’t need the Business package and don’t use 1/10th of all that it comes with. But if you ever need to upgrade, or change servers from MS Hosted to Linux Hosted or visa versa, there is no extra charge for that and they’ll do it any time. I also switched from Linux to MS (stupid move, now I want to switch back to Linux to get PHP instead of ASP).
If you find you have to move on to another hosting company, you might want to take a look at the features 1and1 offers for the price.