Hello,

I am thinking about creating a website with www.edirecthost.com and
was wondering if anyone had any information about this company.  Any
info. would be greatly appreciated, they are located at
www.edirecthost.com.

Thanks,

Steve

This may not be the information that you are seeking on the company,
however looking at some of their sample sites and then their pricing-
I would recommend that you go elsewhere. A large number of their
sample sites are no longer running- which is not the best of signs.
The ones that are still up, although they have design elements- I
would not consider them "professional" by any means. they each have a
large link back to the hosting provider- which honestly looks quite
tacky. You would not only be paying them for the hosting and the site-
but you would be a walking billboard for them. I will readily admit
that I am not a fan of templates- most are uneditible, provide low
search engine optimazation because they can not be customized and in
this case only seem to benefit the "back end" company. But for some
their affordablilty out weighs the cons and makes more sense than a
full custom site.

Comparing pricing you would do better with something like
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=1 from yahoo. Their
pricing starts at around $12 a month.

edirecthost.com is way too expensive.

I've been using http://www.globedomain.com for a while now and have
been quite happy with them.
Found them at http://www.findmyhosting.com

Jon

As a web hosting industry vetern, I can tell you that the prices and
packages listed here aren't as good as you would like. The company I
run, Ironcom Networks http://www.ironcom.net has never resorted to
bait and switch tactics, never used mass mailing to aquire new
customers, and ofter fair, competitive hosting starting as low as
$2.50 a month and as high as $14.99 per month.

Alot of hosting providers will tell you "No one can host for that
little every month". You need to understand that they tell you this
because they want to convince you to pay more.

Ironcom Networks http://www.ironcom.net providers 24/7 technical
support, web based control panel, server side virus scanner and spam
filters, and over 25 pre-installed scripts for your use.

I'd be more then happy to provide references to my current customers
so you can see that people do pay $2.50 a month for hosting and have
no problems.


Currently we're oftering two months free service at Ironcom Networks.
Why pay for a service that you may not like? But we're so sure that
you'll like our service that you'll stay.

Everything others here are saying is true. Stick with a trusted web
hosting company. For my company http://www.lambcomputerservice.com I
run a dedicated server for my tech's while out on calls to provide
them with the necessary tools in their job, but run my web site
hosting through one of the top 10 hosting companies. If you visit our
site above and click on hosting icon you will be taken to a hosting
company with dedicated IP address, for as little as $4.95 per month,
and 500MB web space storage, plus many other options, such as PHP,
CGI, 1000 email accounts, sub domains, forwarding, chats, BBS, MySQL,
and many other features.

Have not had much exposure to edirecthost.
I have found the www.greatplainsdomains.com has everything I need and
want for a very reasonable prices.  Since I maintain our church
website, I have had no problems or complaints with them.  They have a
one stop shopping for domain registration, web hosting, web tools.

What are YOU looking for in edirecthost?
Do you need a sitebuilder account because you are just starting out or...?
It's probably obvious to you but it's important that we know exactly
what you are looking for... you might find more helpful comments come
your way.
Great Customer Support (communication) is the biggest plus in my
experience and especially so when you are starting out in paid
hosting.

Cutting corners with your website can be a frustrating and damaging
thing to do to yourself. There is alot more to developing a website
than just slapping something together with a generic template and
paying to have it hosted somewhere. If you do not have a reliable
professional help you out it is unlikely that the website will do well
in the search engines. And hey, if no-one is goinng to see your
website . . . why bother at all.

Give the folks at Haas Consulting a call. They do great work. They can
develop your website for you and provide hosting and maintenance
services .  .  . all very economically priced. Check out their web
site at http:www.thaas.info/

Not all web hosting companies are reliable. I learned that the hard
way several years ago. I found a great host that you may want to try!

I signed up a couple years ago with Action Web Hosting -
http://actionwebhosting.com
This web provider offers cheap web hosting, they support all the
popular technologies such as ms frontpage, php, asp and windows. They
are your best bet for hosting. I hope this helps.

Having been with many webhosting providers in the past 10 years (yes
there were webhosting companies back then), there is a glut of
companies offering these services. This one, like so many others are
trying to make the maximum money for their customer base because new
customers are hard to find.

The first thing that tipped me off about this site is the design and
layout. It doesn't look professional enough to be able to charge those
kinds of prices. I would look else where if you are looking for
affordable webhosting. I have been with BlackMesh Managed Hosting
http://www.blackmesh.com for the last two years and highly recommend
them.

Just my two cents so take it for what it is worth.

Regards,

ksomoose