My host On A Cloud is having a birthday sale.
Here's the info from http://www.webhostingtalk.com.au/showthread.php?t=21230
To Celebrate our 1st Birthday we are having Birthday Sale's each week til the end of August!
This Week is Shared Cloud Web Hosting, Take 80% OFF for Life!
Hi amanda89,
Disk Limits are controlled by the cPanel control panel, it will not allow you to exceed your quota.
You will be notified by email if your account is close to the disk limit and you can then choose to upgrade your plan or remove items to reduce the usage.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Tom
Is this not a fantastic deal?
We certainly think it's a fantastic deal :)
No, visit WHT and there are a million deals like this spammed every day by no-name hosting companies.
For all you know they could disappear of the face of the planet tomorrow and you lose everything hosted that you haven't backed up as well as having your website down.
I'm not saying that's necessarily the case with this company, they might be great, but you have no idea really and cheap hosting from no-name companies is common and so it isn't really a deal.
If it was VentraIP or another reputable host than yes this would be an amazing deal.
Frankly I'm tempted to down vote all hosting deals from unknown companies because otherwise ozbargain will eventually just be inundated with endless spam like WHT.
yeah these deals are good if you want to host a domain for email so your resumes look professional or your business looks better than a gmail account. I have one of these $1 shared accounts with another provider and they are great for email hosting. just need to make sure your domain is registered with a provider you will have a longer term relationship with , also great for clubs and smaller organisations.
it's who you register your domain with that is important as the mx records are what you change for email as you. chnage between hosting providers. costs me $12 pa for my domain name but I have used them for several years.
Ventra does my dns …. go daddy hosts my site, works fine.
Don't assume anything.
Tom the owner of On A Cloud has been in the Au hosting industry for quite a few years now.
He was formerly employed by Micron21 who only employ highly qualified individuals.
He like us also uses Micron21 Datacentre facilities, due to the high amount of redundancy.
James B the director of Micron21 has invested over $8000000 into the expansion of the facility.
Also just because a company is well known it means nothing if the customer service and support is rubbish.
Most of us smaller providers started offering services because the support from larger providers is terrible farmed out to other countries for the most part.
Depending on which large provider you are talking about.
Besides, the likes of VentraIP started out originally as small re seller type providers.
Regards
Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
What happens if you're on that $11.88 a year plan and you upload more than a gig does it just throw an error or do you get an automatic invoice for going over?