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Thought I would drop a post about the web hosting that we have started over at Developing Teachers.com - here's what we're offering:

All plans come with cPanel!

Bronze: 50mb of space, 2gb of bandwidth/month, 5 email accounts. 2 MySQL databases, 1 mailing list, 1 ftp account - $8/month

Silver: 100mb of space, 3gb of bandwidth/month, 10 email accounts, 5 MySQL databases, 3 mailing lists, 3 ftp accounts - $12/month

Gold: 150mb of space, 5gb of bandwidth/month, 15 email accounts, 8 MySQL databases, 5 mailing lists, 5 ftp accounts - $15/month

Also:
Online Course Support: Moodle installation, 300mb of space, 1gb of bandwidth/month - $12/month

Pay for the year to get two months free & your bandwidth doubled!

So if you're starting a website or thinking of changing hosts check us out at:
http://www.developinglearners.com/onlin ... osting.htm

Thanks

Alistair
Developing Teachers.com

Hello,

You are way to over priced. What is going on here? I can do you web hosting from as little as £18.99 per year. All my plans come with an Account control panel and some also come with a domain control panel.

Package 1: Unlimited Bandwidth, 2GB space, 1 Email Account, Free domain name. (£18.99 per year, £27.98 for two years).

Package 4: Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Web Space, Unlimited Email Accounts, Unlimited Databases, Unlimited FTP accounts, Unlimited Sub Domains, 2 true domains (£44.99 per year, £85.98 for two years.)

We also provide a free trial version for more information please visit http://www.lightninghosts.net

Before beginning I'd like to say I'm not connected to Developing Teachers in the first post above. I have used the site many times in my teaching & have never paid a penny for anything. I know that they try to cover costs with extra services they offer, in this case the web hosting.

When I came across the second post I thought it unfair to let it go without registering & responding.

1. Why present an offer by trying to trash another offer? Why not just make a new post & let your offer stand on its own? This appears to be a very unprofessional approach. So if you want an unprofessional hosting service you know where to go....

2. The actual offer in the second post is silly. If you offered unlimited space & unlimited bandwidth amongst serious hosting companies you would be laughed out of the room. If you need to verify this, just go to SitePoint.com & then to their web hosting forum the check this out.
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdi ... ne=-1&f=96
Make a posting to see what they have to say.
The second post looks like someone has got a cheap reseller account together with an off the peg template & hasn't thought much before posting. .

The offer by Developing Teachers is more than reasonable by anybody's judgement - I know quite a bit about web hosting. They are in the ESL/ELT business & are trying to cater for this specialised market. Seems fair enough - I know who I would go with.

Again, I'm not with Developing Teachers but have benefitted through the last few years with my teaching. Just giving something back.
Seems there's another post like this so I'll put this again there.