Luck of the Irish! Spread the word - another 2/1 Sale!

[Joe]

On 3/17 we'll be offering another 2 for one sale to accomodate some calls we've received that missed out on our recent sale.

This will be a ONE DAY ONLY sale, valid ONLY Monday 3/17.

Same terms:

Applies to upgrades and new accounts only (a new account is defined as a hosting account on a domain we haven't hosted in at least 90 days or an individual we haven't had as a reseller for at least 90 days)

Applies to both regular hosting and reseller accounts

Does not apply to domain registration, or any other add on service.

Cancelling your account and signing up during the sale will not yield 2 for 1 on the same domain name unless you are upgrading to a higher priced plan. Cancelling a reseller account and signing up during the sale will not yield 2 for 1 unless you are upgrading to a higher priced plan.

You can either double your allotment of quotas on a particular plan, or apply the plan to two hosting accounts instead of one.

You can upgrade your current plan to a higher level and take advantage of the 2 for 1 - if you pay yearly you will receive a refund on the remaining unused balance of your yearly plan minus the discount for paying yearly.

You can double the set plan sizes on our quoted web hosting or reseller pages only, specially designed packages are NOT elegible for this promotion.

The plan will stay with you as long as you remain a customer in good standing with HostPC - if you later upgrade during a period where 2 for 1 is not being offered you revert back to a non-doubled plan

You choose whether you want 2 plans for the price of 1 or doubled plan size at the time of purchase - you cannot change it later

Our 30 day money back guarantee is not price protection, it is to be used if you are dissatisfied with our service - not to cancel and sign up during the sale

The concept of the 2 for 1 sale is to attract new business and promote upgrading.

Very Important: We maintain a relationship with Dixiesys and will not knowingly accept customers transferring from Dixiesys. We're not intending to be in competition with Dixiesys - there's plenty of room for everyone -- both independent companies offer outstanding service for your hosting needs.

[Anonymous]

So how do you measure how much bandwidth i use?

mj@xyphoid.com

[Joe]

We have our ways :)

Hi Mike - long time no see! Yeah, I remember you, I think :)

Bandwidth is monitored through the Ensim Control Panel - and port usage.

Joe

[Joe]

Lets start this NOW!

No more waiting - no more excuses. The servers are ready, lets rock the house! The sale starts

[size=24]NOW!

[Anonymous]

So if I'm signed up for a personal site right now, does that mean I can double my quotas some how while paying the same price?

[Nick]

hello brandon

yes...but it must be a new account...you cant cancel your account and the resign up...must be a new account or an upgrade

[Anonymous]

Right, I was wondering about the upgrade. How would that work?

[Nick]

hello brandon

upgrade to the next level or higher...you pay that price and get double the quotas

[Anonymous]

Do I have to buy a year in advance to keep the double quotas, or can I pay monthly? If I do get the double quotas while paying monthly, if I decide later to go ahead and pay for a year, will I keep the double quotas?

I wish I had known you were going to be offering this stuff when I signed a week ago. I saw the 2/1 sale post and thought it mean Feb 1st, so I didn't bother looking at the post. :/

[Nick]

hello brandon

you will need to pay a year in advance

[Anonymous]

Do you know if you guys are ever going to offer some sort of account upgrade packages where you pay like $20 and get a few extra gigs of bandwidth and more storage space permanently added to your account? I can't afford upgrading to the next package for a year (that's why I went with you guys in the first place, you have low prices), and I'm kind of miffed about missing out on this sale you're having, especially when being a brand new customer.

[Anonymous]

I'm not trying to be aggressive or anything, but it's not particularly enjoyable knowing that someone singinup up a week after I do twice the benefits that I did for about the same price.. and if they get the plan below mine, they get almost the exact same as what I get but at a lower price.

[Nick]

hello brandon

signup for the forums and pm me or email me

[Anonymous]

I just signed up a week ago myself, I wish I had known the promo would have come sooner than later, really sucks that the people I recommended coming here are getting more than what I got just a couple days after.

I was also wondering if I purchased 2-3 domains, if they could all point to the same account, and share the same space.

[Nick]

hello jared

refer here

http://www.hostpc.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=207

Also, join the forum and pm me or feel free to email me

[Joe]

Brandon and Jared - both accounts have been modified!

Thanks for choosing HostPC!

[Anonymous]

Hi I found out about this special recently and I am very interested. I just want to clear up something...by doubling quotas you mean I will have double the disk space, double the bandwith, and double the email accounts (even though I won't need this last feature)?

So if I sign up for the starter package I'll be permitted 700MB of disk space and 8GB of transfer?

[Joe]

[quote]Hi I found out about this special recently and I am very interested. I just want to clear up something...by doubling quotas you mean I will have double the disk space, double the bandwith, and double the email accounts (even though I won't need this last feature)?

So if I sign up for the starter package I'll be permitted 700MB of disk space and 8GB of transfer?

That is correct purple.

[Anonymous]

Let me get this straight. Are you saying that if I put a small ad in lots of newspapers, people will see the ad and send me money and I'll become rich?

Oh wait, that's something else I was thinking of. :wink:

[Anonymous]

OK, I read it and I comprehend, but I just need to ask you to be sure.

1) The sale is in effect from today (March 8) through March 17.

2) For a reseller account, I can get:[list]1200 MB storage (600x2)
16 GB transfer (8x2)
40 sites (20x2)
for $12 a month
or $120 a year
and it doesn't matter if I get 2 separate plans or combine them because it still adds up to the same, so why not make it easy and have everything in one place[list]

3) The reseller account includes everything in terms of features that I would get with a regular hosting account, plus more (multiple domains rather than just one).

4) What does it cost if monthly file transfer runs over?

Thank you,
Dean

[Joe]

OK, I read it and I comprehend, but I just need to ask you to be sure.

1) The sale is in effect from today (March 8) through March 17.

2) For a reseller account, I can get:[list]1200 MB storage (600x2)
16 GB transfer (8x2)
40 sites (20x2)
for $12 a month
or $120 a year
and it doesn't matter if I get 2 separate plans or combine them because it still adds up to the same, so why not make it easy and have everything in one place[list]

3) The reseller account includes everything in terms of features that I would get with a regular hosting account, plus more (multiple domains rather than just one).

4) What does it cost if monthly file transfer runs over?

Thank you,
Dean

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes
4. $1.70 USD per GB over - billed at the end of the month.

Member FDIC, Equal Opportunity Hosting Company, All rights reserved. :)

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I have few question regarding the database support. If I sign up personal account, How many database I will get? Does number of database apply to 2 for 1 promotion? Also, do you support trasaction safe table for my-sql? One last question, is there any guarantee up time?


Thanks,

JC

[Anonymous]

Wow. What a guy. Joe's the man.

I'll be signing up in a couple of days. Thanks for the 2-for-1 offer; that's a nice little extra I probably won't even use for a while, but it will be fun to have all that extra space sitting around to play with. What's even more exciting is the prospect of being able to put my personal sites in their own domains rather than as directories in one domain. (it's the little things that make life great)

By the way, dbmasters (Dan) pointed me over here. I know him from www.Hiveminds.info . I figured if he says you're good to host with then you must be good to host with.

Dean Gardner
www.webmonkeydean.com

[Joe]

Hi,
I have few question regarding the database support. If I sign up personal account, How many database I will get? Does number of database apply to 2 for 1 promotion? Also, do you support trasaction safe table for my-sql? One last question, is there any guarantee up time?


Thanks,

JC

Every account gets 5 MySQL databases - that doesn't double. Since there's unlimited tables, more than 5 really isn't necessary.

"transaction safe table" ? Not sure what that is.

No, we don't offer an uptime guarantee. I don't believe any host can offer a guarantee (other than those that charge $20 a month and prorate refunds). What I do offer is my promise to keep the servers accessible 24x7 - or as close to that as possible. Outages at Rackshack are beyond my control - and I can't compensate clients because RS doesn't compensate me. Outages, cable breaks, SYN/Floods are a fact of life on the internet - no one person or company can asked to be responsible.

Since Feb 1, our monitoring shows less than 1 hr of downtime - for an average of 99.759% - I think thats respectable.

[Joe]

Wow. What a guy. Joe's the man.

By the way, dbmasters (Dan) pointed me over here. I know him from www.Hiveminds.info . I figured if he says you're good to host with then you must be good to host with.

Dean Gardner
www.webmonkeydean.com

Thanks Dean - Dan's a great guy - he's definately on my "contact list" - I've known him for a couple years now...

Glad to have you on board!

Joe

[Anonymous]

Every account gets 5 MySQL databases - that doesn't double. Since there's unlimited tables, more than 5 really isn't necessary.

"transaction safe table" ? Not sure what that is.

No, we don't offer an uptime guarantee. I don't believe any host can offer a guarantee (other than those that charge $20 a month and prorate refunds). What I do offer is my promise to keep the servers accessible 24x7 - or as close to that as possible. Outages at Rackshack are beyond my control - and I can't compensate clients because RS doesn't compensate me. Outages, cable breaks, SYN/Floods are a fact of life on the internet - no one person or company can asked to be responsible.

Since Feb 1, our monitoring shows less than 1 hr of downtime - for an average of 99.759% - I think thats respectable.

Thanks for the quick respond.
5 database definitly more than enough for my use :wink:
for transaction safe table, basically I'm looking for support of my-sql table type InnoDB or BDB. You can find more information in this URL, http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Table_types.html
99.759 definitly is a greate number. Keep up the good work :!:

JC

[Joe]

Ah - I believe it's only compiled for MyISAM.

Looks interesting tho - I'd have to do some additional research on it - not sure if Ensim would support transaction safe tables.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick reply Joe. Sounds like a great deal. I was also wondering if you support ASP?

[Anonymous]

What's 'support and service' like? How long does it usually take for a response. Who will be responding? Will they know what they're talking about?

Are the servers monitored constantly? Any kind of backups? Etc, etc.

What are your plans for the future? Are you going to grow really big in a couple years and sell to Interland? Or will you try to keep it manageable and stay in business for as long as you can imagine doing it?

Price is nice, but the intangible aspects are important to me too. Again, I think I know the answers but I just figured I'd ask anyway.

[Nick]

Purple,

No, sorry we dont support ASP

As far as Deanimal..your questions can be answered by Joe

[Joe]

What's 'support and service' like? How long does it usually take for a response. Who will be responding? Will they know what they're talking about?

Are the servers monitored constantly? Any kind of backups? Etc, etc.

What are your plans for the future? Are you going to grow really big in a couple years and sell to Interland? Or will you try to keep it manageable and stay in business for as long as you can imagine doing it?

Price is nice, but the intangible aspects are important to me too. Again, I think I know the answers but I just figured I'd ask anyway.

We're able to respond to tickets usually in 2hrs or less... sometimes 4. I will be responding, and if I'm not available Nick or another tech will promptly and (hopefully) thoroughly answer yout questions. As the need arises, we'll add more staff to assist users.

Yes, we're monitored constantly. I've got scripts running on each server that automatically restart services that get shut down (for whatever reason). Backups are provided in the user directory, and are updated nightly at 2am.

Support phones are availble 24x7 - no questions asked. The toll free number rings in my house, cell phone or if necessary, sends calls to voice mail. I haven't sent a call to voicemail (unless I've been on the phone with another client) in over a year. I answer all calls personally at this point.

Plans for the future? I've been doing this for 4 yrs - I've got NO plans to change, or sell out to anyone. This is my family's income. As I've said before, my wife is very ill, and this business keeps me close to her, and supports our financial requirements. This works - and is successful, I'm not going anywhere for a VERY long time.

Joe

[D9r]

I'm sorry about your wife.

You're exactly the type of webhost I'm looking for. It's amazing that I just happened to hear about you from dbmasters today. I look forward to becoming another one of your non-churn customers.

Thanks,

[Brandon]

I just signed up not too long ago and the service these guys are providing at hostpc.com is awesome. They're real people taking care of real customers. I've asked several questions on the forums and through email and all have been promptly responded to with absolutely no hassle, even if they were pretty stupid questions. :) I seriously doubt any of you will be disappointed. I'm looking forward to my extended stay here.

[D9r]

Neato! 1200MB for $120. 40 domains. Signed up and rearin' to go. Now I need some more domains -- I only have about 15 :wink: . So much disk space, so little time to code.

[kev_nz]

I've just signed up with a reseller acount. I didn't see any kind of confirmation about the sale, nor did I get any info about my account. Did I get the sale? What next?
Cheers
Kevin

[Joe]

Setups are done within 4 hrs ... or at least I make every effort to get them done in that time. I just completed the last bunch of pending orders, and I believe yours was in there.

If you haven't gotten a welcome letter yet - please let us know.

Joe

[D9r]

I've just signed up with a reseller acount. I didn't see any kind of confirmation about the sale, nor did I get any info about my account. Did I get the sale? What next?
Cheers
Kevin

Another HiveMinder! Hi kev_nz

[Anonymous]

Hey all, great deal and when i saw this, i couldn't believe it. I've spent 6 hours just searching for hosting and this is such an awesome deal. Just a bit of clarification tho.

On 3/17 we'll be offering another 2 for one sale to accomodate some calls we've received that missed out on our recent sale.

This will be a ONE DAY ONLY sale, valid ONLY Monday 3/17.




OK, I read it and I comprehend, but I just need to ask you to be sure.

1) The sale is in effect from today (March 8 ) through March 17.

Thank you,
Dean

1. Yes.


Now is the sale in effect now (i just sign up like regular through main page or is there a special procedure) or do i have to wait until the 17th? I'm so anxious to get this that i want to make sure i'm reading this right. Thanks

[Joe]

We started early due to popular request :)

Comon in - lets get ya started. Just fill out the order form - we'll get ya going!

Joe

[dbmasters]

We started early due to popular request :)

If I can get everybody to request you to give me a dedicated server for free would that be popular enough to get you to do that, too :wink:

hehehe :D

[chlucy]

Where can I find the details of the reseller accounts? I read the brief stats (bandwith, storage, etc.) but is there any additional info available?

I think you mentioned that there are 5 MySQL dbs available per account - if I'm a reseller and I have 20 sites - does each *site* have 5 MySQL dbs or just my reseller account has 5 total?

(PS - Hi Dean, Hi Kev, Hi dbmasters... :) )

chlucy

[dbmasters]

HostPC is gonna be taken over by HiveMinds pretty soon I think...Hey Joe, watch your back :D

[Joe]

Where can I find the details of the reseller accounts? I read the brief stats (bandwith, storage, etc.) but is there any additional info available?

I think you mentioned that there are 5 MySQL dbs available per account - if I'm a reseller and I have 20 sites - does each *site* have 5 MySQL dbs or just my reseller account has 5 total?

(PS - Hi Dean, Hi Kev, Hi dbmasters... :) )

chlucy

Yes - each "site" gets 5 MySQL databases ... and the amount of bandwidth/disk space you assign to it under your reseller plan. For instance, if you have a reseller plan with 1gb of space, you can "divy" that space up any way you need to.

Hope that helps.

Joe

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know how long this company has been in business?

My friend told me about this deal, but I'm a little worried about forking over +$100 and having the company disappear over night.

Just trying to cover all the bases before I dive in.

[Joe]

I've been in business for 4 yrs as HostPC - 3 yrs of active domain hosting and design. This can be verified by doing a whois lookup: http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?hostpc.com

Feel free to pay monthly if you're more comfortable doing that - you can always upgrade to a yearly payment later if that works out for you.

Joe

[Anonymous]

Purple,

No, sorry we dont support ASP


Do you have any future plans of incorporating ASP? And if so, do you have a timeframe of when it might happen? This sounds like a great deal and I'd hate to pass it up.

[D9r]

We started early due to popular request :)
If I can get everybody to request you to give me a dedicated server for free would that be popular enough to get you to do that, too :wink:
hehehe :D
I hereby officially request you to give <s>dbmasters</s> dbmasters and me a dedicated server for free.

Bzzzz ~~~~~~~~~~~~*

[Joe]

Sorry, request denied. Next.... :)

[Anonymous]

[quote]Purple,

No, sorry we dont support ASP


Do you have any future plans of incorporating ASP? And if so, do you have a timeframe of when it might happen? This sounds like a great deal and I'd hate to pass it up.

[Joe]

The best interpretation of ASP on Linux is through Sun's Chilisoft software, and that is no where near 100% compatible to true ASP.

We can add apache_asp, but thats even less compatible with true .asp.

So no, at this time, there's no schedule or plans to add .asp support.

Sorry

Joe

[dbmasters]

We can add apache_asp, but thats even less compatible with true .asp.

If I recall correctly, "Apache ASP" is pretty much a Perl knockoff...

ChiliSoft was recently purchased by Sun, and they released SunOne, which is an ASP emulator that I have played with a little bit. it actually is pretty cool, and pretty compatible, but it is a whopping huge pain in the @ss to set up for ODBC on *nix machines...WAY harder than it has to be.

Though it looks promising for the future (if they move SunOne to support .NET anyway) I wouldn't recommend anyone implement it unless it's a dedicated server for one domain.

[dbmasters]

Sorry, request denied. Next.... :)

And here I heard all this stuff about great service and everything :roll: sheesh.

:D hehehe

[Anonymous]

Okay, real newbie to domain names here...

Let's say I get the Starter package. That gets me hosting for 2 domains, right?

What about sub-domains? Is there charge for that, and if so what would it be? Is it hard to set them up?

This deal, by the way, looks unbelievable. Thanks!

(Howdy, Hiveminders!)

[Joe]

Yes, 2 domains, subdomains (sub.domain.com) is free - limited only by the amount of space you have.

You can get 2 domains at the posted quotas, or one at double the quota...

Unbelievable? Nah, it's just HostPC!

[Anonymous]

Do the reseller accounts come with a specific number of POP3 email accounts?

[Joe]

starter gets 200
personal gets 400
business gets 600

If you need more, you can always let us know.

Joe

[Joe]

starter gets 200
personal gets 400
business gets 600

If you need more, you can always let us know.

Joe

[Anonymous]

is the 2 for 1 deal going on now until the 17th? and how long will it take until my space is ready?

also which site sounds better:
mitchapalooza.com or kidintraffic.com

let me know at
soccerbuzz1@soccer.com

:twisted: thanks :twisted:

[Anonymous]

is the 2 for 1 deal going on now until the 17th? and how long will it take until my space is ready?

also which site sounds better:
mitchapalooza.com or kidintraffic.com

let me know at
soccerbuzz1@eriecoast.com [b][size=18] <----correction

thanks

[Joe]

I'd like to thank everyone for a FANTASTIC response to this sale. We look forward to offering this again in the future.

Joe

[mak1027]

mak1027 starts saving pennies for the next sale :wink:

[Anonymous]

Oooops! I almost forgot!

I am trying to complete the registration but I don't see the option to provide 2 domain names (2-for-1).

How do we do that?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hey Mark,

please let me know how I can do this. I have been trying for about 1/2 hour now. According to the post on FW:

"You choose whether you want 2 plans for the price of 1 or doubled plan size at the time of purchase - you cannot change it later "

But I do not see this option. Interested in the Business package (900MB space).

Andrew
[/i]

[Nick]

Hello Andrew

Put in two orders forms and just pay once

[Joe]

The sale officially ended at 12pm ET - about 10 minutes ago. But if you get your order in right now, I'll make an exception :)

Just submit the order form twice, but pay once. We'll make the notes here and get you the welcome information.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply. I can see how to put 2 orders through ok. But how do I choose to pay only once?

After I fill in the form, I get a page with 2 options: Pay Monthly or pay annualy No option not to pay or pay later.

Do you mean that if I just fill in the form, follow one of the 2 links but not send any money, I have actually bought the package? A bit confused on this point.

Thanks.

Andrew

[Nick]

Hello Andrew

fill out the form with the informatin...then pay monthly or yearly..whichever you choose

then fill out another form...when you get to the payment area...just close the browser and dont pay

[Joe]

Fill out the domain order for the first domain (http://www.hostpc.com/ordering.php ) and follow the payment screen through to complete your payment.

When thats done, e-mail me at joe@hostpc.com with the 2nd domain name, and password, I'll do it manually.