You really cannot match the low cost of Dot5 Hosting servers at $4.95. From a value perspective there are a few other web hosting service providers within our featured providers that have a few more extras for a few dollars more but this price and these features generally  applies to most people’s needs for web site hosting.

The package is enormous with 1500 GB of space and 15000 GB of bandwidth plus tons of value addons like a free domain, free advanced web site builder, $50 free marketing through Google and much more.

Your package also comes with server side includes, FrontPage 2000/2002 extensions, a guestbook, forum generator, bulletin board, chat rooms, a blogger and tons of other easy to use scripts.

Dot5 Hosting puts their money where their mouth is regarding their 99.9% uptime assurance by providing a full 90 day money back guarantee to all of their customers. They provide live & real time 24-7-365 network and server monitoring covering everything from server reboots to real time reporting. Included with the package in a complete backup software program to ensure that in case a problem should occur, your files’ integrity are maintained until the system is brought back online.

Dot5 Hosting employs Dell and IBM servers with Dual Intel Xeon processors, 2GB of DDR-RAM, fast SCSI hard drives with RAID-1 redundancy. They also provide you with access to 7.2 Gigs of network capacity on a redundant and diverse AT&T Local Services ring.

Dot5 Hosting connections are through multiple backbone nodes (AT&T) with dual OC-48 access routers and OC192 transcontinental connectivity. Additional network service options include private line, ATM, Frame Relay, IP and local switched and circuit-switched services as your options for back-end connectivity.

The facility security services include instant battery power disruption backup as well as a 24-7 UPS backup generator, 24/7 closed circuit monitoring and a state of the art air cooling system.

Dot5 has one of the best performance records in the web hosting industry and they clearly meet their 99.9% uptime service guarantee. Our monitoring of the Dot5 Hosting servers began in early 2003 and we have expanded our research to include several sites which are tested and monitored on a daily and weekly basis for performance.  The company philosophy has always been that your service record must be the most important aspect of running a web hosting business.

Dot5 Hosting customer service is excellent as they have people manning the phones 24x7x365 and they employ smart technicians who are intimately knowledgeable about their web hosting services and in particular in their Vdeck web hosting service control panel. Our calls and emails have always been met with an excellent response time with clear, concise responses that usually takes care of our situation within one try.

Dot5 Hosting enjoys a good reputation in the web hosting community and with their customers. Other providers respect them as a quality and stable web host and their customers past and present value their services and the affordability of the package.