their domain was created 8, July 1998 and doesn't expire until 9, July 2007... they are pretty old. But most web hosts from then have upgraded to modern day prices and packages... I'm sure in 98, 10 gigs of bandwidth was like today's 1000. Maybe less.

It's possible they've ordered 9 years for their domain. Probably was expensive back then too... of course, I wouldn't know.

Edit: oh yeah, in today's terms, their name could actually give them a bad reputation of being a terrable host! lol.. lame I know.

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This post has been edited by nightfox: Aug 23 2006, 12:19 AM

hmm..

the site is still in plain html and not all links are working..

i have visited the site a few days ago and still no improvement.
windows hosting is expensive but not as expensive as this..

for the price given you should have SSL, SSH, at least 50 email accounts to create..
an FTP, support for SSI and ASP with PHP or a frontpage full support..

Tel: 301.258.9599
Fax: 301.330.2217
Toll Free: 888.389.6822

where on earth was the company.. they dont even provide the contact location just in case they change number and you need a method to contact them..

all my host have email address and a real live address to contact them with even the free ones..

This post has been edited by vhortex: Aug 24 2006, 11:09 AM

It was probably a mistyping. If you have a look now at http://terrahost.com/hosting.html , you will see that "plan 1" is 15MB now.
I hope it's still a mistyping, and they will add a trailing "0" soon.

I don't think so.. it's VERY old.

As for the SSL support, you can get it for $45/month plus a $100 setup fee that really proves how out of date they are!

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Well the main reason people require so much space today on their hard drives and webspace is that they want to do stuff like share mp3s. Also, people have come to expect higher quality graphics. You just didn't see that in 1998, so that kind of bandwidth was perfectly okay (also for my site it would still be because even when it was up on another host it had no hits)

Digital camera is also a reason of needing a lot of space. People want to share their holidays pictures, so they need to put them on their website. My astahost account is hardly enough for what I want to show, I continuously have to remove pictures in order to be able to add the new ones without having disk space quota problems.
Personnally, I think digital cameras is really the multimedia part of Internet. You feel yourself creative with your camera, and you want to share your photos and movies with all your family and all your friends.

on my case. i need the space for database dump and for the scripts i created..

Web have changed so much that a few years ago.. a few html will make you above the others.. now if your website is not run on scripting engine like ASP, PHP.. JAVA and others.. and dont have the niffy cool look that other enhancements can give.. you will not be "in".. you are not in the mainsteam..

today.. even simple websites need a database backend.. like those blogs that common people run..

Just asking, but do you upload the full resolution photos (the 1-3 MB images, unedited) to your account?? If I share photos (and I do), I'll always size down the originals to 770 width. This takes a 2MB photo down to about 300 some kilobytes. So it's also easy on bandwidth. Then if anyone wants the original, I have them email me the photo file name and I grab the original and email it off to them.

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On hosts like Astahost, I usually resize them to 800x600, which is a comfortable size when watched in gallery2.
On hosts offering 5 giga space, I use the full size.