Surpass Hosting Sale $1.00 for 1 year of hosting

[cybiao]

In celebration of Valentine's Day we are running this sale from 2/2/07 until 2/28/07. You can purchase any shared hosting plan and only pay $1 for the entire year! After the year is up the normal yearly payment cycle for that plan will begin. And a year is so forever from now.

Just head over to the Shared Hosting page, click "order now" for the plan of your choice, choose the yearly billing cycle, and enter its corresponding coupon code:
$1power | $1deluxe | $1pro | $1max | $1oc5

get all the details here http://www.surpasshosting.com/content/onelove/

Don't forget to input that code in before registering in hosting.

I found them from internet.

[boron]

I've checked the features, they are outstanding. cPanel, mySQL, phpmyadmin, PHP 4 and 5, script , but read all features here (http://www.surpasshosting.com/content/shared/features.php). PING from my PC is 28ms which is fairly good.

200Gb of space.
2000Gb/month bandwith.

I only hope there is no trick behind this.

[jhnrang]

I am interested to buy hostings for few sites---but I don't see any Script Installation features! And that sucks--because I know nothing about it.

[boron]

They don't mention Fantastico there, but some other script uploading tools like cPAddons, not heard yet. Check below:

Shopping Carts
Guestbooks
Image Gallery
Forums
Wiki
Content Management Systems
Blogs
Publishing Software
Counter
Clocks
FormMail Clone
Calendar
FAQ System
Support System
Add more unlimited features using cPAddons

[Reckless]

Wow thats really cheap, where are your servers located?

[Submerge]

Pretty cheap prices, must be really overselling. Good luck :)

[zac439]

Pretty cheap prices, must be really overselling. Good luck :)

Agreed. As I see you aren't a major hosting company, I can't hold your claims as credible. $1 for a whole year of hosting? I sense a scam, a letdown, or a bankrupt business.

Unless of course, you give us details on how you can offer this.

[boron]

OK, the member shared this is not the owner of this hosting.

I've found some reviews on Google.
1st (http://www.webhostingtestimonials.com/hosts_name.php?id=surpasshosting-reviews-ratings), 2nd (http://www.broadbandreports.com/comment/2574/59404)...and more.

In short: a lot of space/bdwth, bad support.

[cybiao]

OK, the member shared this is not the owner of this hosting.

I've found some reviews on Google.
1st (http://www.webhostingtestimonials.com/hosts_name.php?id=surpasshosting-reviews-ratings), 2nd (http://www.broadbandreports.com/comment/2574/59404)...and more.

In short: a lot of space/bdwth, bad support.

Hi boron
Thanks for updating this info.Any other cheap reliable hosting?I need it.

[boron]

I was thinking to continue this thread with $1 cpanel hosting (50Mb space, 500Mb bdwth, 1 mySQL) or even free 2Gb hosting (no cPanel and Fantastico), but I'm not sure if really someone is interested in this.

OK, http://zoomcities.com claim to offer FREE cPanel hosting with 50 - 300Mb space and 2-5mySQLs. Only subdomains, if I understood them right. they have servers in New Jersey/US and they offer this for few years now already. Paid upgrade possible ofcourse.
Here's their free offer (http://www.zoomcities.com/hosting/).

[Reckless]

OK, the member shared this is not the owner of this hosting.

I've found some reviews on Google.
1st (http://www.webhostingtestimonials.com/hosts_name.php?id=surpasshosting-reviews-ratings), 2nd (http://www.broadbandreports.com/comment/2574/59404)...and more.

In short: a lot of space/bdwth, bad support.

thnx for the links, useful sites if your looking for a host

[Gareth]

Agreed. As I see you aren't a major hosting company, I can't hold your claims as credible. $1 for a whole year of hosting? I sense a scam, a letdown, or a bankrupt business.
Haha that really made me laugh. "As I see you aren't a major hosting company" - so you wouldn't call a company with over 20,000 customers major?

For those of you interested, I have been a SurpassHosting dedicated customer for a long time now. They have the best support I have ever been fortunate to come across as well as the best uptime. In the time that I have been there I have had not one second of downtime (other than scheduled upgrades planned by me).

Surpass can offer this kind of plan as they own their own equipment as well as operating their own datacentre. They also know how to look at the bigger picture - this promo is going to get a hell of a lot of customers - a year from now, most will want to renew, thus resulting in big profits for Surpass.

[zac439]

Haha that really made me laugh. "As I see you aren't a major hosting company" - so you wouldn't call a company with over 20,000 customers major?

For those of you interested, I have been a SurpassHosting dedicated customer for a long time now. They have the best support I have ever been fortunate to come across as well as the best uptime. In the time that I have been there I have had not one second of downtime (other than scheduled upgrades planned by me).

Surpass can offer this kind of plan as they own their own equipment as well as operating their own datacentre. They also know how to look at the bigger picture - this promo is going to get a hell of a lot of customers - a year from now, most will want to renew, thus resulting in big profits for Surpass.

I did more research and found out I was right. My turn to laugh?

In their own rules, it states that directly after the free year is up, you will be billed for another year's worth. They say you have to cancel AFTER the year is over. I can see some major problems there, and major hassles.

Not to mention, everyone seems to think their support is horrible.

(and by the way, 20k users isn't major. try over 100,000 like lunarpages.com, my host, has)

[Gareth]

I did more research and found out I was right. My turn to laugh?

In their own rules, it states that directly after the free year is up, you will be billed for another year's worth. They say you have to cancel AFTER the year is over. I can see some major problems there, and major hassles.

Not to mention, everyone seems to think their support is horrible.

(and by the way, 20k users isn't major. try over 100,000 like lunarpages.com, my host, has)
Not really no, a few bad reviews doesn't make a company bad.

And the fact that they've pointed it out in the TOS covers them.

Everyone? Well I don't, so there's your point dissproved.

Oh and my mistake about the 20K users:

"Surpass services over 100,000 websites adding approximately 300 more per week."
http://www.surpasshosting.com/content/about/

I presume you've been a Surpass customer considering you're trying to have an opinion on them?

[camuk19]

(and by the way, 20k users isn't major. try over 100,000 like lunarpages.com, my host, has)

20,000 isnt major? Seriously thats a retarded statement.

Do you know what kind of work is needed to create a userbase that big with how saturated the market is? Christ, get a clue.

[zac439]

20,000 isnt major? Seriously thats a retarded statement.

Do you know what kind of work is needed to create a userbase that big with how saturated the market is? Christ, get a clue.

And what is major? There really isn't a need for hostility to try and prove a point, its barbaric. Unless that is what you are, I would reccomend you mature a little.

A company five times as big as the one mentioned, i would call, major. I would call 20k users moderate. I would call all of the other newbie hosts ran by 12 year olds minor.

Gareth - It was your fault that you misquoted them. Find as many bad reviews on lunarpages as i found on your host and then I will admit you are right on this. Else, maybe you should just accept general skepticism. I was merely asking for more information in the first place with a skeptical tone, not a offensive rebuttle.

Thanks, though.

[Gareth]

Gareth - It was your fault that you misquoted them. Find as many bad reviews on lunarpages as i found on your host and then I will admit you are right on this. Else, maybe you should just accept general skepticism. I was merely asking for more information in the first place with a skeptical tone, not a offensive rebuttle.

Thanks, though.
That's great, I'm all for healthy debates. My fault for misquoting, or underestimating should I say, but as you've done lots of 'research' on the company you should have found some statistics for yourself, not?

And here's after a few seconds of searching:
- http://www.besthostratings.com/web-hosting/lunarpages-review-comments-4327.html
- http://www.lunarpagesreview.com/review/lunarpages/37
- http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=440246
- http://www.songwave.com/lunarpages-review.htm
- http://www.seahorse.org/Lunarpages.htm

There you go. However, I am able to realise that a few bad reviews does not make a bad company, I really hope you respond with a bit of knowledge or at least commonsense from now on.

[boron]

A host owner will "order" good reviews of his own hosts. Its competitor might order or write bad reviews...Happy clients will make good reviews spontaneously.

There is a need for a reliable independent hosting review site. I've opened a thread here (http://publisherforums.com/showthread.php?t=545).