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GVO Hosting Customer Reviews (Formerly Kiosk.ws)

Written by caymanhost on December 6, 2008 – 12:33 am

GVO Hosting & Marketing

GVO Offer Three levels of shared hosting starting at $18.95 per month. As specialists in the marketing industry they are a good choice for business users offering reliable service, good support & far less restrictive limits than many shared servers. Full service comparison details on site including the industry leading affiliate plan. All shared plans include cpanel and Fantastico with over 50 of the top scripts available for simple installation.

In addition to shared hosting GVO can also provide dedicated fully managed servers tailored to your needs and full details can be found at the company’s website. GVO bill themselves as the host for internet marketers and they are attuned to the needs of that market sector, but whatever your online business they offer reliable service and excellent tech and customer support.

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How To Configure Cpanel To Use Google MX Records

Written by caymanhost on February 4, 2010 – 11:25 am

With so many people relying on shared hosting for their websites, this video addresses one of the possible problems you may encounter with email delivery if one of your neighbors on the shared server has been caught sending spam or UCE.

This is something that you have no control over – if one person on a shared server is a spammer, the effects on everyone else are the same. If the IP address gets blacklisted because of one person’s activities, everyone on the box will begin to encounter email delivery problems.

Some hosting companies will offer you the option of a dedicated IP address, normally at additional cost, and this is one solution that you could opt for.

Another option might be the process outlined in the following video – changing your MX records to those of google. The sound on the video is not that great, but the methods are outlined nicely as the author walks you through the process. Once you complete the process you will be able to use google to manage all your mail and hopefully, your outgoing mail will once again start reaching its intended recipients.

This video tutorial will explain how you can change your own domain MX records to point to google mail. This will not only allow you to manage your e-mail through google apps it will also make sure that your domain name emails will not be spam filtered or black listed. Start using the google email servers with your domain for FREE! www.agc-it.com for more information.

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An Honest GVO Review – By Someone With Perspective

Written by caymanhost on December 22, 2009 – 8:07 pm

In recent months most marketing and advertising sites have been inundated with the name GVO, the headlines being written becoming more and more fantastic by the day as flocks of hopefuls flooded into the GVO fold hoping to strike it lucky or rich or both.

There is no doubt that Joel Therien’s launch (or, more correctly rebranding and relaunch – more of that later) was a well executed and well supported piece of internet marketing and has without doubt been hugely satisfying for him and his team.

So what’s it all about, why are the network marketing crowd champing at the bit, MLM’ers drooling over the pay plan and newbies foaming at the mouth and authoring copy that they can’t possibly have the knowledge or experience to back up? It is my hope that people reading this post will appreciate that despite some of the crap and awful advertising that has been foisted upon the internet community by the “get rich quickers” and program hoppers out there, that a little bit of honest perspective is exactly what you are looking for.

One thing I personally find a great turn off is things such as comparisons with GDI which are blatantly nonsense – GDI is nothing more than an MLM program selling domains, originally the Western Samoan dot WS! Many people fell for the hype and some did make a lot of money but most probably did not and will not and to suggest that GVO is in any way similar is a fallacy and very misleading – how many decent websites have you seen from GDI users…not many I’ll hazard because they are not a marketing and hosting service provider and they do not enable their customers other than to sell on the domain MLM and throw in a few pathetic static templates to add a “website” to your shiny new domain. OK, got that one off my chest at least :-)

Let’s step back from all the marketing for a moment and remind ourselves that GVO is a rebranding exercise, albeit one that is accompanied by some very real physical changes and improvements to the company previously known as Kiosk.ws

Kiosk.ws has long been touted as the hosting company run by internet marketers, for internet marketers and although its shared hosting plans did not come cheap, they were endowed with a bundle of extra services that made the overall package very good value for money. Not least of these extras were the unlimited autoresponder accounts and the provision in more recent times of live conference room services for members. Add to that the multi-tier affiliate program, ten levels deep and paying recurring monthly commissions and you had a very good package which was married to a very reliable hosting service with excellent support.

However, after many years of operation, it was obviously felt that things had become stagnant and there began a long process of updating and revitalizing the company from the ground up. Customers in 2009 have far higher expectations than those of a decade ago, particularly in relation to technology and Joel began the long and no doubt costly process of overhauling what had, to be honest, become a very dated looking web presence, even if the services underneath remained pretty sound.

For long time customers like myself, watching the whole process unfold has been fascinating and sometimes frustrating. The first real major change was the relocation of the company’s data center from Canada to Texas. Fortunately, this transition was pretty smooth from the customer’s side although it was obviously not a walk in the park for all the folks at Kiosk. Around this time, the first intimations of GVO started to appear – the first time I saw the now well known logo was on a tee shirt worn by Joel on one of his very early video blogs although no mention was made of the name for some time.

The plan slowly unfolded and it became apparent that the thrust of the marketing was going to be on the network marketing aspect of the relaunch – basically there had been some minor tweaks made to the compensation plan for affiliates, but it was nothing really drastic. It just goes to prove how dressing something up in new clothes and giving it a new image is often a very effective tactic – most of the new GVO hordes had never heard of Kiosk.ws and probably would never have considered becoming customers. The relaunch was of course given great impetus by bringing on board many big name marketers with large opt-in lists od get rich quick hopefuls!

Whilst I can see that this was a great way to generate huge amounts of “buzz” I believe it also has a not inconsiderable downside – that being that outside of these network marketing zealots, the image of the company can also be tarnished in the eyes of regular webmasters and bloggers and even affiliate marketers who just want a competent and reliable place to host their sites or to be part of a reputable affiliate program. Rightly or wrongly, there will be some suspicion of promotion with a focus so heavily weighted towards network marketing and that is a shame because GVO has a long and excellent history in providing value and service in its primary business.

Putting all that aside for a moment though, is GVO better than the old Kiosk.ws? In many ways I would have to say yes, but I will also mention a few reservations. It as taken a very long time for everything promised to new customers to materialize. As an old hand, this does not really surprise me, it is the way the company has always been and is really an indication of their thoroughness and desire to get things right for their customers. Unfortunately I suspect that some new customers have been put off by this.

However, the new GVO services are definitely a step up from Kiosk as it was – the autoresponder service has been completely revamped and the new EresponderPro can really now be considered a rival to the big services like GetResponse and Aweber with far more features and user friendliness than the trusty old Supersponders we had at Kiosk. The whole look of the company is far more in tune with the 21st century and for both visitors and customers the website experience is far more pleasant and less frustrating to use.

I have no doubt that many of the eager beavers who signed up, tempted by the siren song of money for nothing will reduce in numbers as the months go by – there will always be this kind of fallout after a big MLM focused launch. Those that came primarily for a good hosting plan with a great suite of marketing tools will appreciate the value and savings and stick around if the service does not fall short.

So, how has the service been amidst all the marketing hoopla of recent months? Well, unfortunately there have been some problems and some of them quite severe, others just annoying. The blame for some of them can be laid firmly at the door of the company but others cannot. A few examples of recent issues experienced by this webmaster are:

1) A DDOS attack on this domain – by no means the fault of the hosting company. However, the new support staff in India were very disappointing and it took three weeks to even get to a tech support person who would acknowledge the problem and do something about it – that was effectively three weeks of downtime simply because nobody would listen to what I was telling them, preferring to insist it was all being caused by my Wordpress installation. This was the first big fail I had ever experienced with the company. It took several more weeks to get things sorted out.

2) A failure of the new cloud technology provided to GVO by Dell led to another spell of downtime for many Kiosk.ws customers but to be fair to GVO, it was totally beyond their control and they worked like madmen to get everything up and running as quickly as they could. Their only real failing during this crisis was a lack of communication with customers – several of us ended up manning the support room ourselves over the weekend!

3) Server security became a burning issue over a period of a few weeks recently with constant hacking of the shared server on which we reside – finally an I-Frame attack exploiting outdated Worpdress blog installations resulted in all sites being moved yet again to a new server. Since then things have been OK.

On this occasion however I was very disappointed once again with the company who moved my domain without any notification beforehand and in doing so lost a fair chunk of data. To make things worse, the cavalier response from support was that it was my responsibility to keep offsite backups (agreed, it is) but worse, their refusal to admit that they had made an error and to apologize for their mistake. I think in all the years I have been with the company, this was a first and I know it would not have been allowed to happen back in the days of the Canadian data center. I was not a happy customer at that point.

However, when all is said and done, and with all my years of experience of hosting companies, you could do a lot lot worse than GVO. Joel is a genuine and honest guy with a team who, for the most part, always have their customers’ interests at heart. They have never refused to enable a server setting for me or to refuse to host a particular script. For the money you pay you get a very comprehensive set of webmaster and marketing tools which would cost you considerably more were you to buy them all separately.

I shall be sticking with GVO for the foreseeable future and if you are looking for a great package in terms of hosting and building a business online, I think they are definitely worthy of serious consideration.

To find out more about the GVO Hosting & Marketing Packages available visit GVO Hosting & Marketing and if you want to learn more about the affiliate compensation plan we recommend attending one of the excellent GVO Academy presentations online.



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All Shared Hosting Is Not Created Equal

Written by caymanhost on July 17, 2009 – 12:06 am

Most webmasters and bloggers will start their online hosting careers with a shared hosting package. It is usually the best path for new sites unless a huge amount of traffic is expected because it is affordable and perfectly sufficient for those building their first site or blog.

Shared hosting is a good thing and has enabled far more people to get their fledgling sites up and running with minimum outlay but the market is swamped with shared hosting providers, making that first purchase decision a very difficult one. Information overload is also a very real problem when it comes to researching shared web hosting, particularly for those just starting out.

You will for instance find huge amounts of conflicting opinion about almost every hosting company out there. Just when you find a few positive comments about a particular company you will be confronted with others saying that they are to be avoided at all costs and citing a truckload of bad experiences. The tough thing for customers is knowing who and what to believe.

So, what can you do to maximize your chances of finding a good shared hosting plan that meets your needs?

The hosting companies themselves will woo you with all kinds of wonderful sounding facts, figures and statistics but finding impartial advice about web hosting is what you really need and it is not easy for the reasons mentioned above. Many of the hosting review sites are little more than paid advertising boards and the forums can be an intimidating and confusing place for first time buyers.

You need to consider several different things when shopping for shared hosting so we are going to give you a few useful pointers.

There is no such thing as the best hosting package – what you ideally want to find is the best shared hosting plan for YOU and this can be affected by many different things. For example, if you are planning a Wordpress blog, some people will advise you to choose a host that is reputedly a specialist such as Bluehost, but that if you are setting up an ecommerce site, they may not be the best choice. Then again, others will tell you to avoid them because of their own experiences. You see how confusing it can get? Most people who provide good or bad feedback on a host are speaking entirely from their own perspective and your needs may be completely different making that bad host for one person a perfectly good one for another.

Photo Credit : Jaxmac on Flickr

Photo Credit : Jaxmac on Flickr

So, it is important to know what you are intending to build. Once you have established that, there is no harm in visiting some of the hosting forums and asking for some recommendations from others. Having said that, just use this for making a shortlist and remember that some of those giving the advice may not be as impartial as they might appear.

Do your own research. This is a pain, but you will probably be glad you spent a little time on it in the long run.

Let’s say you have narrowed down your choice to three or four hosting companies based on the monthly cost and the features they provide which seem to fit what you need quite nicely and seem to be reasonably well thought of by the majority of customers. One of the companies is Hostgator and you’ve visited the site and like what you see. You might want to try contacting the company to ask them some probing questions that you have prepared in advance. This will give you some idea of a) How quickly they respond and b) how knowledgeable they seem to be. Of course, new business departments may be a whole different ballgame compared to services provided for existing customers because, after all, they want to sell you their services. However it does no harm to test the waters in this way and to repeat the exercise for each of your shortlisted companies.

Having run this little exercise you may or may not feel you have narrowed your choices down even further. As you are going to be sharing a server with others, wouldn’t it be nice to have some idea of how many other customers will be on the same “box”? Of course, you could make this one of your questions to ask them, but you can get a good idea of just how many other tenants there might be by using the neighborhood IP lookup service. All you need is to find a site hosted by one of your chosen companies and enter the URL. You will then be presented with a list of all the sites hosted on that server. (You can find out who hosts a website using a service such as WhoIsHostingThis)

Whilst this is not 100% accurate or cast iron proof of anything it will give you a good idea of how many other sites are likely to be on the same server as yours. The lower the number the better because although not all servers are the same in terms of capacity, memory etc. the law of averages says that less neighbors means less likelihood of your site being affected by problems arising from those other sites. Simplistic but true. You might be surprised by the results too.

If you run this site through that test you will see that we share server space with around seventy sites but it is not uncommon to see 200 or more on some shared plans. We host with Kiosk/GVO who have always provided excellent reliability and uptime. They cost a little more, but when you look at their services and know that they do not overcrowd their servers, it becomes a little less expensive looking. Even firms like LiquidWeb who have a good reputation will often have a lot more sites on one box. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because the hardware involved can be very different but  it’s just interesting to know. If you see a host offering “unlimited everything” on their sales page boasts however and find that they are cramming 500 customers onto one box, you might well be seeing evidence of “overselling” and want to be a little circumspect. (Note – if you use the IP Lookup service and it shows only one site or a handful of sites, you are probably looking at a dedicated server, i.e a server that belong exclusively to one webmaster, which is not what you need for comparison purposes)

So, deciding on a host because of price is often not a reliable way of doing things. You often get what you pay for and a plan costing $1.99 is not going to be as good as one costing $12.99 as a general rule of thumb. Do your research and know exactly what you are getting for the price.

If you follow these simple steps you will be more likely to find a good deal that fits your needs and your budget from the outset. Anyone who has a bad experience will tell you that moving hosts after you find out you’ve made a bad choice can be a real hassle, even though it really shouldn’t be. It’s much nicer to find a good company from the get go and to be able to grow with them.

If you are an existing web hosting customer please consider taking a few minutes to complete our web hosting survey, the data from which will be used to give guidance to others when choosing their web hosting. Respondents will also earn a link back to their own sites.

I hope that you find this article useful in your search for shared web hosting and as always your comments are welcomed.

TCH

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3Essentials Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 15, 2008 – 8:02 pm

tn 3essentials 3Essentials Hosting Customer Reviews 3Essentials Hosting offer both Linux and Windows shared hosting starting at a very low $4 per month for the budget conscious. Both this and the cheapest personal plan, which costs only $1.50, may be a little restrictive for anyone with anything more than a small personal site to host.With a good range of shared hosting options though, there is something for every need, including reseller plans from $17.95 per month.

3Essentials can also provide you with VPS and dedicated server options. VPS, dependent on features range in price from $50 to $160 and dedicated servers  from $149 to $475 monthly. Full details can be found at the company’s site and they also offer custom servers so if they don’t have the features that suit you you can have one built.

3Essentials also provide managed servers and with their complete server management plans 3Essentials Systems Administrators will install, administer and support your hardware, Windows OS, and hosting server software such as Email , DNS , Database, IIS Webserver and PLESK Control Panel. Access your hosting through a control panel, just like shared web hosting. Now you can focus on your business and developing your website. Designed for Small Business Owners, Web Designers, Developers and Resellers

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Hostazar Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 9, 2008 – 2:23 am

tn hostazar Hostazar Hosting Customer Reviews

UPDATE January 2010 – It appears that Hostazar has major issues with failing servers, poor or non existent support and broken links and bouncing email accounts and we cannot in good conscience recommend them at this time. If a Hostazar representative would like to add anything or offer some explanations we welcome a response.

Links to the site have been removed from this page as of  January 18 2010. Customer complaints below suggest that Hostazar has, to all intents and purposes closed its doors and left its customers hanging.  It seems likely that the website will eventually disappear altogether! (See links and comments below).

After discovering the connections to a man named Rob Benwell we did a quick check online and the following sites may be helpful to visitors although not good news at all if you have paid money for hosting services.

Rob Benwell – scammer or entrepreneur?

Rob Benwell – scamming to the bank at Scam.com

Rob Benwell – RipOffReport.com

Hostazar is part of the R5 Ltd group of websites based in the Digital Media Centre in South Yorkshire, UK, although it has servers based in data-centres around the world.

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Nexx Online Web Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 9, 2008 – 1:11 am

tn nexx Nexx Online Web Hosting Customer ReviewsNexx Online is an established leader in delivering web hosting infrastructure for companies worldwide. They offer a portfolio of highly reliable, fast and affordable web hosting solutions and users in over 90 countries trust Nexx as their hosting provider. Nexx Online have been providing innovative hosting solutions since 1996.

Shared hosting plans with Nexx start at just $7.95 per month and include:

Host Multiple Websites | Host Unlimited Domains | 300 Gigs of Hosting Space | 3,000 Gigs of Bandwidth |1,000 E-mail Accounts |FREE Domain Name Forever |Windows and Linux | PHP 5, PHP 4, Perl, Ruby | ASP.NET 1.0, 2.0, Classic | MySQL 5, MS SQL 2005 | 24/7 Expert Technical Support | Money Back Guarantee

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WestHost Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 9, 2008 – 12:55 am

tn westhost WestHost Hosting Customer ReviewsSince 1998, WestHost.com has been an affordable web hosting provider currently hosting over 70,000 websites. With a large client base comes a diverse range of web hosting requirements and WestHost provide several levels of service and options including Shared Web Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Reseller Hosting, Domain Registration, E-commerce Tools, and Merchant Account solutions.
Personal shared hosting plans start at a lowly $3.95 per month and business plans from $7.95.  The company are currently running a special offer in celebration of 10 years in business and for just $10 per month you can get a very well featured deal – full details at the company’s website and worth checking out.

For managed dedicated servers, prices start at a competitive $159.95 plus set up so if you are in the market for the power and control of a DS, they might be of interest to you too.

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SiteGround Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 8, 2008 – 11:53 pm

tn siteground SiteGround Hosting Customer ReviewsSiteground Hosting are now hosting over 150,000 domains and offer packages starting at just $5.95 for which you will get:-

  • FREE domain name
  • Unlimited web space
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • 99.9% server uptime
  • 24/7 top customer care
  • FREE SiteBuilder (save $99!)
  • Unlimited email accounts
  • cpanel and Fantastico
  • The company also offer reseller hosting, ecommerce hosting and dedicated servers, so whatever your needs you should find a package to suit.

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Jumplaunch Hosting Customer Reviews

Written by caymanhost on December 8, 2008 – 8:10 am

tn jumplaunch Jumplaunch Hosting Customer Reviews JumpLaunchoffer shared hosting services from $4.95 per month for which you will get Unlimited GB Storage, Unlimited GB of Transfer, Unlimited Domains, FREE Domain & Setup, Web Statistics, cpanel, E-commerce Enabled, FrontPage Extensions, PHP 4 & 5, 25 MySQL databases, PERL, CGI, SSL and SSI Management.

There is also a more powerful shared plan for $9.95 per month and for those who need greater things than shared hosting can offer, JumpLaunch can also offer you Virtual servers from $29.95 monthly or a full dedicated server for $199.95.  All services come with free google and Yahoo advertising credits and promise 99.9% uptime.

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