Live client - hosting package #1

I found this hosting package out myself, about a year and a half ago, when searching for the package to serve my online portfolio.

One.com

Advantages -

- Price

There are three packages available. The cheapest offers 3GB of storage and for the first year including VAT works out to be an incredibly cheap £10.45.

Typically, .coms are expensive on their own, yet one.com will include these in the cheap first year fee. Repeat subscriptions for the following year is around £18. Still very cheap.

- Customer service

The support team online are available via a live chat format. Just as you would on MSN, you type in your question and within seconds a response comes.

This is much better than having to wait on a premium rate phone-line or awaiting responses via email which can take days at a time. There are several encouraging testimonials from customers all over Europe, featuring a wide range of clientele - personal, business.

- Reliability

In the time I have had the package I have not experienced any system failure. Saying that, with it being a global company, serving people across Europe and America, these could occur out of office hours for us in Britain? Nonetheless, a definite plus is that should it be down, you can just get live chat support straight away.

Drawbacks -

- You can only have one domain name on your account. You could always buy any other domains with another provider and choose to automatically forward all traffic through to the one.com site.

- One database. Some like to hold and organize a lot of data, so may rule out one.com as a suitable host provider. All is not lost however as by using table prefixes you can get around having just the one database. Wordpress, a likely user of a database fits fine though, only needing the one.

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