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Cyrus_the_virus

Unmountable Boot Volume
After I paid for the hosting, now they want my government issued id. WTF? Is this normal?

Since you have bought this point up here. Let me clarify like we did in the email. Exactly like @Ricky said and as stated in our email, it is for keeping our network clean and legit. In your specific case, you signed up with a Pseudo name and despite asking for your real name a second time, you chose to still give us your Pseduo made up name. This made it necessary for your identity to be established. We deal with real people as we are not a social network, and anonymity does not work when you choose to put content on our servers which could impact our other users and for which we can be held responsible under Indian laws.

We can understand why you are concerned about personal information but all our customer information remains confidential and secure and we are probably one of the very few Indian hosts who have HTTPS encryption throughout our site and customer portals. A first step in protecting your information which almost all other India based hosts fails to do.

Each and every one of our customers go through a simple line of verification to ensure that our network and other customers are not impacted. Most of them provide enough verifiable information at the time of signup that no further documentation is required but in certain cases like yours where it was a deliberate misrepresentation that further processing was warranted. Anyhow, your documentation has been received and your account activated about an hour ago. Hope this clears the air.

PS: Every real business requires you to sign up as a real person. So, establishing your identity should not come as a surprise.
 
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Vyom

The Power of x480
Staff member
Admin
Wait a second, was the ID demanded for hosting? I didn't give any ID to DigitalOcean, where I use VPS to host my content.
Anyway, with above post I think its ok now.
 

Ricky

Cyborg Agent
Wait a second, was the ID demanded for hosting? I didn't give any ID to DigitalOcean, where I use VPS to host my content.
Anyway, with above post I think its ok now.

Well, sometimes if you pay from CC which triggers no fraud alert, companies ask no details. Similarly if you are paying from verified paypal account which matches your location other data , there is no problem. There is whole lot of internal rules for hosting business, generally they avoid scaring away customer with ID requirement but sometimes its must for their own good.
 

kunalgujarathi

Cyborg Agent
Hi folks,

I have queries -
1.Personal portfolio website -
Suggest a good TLD for hosting my architectural+civil portfolio.
kunalgujarathi.com or kunalgujarathi.info or kunalgujarathi.me or kgportfol.io
Please help me to choose.

2.Service -Namecheap or Godaddy?

3.Hosting - Don't know
Storage - 2 GB
Cpanel with wordpress functionality
Budget - 200 rs./month

Regards,
Kunal
 

Vyom

The Power of x480
Staff member
Admin
Hi folks,

I have queries -
1.Personal portfolio website -
Suggest a good TLD for hosting my architectural+civil portfolio.
kunalgujarathi.com or kunalgujarathi.info or kunalgujarathi.me or kgportfol.io
Please help me to choose.

2.Service -Namecheap or Godaddy?

3.Hosting - Don't know
Storage - 2 GB
Cpanel with wordpress functionality
Budget - 200 rs./month

Regards,
Kunal

Since kunalgujarathi.com is available, I suggest getting .com domain only. Other TLD while looking good, don't tend to reap the benefits of easy mass adoption and SEO.

I have been using a combination of namecheap (for domain) and Digital Ocean (DO) for hosting. (DO provides SSD hosting and have recently opened a server in Bangalore. They charge as low as $5 monthly for VPS where you can host your Wordpress site (or many wordpress sites). Although if you only want one wordpress installation (and that too with cpanel) you can get other cheaper option. I leave suggestion for that to other members here.
 

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
+1 to Vyom for Namecheap + DO Suggestion.

I have many sites (of clients) at DO and Vultr.

But if you are just looking for Wordpress Hosting with cPanel, then you might look at Hostgator. They are one of the best shared hosting provide.
 

kunalgujarathi

Cyborg Agent
Since kunalgujarathi.com is available, I suggest getting .com domain only. Other TLD while looking good, don't tend to reap the benefits of easy mass adoption and SEO.

I have been using a combination of namecheap (for domain) and Digital Ocean (DO) for hosting. (DO provides SSD hosting and have recently opened a server in Bangalore. They charge as low as $5 monthly for VPS where you can host your Wordpress site (or many wordpress sites). Although if you only want one wordpress installation (and that too with cpanel) you can get other cheaper option. I leave suggestion for that to other members here.

+1 to Vyom for Namecheap + DO Suggestion.

I have many sites (of clients) at DO and Vultr.

But if you are just looking for Wordpress Hosting with cPanel, then you might look at Hostgator. They are one of the best shared hosting provide.

Thanks a lot [MENTION=77264]Vyom[/MENTION] [MENTION=32490]krishnandu.sarkar[/MENTION]

Domain - kunalgujarathi.com

About hosting - this only for basic portfolio and I want it to be as cheap as possible.
Hostgator starts at ₹350/month

About VPS - I will do start my blog further down the road but now currently if I have to choose between VPS and Shared Hosting
DO vs Outpowerhosting
$5/month vs 1199/year
I am confused.
Ok so I guess 1 to 5GB diskspace is enough.
Bandwidth - 1TB I guess is more than enough; unlimited is a good bonus.
Domain - can host multiple domains is a good plus.

Please help me through this one.




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krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
Thanks a lot [MENTION=77264]Vyom[/MENTION] [MENTION=32490]krishnandu.sarkar[/MENTION]

Domain - kunalgujarathi.com

About hosting - this only for basic portfolio and I want it to be as cheap as possible.
Hostgator starts at ₹350/month

About VPS - I will do start my blog further down the road but now currently if I have to choose between VPS and Shared Hosting
DO vs Outpowerhosting
$5/month vs 1199/year
I am confused.
Ok so I guess 1 to 5GB diskspace is enough.
Bandwidth - 1TB I guess is more than enough; unlimited is a good bonus.
Domain - can host multiple domains is a good plus.

Please help me through this one.




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Well, to be specific, DO is kind if unmanaged servers, so if something goes wrong you have to do all the dirty hardwork. Even if you just spin up a Wordpress Server it's not enough. You need to take measures to secure the same. So if you are not experienced in Server Management and all and not interested in maintaining those yourself, you can go for shared hosting.

On the other hand, DO provides you with SSD, so that's a bonus, your SEO will see a bump due to high page speeds.

So you have to do the choice yourself.
 

arijitsinha

﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ O'RLY?
If you are using DigitalOcean, use coupon code "DROPLET" for free $10 credit, you can get 2 months VPS Hosting.

Otherwise if you have knowledge on Linux and basic DB fundamentals, try Amazon Web Hosting. They have 1 year free plan. This will be the most secure and customizable. Also AWS have step by step tutorial as well.

Free Cloud Services – AWS Free Tie

But be careful while using AWS, you might be charged automatically if you exceeds the usage limit.
 

dashing.sujay

Moving
Staff member
[MENTION=266361]kunalgujarathi[/MENTION]

Buddy, I won't recommend a VPS at all for starters or first timers. Reasons being it will be quite technical for you (You are just starting, that too a wordpress, so no way), second, it is costly over shared hosting which is against your requirement.
My personal recommendation for you will be hostinger.in. It provides absolutely free hosting for a single domain which will suffice your need. It is quite famous.

How is siteground for Shared Hosting??

Never heard of it. Try hostinger, free of cost, forever.
 

ariftwister

Truth Seeker
[MENTION=266361]kunalgujarathi[/MENTION]

Buddy, I won't recommend a VPS at all for starters or first timers. Reasons being it will be quite technical for you (You are just starting, that too a wordpress, so no way), second, it is costly over shared hosting which is against your requirement.
My personal recommendation for you will be hostinger.in. It provides absolutely free hosting for a single domain which will suffice your need. It is quite famous.



Never heard of it. Try hostinger, free of cost, forever.

Its says Free hosting and No ADS!?? Then whats the catch??
 

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
I think what [MENTION=86068]dashing.sujay[/MENTION] is suggesting, it good if you are expecting no or less traffic on startup. But once you start getting traffic, free things doesn't works. As I have said previously, better go for Hostgator, one of the best and trusted hosting provider.

And yes, I agree with [MENTION=86068]dashing.sujay[/MENTION], DO / Vultr or any other VPS can be overkill for your need.

And if you want mixture of all i.e. DO / Vultr like VPS, Service and Quality like Rackspace and Hostgator and Price like Hostdime / Hostso, then go for Azure / Amazon AWS. It'll be free for 1 year anyways, then charges are minimal.

BTW, I also use Hostdime (Rs. 50/- per month) and Hostso (Rs. 30/- per month) for hosting some sites of my clients, but they all have low traffic, so I don't know how they will behave if they start receiving high traffic.

From my standpoint of view, I'd say decide wisely, as once you start getting high traffic and you have already few posts with various images and all and SEO done right, it's a daunting task moving a WP site to another host.
 

dashing.sujay

Moving
Staff member
I think what [MENTION=86068]dashing.sujay[/MENTION] is suggesting, it good if you are expecting no or less traffic on startup. But once you start getting traffic, free things doesn't works. As I have said previously, better go for Hostgator, one of the best and trusted hosting provider.

And yes, I agree with [MENTION=86068]dashing.sujay[/MENTION], DO / Vultr or any other VPS can be overkill for your need.

And if you want mixture of all i.e. DO / Vultr like VPS, Service and Quality like Rackspace and Hostgator and Price like Hostdime / Hostso, then go for Azure / Amazon AWS. It'll be free for 1 year anyways, then charges are minimal.

BTW, I also use Hostdime (Rs. 50/- per month) and Hostso (Rs. 30/- per month) for hosting some sites of my clients, but they all have low traffic, so I don't know how they will behave if they start receiving high traffic.

Your said prices do not match with what they have on website. Did you use any coupon ?

From my standpoint of view, I'd say decide wisely, as once you start getting high traffic and you have already few posts with various images and all and SEO done right, it's a daunting task moving a WP site to another host.

Very true and I'm going to face it this month as my GoDaddy is expiring and I'm going to switch. :(
 

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
Your said prices do not match with what they have on website. Did you use any coupon ?



Very true and I'm going to face it this month as my GoDaddy is expiring and I'm going to switch. :(

No. I'm sorry those are very old sites, they have increased the price now.

Hostso and Hostdime works out good for you as long as you are not expecting much in return. Service is not that bad, but if yours is kind of like quality content and you are expecting high traffic then Hostso / Hostdime is not the one you are looking for.

BTW, it seems that Hostdime has stopped taking new registrations on shared hosting, but old ones can continue @ Rs. 50/- only. And previously Hostso was Rs. 29/- per month, but now they have increased.

Anyway, let me know what steps you are taking to move your WP Blog.
 
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