US-based Dotster started life as a domain registrar around 18 years ago, moved into web hosting, and is now owned by the mammoth Endurance International Group.
As with some of the other small EIG companies, Dotster doesn’t seem very active. The firm’s press room shows no releases since the company was acquired by EIG in 2012. The Twitter and Facebook feeds have no original content, instead showing the standard EIG marketing offers and deals. Even the website content is dated in places, listing support email addresses which are no longer used.
Dotster’s product range is a little limited. There’s Linux shared hosting, Windows hosting at extra cost, a site builder, and basic VPS starting from $30 (£24) a month. But there isn’t the depth to these plans that you get elsewhere, and there’s no dedicated hosting.
The $3.75 (£2.90) a month Basic Hosting plan has several limits: a maximum of one domain, 100 email addresses, 5 FTP logins and 10 MySQL databases. That will probably be enough for many personal users, though, and there’s a bundled drag-and-drop Site Builder and one-click install of WordPress and other apps to help you get started.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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