subigo

Last week Karl and I introduced IonVZ VPS hosting on Wickedfire... This week we're introducing something that a lot more people have been asking about lately, shared hosting. For a limited time we are offering a $10 off coupon ("10bucks"), making the normal $39.99 (which is a "grand opening" introductory price by itself) price just $29.99 for an entire year. We have just one plan, but the resources are not oversold, so you get what you pay for. We're also catering to Prosper202 users, but more about that below.

So what do you get for $29.99?

- 2GB of Diskspace: More than enough space for multiple Wordpress blogs, a forum, Prosper202, and more.

- 100GB of Bandwidth: 100GB of bandwidth transfer for your files. Not oversold and dedicated to your account. Renews monthly, not yearly.

- Host 10 Domains: We allow you to host a total of 10 domains under your single account. This is true hosting, not "addon" subdomains.

- No Limits Hosting: We don't place limits on the amount of MySQL databases, subdomains, email accounts, etc, that you're allowed.

# 30-Day Money Back Guarantee
# DirectAdmin Control Panel
# Softaculous Auto-Installer (install wordpress with a single click)
# Google Hosted Apps Email - We will help you setup this up for any domain
# Prosper202 Installation (one time fee of $10)
# Dedicated IP ($36 a year)
# 1GB Additional Diskspace ($20 a year)
# 100GB Additional Bandwidth ($20 a year)

SEE SITE FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO PLACE AN ORDER: ionvz.com - Shared Web Hosting

Questions...

Will you be offering cPanel hosting?
No. No. No. A million times no.

Will you move my existing site for me?
We will move your site if you are currently using another DirectAdmin host.

Is this related to ZenSix at all?
No. I run both, but they are not related.

What datacenter is this in?
Good ol' Wholesale Internet. They've been good to me and haven't let me down yet.

Can I run a proxy site or have adult content?
No.

Do you only take PayPal?
For now, yes.

So you'll install Prosper202 for me. Will it run okay on shared hosting?
As long as you are a low volume user, you'll be fine. However, if you plan on starting off with thousands of clicks a day, just get a VPS, you'll be glad you did. Remember, Prosper202 on a shared host is for low volume only, no matter where you host your site.

Wordpress will work fine?
Of course it will. And with Softaculous you can truly install it with a single click... but for the love of God, man, use a caching plugin. Who raised you?

Do you still offer VPS hosting?
Yep, look at the bottom of the shared hosting page.


If you have any questions, feel free to ask in this thread or PM me.

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Bofu2U

Hi, I was wondering if you're going to support cPanel anytime soon?
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conv3rsion

or plesk

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in seriousness for a second, zenssh.com actually convinced to remove a control panel from one of my vps boxes yesterday, leading to much immediately improved speed. The vps was my most minimal one and it definitely benefited.

sub I'm a little confused though, i thought ionvz was your more premium offering, so its interesting to see shared hosting, especially this incredibly cheap.

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kblessinggr

The shared hosting is offered on the same i7 920 server, and each node is capped at 50 users, so premium in the sense that we don't even oversell the resources on shared hosting (in fact its undersold for the RAM and CPU allowance provided to it). And we of course still offer VPS packages.

As for the why, he's been getting a crapload of people asking for it. You'd be surprised how well it performs on an i7 920 while keeping it down to 50 clients per node (as opposed to several hundreds if not thousands like others do).

Btw you can still do cpanel or plesk on your own VPS if you want to handle your own license, but I'm glad you saw the light

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PS: If you also recall, back when ZenSix did shared hosting, it was a hell of a lot cheaper than 40/year. (I remember getting one at 12/year and that was normal price not discounted)

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Etherswift

I still have one of zensix's old shared package hosting, which will expire sometimes this year..I guess I'll just signup with you again when the old subscription is over

One thing is a bit unclear to me...care to elaborate on the following?

what exactly are you referring to? how many "addon" domains can i add to my account? what's the difference between an addon domain and a "true hosting" domain ?

Thanks for clarification.

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kblessinggr

In Cpanel the domain you sign up with is your primary domain, from there any additional domains are created as addon domains which usually reside as a subfolder under the primary domain's public_html, this can of course cause some issues with mod_rewrite but also makes it very problematic if you wish to remove the primary domain and make one of the other ones your primary (such as the campaign didn't go well, or it expired etc).

In directadmin every domain has it's own folder under /home/user-name/domains/ , as a result any of the domain can be made the default (useful if you later add a domain that needs an SSL certificate, or if you're running WPMU and need that to be the primary to accept wildcard subdomains). As a result every domain has it's own public_html and private_html instead of sharing the primary's like you'd see in Cpanel.

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Etherswift

thanks for the clarification..
so, only 10 domains per hosting account ? can i pay to increase that number?

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kblessinggr

I'll discuss it with Eric when he gets back. But the reason of course for the limitation is mainly because when it came to ZenSix, he once had a client who immediately setup shop with over 500 domains for the single account, which of course wreaks hell against the named process (bind/nameserver). Was there a particular increment you were thinking of? I know we already offer additional pricing for extra storage and bandwidth, so adding an extra 10 domains might be feasible as well, shall let you know.

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I can Fix, Slice, Configure or Install your Site/Server

Refrozen

Oh come on, this is grasping at straws at BEST. There's no reason your "primary domain" has to exist or work in any way in cPanel. You can set up wildcard subdomains, SSL, etc. on any domain, not just a primary one...

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subigo

Nice I wish more people would try it out, you totally get more bang for your buck. People have been asking me about zenssh for a while now (when I'm going to post more)... hopefully I can get around to it in the next few weeks. I'd like to make it at least a weekly thing.

As for offering shared hosting, I've had a ton of people wanting it for the past six months (since I pretty much stopped all together). And since the conversion rate (and people looking for shared hosting) is much higher for shared than it is VPS hosting, I decided to base the IonVZ site around it. Most people who want a VPS ask me questions directly before signing up, so there wasn't a huge reason to make it the focus of the site.

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subigo

I wrote what's on the site and I wouldn't really say it's grasping at straws. DirectAdmin will allow you to create/delete any or all of your domains from within the account, giving each domain a separate "panel". cPanel on the other hand, well, once you've setup an account under "yourdomain.com" it's a pain in the ass if you ever want that specific account to be anything other than "yourdomain.com". In short, DirectAdmin organizes domains in a much more logical way, whereas cPanel is a jumbled fucking mess.

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conv3rsion

on one of my more recent vms i went from plesk to cpanel (only option with that host) and the way cpanel does it is fucking retarded.

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DKPMO

1) Is it possible to get more domains or you would just require an upgrade to VPS?

2) Could you clarify why you have a problem with proxy sites? I like to have centralized CMS that serves content through various shared hosts on different IPs

3) You are saying you would not allow thousands clicks per day? This is really puny. How will you enforce the cap on resources?

I am also wondering if you have dedicated packages appropriate for high-volume CAN-SPAM compliant email.

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1) Is it possible to get more domains or you would just require an upgrade to VPS?

Sure, we could work something out. If you just need 1 or 2 domains, it wouldn't be a problem. If you need a lot, we can do a small fee.

2) Could you clarify why you have a problem with proxy sites? I like to have centralized CMS that serves content through various shared hosts on different IPs

By proxy, I mean something like Hide My Ass! Free Proxy and Privacy Tools - Surf The Web Anonymously - No public (or private for that matter) script allowing people to browse the Internet via our server IP. This is not allowed by our datacenter.

3) You are saying you would not allow thousands clicks per day? This is really puny. How will you enforce the cap on resources?

This is for prosper202 only. If you are doing more than 1k clicks a day, you shouldn't be on shared hosting in the first place. Prosper is really resource heavy, especially when running reports. In short, if your account causes a CPU/RAM load for a long period of time, we'll let you know. I've installed prosper a million times over the past year and helped a lot of people scale to bigger plans and servers. In my mind it's best to just start with a dedicated server, but not everyone can afford that... So in terms of what kind of load handles what kind of hosting, I see it like this:

0-1.5k clicks - shared works
1.5-2.5k clicks - get a vps
2.5k+ clicks - why are you being cheap with something that makes you money? Get a dedicated server already.

I am also wondering if you have dedicated packages appropriate for high-volume CAN-SPAM compliant email.

No large amounts of email are allowed at all. Again, this is a datacenter thing. They do not allow mailers. Our entire ToS can be found here: ionvz.com - Terms of Service

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Etherswift

I'm not talking about hundreds of domains here...just flexibility when need arises ..Good to know things can be arranged (as Eric said above).
Thanks.

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kblessinggr

Yea, you could use the ticket system for that, that way one of us will get it bumped rather quickly when it comes to that time.

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DKPMO

So the only kind of proxies banned are the ones allowing random Internet visitors to hide their identities?

As far as prosper scaling, I think the only real bottleneck would be reports, just accepting a few thousands of clicks a day should not a big drain... But do you have memcache installed?

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subigo

So the only kind of proxies banned are the ones allowing random Internet visitors to hide their identities?

Right.

As far as prosper scaling, I think the only real bottleneck would be reports, just accepting a few thousands of clicks a day should not a big drain... But do you have memcache installed?

No memcache installed. On a shared server memcache is going to push a single user over their alloted resources immediately and if you have just 10 people using prosper on the server, well, you'd need a hell of a lot of RAM. Again, it'd be nice, but if you're already at the point where you need memcache, you should be on a vps at minimum.

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Rage9

Do you have your own name servers or do I have to get my own?

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kblessinggr

ns#.ionvz.com depending of course which server you are placed on.
if utilizing a vps, you either point to your own vps such as with a directadmin installation or use offsite.

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Moon54

I've signed up and liking it so far.

DirectAdmin is pretty easy to use.

ClarkeW

I signed up the other day, the setup was quick and subigo helped me move some sites over. It performs extremely well and support is outstanding as usual.

subigo

Next person to order at full price ($39.99) will receive a FREE dedicated IP. Just PM me after ordering (give me 24 hours to reply).

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