Dot5 Hosting Hosting Review

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Plan Details

Plan Name:	Dot5Hosting
Price:	$4.95
Disk Space:	Unlimited
Data Transfer:	Unlimited
Domains Hosted:	Unlimited
Hosting Services:	Shared Hosting

About Dot5

Dot5 Hosting has been providing web hosting services to both personal and business users since 2002. Not only do they provide web hosting solutions, they also provide web site management, marketing services and eCommerce services just to name a few. Dot5 Hosting has also received awards for their web hosting solutions as the "Best Budget Host" from Hosting-Review and "Best Web Host" from Top-10-Web-Hosting.

Dot5 Hosting Plans

Dot5 Hosting basically has one plan but with 4 pricing options available. Unlike many other web hosting service providers out there, Dot5 Hosting provides unlimited storage space, bandwidth and email accounts. For more info on their hosting plan visit Dot5 Hosting

2 Year Plan - FREE Setup, FREE Domain. $4.95 per month
1 Year Plan - FREE Setup, FREE Domain. $5.95 per month
6 Month Plan - $30 Setup, $9.95 Annual Domain fee. $6.95 per month
Quarterly Plan - $30 Setup, $9.95 Annual Domain fee. $6.95 per month

Joomla Hosting Features

Just like the other web hosting service providers out there, since Dot5 Hosting supports PHP Versions 4 & 5 and MySQL, installing Joomla is easy and straight forward.

Customer Support

You can contact their 24/7 customer support or sales assistance through opening support tickets (requires login), by phone or their live support through online chat. They also post important notices such as system maintenance on the support page. You will find a categorized list of resources that provide general help related to email, web site management, domain registeration, tutorials as well as knowledgebase.

Visit: http://www.dot5hosting.com for more details.

Editor review

Good Host, not the best for Joomla

Overall rating:		7.0
Price:		7.0
Support:		8.0
Features:		7.0
Uptime:		6.0

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Reviewed by Steven Johnson
March 12, 2009

Last updated: June 22, 2009

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

A client had an account with Dot5 hosting and needed a joomla site installed. We decided this is the perfect chance to install and test Joomla on Dot5 servers.

We learned that Dot5 will host joomla sites but requires assistance from tech support to complete the install. Additionally the Dot5 servers are not the fastest we have seen.

Our first sign that this may not be a straight forward install was the fact Dot5 runs a custom control panel. We had to learn our way around the features and settings. Alos it has been our experience that custom control panels may not have all the required Joomla settings.

Most hosting companies run the databases on the web server, dot5 does not. Which can lead to added confusion on the setup.

To get php working correctly we had to enable CGI mode, something that most typical hosts already have enabled.

Our final stumbling block was a session.save_path error on the install. We had to contact tech support for them to fix the error. They never really said what the error was but they did get it fixed.

The rest of the install went smooth. After getting our Joomla site installed we did notice that the site ran slower than other hosts.

Summary
Dot5 has a good price and good tech suppor but would not be our first choice to host a Joomla site. If you have other non-Joomla needs Dot5 may be a good fit for you.

Pros and Cons

Pros	Host Unlimited Sites Responsive Support Staff Will Run Joomla Competitive Price
Cons	Custom Control Panel Servers are slower Tech support needed to install Joomla PHP configuration changes required