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Vistapages has been providing web hosting services to customers since early 2004 and are well known for their amazing inexpensive web hosting plan called "VistaDeal" -- It sure is a deal! Let me tell you why! They only have 1 web hosting package, convientently called the "VistaDeal" shared hosting plan. With 350 GB of web storage and 3000 GB of data transfer, for only $6.95 per month, you'll never have to worry about being restrained on disk and transfer limitations or worry about breaking your wallet!

Reliability
The VistaDeal comes fully featured with PHP4/PHP5, CGI/Perl, Python, MySQL, PostgreSQL to just name a few. You'll also enjoy the ability to host up to 16 domain names with one account, make use of unlimited e-mail accounts, parked domains, mailing lists, sub-domains and tons more! It's incredible at how much Vistapages gives away with just this one plan verses other hosting companies entire product line put together! Vistapages also throws in several dozen one-click, auto-install scripts, such as mailing list managers, content management systems, blogs, photo galleries and more, not to mention a free site builder for those of you who do not know how to build a web site.

Price Value
Vistapages' VistaDeal package is very affordable. The pricing break down is simple, they have 3 payment terms, month-to-month, yearly and 2-year prepaid plans. With their 2 year plan, you'll be able to get in a $6.95 per month with free setup, their 1 year plan is $7.95 per month with free setup and their month-to-month plan is $15.95 per month plus a $20 setup fee. Their service comes with an unconditional 30-day money back guarantee!

Control Panel
Their control panel is based on the cPanel/WHM platform, which is a leader in web hosting control panels in today's web hosting industry. You'll be able to manage your entire account from this control panel, things like e-mail accounts, statistics, databases, custom error 404 pages and more. You'll also have access to their Fantastico script-installer, where you'll be able to install popular scripts such as Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, OS Commerce, Zen cart and more with a simple click!

Customer Support
Vistapages comes with a full-fleet support system, telephone, live chat, helpdesk tickets, support forums and their extensive knowledgebase and help articles. If you get lost using their system, it won't be for long! With agents available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Testing their system, we've received a reply within 10 minutes on their help desk, under a minute on live chat and less than 30 seconds on their telephone. It's clear that their serious about supporting their customers!
  Reviewed 05/05/2007 14:34:38, by Darius Royle
(2.84 out of 10 - 18 votes)
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General issues with web hosting companies

For those of you with Web sites, you probably know what a “host” is. It’s a company that provides a location, or address, on the Internet where your Web site resides. In other words, just like a physical business needs an address, so does a Web site. You can’t have a Web site and just “stick it up” on the Web. Unless you want to set up your own server, you have to go through a hosting company who gives you that address, including server space and bandwidth, that enables the search engines and visitors to find your site. Let’s look at some common problems we often have with hosting companies:
- You can never find an actual person to talk to! They may have a 24-hour customer service line open, but you can never get through to a real person.
- Hosting companies often think that the “lowest price” will always get the sale, but they fail to realize that what people really want is excellent customer service, servers that are up almost 100% of the time, and a variety of services that come with the hosting package.
- Many hosting companies don’t provide any other functionality other than Web site hosting. They don’t provide a “control panel” full of goodies such as PGP secure e-mail, shopping carts, log analysis, database creation, etc.
- Guess what? Technical support people often don’t make the best “customer support” people. They may be technical gurus, but their main interest lies in their high tech servers and other functionality, rather than solving the simple problems of their customers.
- In other words, weak customer service is a major problem with the majority of hosting companies these days.