What is Fantastico De Luxe
Fantastico De Luxe is an amazing cPanel/PHP based Web application. It integrates with cPanel, which is the type of control panel offered by Downtown Host, to grant users the ability to automagically install popular Open Source Applications. With Fantastico the installation procedure of all of the following scripts takes only seconds and can be performed by novices without the need of setting up MySQL databases, importing structure, chmoding files and without the need of other tasks usually associated with installations.
List of included applications
Check out the latest list at http://www.downtownhost.com/scripts.html
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CubeCart
What is CubeCart
CubeCart is an easy to use yet powerful XHTML & CSS valid shopping cart script. It features unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products and easily modified design.
Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of CubeCart through Fantastico
Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://www.cubecart.com/ for demo, tech-support and forum.
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CubeCart is an easy to use yet powerful XHTML & CSS valid shopping cart script. It features unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products and easily modified design.
Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of CubeCart through Fantastico
Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://www.cubecart.com/ for demo, tech-support and forum.
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b2evolution
What is b2evolution
b2evolution is a powerful free and open source blog tool featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, file & photo management, advanced skinning, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs, detailed user permissions and third-party plugins.
Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of b2evolution through Fantastico.
Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://b2evolution.net/ for demo, documentations and forum.
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b2evolution is a powerful free and open source blog tool featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, file & photo management, advanced skinning, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs, detailed user permissions and third-party plugins.
Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of b2evolution through Fantastico.
Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://b2evolution.net/ for demo, documentations and forum.
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AgoraCart
What is Agoracart
AgoraCart is a powerful free and open source online shopping cart & e-commerce system that offers a very wide range of "out-of-the-box" features.
AgoraCart comes with flexibility in full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets, template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular "drop in and go" code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.
Minimum Requirements to Install AgoraCart 5.2.x
1. Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux based hosting account (or server). *Downtown Host runs on Linux servers.
2. Perl 5.8.0 or higher. *Downtown Host offers Perl 5.8.7.
3. These Perl Modules must be installed on your server or webhosting account: LWP::Simple, File::Copy. *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
4. Recommended Perl Modules - Only needed if using Real-time Payment Processing Gateways or Shipping Rating Services: Net::SSLeay *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
5. FTP or online file manager access with the ability to set permissions on files. *Which host doesn't offer it?
6. Run scripts under your hosting user ID, most servers offer this now, OR the ability to install wrappers (via SSH2/Shell or by your server admin at your request).
*Downtown Host Linux servers users have the ability to add and run their own CGI scripts.
Installations
Follow the instructions at the official wiki. Use the FTP/browser method.
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AgoraCart is a powerful free and open source online shopping cart & e-commerce system that offers a very wide range of "out-of-the-box" features.
AgoraCart comes with flexibility in full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets, template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular "drop in and go" code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.
Minimum Requirements to Install AgoraCart 5.2.x
1. Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux based hosting account (or server). *Downtown Host runs on Linux servers.
2. Perl 5.8.0 or higher. *Downtown Host offers Perl 5.8.7.
3. These Perl Modules must be installed on your server or webhosting account: LWP::Simple, File::Copy. *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
4. Recommended Perl Modules - Only needed if using Real-time Payment Processing Gateways or Shipping Rating Services: Net::SSLeay *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
5. FTP or online file manager access with the ability to set permissions on files. *Which host doesn't offer it?
6. Run scripts under your hosting user ID, most servers offer this now, OR the ability to install wrappers (via SSH2/Shell or by your server admin at your request).
*Downtown Host Linux servers users have the ability to add and run their own CGI scripts.
Installations
Follow the instructions at the official wiki. Use the FTP/browser method.
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Downtown Host Hosting Features
Keep in mind that if the desired hosting feature is not available via Fantastico scripts, you can always ask the Downtown Host support staff for installation help.
List of Downtown Host hosting features sorted by alphabetical order(the numbers in the brackets are the currently supported version)
List of Downtown Host hosting features sorted by alphabetical order(the numbers in the brackets are the currently supported version)
- 4Images Gallery(1.7.6) - Image gallery system.
- AccountLab Plus(2.8 r14) - Hosting billing software.
- AgoraCart(5.2.x) - E-commerce shopping cart.
- b2evolution(2.4.5) - Blogging tool.
- Coppermine Photo Gallery(1.4.20) - Image gallery system.
- Crafty Syntax Live Help(2.15.0) - Customer support software.
- CubeCart(3.0.17) - E-commerce shopping cart.
- Drupal(6.10) - A popular Content Management System with powerful capabilities.
- Fantastico De Luxe - Script library offering easy installations of many open source applications.
- FAQMaster Flex(1.51) - Customer support software.
- Gallery(2.3) - Online image gallery.
- GBook(1.6) - PHP Guestbook.
- Geeklog(1.5.1) - Content Management System and blogging tool.
- Help Center Live - (2.1.7) - Customer support software.
- Joomla(1.5.11) - Powerful Content Management System.
- Mambo(4.6.5) - Content Management System.
- Mediawiki(1.15.0) - A popular wiki.
- MyBB(1.4.8) - A newly popular forum application.
- Moodle(1.9.4) - A Virtual Learning Environment.
- Movable Type(4.261) - Blogging tool.
- Noah's Classifieds(V8 (3.2.0)) - A classifieds system.
- Nucleus(3.3.2) - A lightweight Content Management System for managing multiple blogs.
- OpenX(2.8) - Advertising server.
- osCommerce(v3.0 Alpha 5) - E-commerce online store management with shopping cart functionality.
- osTicket(1.3.1) - Customer support software.
- PerlDesk(4.012.2) - Customer support software.
- PHP Support Ticket(1.9) - Customer support software.
- phpBB(3.0.4) - A widely used forum application.
- phpCOIN(1.4.4) - A billing and invoicing application.
- phpWCMS(1.1-RC4 Rev. A) - Content Management System.
- phpWebSite(0.10.2) - Content Management System.
- PostNuke(0.764) - Content Management System.
- Siteframe(3.2.3) - Content Management System.
- SMF(1.1.9) - A popular forum application.
- Support Logic Helpdesk(1.2) - Customer support software.
- Support Services Manager(1.0b) - Customer support software.
- TYPO3(4.2.1) - Content Management System.
- vBulletin(3.8.3) - A powerful forum application.
- WordPress(2.8) - A popular Content Management System and blogging tool.
- Xoops(2.3.1) - Content Management System.
- Zikula(1.1.1) - Content Management System and web application framework.
Downtown Host Reviews (June 11, 2007)
Review by Kenny Tran (Review date June 11, 2007 with 2 follow-ups)
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer"
The sign-up process was very fast for me. After paying the hosting fee, I got my account set up and ready almost immediately. I found that they had the latest Cpanel (an award-winning control panel for web hosting). The interface is quite cool too in my opinion... Then I set up a mirror of this blog on DownTownHost server and started to test it. To my surprise, it was really slow. I was somehow disappointed, but I still hoped that it was just temporary, so I submitted a support ticket to see how. To my surprise (again), they responded to my complaint within less than half an hour. From there, they actively tested and exchanged messages with me for about 36 hrs. We exchanged around 40 messages in total, but my total waiting time (the time between sending a message & receiving a reply) was only 12h42′ (or 38′ per message on average)... I eventually found out that it was me who caused the prolem because I forgot to change some configuration when setting the mirror on DownTownHost server. After I fixed it, the mirror became very fast (much faster than my old host).
Read the original review and the follow-ups here.
Read other reviews here.
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer"
The sign-up process was very fast for me. After paying the hosting fee, I got my account set up and ready almost immediately. I found that they had the latest Cpanel (an award-winning control panel for web hosting). The interface is quite cool too in my opinion... Then I set up a mirror of this blog on DownTownHost server and started to test it. To my surprise, it was really slow. I was somehow disappointed, but I still hoped that it was just temporary, so I submitted a support ticket to see how. To my surprise (again), they responded to my complaint within less than half an hour. From there, they actively tested and exchanged messages with me for about 36 hrs. We exchanged around 40 messages in total, but my total waiting time (the time between sending a message & receiving a reply) was only 12h42′ (or 38′ per message on average)... I eventually found out that it was me who caused the prolem because I forgot to change some configuration when setting the mirror on DownTownHost server. After I fixed it, the mirror became very fast (much faster than my old host).
Read the original review and the follow-ups here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (December 27, 2007)
Review by maniakaz (Review date December 27, 2007, with various follow-ups)
"Downtownhost.com: review"
Signed today for a Bronze plan for 1 year... Then:
14:09 - DTH signup email
14:12 - wellcome email.
Later chatted with their support staf about possibility to restore y site from backup. I have to notice that prior to this their support told it would take 10 days (if I remember well) to move site from Cpanel to Cpanel. So, I decided it would take too long and took backup/restore option. Support tyold me I need to send email and they will do everything else for me. When I finished uploading, emailed them:
15:37 - autoresponder. "Request received"
15:40 - answer from their staff. Site fully restored. ALl they asked from me was not to change in Cpanel. But since there was no information, I did not change anything.
Later I wanted some information about multidomain and tried to reach support chat. Tried 3 times, nobody answered. Later I managed to catch Sebastian and he explained me everything in details. I am very satisfied the way Sebastian works and treats his company's customers.
Prior to this I have bombarded Jedito and DTH support with lots of questions, sometimes trying to get real help, sometimes just testing.
Overall, support is at least 9/10, speed - 10/10.
Follow-up #1:
First impression: site functions slower when compared to what is was at TCH.
Issues:
1. Some problems with my Joomla. At December 29 my Joomla crashed. I contacted support (2007 12 29. 07:58). Soon I was answered something was corrupt and needs to be deleted. The question was if I ok that. Some hours later (7, if I do recall it good) I received an answer telling that
Quote:
This message concerns your Ticket #FIH-215366. We have not received any response back from you in 48 hours
. I responded to support telling "Yes, I give ok on any action that would help to restore my site.". Site was restored, password was restored by first request.
2. Today my site crashed without any explanation. Lasted for maximum 20 seconds (or how long does it take to see Joomla's screen of death and log back into admin panel?). Did not contact support as it solved automatically.
3. yesterday tried to contact support some 3 times without luck. Later realised I had no need to do so - and did not answer to Jorge's email.
Issue number 2 is natural, I think + it did not cause any problems. Support, when is contacted, is allways top quality: the way it is accustomed at DTH and the way it should be anywhere.
Some technical problems remain, but they are my own requirements and has nothing to do with DTH. I think I will solve tyhem one day (untill now - no luck). After issue number 2 there has been no problems untill yesterday.
Overall, I am satisfied with them and I am staying with DTH. Money back? No, thanks.
Follow-up #2:
Negative: none. No downtime, no crash, nothing bad at all.
Jobs done: Installed Typo3 cms on subdomain - works perfectly. I thought there was an opportunity that Joomla will conflict with Typo3. No conflicts. Installed SMF forum - works nice. 2)Parked one domain (which I reveal later).
I am very satisfied with Downtownhost.com. Next month my Typo3 website will start working and getting some real traffic. That's going to be a kind of exam.
Follow-up #3:
One accident: forgot login/passw combination for main site. Tried several passwords and boom - site is gone. Did not ghet the point, bombarded support with "what happens?". It turned to be 100% my fault: after too many attempts their firewall blocked me. Soon everything was restored.
My fault, not theirs - and no more problems with DTH.
I finally have add-on domain (first time in my life!), www.monetos.net. Still in RC phase (Gallery does not work properly). First it functioned as sub-domain of my main website, now as normal domain. No problems found.
Follow-up #4:
2 problems arose:
1) both sites were unavailable 10 April from cca 18 o'clock. Do not know how long did it take, because my internet connection reappeared obnly at 19 o'clock and everything was doing fine. Asked at DTH forum and was told:
The server was momentarily "attacked" by "bots <...>indeed, [server]never was down, but it was overloaded
status: solved.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
"Downtownhost.com: review"
Signed today for a Bronze plan for 1 year... Then:
14:09 - DTH signup email
14:12 - wellcome email.
Later chatted with their support staf about possibility to restore y site from backup. I have to notice that prior to this their support told it would take 10 days (if I remember well) to move site from Cpanel to Cpanel. So, I decided it would take too long and took backup/restore option. Support tyold me I need to send email and they will do everything else for me. When I finished uploading, emailed them:
15:37 - autoresponder. "Request received"
15:40 - answer from their staff. Site fully restored. ALl they asked from me was not to change in Cpanel. But since there was no information, I did not change anything.
Later I wanted some information about multidomain and tried to reach support chat. Tried 3 times, nobody answered. Later I managed to catch Sebastian and he explained me everything in details. I am very satisfied the way Sebastian works and treats his company's customers.
Prior to this I have bombarded Jedito and DTH support with lots of questions, sometimes trying to get real help, sometimes just testing.
Overall, support is at least 9/10, speed - 10/10.
Follow-up #1:
First impression: site functions slower when compared to what is was at TCH.
Issues:
1. Some problems with my Joomla. At December 29 my Joomla crashed. I contacted support (2007 12 29. 07:58). Soon I was answered something was corrupt and needs to be deleted. The question was if I ok that. Some hours later (7, if I do recall it good) I received an answer telling that
Quote:
This message concerns your Ticket #FIH-215366. We have not received any response back from you in 48 hours
. I responded to support telling "Yes, I give ok on any action that would help to restore my site.". Site was restored, password was restored by first request.
2. Today my site crashed without any explanation. Lasted for maximum 20 seconds (or how long does it take to see Joomla's screen of death and log back into admin panel?). Did not contact support as it solved automatically.
3. yesterday tried to contact support some 3 times without luck. Later realised I had no need to do so - and did not answer to Jorge's email.
Issue number 2 is natural, I think + it did not cause any problems. Support, when is contacted, is allways top quality: the way it is accustomed at DTH and the way it should be anywhere.
Some technical problems remain, but they are my own requirements and has nothing to do with DTH. I think I will solve tyhem one day (untill now - no luck). After issue number 2 there has been no problems untill yesterday.
Overall, I am satisfied with them and I am staying with DTH. Money back? No, thanks.
Follow-up #2:
Negative: none. No downtime, no crash, nothing bad at all.
Jobs done: Installed Typo3 cms on subdomain - works perfectly. I thought there was an opportunity that Joomla will conflict with Typo3. No conflicts. Installed SMF forum - works nice. 2)Parked one domain (which I reveal later).
I am very satisfied with Downtownhost.com. Next month my Typo3 website will start working and getting some real traffic. That's going to be a kind of exam.
Follow-up #3:
One accident: forgot login/passw combination for main site. Tried several passwords and boom - site is gone. Did not ghet the point, bombarded support with "what happens?". It turned to be 100% my fault: after too many attempts their firewall blocked me. Soon everything was restored.
My fault, not theirs - and no more problems with DTH.
I finally have add-on domain (first time in my life!), www.monetos.net. Still in RC phase (Gallery does not work properly). First it functioned as sub-domain of my main website, now as normal domain. No problems found.
Follow-up #4:
2 problems arose:
1) both sites were unavailable 10 April from cca 18 o'clock. Do not know how long did it take, because my internet connection reappeared obnly at 19 o'clock and everything was doing fine. Asked at DTH forum and was told:
The server was momentarily "attacked" by "bots <...>indeed, [server]never was down, but it was overloaded
status: solved.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (September 22, 2008)
Review by dead captain (Review date September 22, 2008)
"10 month review of downtownhost"
In my ten months with them I dont recall ever having a moment of downtime or at least none that I was aware of. And I have never heard one peep from them about any issues at all.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
"10 month review of downtownhost"
In my ten months with them I dont recall ever having a moment of downtime or at least none that I was aware of. And I have never heard one peep from them about any issues at all.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (October 9, 2008)
Review by Pica$$o (Review date October 9,2008)
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review"
I have been using a company called Downtownhost or DTH for short for over a year now... What stands out to me is the support that they offer, I have submitted a few tickets and they have respond within 5 minutes or less. I did not expect the service to be that quick, in most cases I’m use to waiting 24 hours or more but with DTH it seems that support is on top of any ticket or issues you may have. Beyond that the staff is very friendly always asking if anything else is needed or sometimes going out of their way to either solve your problem or explain something you may not understand.
In addition you will receive a stable and shared hosting plan, something that in the web hosting industry is hard to find. It doesn’t seem that they oversell their plans as the servers are as stable as you treat them. They offer CPANEL and all the software including fantastico is up to date.
However, I have had some downtime to speak of but it has been minimal and somewhat unnoticed. They do the best they can against DdoS attacks but when it comes to a technical issues on the server they are quick to take care of the problem.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review"
I have been using a company called Downtownhost or DTH for short for over a year now... What stands out to me is the support that they offer, I have submitted a few tickets and they have respond within 5 minutes or less. I did not expect the service to be that quick, in most cases I’m use to waiting 24 hours or more but with DTH it seems that support is on top of any ticket or issues you may have. Beyond that the staff is very friendly always asking if anything else is needed or sometimes going out of their way to either solve your problem or explain something you may not understand.
In addition you will receive a stable and shared hosting plan, something that in the web hosting industry is hard to find. It doesn’t seem that they oversell their plans as the servers are as stable as you treat them. They offer CPANEL and all the software including fantastico is up to date.
However, I have had some downtime to speak of but it has been minimal and somewhat unnoticed. They do the best they can against DdoS attacks but when it comes to a technical issues on the server they are quick to take care of the problem.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (November 29, 2008)
Review by kaihao96 (Review date November 29,2008)
"DownTownHost review"
I am with DTH for almost 4 months and has been very satisfied. So, I thought I'd post a review here.
I am on their blog package, 1GB of space and 50GB of bandwidth at $5.99. I have to say their support teams are wonderful as they managed to solved every single problem I had every time, literally. Also, I love their 'Live Chat' on their website, once you click it, a conversation with them will start, the only bad thing is sometimes it takes longer than 2minutes which is acceptable
So far, the uptime and speed has been good.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
"DownTownHost review"
I am with DTH for almost 4 months and has been very satisfied. So, I thought I'd post a review here.
I am on their blog package, 1GB of space and 50GB of bandwidth at $5.99. I have to say their support teams are wonderful as they managed to solved every single problem I had every time, literally. Also, I love their 'Live Chat' on their website, once you click it, a conversation with them will start, the only bad thing is sometimes it takes longer than 2minutes which is acceptable
So far, the uptime and speed has been good.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (December 11, 2008)
Review by Arshad Vayani (Review date December 11,2008)
"5 months review of DownTownHost.com"
I am hosting my sites with DownTownHost since July 08 and i must say i am really impressed with their quality of service, uptime and site speed. I haven't experienced any major issue yet accept some server modules were not upgraded and were vulnerable so i reported them. Everything is fine now.
Read the original thread here.
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"5 months review of DownTownHost.com"
I am hosting my sites with DownTownHost since July 08 and i must say i am really impressed with their quality of service, uptime and site speed. I haven't experienced any major issue yet accept some server modules were not upgraded and were vulnerable so i reported them. Everything is fine now.
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (August 8, 2003)
Review by RDX1 (Review date August 8,2003)
"My experience with downtownhost.com.."
Jorge has been very nice and reasonable to all of my requests, the speed has been superb 99.9% of the time, i have never seen any downtime but i have seen slowness a few times, and i understand no server is perfect.
The part i like most about Jorge is he is always fast to reply to my emails, one time he replied right away (% minutes) and the max time has been 4 days (See below) But usually takes him 2-10 hours to reply as he does sleep! But mostly around 3-4 hours at average.
Now, the only bad part as it has taken him a few days to reply due to him being sick, and a few others i can't remember, but either the problem was fixed before he replied, or it was a minor problem that needed to be fixed as there isn't many problems that acquire.
Read the original thread here
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"My experience with downtownhost.com.."
Jorge has been very nice and reasonable to all of my requests, the speed has been superb 99.9% of the time, i have never seen any downtime but i have seen slowness a few times, and i understand no server is perfect.
The part i like most about Jorge is he is always fast to reply to my emails, one time he replied right away (% minutes) and the max time has been 4 days (See below) But usually takes him 2-10 hours to reply as he does sleep! But mostly around 3-4 hours at average.
Now, the only bad part as it has taken him a few days to reply due to him being sick, and a few others i can't remember, but either the problem was fixed before he replied, or it was a minor problem that needed to be fixed as there isn't many problems that acquire.
Read the original thread here
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews (April 24, 2009)
Review by Fastian (Review date April 24,2009)
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.
During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.
Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)
Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)
Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.
During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.
Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)
Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)
Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)
Read the original thread here.
Read other reviews here.
Downtown Host Reviews
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All reviews, whether positive or negative, are collected, though so far we have found no negative reviews! Do a search on "Downtownhost review" in WebHostingTalk and you can verify it for yourself. In fact, Downtown Host is the only host where WHT forummers reply with "Another positive review for DTH..." .
Recommended Read
Review by Fastian (Review date April 24,2009)
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.
During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.
Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)
Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)
Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)
Read the original thread here.
Collection of reviews:
"Review: DownTownHost" (July 1, 2009) - Latest!
"5 months review of DownTownHost.com" (December 11, 2008)
"DownTownHost review" (November 29, 2008)
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review" (October 9, 2008)
"10 month review of downtownhost" (September 22, 2008)
"Downtownhost.com: review" (December 27, 2007)
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer" (June 11, 2007)
"My experience with downtownhost.com.." (August 8, 2003)
All reviews, whether positive or negative, are collected, though so far we have found no negative reviews! Do a search on "Downtownhost review" in WebHostingTalk and you can verify it for yourself. In fact, Downtown Host is the only host where WHT forummers reply with "Another positive review for DTH..." .
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Review by Fastian (Review date April 24,2009)
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.
During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.
Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)
Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)
Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)
Read the original thread here.
Collection of reviews:
"Review: DownTownHost" (July 1, 2009) - Latest!
"5 months review of DownTownHost.com" (December 11, 2008)
"DownTownHost review" (November 29, 2008)
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review" (October 9, 2008)
"10 month review of downtownhost" (September 22, 2008)
"Downtownhost.com: review" (December 27, 2007)
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer" (June 11, 2007)
"My experience with downtownhost.com.." (August 8, 2003)
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Since June 29, 2009
Outages: 0
Total Uptime: 100.000%
Last Check: June 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM PST+3.0
Average response time: 0.118 seconds
Since June 29, 2009
Outages: 0
Total Uptime: 100.000%
Last Check: June 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM PST+3.0
| Year | Outages | Uptime |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 100.000% |
| Year | Month | Outages | Uptime | Downtime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | June | 0 | 100.000% | 0.000% |
Average response time: 0.118 seconds
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refugee 99% one time off on all monthly hosting plan
happy2009 25% off for the life of your account with downtownhost
After signing up, while making your payment you will find the area to enter coupon codes.
Eligibility
Applies to new account only. Only one coupon applies.
Company Profile
| Owner | : | Jorge Catena |
| : | support@downtownhost.com | |
| sales@downtownhost.com | ||
| billing@downtownhost.com | ||
| info@downtownhost.com | ||
| Mailing Adress | : | DowntownHost.com |
| 1455 Tallevast Road | ||
| Suite L2210 | ||
| Sarasota, FL 34243 USA | ||
| Toll Free Fax# | : | 1-866-442-0848 |
| Emergency Phone | : | 1-877-384-6781 |
| In business since | : | 2001 |
| Whois Info | : | Downtownhost.com |
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