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Dotster uptime for October 2008: 99.7% over the Internet
Yet another month of service uptime below the 99.9% uptime guarantee level from dotster hosting. This month, there were 3 outages with 19 failed checks. The dotster server response time is slow as well, recording average of 0.44 second only.
Compare dotster hosting with hostgator and hostmonster hosting that recorded very good server uptime for this october. Also dotster vs uptime: fatcow, ixwebhosting, bluehost, webhostingpad, fastdomain, lunarpages, powweb, dot5 hosting, ipower, eukhost, a2hosting, site 5 etc.
I received this email from CJ lately, and its an update from dotster affiliate program. Doster have their reward program via this CJ partnership to offering sales commission to those who refered their friend and customer to join dotster web hosting and purchase product/services from dotster.com
Following is the new dotster affiliate payout for refering new shared hosting client.
| Commission | $100.00 USD |
| Locking Period – Standard | Actions lock on the 10th of the month, unless extended. |
| Performance Incentive | For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 5 receive one time bonus of $100.00 USD. For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 10 receive one time bonus of $250.00 USD. For Number of Actions equal to or greater than 15 receive one time bonus of $500.00 USD. |
Dotster uptime for september 2008: 99.487% over the Internet
30 service downtime occur at this september 2008, which caused the service uptime to fall below 99.5%. For the recent few months, dotster uptime is really bad, we had seen many months of poor service uptime like this one, and there are many downtime issue.
Dotster server appear to be slow this month, with average response time at 0.35 second. Compare it with other web hosting server response time at: hostgator, host monster, ixwebhosting, fatcow, lunarpages, bluehost, web hosting pad, fastdomain, powweb, dot5hosting, ipowerweb, eukhost, a2 hosting, site5 etc.
Dotster FTP services suck. After a few months of using dotster web hosting, and experiencing their FTP upload and FTP download, my experience never been this terrible before.
I trying to FTP upload the new WordPress script version 2.6.2 to dotster server. the FTP process being terminated by server a lot of times. The server giving me FTP terror code 530 as following
“530 Sorry, the maximum number of clients (2) from your host are already connected.”
Seem like dotster FTP server only allowed two connection a time. So I’ve set the filezilla to have maximum of two FTP connection. I close the connection and reattemp FTP upload to dotster server. it failed to again, giving in the same error. I wait more than 15 minutes and reattempt the FTP uploading again, but it still failed. Appear to be dotster FTP server did not terminate and clear the previous closed FTP session.
My experience using dotster FTP services it’s terrible, it took me more than an hour to upload the 900 WordPress files, that only smaller than 3MB in size. This is a Big nightmare.
After nine months of reviewing dotster web hosting and experiencing their share hosting plan, it had come to a conclusion that dotster server ( that are using now) is responding slowly. The previous speed test had shown average of 0.6 seconds in server respond time.
For the month of September 2008, I do another dotster speed test, following is the test result:
| URL: | http://www.dotsterreviews.org/ |
| Load Time: | 1.366 seconds |
| Page Size: | 88.11 kb |
Dotster uptime for August 2008: 99.345% over the Internet
The previous 2 months, dotster uptime had recorded at 99.8%. but for the month of August 2008, dotster uptime had declined to 99.3% level. Which is a very bad service uptime statistic, almost 7% of service downtime. With 58 failure detected. The server average response time recorded at 0.39 second only.
This month dotster server is having lots more service downtime. Dotster service uptime is poor if compare with other major web hosting providers like hostgator, host monster, ixwebhosting, eukhost, a2 hosting, lunarpages, bluehost, web hosting pad, fatcow, fastdomain, powweb, dot5hosting, ipowerweb, site5 etc.
Dotster uptime for july 2008: 99.819% over the Internet
this is another month dotster uptime had recorded a service at time of 99.8%. However they are more occurance of service downtime, there were 15 minor service downtime detected. Average server respond time was 0.5 second. Indicating a server with good uptime, but slow response
Dotster uptime for june 2008: 99.8% over the internet
for This June 2008, dotster uptime had been recorded and 99.8% of the Internet, with up to 16 service failed to check detected for June 2008. The server average response time was quite slow, and only 0.6 second, compared to other web hosting that averaged at 0.3 second.
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