Best Hosting Deal - $120 now only $10!!

[Carl Pei]

I thought you guys might be interested in a current great deal from Netfirms.

* $10 for one full year of Netfirms Advantage Hosting!
* 2 FREE domain names
* 250GB of disk space
* 2,000GB data transfer per month
* Host unlimited websites with a single account!
* Support for PHP, Perl, and MySQL
* 24-hour technical support

2 domains are worth more than $10. I'll sign up soon.

You can get it here:
http://netfirms.com/max

[Nomar]

That is a hell of an offer !! Added rep. points for that.

[theanand]

Damn. . .i missed it. Good thing I always read the fine print!

Have a look at the transcript with live chat below

Special offer expires June 30, 2007. Offer includes the full Advantage hosting plan with all of its standard features, including free .com domain names. Offer valid for new account activations only. Offer subject to change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offer. Offer excludes .ca domain names.

[Nomar]

hmm that sucks.. it was a good offer

[theanand]

Sorry for my prev. post. But here is what I got from the live chat team. . . HURRY UP!!!!

Chat InformationWelcome to the Netfirms Live Sales Chat! A Sales Representative will assist you shortly.
Chat InformationYou are now chatting with 'Mark D'
Mark D: Hello, thank you for contacting us. How may I help you today?
Anand: hi Mark
Mark D: Hello
Anand: i was just looking through your site when I found a coupon for 10$ hosting.
Anand: is it still available?
Mark D: What is that coupon I would need to see it first?
Anand: coupon named max.
Mark D: It isn't a coupon there should be a web address do you know that web address?
Anand: http://netfirms.com/max
Anand: this is the one.
Mark D: Let me look over that link
Mark D: Signing up through that link would work.
Anand: okie. thanks a lot. can you tell me for how long this offer is valid till?
Mark D: There is no set date. It could be gone tomorrow, it could be there for another year.
Anand: Okie, Thanks a lot for your help. Looking forward to signup right away. Thanks.
Mark D: You are welcome
Anand: btw do you accept paypal?
Mark D: Only credit cards at this time
Anand: oh. that can be a problem. Anyways will look into it. bye.

[navjotjsingh]

I came across that plan about 4-5 months back. And its still valid. But their not supporting paypal is a big loss for me, as I can pay only via paypal! I hope they will support paypal in future!

[descorpio]

Originally Posted by navjotjsingh

I came across that plan about 4-5 months back. And its still valid. But their not supporting paypal is a big loss for me, as I can pay only via paypal! I hope they will support paypal in future!

When i thought of taking up this offer thank got navjot made me aware that he cannot pay through paypal.Thanks buddy. Me too hold only a paypal account. I do not have access through anyone else and i also found that paypal offers more credibility and security which is good for any trader.

[Nomar]

I would not give my CreditCard number to them. I don't like this kind of tooooo cheap actions, if it was by paypal I would give it a shot

[sb225]

many hosts are doing same this they need to buy with CC only even when i tried to signup at dream host they asked to pay by CC or money order google chekout
thats very bad for customers why this hosts dont support paypal egold mb etc

[MafiaMaster]

People, I want you to remember something. They say that they will give you hosting for a year as well as two free domain names. Now, let's start thinking about it. Assume you wanted to offer hosting. You might get a dedicated server, right? Now...Let's just say that you got that dedicated server for $200.00 a month. You'd have to somehow sell $200.00 worth of hosting each and every month to ensure that you just broke even. Now...For twelve months, that'll cost you $2,400.00, right? Now, let's divide that 2400 by ten and see what we get 240. So, you would need to set up 240 accounts. That's cool. Except I doubt you'd be able to offer that many GB of transfer and disk space to each of those accounts individually.

So, what does this mean? It means that they are overselling! It means that if they have 1000GB of bandwidth available, they are offering 5000GB of bandwidth in total hoping that NO one will get so high that they'll start realizing they don't have all that much bandwidth. Because hosting is basically buying something you'll never touch, you can sell more than what you have and get away with it. I know I don't use all my hosting, so in a sense, they could sell what I don't use to someone else.

Now they are offering domain names as well. So, that's another twenty dollars, let's just say. That's another $4,800 if it's only for 240 clients.. So, the grand total that they are going to need to sell is MORE than the clients they can offer. Their system is totally screwed up. They're offering so much damn hosting and these free domain names and they're not making a penny of profit. Now it makes me wonder how they can do this. Don't trust companies like this. You're just going to get screwed.