Domain and Hosting options?
Someone in the BCB thread asked for people’s recommendation for domain and hosting solutions. Folks in the group responded with list of urls to contact and all they had to qualify was its good. From my experience, I bought a domain for myself six months back and I am playing around in it in kind of stealth mode.
Domain from http://www.net4domains.com/ and hosting at http://dreamhost.com/ (got a free url for a year there). Touch wood my experience has been good in terms of there has been no downtime and everything works. Things I have played around with this online are:
- Got google for office account to work
- Get command prompt access to install drupal, wordpress etc.
- Try Facebook apps
- Try hacking general code whenever I get time
Basically a space to hack around when i get time and interest in the internet world!! rapid protyping you see 
But I think there are somethings to think about before going to a specific vendor and buying domain& hosting solution. To name a few:
- Support from the Vendor
- What purpose you want to use the hosting for
- Uptime through customer
- Cost (this is not much of a differentiator)
- Payment Options … ;P (matters if you are in India!)
The list of Urls provided in the mail thread from people were:
http://www.icdhost.com/
http://www.godaddy.com/
http://jodohost.com/
http://manashosting.com/
http://www.hostingsmart.in/
http://symonds.net/
http://www.bluehost.com/
http://www.hostgator.com/
http://www.slicehost.com/
What are your thoughts? I would like more options here … 
I am using godaddy since 3 years with out any problem. They are pretty good.
domain name - Yahoo! Small Business ($10/year)
hosting - gohindi.com (100 MB space, 6 GB bandwidth for Rs. 600)
http://siliconhouse.net/
Thejo’s choice …
http://hosting.india.to/ - got that from google Ads
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I have been using and Indian provider http://indichosts.net . Pretty good serivce. Would recommend checking them too.
http://www.website.in/
Just found this …
this is useful, thx for posting.
i recommend hostgator or dreamhost hosting.
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Sandil:
Idotz.net is what I use. Dont remember the cost but easy to use n u
can configure it all and also point maisl to google apps, etc.
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Pras:
I have been using whiz.in for all my domains from past few years.
So far, i didnt had any problems. They have a pretty cool control
panel for managing all your domain name related stuffs ( like, name
Servers & and others ).
The cost of .in domain is very low compared to other domains. You can
use it with Google Apps without any probs. This wont be a problem even
if you go with any other Domain Name providers.
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I am using ww.nettigritty.com from past one year.
I have about 12 domains with them.
Not found any issues with them.
Their control panel is user friendly.
Adding CNAME, MX, ….changing Name servers are very easy.
I am also using Google Apps for many domains & found it easy to configure.
One more big PLUS is that they are based in Bangalore & you can call
them to local landline number for any issues.
They offer very good pricing also, currently they are selling .IN for $6
They do also have online payment gateways
Prashanth
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I use net4.in for registering .in domains. They let
you manage the domain etc. from their website itself.
You can change the DNS enteries anytime.
They were called net4domains earlier.
Best part is they have an office in Bangalore as well.
regards
Akash
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I’ve been using http://www.indialinks.com for my .in domains.
They allow easy change of DNS, though you have to fish for it in the
control panel.
The support is very attentive on phone, they are based out of mumbai.
PS. Google Apps now require you to have atleast one email at your
domain to register, so register at a place which gives you atleast 1
mailbox, or a catch-all address to recieve the authentication mail
from google apps
Abhishek Thakkar
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http://steadfast.net/services/shared.php
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4
I am using http://www.ewebguru.com/ for my hosting needs, there support is very good and also getting excellent uptime. No problem so far since last 10 months.
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