Host Depot Adds to Shared Hosting

By theWHIR.com , July 01, 2008
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By Liam Eagle, theWHIR.com

July 1, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Shared web hosting provider Host Depot (hostdepot.com) told customers this week that it is expanding its shared hosting services.

Though prices will remain the same, the company said this week that it would be adding features, increasing storage and transfer limits and allowing more email accounts.

"In the interest of providing our customers with products that extend the value of our hosting solution," says HostDepot, in a July 1 email to customers, "we have implemented a product refresh effective today."

The email includes a number-heavy chart describing the specifics of the changes across the company's five flavors of shared hosting.

The $9.95-per-month starter plan, for instance, will go from 500 MB of disk space to 5,000 MB, and from 75 email accounts to 250. The $49.95-per-month Enterprise plan, by comparison, will go from 3,000 MB of disk space to 40,000 MB and from 500 to 1,000 email accounts. All the company's plans also see similar upgrades to email disk space, data transfer and SQL disk space.

A seemingly-up-to-date version of the complete chart is available on the company's website.

According to the email, signed "Host Depot Sales Team," one of the main intents of the upgrade is to provide customers with a hosting solution that it considers "competitive," not necessarily an easy proposition in light of the overly ambitious price/features game played by some shared hosting providers.

Some in the hosting community are critical of the "overselling" practices that see many shared hosting providers promising far more capacity, transfer and similar features than can possibly be supported by on-site hardware.

HostDepot says the updated services came into effect July 1 at 12:00 a.m., and that any overage charges occurring in June were billed according to "current plan limits."

The email describes the upgrade as "just the beginning of a series of calculated improvements to come," and invites feedback from customers receiving the email.