Has anyone used Costco's webhost for their site???

[Blest2BAmerican]

I see that Costco has a webhost service by Affinity. Is anyone familiar with it and have you used it? I'm wondering if they offer good service and what the pros and cons are with their service?

[drcobane]

price is the only down side. They are rock solid and work. I myself use tophostingsolutions.com

With top you can acutal create a database to track orders po creation and invoices. It can even export files to what you specify. In better terms it is a website and tracking/accounting software in one. If you have paypal or other means of collecting payments its ecomerce rocks

Pricing and Features Personal Professional Business

Monthly Fee $4.95 $6.95 $8.95

Setup Fee $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

Immediate Activation Yes Yes Yes

Disk Space 100 MB 250 MB 500 MB

Monthly Data Transfer 10 GB 30 GB 50 GB

Sub Domains 50 100 500

Power Tools (new) Yes Yes Yes

Money Back Guarantee Yes Yes Yes

Get Started Order Now Order Now Order Now

Scripting Support

Perl 5 Yes Yes Yes

PHP 4 Yes Yes Yes

cgi-bin Directory Yes Yes Yes

Server Side Include Yes Yes Yes

Front Page Support Yes Yes Yes

Email Management

Mailboxes 50 100 500

Mailing Lists Yes Yes Yes

Mail Forwarding Yes Yes Yes

Mail Box Aliases Yes Yes Yes

Email Auto Responders Yes Yes Yes

Email Vacation Mode Yes Yes Yes

Integrated Webmail Yes Yes Yes

Database Support

MySQL Yes Yes Yes

Databases 10 20 50

Ecommerce Support

Shared SSL Yes Yes Yes

Traffic Logs

Agent Log Yes Yes Yes

Error Log Yes Yes Yes

Live Traffic Stats Yes Yes Yes

Webalizer Reports Yes Yes Yes

Analog Reports Yes Yes Yes

Status Page Yes Yes Yes

Additional Features

SSH Yes Yes Yes

Free Cron Installation No Yes Yes

Web Based File Manager Yes Yes Yes

Auto Nightly Backups Yes Yes Yes

Easy Self Backups Yes Yes Yes

Directory Index Yes Yes Yes

Online Documentation Yes Yes Yes

Online Tutorials Yes Yes Yes

Powerful Control Panel Yes Yes Yes

[Blest2BAmerican]

Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and signed up for the Affinity service on Saturday but ended up canceling it this morning. It was very confusing and would require much more time that I expected. I'll be sure to check out the service for the site you posted.

[drcobane]

No problem... Can I make a suggestion though? Design your site first using whatever you going to use then sign up for the hosting company. I know Donna was great at top for my needs and answered basic questions. Now I am at the top of the package plan.

This will be your own domain also another cool thing