Domain Costs, Mailman, Mysql, And No Limits

[NorrinRadd]

Hello,

 

I'm looking at a bunch of web hosting services and yours seems like a great plan. Just a few questions:

 

1) You mention a 10.95/yr cost to maintain my domain name. The thing is: I have one main domain and 7 parked domains. Would I be charged 10.95/yr per parked domain, or just 10.95/yr for the one main domain.

 

2) You offer mailman. Some hosting services put a cap on emails sent via mailman based on a certain amount per a set of minutes and no more. Example: one service limits mailman to 25 emails per every 3 minutes. That would suck for a large (say 1000 subscribers) astronomy community engaged in a discussion thread. Do you have mailman limits of ANY kind?

 

3) Some services limit the number of MySQL databases you can create. Do you place a limit on the number of MySQL databases that a user can create? Or are MySQL databases simply added to the total disk usage, therefore I can create any sane number of databases put no more than disk space will allow?

 

4) You say there are no limits on the number of POP3 accounts, FTP accounts, and subdomains. In a literal meaning that would be impossible, so.... what are the real limits of these items? (I imagine quite large, but I'm curious to know)

 

I hope I wasn't too long winded, but I'm just being a little thorough. Ok...a lot thorough. But I think you guys may be my best choice....based on these questions, of course. Thanks a bunch.

 

-joe

[LisaJill]

1) The cost is per domain hosted at TCH. If you host the domain elsewhere and just park it here there is no extra charge.

 

2) There is a cap on emails sent out. I forget what the numbers are - but you can set mailman to automatically distribute the emails so that you don't go over that limit.

 

3) Unlimited mysql databases for all plans.

 

4) Unlimited - what it says is what you get. =)

[MikeJ]

Just a clarification, $10.95/yr is for maintaining the "registration" of your domain name. It is required for every single domain name you have if you were to transfer them all to TCH as your registrar, regardless of how that domain is used or not used.

 

If you keep them wherever you currently have them registered (and define TCH for your name service), then you wouldn't pay TCH anything for the registration (you would just pay for the hosting) but will have to continue to pay your current registrar for every domain that you have with them at whatever rate they charge.

 

In otherwords, the domain registration is a separate cost from the site hosting. Domain registration you cannot avoid paying (otherwise you would lose your domain), it's just a matter of who you are paying (and to some degree how much). The $10.95/yr listed in the plans only applies if you want TCH to be the registrar of your domains.

 

... And "unlimited" means as many as you want to create as long as it doesn't cause serious problems with other customer sites on the shared environment. For example, it could be as little as 1 high volume mysql database, or more than 1000 hardly used mysql databases. It really depends on how you use them. Basically, as long as your usage doesn't use excessive system resources (which is mentioned in the AUP), you can keep creating them. I don't believe we've ever come across an incident yet, though, where we have had to limit or request someone to upgrade based on the number of email addresses or databases someone was creating.

Edited July 22, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ