Dotster 🆚 Virpus - Mar, 2024

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Dotster (dotster.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.
Virpus (virpus.com) has been added on 📅 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.

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dotster.com logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
Company descriptions is fine
Company address location is complete
Company phone/fax is added
Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
"About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Promotions are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years

Things to do
Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are missing
86%


👉 Total Reviews: 40
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 5
👎 Bad Reviews: 35
👈 Official Responses: 0
2 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

40 user reviews
virpus.com logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
Company address location is complete
Company phone/fax is added
Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

Things to do
Company descriptions is too short. Minimum 500 chars
"About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are missing
Products (plans) are missing
57%



👉 Total Reviews: 6
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 6
👈 Official Responses: 0
1 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

6 user reviews
 
10 Corporate Drive Suite #300
Burlington, MA 98662
US
Part of Newfold Digital
dotster.com
12201 Tukwila International Blvd Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98168
US

virpus.com
📧 Emailinfo@d... 
☎ Phone800-401-5250(877) 484-7787
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 141,438▲79,974 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 149,518▲28 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 46,749
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 68/57🔗 Links 127,079
🏆 Alexa Rating 2,189,164▲722,034 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in BD 24,165
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 32/48🔗 Links 9,387
Languages en-USen
📄 InfoFounded in 1998, Dotster offers web services for individuals, small and medium-sized companies, hosting over 1.2 million websites worldwide.

The company specializes in the following web services: Shared Hosting;E-mail Hosting;Domain Registration;Website Builder;SSL Certificates;
All shared hosting plans have a free domain name included, free SSL and scalable bandwidth. Shared hosting services include the following unlimited features: Unlimited disk space;Unlimited subdomains;Unlimited [...]
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Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Virpus Networks was founded in February 2006. Virpus Networks specializes in virtualization and Kansas City Colocation services. Their mission is to provide exclusive web hosting services at affordable costs, yet with premium services in both customer service and overall performance. Read full review
📡 Established1998-
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.9 seconds 28% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,606
Average, load time 2.2 seconds 42% sites are slower
SEO Links count 361
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media

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dotster.com Icondotster
Started from: February, 2009
  • Tweets: 3,747
  • Followers: 2,016
  • Friends: 1,343
  • Last activity:

virpus.com Iconvirpus
Started from: October, 2009
  • Tweets: 2,087
  • Followers: 512
  • Friends: 375
  • Last activity:

dotster.com IconDotster
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virpus.com IconVirpus Networks
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Dotster
  • Followers: 242
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2000
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet

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-http://virpus.com/blog/
  • Blog Posts: 23
  • Blog added on: Dec, 2012
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/0
💡 Plan NameBasic Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 3.75/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains1-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Plan Features

Subdomains UNLIMITED
Email Addresses 100
FTP Logins 5
MySQL Databases 10
Drag and Drop Site Builder
DNS Management
Standard Forwarding
Web Analytics Tool
PHP 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1
Perl/Python
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 Plan NameDeluxe Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 6.75/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Plan Features

Subdomains UNLIMITED
Email Addresses 250
FTP Logins 25
MySQL Databases 25
Drag and Drop Site Builder
DNS Management
Standard Forwarding
Web Analytics Tool
PHP 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1
Perl/Python
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 Plan NameUltra Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 13.75/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Plan Features

Subdomains UNLIMITED
Email Addresses UNLIMITED
FTP Logins UNLIMITED
MySQL Databases UNLIMITED
Drag and Drop Site Builder
DNS Management
Standard Forwarding
Web Analytics Tool
PHP 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1
Perl/Python
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
🔧 Domains - 1/0
💡 Plan Name.com-
💰 Price$ 9.99/yr.-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over).NET $12.99

.ONLINE $5.99

.SITE $4.99

.ORG $8.99

.SPACE $2.99

.CLUB $14.99

.CO $10.99

.US $4.99
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
🔧 Website Builder - 1/0
💡 Plan NameeCommerce-
💰 Price$ 12.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Sell products online
Inventory management and tracking
PayPal integration
Offer coupon codes and promotions
Priority telephone support
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
🔧 Emails - 1/0
💡 Plan NameBusiness Pro [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 9.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Microsoft Office for desktop
Office 365 apps for tablets & smartphones
Automatic syncing across all devices
Book appointments online with Bookings
Additional tools like Invoicing and MileIQ

Your domain name email address will always be up and running when you need it, with our 99.9%
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
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📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Domains
  • SSL Certificates
  • Website Builder
  • Emails
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✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
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💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
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👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
will (webhostreview@c...)
on 📆 Feb 14, 2012
Dotster good for the price
😃 Registered through 000domains which is part of Dotster. The only thing that makes me nervous about Dotster are all the bad reviews. But I've had no major issues with their service. Customer support has been fine for the few questions I've had and [...]

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Aug 04, 2020
😠 I was with Dotster since the earliest days--like 2002 or 2003. In 2020, they became my least favorite company online.They lie. They screwed up my website by installing one of their own touted products to me, took months to attempt to fix it, [...]


https://twitter.com/HagarCorvus (haogar@g...)
on 📆 Nov 16, 2021
😠 We have been using their service for a while and there is always trouble when it comes time to pay, it usually solves itself in two or three days, so we made a habit to pay in advance, this time however the payment never proceeded, we contacted our [...]

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