Dotster 🆚 Microsoft Azure - May, 2024

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Dotster (dotster.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2020.
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👉 Total Reviews: 40
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 5
👎 Bad Reviews: 35
👈 Official Responses: 0
2 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

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👉 Total Reviews: 1
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
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10 Corporate Drive Suite #300
Burlington, MA 98662
US
Part of Newfold Digital
dotster.com
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US

azure.microsoft.com
📧 Emailinfo@d...sales@m...
☎ Phone800-401-52501-800-867-1389
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 19▼-8 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 543,753▲2635 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 23
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 99/83🔗 Links 7,867,087
Languages en-US zh-CN zh-TW cs-CZ da-DK nl-NL en-US fr-FR de-DE hu-HU id-ID it-IT ja-JP ko-KR nb-NO pl-PL pt-BR pt-PT ru-RU es-ES sv-FI tr-TR
📄 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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The Microsoft Cloud Platform by Windows Azure is recognized by Gartner as an industry leader for both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). This robust combination of managed and unmanaged services empowers you to build, deploy, and manage applications in any way you prefer, resulting in unmatched productivity. Here are some key features of Azure: Hybrid-ready: Azure offers hybrid cloud solutions that seamlessly integrate your data center with the public cloud, [...] Read full review
📡 Established1998May, 1991
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.9 seconds 28% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,606
Average, load time 2.6 seconds 33% sites are slower
SEO Links count 606,908
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Started from: February, 2009
  • Tweets: 3,747
  • Followers: 2,016
  • Friends: 1,343
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Started from: October, 2008
  • Tweets: 47,853
  • Followers: 1,008,889
  • Friends: 19
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Dotster
  • Followers: 242
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 2000
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet

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-Microsoft Azure Blog
  • Blog Posts: 3,178
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2014
  • Language: en-US
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🔧 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
-
📅 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 $4.99
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
🔧 Website Builder - 3/0
💡 Plan NameStarter-
💰 Price$ 1.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Build up to 6 pages
Over 550k images available for use
Pre-built sections and page layouts
SEO tools
Chat and email support
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 Plan NameBusiness-
💰 Price$ 6.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Build unlimited pages for your site
Revision history for pages
Analytics integration
Telephone support
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 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 - 3/0
💡 Plan NameEmail Essentials [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 1.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space15 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Business-class email & calendar
15 GB of Exchange Online storage
The familiarity of Outlook

Your domain name email address will always be up and running when you need it, with our 99.9%
uptime.

With our web-based email provider, you can access your email from any web browser or [...]
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 Plan NameBusiness Plus [Linux]-
💰 Price$ 4.99/mo.-
💿 Disk Space50 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationUnited States-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)50 GB of Exchange Online storage
Microsoft Office Online
1 TB OneDrive For Business cloud storage
Private and internal social networking and portals

Your domain name email address will always be up and running when you need it, with our 99.9%
uptime.

With our web-based email provider, you [...]
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📅 Date PlanJun 2020-
💡 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-
🔧 Cloud - 0/7
💡 Plan Name-B1s [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 7.59/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-4 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-1 core
🔋 RAM-1 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Windows price: $7.5920/month

1 year reserved $4.4165/month (~41% savings)
3 year reserved $2.8616/month ( ~62% savings)

Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-A1 v2 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 31.39/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-10 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-1 core
🔋 RAM-2 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Av2 Standard is the latest generation of A-series virtual machines with similar CPU performance and faster disk. These virtual machines are suitable for development workloads, build servers, code repositories, low-traffic websites and web applications, micro services, early product experiments, [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-F2s v2 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 61.75/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-16 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-2 cores
🔋 RAM-4 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Compute optimized

High CPU-to-memory ratio. Good for medium traffic web servers, network appliances, batch processes, and application servers.
Fsv2-series

The Fsv2-series virtual machines provide 2-GiB of RAM and 8 GB of local temporary storage (SSD) per vCPU(s) and are optimized for [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-D2as v5 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 62.78/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-2 cores
🔋 RAM-8 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Temporary storage 0 GiB
Azure Disk Storage
4 GiB $0.60
512 GiB $66.56

The Das v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Das v5 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs and memory [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-D2ads v5 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 75.19/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-75 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-2 cores
🔋 RAM-8 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)D2ads – D96ads v5 (latest generation with local temporary storage)

The Dads v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Dads v5 virtual machine sizes feature high performance, large local [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-A8m v2 [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 346.75/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-80 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-8 cores
🔋 RAM-64 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-Same as previous plans
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💡 Plan Name-B20ms [Linux/Windows]
💰 Price-$ 607.36/mo. VAT exc
💿 Disk Space-160 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
💪 CPU-2 cores
🔋 RAM-80 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-[In-house]
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)1 year reserved $355.4151/month (~41% savings)
3 year reserved $228.3367/month (~62% savings)

Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly [...]
📅 Date Plan-Oct 2022
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux/Windows
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Domains
  • SSL Certificates
  • Website Builder
  • Emails
  • Cloud
✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
👪 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, [...]


Ryan (knmreryan@y...)
on 📆 Jul 13, 2013
😠 Lack of full console access means that VMs can be rendered useless and unrecoverable by a fat-fingered IP change

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