Direct Space 🆚 Porkbun 🆚 Watermelon Web Works - Mar, 2024

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Direct Space (directspace.net) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2019.
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👉 Total Reviews: 9
🙌 Average Rating: 3 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 7
👈 Official Responses: 1
3 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

9 user reviews
porkbun.com logo
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Company phone/fax is added
Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
"About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
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👉 Total Reviews: 9
🙌 Average Rating: 8 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 7
👎 Bad Reviews: 2
👈 Official Responses: 0
8 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

9 user reviews
 
921 SW Washington St. Suite 325,
Portland, OR 97205
US

directspace.net
21370 SW Langer Farms Parkway, Suite 142-429
Sherwood, OR 97140
US

porkbun.com
PO Box 652
Portland, OR 97207
US

watermelonwebworks.com
📧 Emailnoc@d...support@p...domains@w...
☎ Phone1.888.dsn.host, Fax: 1.503.200.11121.855.767.5286+1 866 836 4215, Fax: +1 866 836 4215
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 597,593▲229,046 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 118▼-4 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in US 219,061
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 25/46
🔗 Links 2,365
🏆 Alexa Rating 12,471▲4,701 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in IN 6,653
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 58/81
🔗 Links 9,510,764
🏆 Alexa Rating 955,407▲492,039 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 372,657
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 19/39
🔗 Links 1,880
Languages en-US en-USen-US
📄 InfoLocated in the heart of downtown Portland within the Pittock Block (PDXNAP), DirectSpace offers a high class, secure, redundant, and private data facility with a massive network infrastructure and capacity. We are committed to providing top notch, enterprise level hosting services abroad at an industry leading price. We opened our doors in 2001 and have grown to serve more than 1,000 dedicated, colocation and virtual customers within our privately owned data facility. Read full reviewPorkbun is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar also providing complementary products. With a user-friendly interface and a straightforward way of looking for available domains, Porkbun might be a smaller hosting provider, but it keeps its promise when it comes to efficiency.

Porkbun does not offer high end hosting solutions, but it still provides a wide range of products, such as: Shared Hosting; Email Hosting; Website Builder; SSL Certificates; Domain Registration;
Shared hosting at [...]
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Formed in 2001 in Portland, Oregon by Paul Clerc and Sydney Weaver, Watermelon Web Works specializes in web design, search engine optimization and web hosting solutions. Watermelon Web Works's intention was to create an environmentally sustainable, human-friendly web development company, and has already achieved success beyond imagination. We have found that we can work most efficiently and maximize client budget when we know the underlying server systems extremely well. It saves time with [...] Read full review
📡 EstablishedMay, 2003-May, 2002
🏁 Site speedFast, load time 1.3 seconds 65% sites are slower
SEO Links count 80
Fast, load time 1.7 seconds 56% sites are slower
SEO Links count 23
Fast, load time 1.2 seconds 60% sites are slower
SEO Links count 30
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directspace.net Icondsnetworks
Started from: April, 2009
  • Tweets: 356
  • Followers: 370
  • Friends: 20
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porkbun.com IconPorkbun
Started from: March, 2015
  • Tweets: 3,387
  • Followers: 6,479
  • Friends: 570
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watermelonwebworks.com IconWatermelonWW
Started from: January, 2013
  • Tweets: 101
  • Followers: 75
  • Friends: 186
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  • Followers: 8

-Porkbun Blog
  • Blog Posts: 101
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • First post from: Jan, 2017
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

Watermelon Web Works Blog
  • Blog Posts: 225
  • Blog added on: Aug, 2013
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Dedicated Hosting - 3/0/0
💡 Plan NamePentium 820 [Linux]--
💰 Price$ 49.00/mo.--
💿 Disk Space500 GB--
📶 Data Transfer10 TB--
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited--
🆓 Free Domain0--
💪 CPU1 CPU, 2 Cores--
🔋 RAM2 GB--
📌 Dedicated IPs29--
🔨 Control Panel --
🌏 Server LocationUnited States--
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)2x 250GB RE4 Hard Drives
1Gbps Port
/29 IPv4 and /64 IPv6 Subnets
DDOS Protection
Private Network
Free Transfer
Free Cloud Storage
IPMI Access
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📅 Date PlanFeb 2021--
💡 Plan NameI5-2500 [Linux]--
💰 Price$ 119.00/mo.--
💿 Disk Space500 GB--
📶 Data Transfer100 TB--
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited--
🆓 Free Domain0--
💪 CPU1 CPU, 4 Cores, 4 Threads--
🔋 RAM8 GB--
📌 Dedicated IPs29--
🔨 Control Panel --
🌏 Server LocationUnited States--
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans--
📅 Date PlanFeb 2021--
💡 Plan NameE3-1245 [Linux]--
💰 Price$ 149.00/mo.--
💿 Disk Space1000 GB--
📶 Data Transfer100 TB--
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited--
🆓 Free Domain0--
💪 CPU1 CPU, 4 Cores, 8 Threads--
🔋 RAM16 GB--
📌 Dedicated IPs29--
🔨 Control Panel --
🌏 Server LocationUnited States--
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)2x 500GB RE4 Hard Drives
1Gbps Port
/29 IPv4 and /64 IPv6 Subnets
DDOS Protection
Private Network
Free Transfer
Free Cloud Storage
IPMI Access
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📅 Date PlanFeb 2021--
🔧 Colocation Hosting - 1/0/0
💡 Plan Name42U RACK (Full)--
💰 Price$ 880.00/mo.--
📶 Data Transferunmetered--
📌 Dedicated IPs26--
🌏 Server LocationUnited States--
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)14A 208v Power
/26 IPv4, /120 IPv6 Subnets on Private VLAN
24.7 Self Serving Access to Data Center
Full 1Gbps Flat Rate Port. No Transfer Limit
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📅 Date PlanFeb 2021--
🔧 VPS - 1/0/0
💡 Plan NameKVM.4 [Linux]--
💰 Price$ 30.00/mo.--
💿 Disk Space100 GB SSD--
📶 Data Transferunmetered--
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited--
🆓 Free Domain0--
💪 CPU8 Core Processor--
🔋 RAM8 GB--
📌 Dedicated IPs1--
🔨 Control PanelKVM--
🌏 Server LocationUnited States--
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Easy Control Panel
Nightly Backups
DDOS Protection
Free Transfer
Instant Setup
Unmetered Transfer (Fair Share 1Gbps Port)
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📅 Date PlanFeb 2021--
🔧 Shared Hosting - 0/1/0
💡 Plan Name-Shared Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price-$ 2.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space-unlimited-
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited-
🆓 Free Domain-0-
📌 Dedicated IPs-0-
🔨 Control Panel-CPanel-
🌏 Server Location-United States-
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Unlimited sub-domains

Unmetered bandwidth

Unlimited FTP accounts and MySQL databases

Let's Encrypt SSL certificate

cPanel control panel

Easy one click installs of hundreds of popular applications

Cancel anytime

Our Shared Hosting service gives the keys to your website kingdom! Perfect for [...]
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📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020-
🔧 Domains - 0/1/0
💡 Plan Name-.com-
💰 Price-$ 4.15/yr.-
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over).company $6.48
.app $13.18
.biz $4.94
.net $3.90
.org $10.70
.place $11.80
.tv $26.94
.us $2.48
.ac $47.30
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📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020-
🔧 Website Builder - 0/1/0
💡 Plan Name-Performance-
💰 Price-$ 38.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space-unlimited-
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains- -
🆓 Free Domain-0-
📌 Dedicated IPs-0-
🔨 Control Panel- -
🌏 Server Location-United States-
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Drag & drop builder
Unlimited pages
SSL security
Premium support
Customizable footer
Remove Footer link
Your own favicon
Header slideshow
HD video & audio players
Password protect pages unsupported
Site search
Member registration
Memberships Unlimited
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📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020-
🔧 Emails - 0/1/0
💡 Plan Name-Email Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price-$ 24.00/yr.-
💿 Disk Space-10 GB-
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains- -
🆓 Free Domain- -
🔨 Control Panel-CPanel-
🌏 Server Location-United States-
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Secure IMAP and POP

Send and Receive Email

Webmail

Email Forwarding

Mind Blowing Customer Support

With our email hosting service you can get a custom and professional email address using your own domain name.
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📅 Date Plan-Jun 2020-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux
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📤 List of products
  • Dedicated Hosting
  • Colocation Hosting
  • VPS
  • Shared Hosting
  • Domains
  • Website Builder
  • Emails
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✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • 1 WHTop support responses
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
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💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
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👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
-anonymous- (-no email-)
on 📆 Nov 09, 2013
Good!
😁 Very good hosting company; no downtime or slowness in past 2 months.Quick data speeds too. All of their VPSs are on SSDs.

-anonymous- (-no email-)
on 📆 Mar 24, 2019
😠 I have been using their service for the past few years with paypal automatic subscriptions. This year, they repeatedly deducted my fees, and then canceled my service due to arrears. I asked for the reason and want a refund , no one replies to me. [...]

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-anonymous- (ivybonner53@g...)
on 📆 Apr 18, 2023
😁 These are the "nice" tech guys. They explained this problem I was having with email being delivered was the SP record, which is something that all the email computers look at to be sure that it's me! And now my email works!

mchumor (mchumor@p...)
on 📆 Jul 02, 2015
Watermelon Almost Bankrupted Me
😠 Watermelon Web Work’s redesign of my site was an utter failure. If it had been a city it would have been declared a disaster area, and frankly, dealing with FEMA would have been a lot less exasperating than dealing Watermelon.On the day before [...]

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