Register 4Less Agate, $ 1.45/mo. on Linux Shared

Agate has been added on Mar 29, 2019, Aggregate Rating (3 out of 10 from 4 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	CA US

See also initial Agate plan location on their website!

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Register4Less (R4L) is an American domain registrar and hosting provider founded in 1998. The business is privately held and operates from Laredo, Texas, while its domain-registration agreement retains legal ties to Quebec, Canada. Register4Less is an ICANN-accredited registrar with IANA ID 1082, and Douglas Friend is associated with the company as its registrar contact. The business has remained relatively small, with LinkedIn placing it in the 2-10 employee range, which helps explain its more direct and personal support model.

Domain registration is the main service. Register4Less supports hundreds of generic and country-code domain extensions together with transfers, renewals, DNS administration, registrar locking, sub-user access, URL forwarding and domain parking. Registrations include 10 MB of basic banner-free web space, unlimited email aliases, custom DNS hosting and account-security monitoring. Domain transfers generally extend the registration by another year while charging the applicable renewal price.

A particularly useful benefit is free Whois privacy for extensions where registry policy permits it. This avoids an additional annual privacy charge for many popular domains. Registry restrictions still determine whether privacy can be enabled for individual TLDs.

Account and registration transactions use encrypted connections. Payment-card handling is also relatively conservative: only the final four digits remain after the transaction instead of the complete card number being retained for automatic rebilling. Hosting accounts receive security monitoring for compromised websites and outbound spam.

The hosting portfolio covers Linux Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, basic free hosting and email services. Paid hosting uses Linux servers with Intel Xeon processors and clearly defined disk-space allocations rather than vague unlimited-storage packages.

Shared hosting ranges from Host-100MB through Host-1GB, Host-10GB, Host-50GB, Host-100GB and Host-200GB. Accounts include Plesk, unlimited email accounts, managed Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, AWStats, SpamAssassin and compatibility with common web applications including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Ruby on Rails and osCommerce. Host-100GB supports two websites, while Host-200GB supports four. Customers can upgrade to a larger package without an upgrade penalty.

Reseller Hosting provides considerably more disk space and does not impose a fixed limit on the number of domains that can be hosted. Register4Less does not currently operate a separate retail VPS, cloud-server or dedicated-server product line. Its dedicated servers are used internally for the shared and reseller hosting infrastructure.

Every registered domain also receives 10 MB of free hosting. This can work well for a small static website, landing page or basic HTML presence. The complimentary service is intentionally simple and retains support documentation for older technologies such as FrontPage, Flash and shared CGI applications, so customers running a modern CMS or dynamic business site will normally want one of the paid hosting packages instead.

Email services include unlimited forwarding aliases and optional full webmail mailboxes. Paid webmail provides 250 MB of storage per mailbox and works through both regular email clients and browser-based interfaces. The more advanced webmail environment includes folders, filtering, vacation responses, contacts, scheduling, search and spell checking, together with several interface languages.

Register4Less also operates a domain backorder service. Existing customers can place a backorder on an already registered domain, after which the system monitors its status and attempts registration if the name becomes available.

DNS functionality is quite extensive for a registrar in this price range. Customers can use custom nameservers, a DNS Zone Editor, URL forwarding, mail routing, FTP-related settings and parking controls directly from their account.

The main Register4Less website retains an old-style visual layout compared with newer registrar platforms. Some help documentation also references technologies from earlier generations of web hosting. The underlying domain, DNS and hosting functions remain practical, but customers accustomed to a modern mobile-first dashboard may find the interface dated. The main service is in English, with product pricing primarily in USD.