www.datapacket.net

(They also offer Reseller Packages)

Web Hosting Plans:

Our Hosting plans include Free, Fast and Professional Technical Support available online 24/7, truly reliable hosting in our array of web gardens, load balanced servers and multiple dedicated server environment, 99.993% or better uptime is guaranteed, we offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee and we provide Easy-to-use real time account management tools that put you in the driver seat.

Plan	Space	Transfer	Monthly	Yearly	Setup Fee	Sign Up
WH1	2,000 MB	40 GB / MO	$2.95	$29.50	Free	Buy Now
WH2	4,000 MB	60 GB / MO	$4.95	$49.50	Free	Buy Now
WH3	6,000 MB	80 GB / MO	$6.95	$69.50	Free	Buy Now
WH4	8,000 MB	100 GB / MO	$8.95	$89.50	Free	Buy Now

Annual Plans receive 2 months free.


Hosting Services: (The following services are included "FREE" with every plan.)

Domain Hosting:
Host Unlimited Domains	Multi Site / Domain Hosting
Unlimited Domain Pointers	Host Unlimited Sub Domains
Script Hosting:
ASP 3.0 (Classic ASP)	Parent Paths : FSO : CDOSYS
ASP.NET Hosting (.NET 1.1)	.NET Framework 1.1
.NET DLL - Code Behind	.NET Application Folders
SOAP, XML, WinHTTP	Cold Fusion MX 6.1
PHP 4.3.11 / Zend	Personal CGI-BIN (ActivePERL)
FrontPage 2003 Extensions	HTTP Multimedia Streams
ASP Components:
Persists ASPUpload	Persists ASPJPEG
Persists ASPEmail	ASPSmartMail
ASPSmartUpload	W3Jmail
Email Hosting:
Unlimited Email Accounts	SMTP : POP3 : IMAP4 : HTTPMail
Forwarding : Aliases	Auto-Responders
Multi-Recipient Addresses	Catch-All Email
Web Based Email	SpamAssassin Email Protection
Database Hosting:
MDAC : ODBC : ADO/.NET : OLEDB	MyODBC Driver : MySQL
Unlimited ODBC DSN's	Unlimited MS Access/ Excel DB's
Unlimited SQL Server 2000 DB's	Unlimited MySQL 4 DB's
Remote SQL Management	Web Based SQL Tools
Hosting Features:
Helm Control Panel	Custom Error Pages
Custom Mime Types	Custom Default Documents
Web Based File Manager	Detailed Usage Statistics
AWStats Web Statistics	DNS Zone File Management
Unlimited FTP Accounts	Shared SSL
Raw Log Files	Advanced Site Protection
Weekly Backups	Adult Hosting Permitted

Web Server Specs:

Our Windows 2003 Web Servers utilize Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Dual CPU (with Hyper-Threading) and have the latest 800 MHz FSB coupled with 1.5GB of DDR ram and the fastest hard drives arrays available today. All web servers have 100 Mbps of symmetrical Internet bandwidth from the best data center and network in the industry.

Additional Hosting Plans and Upgrades:

Plan	Space	Transfer	Monthly	Yearly	Setup Fee	Sign Up
WH1	2,000 MB	40 GB / MO	$2.95	$29.50	Free	Buy Now
WH2	4,000 MB	60 GB / MO	$4.95	$49.50	Free	Buy Now
WH3	6,000 MB	80 GB / MO	$6.95	$69.50	Free	Buy Now
WH4	8,000 MB	100 GB / MO	$8.95	$89.50	Free	Buy Now
WH5	10,000 MB	120 GB / MO	$10.95	$109.50	Free	Buy Now
WH6	12,000 MB	140 GB / MO	$12.95	$129.50	Free	Buy Now
WH7	14,000 MB	160 GB / MO	$14.95	$149.50	Free	Buy Now
WH8	16,000 MB	180 GB / MO	$16.95	$169.50	Free	Buy Now
WH9	18,000 MB	200 GB / MO	$18.95	$189.50	Free	Buy Now
WH10	20,000 MB	220 GB / MO	$20.95	$209.50	Free	Buy Now
WH11	22,000 MB	240 GB / MO	$22.95	$249.50	Free	Buy Now
WH12	24,000 MB	260 GB / MO	$24.95	$249.50	Free	Buy Now
WH13	26,000 MB	280 GB / MO	$26.95	$269.50	Free	Buy Now
WH14	28,000 MB	300 GB / MO	$28.95	$289.50	Free	Buy Now
WH15	30,000 MB	320 GB / MO	$30.95	$309.50	Free	Buy Now

''Optional' extras:
Backup recovery request : $5/per site.
Extra web space : $0.50/Mo : per 100 MB.
Extra monthly data transfer : $0.50/MO : per 1000 MB.
Domain name registration : $15/Yr.
Dedicated IP address / SSL/CSR : $3/mo : $5/setup or $30/yr.
Custom IIS settings / components / CF Tags : $5/setup.
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 beta : $5/setup : per site.
PHP 5 : $5/setup : per site.

 

WOW!  What an incredible Package offer...BUT...

As I was signing on I read the terms of service,  something I have rarely done, and I found this:

Mail Restrictions;

DataPacket allows customers to operate small double-opted mailing lists and news letters. Large mailing lists or other mailings with over 30 recipients are not supported and are better hosted with another provider. Mailings with a bounce rate higher then 3% will be considered spam.

I am going to develop a DotNetNuke site that requires joining (opting In) with forums that allow members to be emailed when someone makes a post in an interested forum.  I will also want to use the DotNetNuke newsletter facility for my members.   Like everyone else I hope to have thousands of members.   They have a generous Unlimited Email accounts and Unlimited Multi-Recipient Addresses policy. They also host DotNetNuke.

How can theyhave fine print in the “Terms of Service” that limit you to 30 recipients?  Am I misunderstanding something here?

I am against SPAM and illegal use of the interent but am I being paranoid here or is this a scam to bring you in and then cut you off?  I don't want to slam them.  I may well be naieve so please set me straight.  Are other hosts following the same restrictive rules?

Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,

I haven't come across any other hosting provider limiting email newsletters in this way so I would email Datapacket support and see what the limitations are. - Let us know what they say.

Regarding emails:

On DNN C. all of the forum emails are sent through the hosting provider, but for newsletters I use an outside service.

I found that once I went past 500 users on the email list through DNN, problems occurred and the emails would not get delivered. - Therefore I now use www.constantcontact.com

I export the users that are listed under security role of Newsletter from DNN and then import them into constant contact. - This is a good service and you know that your emails are delivered successfully. - Something to think about.

Thanks,

Lee

Thanks Lee, I have heard of Constant Contact and will consider them though I am disappointed in having to consider the extra step and cost.

I have contacted their support and am awaiting a reply which I will post.

Here is the vendors reply on 7/5/2006:

Hi Michael,

Basically we do not support bulk email, which is to send hundreds of messages at one time. You can have a forum that gives an email notification, that should be okay unless you have hundreds of active users at one time. That type of usage would not be ideal to use on shared servers.

Thank you.