Who’s Misk
Misk.com is a web hosting company and like any web hosting company; they provide mandatory services like domain register, domain renewal, domain transfer and web hosting packages. On top of that, certain domain-related FAQs are required and they’ve got that so it’s cool. However that’s not really the coolest part. This is wha that really caught my attention when the page loads up.
Misk’s Domain essentials are only calling for $25/year. That’s about $2/month and that’s really cheap. Now, you probably should be wondering, hosting as low as $2/month what are the specs in the package? Here’s a run down of what you will be getting with Domain Essentials $25/year
What’s included in Domain Essential, $25/year
- 100Mb of web space
100MB of webspace comes with SSL FTP Support and compression of files during upload/download. - 100 Email Addresses
Access your email via POP3 or webmail. Each email comes with extra 20Mb quota, that gives you 2GB for mail storage in total. - Unlimited Email Forwarding
Performe a one to one, one to many email forwarding. - Custom DNS Records
Full control to your DNS records. - Domain Clocking/Masking
You can clock your domain name to your existing website. - Domain Forwarding
Direct visitors from a domain to another. - Ads Free
No one definetely one ads, especially if they are not from ownself.
Getting started with Misk’s Domain Essential
- Choose a domain name
- Select options for domain name
- Create a Misk account/Login to Misk account
- Enter order information
- Enter payment information
- Submit order, print receipt
- Misk process order, send email upon successful
- Setup and manage your domain
Domain Essential is suitable if..
If you are still hooked on a free hosting, it don’t hurt paying $25/year to have full control over your account. Drop that free mail, get yourself a yourname@yourdomain.com and check your email via desktop e-mail applications like Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook.
Verdict
No doubt this is really a cheap deal from Misk.com however it more suitable for average webmasters that just need a static website. If your website has high traffic loads, this is definitely not for you. Still I see a reason why I can use this. Paying $25/year for a testing site, an environment for me to experiment portals and scripts. Not bad still.
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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 04.18.07
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Comments
jakpo April 18th, 2007
I’m using a malaysian hosting company http://www.eternalsolutions.com. They’re offering 10GB of space, unlimited email accounts, etc. for RM100/year. .com or .net is going for RM35/year. That’s pretty cheap.
Replymultiple domain website hosting June 11th, 2008
It’s good to know that there are already a lot of hosting companies offering cheap hosting services online. Even the big names in web hosting industry are also trying to lower their cost down to keep up with the competition.
ReplyLauren March 5th, 2009
As a Newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me. Thank you
ReplyTyler Zernicke July 9th, 2009
I have used Misk for 3 years. In 2007 I first attempted to transfer my domain from Misk, since then I have tried several times (every 6 months as per their user agreement) to have my domain transfered. It is niegh impossible to reach an actual person via their support phone number and my emails to support@misk.com are often ignored and Misk even denies recieving some of them. This is by far the worst company I have ever worked with in any respect. I strongly recommend avoiding them at all costs.
ReplyMisk.com Support July 10th, 2009
Tyler’s comment is entirely inaccurate. You can transfer your domain name away from us at any time and you do not have to wait 6 months. That’s not anywhere in our user agreement and would be very wrong. We pride ourselves on being the most reliable and most ethical registrar on the net. Tyler emailed us for the first time today and each time got responses within minutes. We have not denied a single transfer in out 11 year history. Not one. Only the admin email has the ability to decline a transfer. If they don’t, the transfer goes through anyway. As we tried to suggest to Tyler via email, what most likely happened is that he never finished the steps required by his new registrar to begin the transfer, which includes giving them the auth code, unlocking the domain, and approving the transfer at the admin email.
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