CNET editors' review
- Reviewed on: 05/25/2006
- Updated on: 08/13/2009
With Aplus.Net, you have your choice of four levels of hosting for the Unix platform (Aplus.Net also offers Windows hosting), all of which offer unlimited subdomains. The $5.95 Solo plan comes with an excellent 300MB of storage, 25GB of bandwidth, and five e-mail accounts. The $9.95 Solo XR plan jumps to 12GB of storage, 500GB of bandwidth, and 500 e-mail addresses. Both the $19.95 Pro and $34.95 ePro packages provide 600GB of bandwidth and 1,000 e-mail accounts. However, the ePro plan offers 5GB more storage than the Pro version's 15GB, as well as the two key e-commerce components: a Miva Merchant online storefront and a credit-card payment gateway. For the first three months, Aplus.Net knocks a few bucks off all but the Solo plan for new customers. It also lets you register any domain name (except those ending in .tv and .cc) for free for at least the first year (longer for Solo XR and above); after that, you're charged an average $7.95 per year (on sale right now for $6.95). And if you agree to pay for an entire year up front, Aplus.Net will waive its setup fees. If you don't, the company charges incremental setup fees starting at $10 for the Solo plan and maxing out at a whopping $75 for the ePro package.
| Solo | Solo XR | Pro | ePro | |
| Monthly fee1 | $5.95 | $9.95 | $19.95 | $34.95 |
| Domain registration included | Free for 1 year, $7.95 thereafter | Free for 2 years, $7.95 thereafter | Free for 2 years, $7.95 thereafter | Free for 3 years, $7.95 thereafter |
| Subdomains | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| E-mail accounts | 5 | 500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Data transfer per month | 25GB | 500GB | 600GB | 600GB |
| Disk space | 300MB | 12GB | 15GB | 20GB |
| FTP access | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily site backups | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone and e-mail support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Though Aplus.Net's Solo plan provides a lot of storage and bandwidth, we should note that it lacks features that are indispensable to some sites. The package does not support often-used scripts such as CGI, PHP, and PERL. It also fails to support SSL certificates and MySQL databases. Finally, Aplus.Net backs up Solo sites only once a week. Fortunately, what the Solo plan leaves out, the company's more expensive packages deliver. And Aplus.Net performs backups on its Solo XR, Pro, and ePro plans every 24 hours.
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