Are there any hidden costs or transaction charges?
We stand for complete honesty and transparency in business. On our website you will never pay anything more than what you see as display price.
Our no gimmicks one fair price policy states that
1. We will not charge you any thing other than the display price of all the products we sell
2. We will not hide charges in fine prints or terms and conditions page
3. We will not invite customers showing them half-truth information in advertisements. Such as $4 domain names, when that price is only available with either hosting purchase or with some useless domain name extension.
4. We will actively inform and advice customers about the dubious practices of our competitors on our web-page
Following is the list of dubious practices followed by some of the Internet shops
1. Half Truth Promotions: Use catchy promotional price to attract you to their website. The reality is that the promotional price is only available with some expensive add-on product or on a product that no one wants. ADPS policy is to tell you the complete truth. We respect the value of your time and effort. With our transparent pricing, you need not spend time watching out for hidden costs.
2. Credit card charges: Some companies charge you as much as 7% of total billing as credit card transaction charges. You may not even know until after you have paid for the service. 7% is huge it means if a company displays $8.99 as price, you actually end-up paying $9.62 for it
3. Hiding prices in fine print or in font smaller than the list price, one example of such practice is ICANN fee of 25 cents on every domain name
4. Hiding prices on terms and conditions page
On our website you will never pay anything other than what you see as display price.
ADPS gives you all the information, tools and help you need to start, run and improve your e-business. Start using ADPS small business solutions today and tap the power of Internet for your business. ADPS offers flexible web site hosting that grows with your business. Our servers are high speed Pentium based machines connected with multi-homed high speed backbones providing excellent speed and 99.9% uptime.
Once you have signed up for one of our website hosting plans, you can install and configure many e-commerce tools with just one click free of cost.
We will send you all the information you need in welcome email. You will get this mail after we have activated your hosting account. This information includes step-by-step guide to installing and configuring various e-commerce features in your hosting account.
You get following E-Commerce tools and features with your purchase of any of our hosting plans.
• Branded emails for example, sales@your-business-name.com
• Website development tools
• E-Commerce tools to manage
o Customer Account
o Product Price, Features descriptions, Promotions and Inventory
o Order fulfillment and order tracking
o Shopping cart
o Customer support tools
o Customer support forums
Plan the space and bandwidth you will need if you need any of the above tools with your web-shop.
With ADPS Hosting plans you can always start small and add disk space, bandwidth and email addresses to your account as your requirements grow. You can also join our support forums and get our experts to answer your questions about launching an e-business shop with ADPS hosting plans and tools
Four critical questions you must ask before signing up for a website hosting company or domain names regisration company.
Tip 1: Does the company you are considering offer transparent pricing i.e. No Hidden Costs?
A lot of companies today show very attractive listing price and hide up-to 10% of charges in fine print or in some inaccessible corners of the website. Make sure what you see as the list price is what actually you pay. For example, some companies will add as much as 7% for credit card transaction charges and that is a lot of money. You would not even know until you paid for the product.
We offer honest and transparent low price everyday, day after day. What you see in the list price is what you actually pay. There is no hidden cost anywhere in fine print, terms and conditions or credit card transaction charges.
Hidden costs are first very visible signal of the company’s dubious intentions. We always put our customers first and we do not promise or show anything that is not true!
Tip 2. Be aware of scam plans, unlimited bandwidth is a myth!
If it sounds too good too be true it usually is! All hosts have the same basic limitations when it comes to server resources and specs.
There is no magic server that has a never ending supply of RAM and CPU. If a host ever claims to give unlimited space or bandwidth DO NOT JOIN THEM. The thing to remember is that the average web site uses about 50 Megs space and less then 1 gig bandwidth a month. So what hosting companies do is they lie! They make up scam plans with tons of space and unlimited bandwidth for around $8 bucks a month. It\'s a numbers game.... Only 5-10 of every 100 people that signup on the plan are going to use more than the1 gigs bandwidth. So what do they do? They terminate the sites that use more bandwidth saying "your site is using too many resources."
They aren\'t lying about the resource usage it\'s the truth! Most people don\'t realize that bandwidth and space used have nothing to do with the server resources being used. Resource usage has to do with the amount of CPU and RAM a site uses. If a site uses their 50 gigs bandwidth they aren\'t kicked for using their bandwidth they are kicked for using up most of the servers CPU and RAM.
For example, If a company hosted 200 sites per server and 2% of the server used the 50 gigs bandwidth that would equal 200 gigs bandwidth a month used on the server. If they don\'t kick those sites using it, those 4 sites are going to be using more resources then all 196 sites on the server combined. So think about it, would a hosting company boot 4 people paying $8 bucks a month in order to double the amount of sites they can hold on the server? You bet they would!
3. Domain Name Tips
Double check if the domain name registration is going to bear your name and that you will have complete control of your domain name for the life. Do not purchase your domain name from a provider, unless you are positive they will be putting your information in the whois. (We do most don\'t)
If your information isn\'t in the whois they could blackmail you into staying with them. For all technical purposes whoever has their information in the whois is the owner. A domain owner doesn\'t go by who paid for it; it goes by whose information is on the whois.
We suggest you purchase your domain name from a company which gives you complete control over your domain name. After you purchase the name, all you would do is put your host\'s dns in and your domain name will then point to your hosting company.
adps-domain gives you complete control over your domain name. Visit our knowledgebase for more details.
4. Uptime Guarantee
If a hosting company claims 100% uptime they are lying. All servers need to be rebooted every now and then for security and software updates. If they never reboot that means their server is insecure and they will eventually be hacked.
When a company guarantees an uptime that doesn\'t make it true. A host has as many uptimes as they have servers. It all depends on what server they put you on, and how well they manage it from the time your put on it. We guarantee a 99.9 uptime but that does not mean we will hit it every month for eternity. Our guarantee means we give you a 100% refund for the month if we should not hit it. Many hosting companies will give you a prorated refund based on the amount of downtime. So say you pay $10 for a month of hosting your site is down for 24 / hours. They will refund you for one day of downtime which ends up being about 33 cents. A guarantee is worthless! What is worth something is how they define the guarantee, and if they do in fact honor it.
You can host CGI scripts on the server, your hosting comes with full CGI Support. Visit CGI section of knowledgebase for more information
We are a domain name reseller of Direct Information Pvt. Ltd. We did consider option of becoming a registrar ourselves. Looking at the economics of the business, we found that we can serve our customers better if we resell domain names from an ICANN accredited registrar, following are some of the reasons.
A registrar needs to invest a lot of money in IT systems and infrastructure upfront and can not recover that money unless they take a fat margin on the domain names they sell. You can checkout yourself
A. Direct Information has a retail price of $12.99 on its domain names
C. Network solutions, another registrar, sells, domain names for $35.
D. All the reseller of these registrar get far lower rates and can offer all the feature that a registrar can offer its customers directly, nobody will become a reseller unless they did so.
As a reseller, we can offer you all the features with domain name as if you were buying from the registrar directly. It is same as buying from a wholesaler and selling at a retail shop. Customers get the same brand, same feature as they would have received from the company directly, but for far cheaper prices.
The crux of the story is that we can provide our customers better value if we resell the domain names from a full feature registrar such as Direct Information Pvt. Ltd (http://www.directi.com)
There is no hard and fast rules on using extension. Following are some common usage of extensions.
.com Stands for “commercial” anHow do I know which domain name extension or top level domain is right for me?
Other than for .us domain names, there is no specific rule on using an extension. We suggest, you register your domain name under at least three most popular extensions i.e. .com, .net and .org. By doing this, you can make sure that someone other that you does not come up with a website with your domain name using other popular extension.
Following are some common usage
# .com stands for “commercial” and it is an unrestricted international domain name extension. Most companies choose a .com domain, because this domain represents e-business and is the most popular domain on the Internet.
#.net: It stands for network. .net domain is preferred by companies whose business is directly connected to the Internet, such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and web hosting and development companies. Some companies also use the .net extensions for their intranet sites.
#.org: The .org domain is generally used by non-profit organizations
#.info: .info sites provide general information, and are intended for both companies and
individuals
#.biz stands for “Business Internet Zone” and is a restricted international domain name extension reserved for business entities. The .biz domain was introduced recently and as a new domain name extension, it gives companies much wider choice of suitable domain names than the overcrowded .com domain
#.us United States. You can only use this extension for sites hosted in united states. The name servers should also reside in United States
#.name This extension is used for personal websites. .name sites allow individuals to have a section of the web zoned solely for personal use. .name extensions are great for building your personal identity online.
d it is an unrestricted international domain name extension. Most companies choose a .com domain, because this domain represents e-business and is the most popular domain on the Internet. Due to its popularity, however, the number of available .com domains is decreasing drastically.
.net The .net domain is preferred by companies whose business is directly connected to the Internet, such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and web hosting and development companies. Some companies use the .net extensions for their intranet sites.
.org The .org domain is intended for use by non-profit organizations
.info Information. .info sites provide general information, and are intended for both companies and individuals
.biz stands for “Business Internet Zone” and is a restricted international domain name extension reserved for business entities. The .biz domain was introduced recently and as a new domain name extension it gives companies much wider choice of suitable domain names than the overcrowded .com domain
.us United States. You can only use this extension for sites hosted in united states. The name servers should also reside in United States
.name This extension is used for personal websites. .name sites allows individuals to have a section of the Web zoned solely for personal use. .name extensions are great for building your personal identity online.
Child Name Servers are Name Servers that are registered with the Registry under your Domain Name. Before you can use child name servers as name servers, you need to register Name Servers with the Registry. Only owner of the domain name can register Child Name Servers.
For example, if you are an owner of xyz.com, you can register a Child Name Server ns2.xyz.com
Use following simple steps to add Child Name Servers for your domain name
1. Click on the Account Menu and then click on Manage Domains option. You can find Account Menu in the menu bar at the top of every page of the website.
2. Login to your domain name control area using your email address and password. Click of Domains menu option and then choose search option followed by domain name search option, i.e., Domains Search Domain Name Search
3. Now click on domain name. On the next screen click on the Manage Child Name Server button.
4. Now enter the hostname of the Child Name Server you wish to add in the Add New Child Name Server box. Provide IP address for the name server and proceed. Your can register up to 13 Child Name Servers for your domain name.
Use following simple steps to modify or to delete Child Name Servers for your domain name
1. Follow steps from step 1 to step 3 as listed above.
2. To modify Child Name Server information, provide new information on the next screen and click on modify button.
3. To delete a child name server, click on the delete button.
Apart from the steps above, you need to configure your DNS Servers and bind the required IP Addresses to them. Additionally, in your DNS Record for the zone xyz.com you will have to add the required \'A\' records or \'CNAME\' record for the above Child Name Servers.
Yes, we provide all Technical support to our customers through our support help desk and email. We also have a very comprehensive knowledge base, where you can find answers to most of the questions you may have.
You can also raise a request for adding a question to the knowledgebase.
Your adps-domain.com and domain names control center accounts are managed separately for enhanced security. You can always be sure that your account information is secure in our databases. If you forget password for any of the accounts, simply click forgot password link and you will be sent your new password on your account email address.
Four critical questions you must ask before signing up for a website hosting company or domain names regisration company.
Tip 1: Does the company you are considering offer transparent pricing i.e. No Hidden Costs?
A lot of companies today show very attractive listing price and hide up-to 10% of charges in fine print or in some inaccessible corners of the website. Make sure what you see as the list price is what actually you pay. For example, some companies will add as much as 7% for credit card transaction charges and that is a lot of money. You would not even know until you paid for the product.
We offer honest and transparent low price everyday, day after day. What you see in the list price is what you actually pay. There is no hidden cost anywhere in fine print, terms and conditions or credit card transaction charges.
Hidden costs are first very visible signal of the company’s dubious intentions. We always put our customers first and we do not promise or show anything that is not true!
Tip 2. Be aware of scam plans, unlimited bandwidth is a myth!
If it sounds too good too be true it usually is! All hosts have the same basic limitations when it comes to server resources and specs.
There is no magic server that has a never ending supply of RAM and CPU. If a host ever claims to give unlimited space or bandwidth DO NOT JOIN THEM. The thing to remember is that the average web site uses about 50 Megs space and less then 1 gig bandwidth a month. So what hosting companies do is they lie! They make up scam plans with tons of space and unlimited bandwidth for around $8 bucks a month. It\'s a numbers game.... Only 5-10 of every 100 people that signup on the plan are going to use more than the1 gigs bandwidth. So what do they do? They terminate the sites that use more bandwidth saying "your site is using too many resources."
They aren\'t lying about the resource usage it\'s the truth! Most people don\'t realize that bandwidth and space used have nothing to do with the server resources being used. Resource usage has to do with the amount of CPU and RAM a site uses. If a site uses their 50 gigs bandwidth they aren\'t kicked for using their bandwidth they are kicked for using up most of the servers CPU and RAM.
For example, If a company hosted 200 sites per server and 2% of the server used the 50 gigs bandwidth that would equal 200 gigs bandwidth a month used on the server. If they don\'t kick those sites using it, those 4 sites are going to be using more resources then all 196 sites on the server combined. So think about it, would a hosting company boot 4 people paying $8 bucks a month in order to double the amount of sites they can hold on the server? You bet they would!
3. Domain Name Tips
Double check if the domain name registration is going to bear your name and that you will have complete control of your domain name for the life. Do not purchase your domain name from a provider, unless you are positive they will be putting your information in the whois. (We do most don\'t)
If your information isn\'t in the whois they could blackmail you into staying with them. For all technical purposes whoever has their information in the whois is the owner. A domain owner doesn\'t go by who paid for it; it goes by whose information is on the whois.
We suggest you purchase your domain name from a company which gives you complete control over your domain name. After you purchase the name, all you would do is put your host\'s dns in and your domain name will then point to your hosting company.
adps-domain gives you complete control over your domain name. Visit our knowledgebase for more details.
4. Uptime Guarantee
If a hosting company claims 100% uptime they are lying. All servers need to be rebooted every now and then for security and software updates. If they never reboot that means their server is insecure and they will eventually be hacked.
When a company guarantees an uptime that doesn\'t make it true. A host has as many uptimes as they have servers. It all depends on what server they put you on, and how well they manage it from the time your put on it. We guarantee a 99.9 uptime but that does not mean we will hit it every month for eternity. Our guarantee means we give you a 100% refund for the month if we should not hit it. Many hosting companies will give you a prorated refund based on the amount of downtime. So say you pay $10 for a month of hosting your site is down for 24 / hours. They will refund you for one day of downtime which ends up being about 33 cents. A guarantee is worthless! What is worth something is how they define the guarantee, and if they do in fact honor it.
An addon domain is a fully functional domain that will work out of a folder in your main sites ftp.
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