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 Review by djdanska 
UPDATED: 1.5 years ago
member for 8.5 years, 4549 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Chicago,Cook,IL
 $9 per month
 about 1 days
 "Affordable, many tools, fast, tech support/sales is good"
 "Updated plans not automatically changed, must call to do. Tech support hard to understand sometimes."
 "Good and affordable hosting with tons of good tools."
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Edit2: Reactivated another domain with them. Doing very good again. The new site is just as fast as my original site. I installed drupal on both and it runs very well. I hate the outbound firewall as i can't get drupal updates or anything, that's a pain. But, i understand why they have it. It took 15 minutes for the new hosting to start and about 24 hours for the domain to work. (It was previously registered with aplus.net, so that was already done). I don't know why i hear so many bad things with aplus.net but i have been and still am very happy with them. The only thing that kinda sucks is if i upload a file via http (at the website, using drupal) it uploads at about 400 kbps vs. ftp which is 1500 kbps. Ftp is over 3 times faster. I upload via ftp and use drupal's import feature if i am at home. Otherwise i just live with the slower http upload speeds.
Edit: Things are doing fine so far. I have a 20/2 home connection and was able to upload to my website a about 1.5 meg so it's a lot better than its ever been. Even with my old 768kbps connection, i was only able to upload at about 500kbps. (and this was for like years). I welcome the added bandwidth. Speed of my website is still acceptable. They are trying a new control panel. I mostly like it but one thing bothers me. I like to pay for my web services in advance. I usually don't have the payment ready when they request it. So, when i get paid, i go online and pay for it then. The new control panel only lets you pay the current amount due, not anything else. I have to revert to the old control panel to pay anything extra. I like to have all of my bills paid on the first of the month. Even if it's 10 days before the bill is processed. Just makes my life easier. I uploaded a large file (about 1 gig) and it uploaded fine. No errors or anything. I am very pleased with the services they provide and plan on using them again with a possible future site. (using drupal again). I don't know why so many people get a negative vibe from them, but they have not done anything wrong with me so far. And i do understand about the outbound firewall issue. Not a huge deal. I will just have to deal with it.
Edit: Still going ok. I don't get outbound access. That kinda sucks with the rss feeds but i can live with that. Tech support is not bad. I thought they where based in the states but it can be hard to understand the accent though. I don't use their email services. I prefer google's apps instead. Gmail for my domain? Works for me. Still would recommend regardless. Doing ok..
I'm on the Solo XR plan for $9.95 a month.
I have been with aplus.net for a while now and want to review them. They have recently changed their plans. My plan includes 12000 MB of storage, 500 GB of transfer, and 500 email addresses. (with imap support)
I mainly used my account for storage. I put photos and other various stuff on it for other forums or for my friends. They have tons of tools to make a website and they where very simple to install. I was able to choose from various designs for free. They include:
tiki wiki, media wiki, phpBB, and many others.
It gave me tons of things to choose from and i don't have to ftp the files and install manually. The speeds are very good. The page transfers are pretty good too. I occasionally get a slight delay but its still acceptable.
They have changed around their plans a lot in the past year or so. If you don't look on their webpage for changes, you would never know. You have to call them up and ask them to change your plan to the new one.
I highly recommend them for those who want a webpage, blog, or forum and don't know what to look for.
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