Lacehost.com: Good and Cheap

I have about 6 reseller accounts including ones at Hostgator, Hostforweb, Crucial, and CoastInc. I opened a shared account with Lace Host because I needed a cheap account to host a number of small sites and did not need another reseller account. Having the other sites as "add-ons" has made them a little easier to manage, and many of them share a couple of data directories which has been nice.

The cost for the hosting has been very, very low and so I did not expect much. But the account, uptime, and customer service have been at least as good as any of my reseller accounts, and in many ways better since I often can communicate questions and concerns with the company owner. About a month ago I paid for a second shared account for a new project involving a cluster of sites and I expect to continue to have the same positive experience. They just finished moving us all back to the server where I have the second account after they took it off-line to make it more secure by re-installing the OS and everything else. I am also considering opening at least one reseller account with them as well.

I have no connection with Lace Host, but they are providing other, non-hosting services for us. And Webhostingreviews is paying people for their reviews, but I will not be asking for or accepting any money for this review.

Biggest Pro: Low cost, yet good features and customer service.
Biggest Con: They don't "look" as polished and professional as larger providers, which may make people nervious

A Cheap and Reliable Web Host

I purchased Web hosting from Lacehost owner Ishan after I saw his thread at Digital Point Forums in January 2007. At that point of time, I had never owned a domain or own website in my life, but was looking forward to getting one. I had little knowledge about Cpanel, fanatstico, mysql and php scripts. I simply wanted a wordpress hosted on my own domain. When I saw that Ishan was offering hosting through his company "lacehost" from $1 per month and with excellent specifications (1 GB webspace, 10 GB bandwidth, Cpanel, fanatstico, unlimited mysql databses), I decided to go for it.

Well I think that decision was one of the best decisions I've taken as a webmaster. Conveniently I moved from blogspot blogs to owning my first ever website - fitnessfanatic.org. On Ishan's suggestion, I installed wordpress not on the main domain but on the subdirectory, and now I've come to realize what a valuable suggestion it had been.

The customer support of the webhost is excellent. Instead of submittng a ticket request and waiting for a reply, I simply talk to him on gtalk where he he online almost the whole day. As far as hosting goes, it has been excellent. The server speed is great, and I can only recall a couple of rare instances when there was a downtime.

Biggest Pro: live customer support, extrememly cheap hosting plans
Biggest Con: The website of the host is yet to be fully developed, but that's hardly an issue.