Why do human beings (read me), continually go down dark alleys hoping all will be well, yet they know something bad is going to happen!
48 hours later, the domain I purchased as part of the personal package is still listed a available on Kenic whois query... Granted, they sent me cpanel details, but two support tickets go unanswered.
To future Peter Karunyu's on this same quest, note the following:
1. Unless the world is ending, DO NOT buy a domain or hosting package from a company whose core business is not web hosting.
2. Good customer service beats locally hosted servers any time of the day, and night.
3. If you have to host abroad, you might as well go straight to the horses;
1and1.com, hostgator, godaddy etc.
4. If you do host abroad, make gzip, mod_expires and mod_headers your best friends, and memorize that post from Eugene Lidede on performance stuff.
5. See number 2 above.
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Regards,
Peter Karunyu
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