Netcup's Webhosting Superwoman (shared - 25 GB mail + web - 0.99 EUR)

pbx

Seems like it can be a decent deal for folks looking for email hosting + small website:

https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2914
https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2914

Enjoy

Chuck

there are 3 cookies buttons. Which one to click?

webcraft

@Chuck said:
there are 3 cookies buttons. Which one to click?

Depends on how many cookies you want.

Pilotseye

@Chuck said:
there are 3 cookies buttons. Which one to click?

All of them.

Ympker

Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Also 25GB but only 1 Database. Come on. Just assuming people would run WordPress, cloning a WP install for staging/dev is way more convenient with additional databases..
Also only 1 App install allowed. What do they expect you to do with the 25GB? Hoarding spam mails or is the 25GB just for show but they know that you probably will use like not even half/quarter of that anyway?

What's more, they charge for restoring their "voluntary" backups. It's 2022. Restoring a backup should be a click in the control panel or at least free. For disaster recovery, I guess it's nice that they keep some backups of your site but damn, this just doesn't bode well with me.

I know Netcup is an established provider and has good performance, however I stopped using them when they introduced their "hourly billed" VPS and after trying their Webhosting a while back, I didn't want to return (again, not for performance reasons but usability).

Nixtren

@Ympker said:
Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Were they using Plesk as the control panel?

danielcardosopt

Yes they are, but domains are added on their own Customer Control Panel and not on plesk.
But I added 3 domains last year and my NS are Cloudflare's and it's perfectly.

@Nixtren said:

@Ympker said:
Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Were they using Plesk as the control panel?

Neoon

Ympker

@Nixtren said:

@Ympker said:
Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Were they using Plesk as the control panel?

I believe that initially I had to add the domains in their cp (not Plesk), probably during order process. It wouldn't let me continue without updating my NS which was annoying.

scooke

I've always wanted to try Netcup, always missed the Christmas sales, now trying to get in on this.

angstrom

@Ympker said:
Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Also 25GB but only 1 Database. Come on. Just assuming people would run WordPress, cloning a WP install for staging/dev is way more convenient with additional databases..
Also only 1 App install allowed. What do they expect you to do with the 25GB? Hoarding spam mails or is the 25GB just for show but they know that you probably will use like not even half/quarter of that anyway?

What's more, they charge for restoring their "voluntary" backups. It's 2022. Restoring a backup should be a click in the control panel or at least free. For disaster recovery, I guess it's nice that they keep some backups of your site but damn, this just doesn't bode well with me.

I know Netcup is an established provider and has good performance, however I stopped using them when they introduced their "hourly billed" VPS and after trying their Webhosting a while back, I didn't want to return (again, not for performance reasons but usability).

I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, netcup's web hosting isn't really aimed at LET customers (or at a LET mindset).

It may sound paradoxical, but I tend to think of netcup's web hosting as being a fairly exclusive web hosting service.

netcup offer four web hosting plans, which they want/need to differentiate in terms of features -- not merely in terms of storage space -- so that some people will purchase the bigger plans.

They offer at least one .de domain -- in higher plans, more than one -- as part of every web hosting plan, which means that a customer doesn't need to purchase a domain name separately.

It's true that the lowest web hosting plan (Webhosting 1000), which is equivalent to the Webhosting Superwoman plan on sale today, has some seemingly strict restrictions (1 database, 1 installed app), but note that this plan is really intended for one or two websites at most.

At the same time, the lowest plan comes with 25GB of storage space, not to mention 25GB of email storage space (and up to 100 email addresses/accounts), together with ftp and ssh, so one could use the storage space for files unrelated to one's website.

In sum, the lowest web hosting plan may not be a good fit with a LET mindset, but from another perspective, it's a good deal, especially when on sale.

Ympker

@angstrom said:

@Ympker said:
Never really was a fan of their webhosting. For one, you can only add your domain if the NS are pointing to their NS iirc. This means you can't just add it without updating your NS and use e.g. an A record to move your site over and only once everything works update your NS to avoid downtime. There were also some other goofy things but I remember it was kinda a pita.

Also 25GB but only 1 Database. Come on. Just assuming people would run WordPress, cloning a WP install for staging/dev is way more convenient with additional databases..
Also only 1 App install allowed. What do they expect you to do with the 25GB? Hoarding spam mails or is the 25GB just for show but they know that you probably will use like not even half/quarter of that anyway?

What's more, they charge for restoring their "voluntary" backups. It's 2022. Restoring a backup should be a click in the control panel or at least free. For disaster recovery, I guess it's nice that they keep some backups of your site but damn, this just doesn't bode well with me.

I know Netcup is an established provider and has good performance, however I stopped using them when they introduced their "hourly billed" VPS and after trying their Webhosting a while back, I didn't want to return (again, not for performance reasons but usability).

I see where you're coming from, but at the same time, netcup's web hosting isn't really aimed at LET customers (or at a LET mindset).

It may sound paradoxical, but I tend to think of netcup's web hosting as being a fairly exclusive web hosting service.

netcup offer four web hosting plans, which they want/need to differentiate in terms of features -- not merely in terms of storage space -- so that some people will purchase the bigger plans.

They offer at least one .de domain -- in higher plans, more than one -- as part of every web hosting plan, which means that a customer doesn't need to purchase a domain name separately.

It's true that the lowest web hosting plan (Webhosting 1000), which is equivalent to the Webhosting Superwoman plan on sale today, has some seemingly strict restrictions (1 database, 1 installed app), but note that this plan is really intended for one or two websites at most.

At the same time, the lowest plan comes with 25GB of storage space, not to mention 25GB of email storage space (and up to 100 email addresses/accounts), together with ftp and ssh, so one could use the storage space for files unrelated to one's website.

In sum, the lowest web hosting plan may not be a good fit with a LET mindset, but from another perspective, it's a good deal, especially when on sale.

I definitely get what you are trying to say, mate. I think that my point of view is, perhaps, a bit of a bitter one, because I wanted to like them, but through LET (for better or worse) couldn't get myself to like their webhosting offer.