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The many people who googled “Tophostingcenter scam”, landed on Nanyate?! only to be greeted with an empty review page and a rating of 10/10. I finally decided to put them out of their misery by actually writing a review, since I have hosted with TopHostingCenter for almost four months now. And, I assure you, Googlers, that
TopHostingCenter’s Rudolph Plan is NOT a scam.
For those who are unfamilar with the Rudolph Plan, it is a plan limited to the first 1000 customers who would pay a one-time fee of 95$ for 3TB of monthly bandwidth, 250GB of space, FREE lifetime domain and unlimited everything else including add-on domains. I have to admit, it sounded like a scam to me at first, but with hindsight, I realized how silly I was. Hahaha!
They are, in fact, a great company that really cares about their customers. I am so incredibly impressed by them.
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[...] switching to TopHostingCenter under their Rudolf plan since Ivy reviewed them to be good. The reason for this abrupt switch is because I exceeded the bandwidth limit again [...]
Hi Ivy, I was wondering if you knew any hosts with servers in Singapore. =) Thanks!
Cute website by the way.
Hi Teddy, i am one of THC’s happy customer as well, have no worries to host your site here. Rudolf plan is the real deal if you are looking for a webhost. Especially webhost that gave you lifetime hosting.
I have checked everywhere, these guys are the best, their customer support are reasonable fast and very help full. Try it for yourself
Mig, i have to admit your strategy works very well. I am glad to share how happy i am having this rudolf package
Btw, great site you run there Ivy! I really like your design!! I wonder how did you make that cool footer
Mig is right. I am very happy to know about THC’s Rudolf hosting plan. In fact, I wrote an exhaustive review of it for the people to know everything about Rudolf.
Read here why Rudolf is one of the best hosting offer the Web has ever seen
Thank you very much Ivy for this kind review. I read the comments too, and I would like to express some of my feelings about your readers’ worries: we plan to stay in business a long time. Rudolf is not our main source of revenue. As a matter of fact, on the long term, considering that we will be paying for the customers’ domains it will cost us. But the price is worth paying. Many clients asked why. Well, 1000 happy customers writing such reviews about THC are worth every dollar spent. It’s the best form of advertising, if you know what I mean. We are not trying to fool anyone with this plan: it’s certainly not “too good to be true.” A question of logic. What would you rather do: pay $ 5000 per month to advertise on an obscure website or pay $ 9000 per year to make 1000 people happy? We chose to make 1000 people happy because happy clients will make THC known on the Web maybe with reviews such as yours. I think this answers the “why is this plan so cheap?” question. We are fully transparent when it comes to our motivation and scope. Also, as I said, Rudolf is just one little slice of the pie. We actually focus on dedicated servers more, but even so, all our clients will be treated equally, with utmost care.
For example, we had clients who transfered their content from another host to us and they had no problems. We help people make the transfer if they are not savvy enough to do it on their own. This should be the last concern a client has: our customer support covers any technical issues you may face.
We are glad to support and promote quality. I think this is clear in our blog, and thank you for mentioning it here. The team makes efforts to provide the best content and to answer customer questions/ concerns in time.
So once again, Ivy - thank you for the review and I hope you will be as happy with THC in the future as you are today.
Wow that plans DOES sound too good to be true. IF there hasn’t been 1000 customers yet, I’d sign up right away but I hate the process of moving hosts. Ugh.
Apparently, there’s a little less than 500 plans left. So there is still time. Moving hosts is quite the hassle, and since TopHostingCenter doesn’t use CPanel, I’m not sure if they can transfer the files directly from your old host.
THC uses H-SPHERE btw, which is more advanced and customizable than CPanel. It’s the central control panel hosted on a difference server, so if your site is down due to a hardward upgrade or something, your control panel is still accessible. It’s pretty cool!
Serious the Rudolph plan sounds too good to be true! I pay about MYR100 a year for my hosting… plus a yearly fee of MYR35 to get my domain name working. Maybe I should try out their service too! But only when mine expire that is (and another condition - when I am able to convince my dad what does the word “life-time” means).
100MYR is pretty cheap! I checked your whois and found your host to see what they offer for that money. It’s pretty reasonable for 10GB space and 50GB transfer. The only bad thing about hosting your sites on Malaysian/Singaporean servers is that it seems to load slowly for people in North America. I have no idea why.
Lifetime here doesn’t necessarily your lifetime till your 80. It’s the lifetime of the company, so there is a little risk involved. If TopHostingCenter manages to stay in business for the next three to ten years, 95USD is a great price to pay. If they, however, run out of capital in two years, 95USD is a little more than what you’re paying now. For me personally, it’s a risk I’m willing to take though. And with all their great support, I’m actually very happy despite the risks involved.
Woah you’ve done a lot of homework
lol! Anyway yea my hosts are quite nice, they don’t give me instantaneous technical assistance but they reply pretty quickly. My blog was previously hosted on another server and I was paying almost 200MYR a year, and gah they limit me to have a MySQL database of size no larger than 5mb. What a bummer. I think it’s the trans-pacific cable being unable to handle all the traffic or something. Does it load really very slowly?
Yea the lifetime thing is what my dad thinks. He assumes that a company will most probably die prematurely before I do if I buy any lifetime warranty or stuff alike. Geez. He’s way too cautious I think. But USD95 is about MYR300+ over here, maybe that price tag made him think twice.
Anyway if I really have the chance, I might try out foreign hosts! They sound great, and the bargains are pretty attractive!
Yeah, the initial loading time is significantly slower than other North American sites with roughly the same size. Deportmaria was slow as well, and it’s hosted in Singapore.
Hahahah, yeah! 300RM is a lot at once, but it’s going to be cheaper in the long-run even if the company lasts five years since you’d pay 135×5. Hehehe.
When you ever do want to find a foreign host, let me know. I’ll help you find a good deal.
Thank you! Hmmm sometimes when I load other sites the loading time also makes me impatient! Sometimes it gets so slow I have to disconnect my modem and redial again. For some reason the loading time is a little bit faster - perhaps the different IP address I’m given (since everyone uses dynamic IP our IP addresses change all the time).
The longrun term reminded me of economics! Heh. Yea when a fixed cost is spread over a huge output / time frame (depends on what you’re talking about), per unit cost falls!
teehee. Sorry. I lost myself. That happens to me after dinner when all that blood that is supposed to go to the brain goes into my tummy.
P.S. I guess this comment makes the longest threaded comment, so far
Yes, it is the longest threaded comment so far! HAHAHA, glad I installed the plugin! It makes comments a lot more manageable. One of the employees of the webhosting company actually replied to this post! You should read what Mig has to say and maybe show your dad!
I think the Rudolph plan suits you a lot more than me. I just started this blog in December, so my traffic is unimpressive (abt 100 unique visitors per day, a far cry from Mezza-9.net), my design graphics are optimized and music quality decreased to the crappiest possible. So, I use very little bandwidth, and not much space at all. It’s a lot more beneficial for an established blog or photoblog like yours since all that space can be put to good use. Heh.
Thanks for replying! Anyway I was thinking of installing this plugin the other day, but since I have this habit of replying everyone’s comment personally, I thought my replies will add up to a great bulk of my blog’s comments. Maybe I should give this plugin a try now! It’s really, really good at managing comments.
Oh urm my blog isn’t really that established. I get almost the same number of visitors a day, just like you. My traffic is equally unimpressive - I bought my domain and chose self-hosted wordpress because it gives me total control over my blog (sounds very barbaric and totalitarian but heck)…
I’m convinced that Rudolph plan is a pot of real gold
I think I’ll be more than happy to transfer over. Now I’m trying to get my dad’s attention, lol 
I’ve read Mig’s comment, I must say that I really appreciate that he provided a lot of information too. Thanks! And thank YOU Ivy for writing such a fantastic review
Hahaha, maybe the author comment highlight plugin is better for you, Teddy. You can highlight your comment as a different color to stand out from everyone else. Besides, I had to change some things to this plugin, since the developer code semantics and English aren’t that great!
Hey Ivy thanks for the suggestion! I’m currently using both plugins at the same time. I think I’ll give personal replies if their comments need urgent attention, and I’ll reply all other comments in one big comment using author highlight plugin.
Thanks for recommending the threaded comment plugin! I’ve installed it, tweaked the css a little (as well as the php code)… and it’s working just fine!
Thanks again!