Domain India Review 2022: Is This a Good Web Host?
Not Recommended!
Bad!
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Our top-5 recommended hosting providers are spread across different price ranges and are obviously meant for different use-cases.
Hostinger is the #1 on that list because of the sheer value for money it offers. Plus, most of our visitors (like you) are individuals or SMBs trying to find the most affordable hosting solution (like Hostinger). How do we know that? Well, some of you mail us and share other cheap hosting providers to know our opinion.
One such name that popped in our inbox — a while back — was Domain India. It was in the same Hostingery price range, so we decided to check it. Here’s what we think about it:
Note: There are two Domain India sites, domainindia.org & domainindia.com. Both are from the same company, but the plans are slightly different. We’ll be reviewing domainindia.org because a) The cheapest plans are only listed on it and b) it’s the one that shows up on Google when you search for “Domain India.”
Domain India Overview
Here’s everything about Domain India in brief:
Our ratings | D | 2/5 |
Average response time | ~ 170 ms |
Avg. response times in top-targeted countries | US: ~ 150 ms | India: ~ 120 ms |
Uptime | 99.88% |
Support | Live chat, Phone, & email/ticket |
Site transfer | DIY |
Introductory Pricing | Starts at INR 60/month |
Top features | 30-day money-back guarantee, free SSL certificates, 99.9% uptime guarantee |
Company Information
Domain Registration India Private Limited is a Chennai-based domain registration and web hosting provider. It’s been in business for over ten years and has served about 35,000 clients — this includes clients from their upsells(web designing & development, mobile app development, SEO, etc.) as well.
It’s a domain registrar-first company, as it seems from its name. And like all other domain registrars that sell web hosting services — GoDaddy, BigRock, Namecheap, etc. — Domain India’s web hosting services turned out to be pretty bad. How bad? Read further!
2 Things Good about Domain India
1. It’s an Indian business
As apparent from its name, Domain India is an India-based business, primarily serving the Indian market. And it’s in your favor if your primary audience is also India-based.
No, no...there’s no Atmanirbhar Bharat (or self-reliant India) angle here. That indeed is a plus, but we consider it a good thing because it improves server response time (or SRT).
SRT is the total time taken between a web browser sending a request to the server and getting a response back. Google recommends keeping SRT under 200 ms. And SRT is typically latency caused by distance. So, if the website’s server is in India and the person visiting the website is in India, the latency will surely be less.
When we checked the Domain India-hosted test site’s latency, it measured ~120 ms from Bangalore, which is excellent. Moreover, the global average was also fantastic.
All in all, Domain India being an Indian business is a plus.
2. Good features
Domain India offers all the typical features you’d get in the price range, including:
- Free email accounts: Even the cheapest plan allows you to create multiple professional email accounts.
- Free website builder: A basic website builder is also included in the package.
- Free SSL certificate: For security and SEO, an SSL certificate is crucial. Domain India includes it for free with its packs.
- Free website backup: In case your site goes haywire, a backup can come super-handy.
- One-click installer: Install apps/CMSs like WordPress & 400+ others in one click.
- 30-day money-back guarantee: If you don’t like Domain India after purchasing, you can get a no-questions-asked full refund in the first 30 days.
- 99.9% uptime guarantee: If your site’s down more than 0.1% of the time, Domain India will give account credits.
3 Things Bad About Domain India
1. Performance
After seeing an excellent global SRT, we were hopeful about the test site’s performance. Unfortunately, it was...mediocre.
Our performance tests typically include loading time and uptime measurement.
Loading time is the time it takes to load the whole web page. We test a simple WordPress page’s speed for all web hosts and recommend the ones that load under 1 second; the best ones load in 400-600 ms. Domain India took about 1 full second to load that page, which is strictly mediocre.
Similarly, we recommend web hosts that give a 99.95%+ uptime. Domain India’s uptime measured approx. 99.88%, which is not good.
Overall, Domain India’s performance is mediocre at best.
2. Customer support
Customer support is a foundational piece of any service-based business — it’s a key ingredient in a quality customer experience.
Domain India offers live chat, email, support tickets, and phone support options to provide the best experience. Unfortunately, we found their response a bit delayed compared to many better experiences we had. Plus, the problem-solving aspect also took more time than expected.
It’s not the worst of all, but Domain India’s technical support can be significantly improved.
3. Pricing (Comparatively)
Domain India[1], as we mentioned earlier, offers some of the cheapest plans. However, we found Hostinger’s plan to be much cheaper when we compared it from a value for money perspective.
Domain India’s cheapest plan costs Rs. 60/month, but that’s a Directadmin + HDD plan. Compared to that, Hostinger offers an SSD + cPanel-like-panel plan at the same price. Sure, Domain India also has an SSD + cPanel plan, but guess how much it costs? Rs. 121/month! More than double!
Domain India Plans & Features
Domain India offers shared hosting, VPS, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.
Shared Hosting
You can purchase three types of shared hosting from Domain India:
1. With Directadmin
Name | Price (per month) | No. of sites | Storage (GB) | Bandwidth | Additional features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Economy | INR 60 | 1 | 10 | 25 GB | 5 email accounts |
Premium | INR 121 | 5 | 25 | 50 GB | 25 email accounts |
Ultimate | INR 242 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited email accounts |
2. With cPanel + HDD
Name | Price (per month) | No. of sites | Storage (GB) | Bandwidth | Additional features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Economy | INR 82 | 1 | 10 | 25 GB | 5 email accounts |
Premium | INR 145 | 5 | 25 | 50 GB | 25 email accounts |
Ultimate | INR 266 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited email accounts |
3. With cPanel + SSD
Name | Price (per month) | No. of sites | Storage (GB) | Bandwidth | Additional features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Economy | INR 121 | 1 | 5 | 25 GB | 5 email accounts |
Premium | INR 242 | 5 | 15 | 50 GB | 25 email accounts |
Ultimate | INR 363 | Unlimited | 50 | Unlimited | Unlimited email accounts |
Directadmin Reseller plans
For resellers and people offering web design, web development, etc. services, these are the plans you can distribute across your clients:
Name | Price (per month) | No. of sites | Storage (GB) | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plan 1 | INR 545 | Unlimited | 100 | 1000 GB |
Plan 2 | NR 1089 | Unlimited | 250 | 2500 GB |
Plan 3 | INR 2178 | Unlimited | 500 | 5000 GB |
VPS
For dedicated server resources and smooth performance, choose one of the following VPS plans. They come with a 99.99% uptime guarantee, free dedicated IP address, and 1 Gbps bandwidth.
Name | Price (per month) | RAM (GB) | CPU (Intel Xeon 2.5 GHz) | Storage (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plan 1 | INR 1089 | 4 | 1 core | 1 TB HDD / 128 GB SSD |
Plan 2 | INR 2178 | 8 | 2 core | 2 TB HDD / 256 GB SSD |
Plan 3 | INR 4356 | 16 | 1 core | 4 TB HDD / 512 GB SSD |
Dedicated servers
For full dedicated machines powering your site, these are dedicated server plans Domain India offers:
Name | Price (per month) | RAM (GB) | CPU (Intel Xeon 2.5 GHz) | Storage (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plan 1 | INR 4356 | 16 | 4 core | 4 TB HDD / 512 GB SSD |
Plan 2 | INR 8713 | 32 | 8 core | 8 TB HDD / 1 TB SSD |
Plan 3 | INR 17425 | 64 | 16 core | 16 TB HDD / 2 TB SSD |
All plans include full root access, a 99.99% uptime guarantee, free DDoS protection & firewall, and 1 Gbps bandwidth.
Conclusion | Do we recommend Domain India?
Absolutely not
Domain India’s web hosting starts well with excellent SRT and industry-standard features. However, when we dug deep, we found issues with performance, technical support, and more.
As we mentioned earlier, Hostinger is our #1 recommended hosting. There’s a pretty good reason for that — it offers SSD hosting for half the price compared to Domain India; plus, we never had any support or performance issues with Hostinger.
Overall, want to buy a super-cheap web host? Hostinger is by bar the best in the range.
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• Best uptime (99.99%)
• Fast, 0.4ms load time as average
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