In the history of telecommunications in the Maldives, Dhiraagu has been a company noted for its standard and services. Comparing the service providers available in the Maldives (phone / internet) it would fair to say that Dhiraagu provides a better service.
Recently we have seen witness good upgrades of the services and huge deductions in the prices of services provided by Dhiraagu. Specially internet and mobile phone services. Maybe it’s due to the uprising competition in the market or maybe they are generous!!!… hmmm.. naaaaaa!!.. reason???.. lets see..
Dhiraagu is the ONLY registrar for .mv domains. The prices for the .mv domain has not been reduced by even a laari. Setup costs MRF 500/- and a monthly fee of MRF 100/- for just the domain name!! and don’t get me started on the stupid time consuming procedure of acquiring a domain name. This service from Dhiraagu has not been changed since its introduction (which is good proof that Dhiraagu is not generous). All these changes we see are made to stay in the business and due to the competition in the market (who cares I know). All im saying is when would there be a change in this??.. Please don’t let me hear never!!..
Another service where we have not seen any change is Dhiraagu Hosting Services! What can you say about it other than its total crap! Just check this out ;
Service Details
| Bronze Package | Silver Package | Gold Package | |
| Features: | |||
| Platform | Unix | Unix | Unix |
| Bandwidth Traffic | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Daily Backups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Free Web Space | 2 Mb | 25 Mb | 200 Mb |
| FTP access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search Engine Submission | No | Yes | Yes |
| Statistics | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free Domain | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free POP3 e-mail accounts | Nil | 20 | 50 |
| CGI | No | Yes | Yes |
| FrontPage | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mailing List | No | No | Yes |
| Database | No | No | Yes |
| PHP & Perl | No | No | Yes |
| Sublevel Domains | No | 5 | 10 |
| MX Record Capability | No | Yes | Yes |
http://www.dhiraagu.com.mv/dhivehinet/webhosting/
Pricing Details
| Setup | Monthly | ||
| Domain name service (including 1 free pop3 email account) | 500 | 100 | |
| Web Hosting - Bronze Package | 200 | 50 | |
| - Silver Package | 300 | 200 | |
| - Gold Package | 500 | 450 | |
| Additional 1 MB web space | - | 05 | |
http://www.dhiraagu.com.mv/tariffs/dhivehinet.php#webhosting
Are those people insane????.. and now the services they run. I recently was developing a website whose hosting was on a Dhiraagu server. I checked their server for the version of PHP installed and it was 4.3.10 they have not updated their systems since February 2005 (http://members.dhivehinet.net.mv/aharen/test.php). Anyhow, I called 123 to ask them to update the server to PHP 5, the response pissed me off big time ;
Me : Hello, I would like to upgrade the version of PHP on my current hosting on your server.
123 : hold pls
**after couple of minutes**
123 : sorry to have kept you waiting
123 : sorry we don’t offer that service!
Me : okai, then when would your servers be upgraded??
123 : hold pls
**after couple of minutes**
123 : sorry to have kept you waiting
123 : we don’t have an upgrade scheduled anytime soon!
WHAT?????… This sux!.. Dhiraagu’s hosting service is the one service that has not evolved with time. Nowadays we can get over GB’s of storage and a lot better/more services for a couple of bucks per year (eg: http://www.mediatemple.net , http://www.dreamhost.com ), while Dhiraagu still offers the crap service for a much expensive price. Wonder when this would change??.. When they would realize its not about providing the server but about providing a valued service??.. And that competition in the market or fear of loosing the customers is not why you should reduce the price or introduce some awesome features / services???..
Hoping for some change!!… soon???… i hope!!..
January 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
yeah … every time i consider a .mv domain. the same reson holds me back…
ah…even the domain CP..!! Grrr!!
January 4th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
i cant believe that they still dont offer php 5…
and i cant find any reason to gofor dhiraagu for an web solution
January 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
@Typos : Ohh yeah the most useful cpanel of all times!!!… I wonder why they even call it cpanel??.. you cant do shit with it and they call it cpanel.. **pffftt**
@Mr.Blogged : yea.. i was hoping they would keep it as a choice or something.. but seems they were much lamer than that.. just one teeny weeny reason dude.. they are the only registrar for .mv domains!!.. **sigh**.. tsk tsk tsk
January 4th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
LOL… but here are some interesting facts.
Surprisingly, lot of people who are not familiar with the internet and hostings, have this misconception that a .mv domain and a Dhiraagu hosting would be better. They think that they could just run there and get it fixed should something happen! Perhaps their marketing line.
January 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Yeah. Dhiraagu is forever stuck in the past with webhosting.
Maybe they should out source the department.
I wrote about this too sometime ago.
http://www.randomreflexions.com/tag/dhiraagu
January 5th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
It shows that TAM does not monitor or have the power to force dhiraagu to change things like that..!! I guess .mv registration and moderation is a responsibility of government authorities..
Beside hosting, why the hell is domains so expensive!! It’s so damn cheap everywhere… When are they going to provide online domain registration? hehe…
January 5th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
TAM should not keep the monopoly of registering .mv domains with dhiraagu. and i don’t agree with u dude. its not only dhiraagu web hosting that sucks. most services theyr offer sucks. u said theu cut prices on internet packages. tell me what a person can do with the 3GB bandwidth they offer? unlimited package is 512 kbps and thats bullshit. TAM sucks too.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:18 am
who is forcing you ppl to go with dhiraagu hosting. i agree with you guys that .mv is too expensive… maybe we should all write letters to TAM regarding that
January 6th, 2008 at 8:55 am
This is unbelievable!
January 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
FU-KING REGIMENT OF MAUMOON WONT LET A MALDIVIAN TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE WITHOUT BEGGING THEM…THIS WHOLE REGIME SUCKS >>>GO FOR THE REMOVAL OF THIS KESS REGIME WITHOUT TALKING SHIT
January 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am
heheheh… darn.. dnt compare dhiraagu with other hosting company’s.. are u forced to use there hosting with there domains?
an this retard is blaming maumoon for this now
kekekke! why maumoon allwayz.. hehehe..
GOLhA SUCKER yeah.. keep on sucking maumoons dick!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Thanks for sharing
February 5th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
thanks for webmaster,
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May 21st, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Ekamakuvaa! Still the same prices dho… pis. pis… I agree with anonGuy, we should be writing about .mv domain to TAM. Will giv my signature for the letter for sure. nice post man.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
MV HOSTING give better free HOSTING