What Are Your Top 3 Worse Webhosts
Jul 9, 2008I started the top 3 best thread now lets do your worse webhosts.
In my opinion i have not had any really bad hosts.
Drgservers i wasen't 100% happy about was there customer support lacked.
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My Worse Experience At Hostmonster.com
May 23, 2009I'm come here to complain the hosting company hostmonster which is the very bad hosing provide company. Until now,
I have contact with them for 36 hours, and my website is still down.
the first 12 hours, the server is down. after that, they are installing sever packages on it. after that, they did
not do any work on it. they not recover my data, my website's content is gone!
I contact them many times, some time they reply me, and tell me server will be back up momentarily.
I'm very tired on this problem. I'm charge an comerece site, now some customers is going to refund from me, they
thought me as a cheater.
If you see my post, I suggest you to choose the other web hosting. Stay away from hostmonster, do not harm
yourself. Bluthost.com is also the same hosting company. so, please be clever.
here is our email I contact with Hostmonster:
Take care, this mail is replied from bluehost.
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 9:53 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
Currently the admin of your server is swapping new drives in to better improve system performance. Your site will
be back up momentarily.
Thank You,
Jonathan L. S.
Support Level 1
BlueHost.com
888.401.4678
dateFri, May 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
Dear Customer,
We apologize for the trouble you've been having. Our administrators are working as fast as they can to get the
server back up on line.
Again I apologize for the wait.
Thank You,
EricJ
L1 Support
Hostmonster.com
866-573-4678
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
hide details 2:10 PM (12 hours ago)
Dear Customer,
There is no eta on the server at this time but please bear with us as we get it back on line.
Thanks for contacting us.
We apologize for the trouble you've been having,
Thanks
JChristensen
Level 1 Support Engineer
Hostmonster.com
(866) 573-HOST
dateSat, May 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM
subject[ #318137]: Not Found
mailed-byhelpdesk.hostmonster.com
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we have encountered some unexpected problems with the server. We currently
have no ETA, but I would expect that it won't be for maybe another 12 hours. Our SysAdmins have been working on
the server round the clock to get it back up as soon as possible. When it is back up, your files should be back as
Midphase Support Is Getting Worse And Ugly
Oct 8, 2008I has been a day+ now and my ticket has not been replied.
I've just canceled my shared hosting and transferred it to my dedicated server. Everything was fine but after few days the domain pointed to sedoparking.com and not my nameserver. The support guy told me that midphase will automatically renew my domain for free, so I didn't follow up on this.
I've received the cancellation email from billing dept asking me whether I still want to keep my domain. So, I replied and till now no news no nothing from them.
I've submitted a ticket yesterday to the dedicated support and they just forward it to the billing dept and till now, still no news from them. C'mon...now is weekdays not weekends!
This mark a really bad impression on midphase... I've previously talked loud about their brilliant support on my blog... well I think I need to edit it now.
Really disappointed, now my website is "down" for days now...
Should I still trust midphase? I think I have to think twice now. What I can say that they threat leaving customer differently for those new and current customers.
Worse Customer Service On 'THE PLANET'
May 6, 2009That "free first month" looked like a great deal until we got shutdown, over-billed, the server is NOT what we agreed on in the contract, and we cannot speak with anyone in a supervisory position.
When the account agreement was entered into, all information was sent to The Planet via The Planet salesman who sold us the account. It appears from subsequent email that he forwarded the contract and information to the planet via his Blackberry. This included all necessary contracts, billing, and credit card information. Hmm.
Exactly one month later the service was suspended. After contacting 'The Planet' we were told our credit card had been declined. We argued this point supported by our own banking information. We were told to simply add the credit card information into the 'orbit' billing portal so we did. Then we were told we would need to re-verify all the card holder information since we were adding a new card into the system. This point I also argued since we were adding THE SAME card information that they had from day one.
I was told by the person that handled my call regarding the suspension that the matter would be fixed. He would also have a supervisor phone me. I told him as long as they fix the billing error there is no need to have the supervisor phone me unless they took issue with my complaints. So nobody contacted me. They opened and closed numerous tickets and proceeded to bill me a $50.00 "reconnection fee".
I have now phoned The Planet numerous times since the 5th of May. I cannot speak with anyone in a supervisory position. They just keep telling me the supervisor will phone me.
For a company that is so large, customer service at this company sounds like three teenagers in 2 bedroom apartment. Not to mention the fact that since that server has been online it has been a magnet for IP scans. I found a possible reason for that problem in a September 30th 08 report by Netcraft,
Switching To VM From Dedicated - Equal, Better Or Worse
May 5, 2008I run several leased dedi machines....have for over a decade now.
I use a couple different places, and now, actually looking to consolidate to one.
This is more due to my growth than anything else.
So one of my providers, recently moved me from a Dedicated machine (very very old - i mean P4's were NEW when i got it)
to a VM setup.
I ended up looking to replace that machine with another (which i did in a diff thread last week)
I have finally heard back from them and amazingly, they are insisting that this situation is "better" and "cheaper" than a dedicated
Mind you i was on a p4 with about half gig memory. Now I am on something with Gigs of Ram and Multiple Xeons with quad cores etc etc etc
For this server, none of that is needed, the box worked great for 5 years, with no need to change hardware...and the system never got taxed. Its a development machine.
ALl that is just background
My question is...am I so out of touch that VM is actually BETTER than Dedicated...or at least EQUAL...and its a waste to have a dedi, when you can have VM with "root" access?
I run windows boxes for these...
what about 3rd party apps, and controllers?
They claim todays top VM technology (when placed on their new 10k boxes) is superior to dedicated...so much so they are switching ALL customers to VM
now I know all the benefits to the HOST for putting clients on VM
those are obvious
Butam I so old fashioned to think its just the "house" versus "condo" situation
its still SHARED...its not dedicated to my needs only..and someone elses actions can effect my own! right?
Or is it a new age, and nobody needs a dedicated box anymore, because we have entered the golden age of hosting?
I asked, has VM become perfect? He said "its near-perfect, nothing anyone else can do will effect you, you have nothing to worry about and we can get an image of you up from RAID instantly in case of drive failure."
Changing Webhosts
Oct 25, 2009I'm changing my webhost after getting screwed around with countless downtimes and now their own site is completely down.
I'm looking for a new host, and had been looking at alot of review sites. After looking at a few of them, found that they were obviously fakes with almost 100% good reviews for some hosts, completely dissing some other hosts, and the complete opposite on some other sites.
Looking for recommendations for your own host, do state your site too so I can try out the response.
Criteria
excellent uptime
responsive support + live support chat
h-sphere preferred, but not a must have (I like having subdomains in directories at the same level as domains)
does not ridiculously overload their servers (well, who can tell?)
good site response time
budget at 10usd per month
allows many domains/sites, no need for super high bandwidth as I just host many small sites
PHP with .htaccess access + imagemagick/gd
Registrars Or Webhosts
Feb 27, 2009Anyone know where I can get <2MB of webspace + DNS hosting and a .su domain, as cheap as possible? The normal registrars/hosts don't sell them
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SEO Hosting - Same As Multiple Webhosts
Mar 20, 2009Just found out about "SEO Hosting", such as:
skynethosting.net/linux-web-hosting.htm
indianets.com/seo-shared.php
and many more...
Is this hosting just the same as getting accounts on 10 different webhosts to get different class C IP, or is there any advantages to choose a "SEO host"?
Why Criticize The Overselling Webhosts
May 8, 2008I am owner of a web hosting company with a plan with overselling and I see plenty of criticism lately for resources that we offer.
In the country where we work, offer such a plan has allowed us to grow our business and invest in infrastructure that other web hosting companies can not afford. We have a large number of servers (Dell 2950, Xeon Octo Core, +8GB, Large RAID 10, ISCSI remote backups) and a network increasingly large/quick.
In addition we have highly qualified technical staff and technical support 24/7.
All this (managed correctly) allows us to accommodate all types of customers even if they have a relatively high use of resources. In conclusion, our customers are generally very satisfied.
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