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Web hosting companies

webi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:58:37 +0000

Though there are thousands of web hosting companies, very few companies are reliable. In the last one year, more than 50% of the web hosting companies I use either had a change in management or ownership.

Difficult to research the ownership when you are buying $50 hosting.

Site5 change in management

webi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:28:07 +0000

Received a mail saying that there has been a change in Site5 management. I wonder how it will affect my websites hosted there.

Change in ownership of hosting companies

webi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:51:42 +0000

Many of the hosting companies are small, and change in ownership of the hosting companies creates problems for their customers. They say that you have not made the payment, when they had offered a discount initially

Hostgator upgrade

webi — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:45:40 +0000

Hostgator is upgrading to PHP5 on some of their servers, and some of my scripts stopped working.

Wasted a few hours fixing the problem, had to reinstall the software

Another reminder from Hostnine

webi — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:58:17 +0000

[Payment Reminder]

Dear **,

This is reminder #3 for due payment for services provided by HostNine LLC.

Notice: Your account has been suspended pending payment of outstanding debts.

My account was already suspended months ago, despite payment, why are you spamming me?
Invoice Amount : $83.40
Invoice Due Date : 05/21/2008

You may login to view your invoice(s) online here:

https:// secure.hostnine.com/billing/

Thank you,

HostNine LLC

Date: 05/31/2008

Hostnine continued incompetence

webi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:02 +0000

Hostnine disabled my account last year after 3 months, without any valid reason, but they continue sending reminders about an invoice due. I get an email every Monday. Fortunately my credit card is no longer valid.

Who is going to pay for a service that is not being provided? Unhappy customers are not repeat customers, the money a webhosting company spends advertising is better spent retaining a customer.

Hostnine - worst host, best avoided

webi — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:11:07 +0000

Both my Hostnine accounts were disabled after a few months with the following message

We had to disable this account due to it crashing the server. The mail going in and out is way to much for a shared server. This need’s a dedicated server or to be moved off of hostnine’s servers.
And I have not sent a single mail using Hostnine’s servers , they seem to be a scam company, disabling accounts after a few months

Site5’s Plan to end all plans

webi — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:24:39 +0000

I got this email

About Site5’s new “The Plan to End All Plans” super web hosting deal! We have really pulled out all of the stops on this one, and Site5 is now officially offering the best hosting deal in the industry. For just $7.50 per month (that works out to only .25 cents per day!), you get 750GB of RAID-protected and enhanced web storage, 7500GB (yeah, that’s NOT a typo) of bandwidth on our premium, world-class, network, and a slew of new features!
For the remainder of this month, if you upgrade your current hosting plan to our new “The Plan to End All Plans” deal, you will receive 13% off on your order (and for the lifetime of the account) thanks to our limited time-only Halloween special promotion!

If that wasn’t enough to get you excited, we are also exceedingly thrilled to inform you that Site5 is planning on launching toll-free PHONE SUPPORT within the next 3 8 weeks. The plans are already in motion, and we are just working out all of the kinks and bugs in our phone system before it goes live. What’s the catch? There is no “catch”, but there is a condition to qualifying for access to our upcoming phone support system. Toll-free phone support will only be available to customers that are paying us a minimum of $6.50 cents per month. If you are currently on a hosting plan that is paying less than this, you can upgrade now and be eligible to receive phone support once the program has officially launched.

So what are you waiting for? Upgrade before the end of the month in order to take advantage of our 13% off Halloween special. Hurry, the offer expires October 31st at 11:59PM EST!

You can upgrade your accounts simply by logging into Backstage, and requesting an upgrade

Tech support is not of much use, if you are not in USA

Finding a good webhost

webi — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:58:13 +0000

I have a lot of websites and am always looking for cheap and reliable web hosting. There are many webhosting companies, but few are inexpensive and allow unlimited addon domains. My sites do not take up server resources, so I cannot afford to pay more than $1-2 / year for hosting . All the reviews here are based on my personal experience.

Site5’s New hosting package

webi — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:27:10 +0000

Site5 had been offering cheap hosting for many months now , 50-165 websites, 1 IP address for $5 / month (if prepaid for 2 years). Now they have discontinued that package , but are offering unlimited website hosting for $5/month. No free IP address is provided, you have to pay $3 per month extra for the IP address and some other addons. They limit the maximum number of files you can have in account to 25000, unlike Westhost where the limit is 600,000