10 Latest Web Hosting Reviews
HostMonster
May 06, 2008
Reviewer: Ryan S.
I brought my company's corporate website/e-mails over to Hostmonster from another host that shut us off for too many e-mails sent. In the year or so that we have been with Hostmonster, I think we have been down a total of 30 mins one weekend. No complaints. Customer Support was a 2 min hold, answered my questions, were knowledgeable etc. I rate them 4/5 (5 being impossible to obtain in my eye)...
HostMonster
May 06, 2008
Reviewer: Hsalihba
Just love their support, always perfect ...
1and1 Hosting
May 05, 2008
Reviewer: Michael T. Halligan
I've been fighting wih 1and1 for 6 months to deal with a domain issue. I've paid them 3 times, yet they apparently aren't registering my payments, and sent me to collections (for a $i domain which I've now paid over $50 for). They're refusing to release my domain to a new registrar. I've spent at least 25 hours on the phone with them over the past 6 months. I'm now resorting to calling every executive I can get a phone number for. However, 1and1 is a german company who is very anti-consumer.
If I could give 1and1 negative ratings for the 1-5 choice here, I would....
Bluehost
May 05, 2008
Reviewer: Darren
I don't have long term data on reliability but after reading all the reviews over the weekend and being surprised at how negative a lot of the feedback was even for the highly rated sites, I wanted to report that my startup process was incredibly painless. The account was created in minutes and I was uploading data in a few more. I had to send in photo id to get ssh access which took till mon morning but otherwise it was quick and easy. One suggestion to bluehost: offer encrypted data access from the start. I wasn't comfortable using the plaintext access methods like ftp till the ssh shell access was approved....
Dot5Hosting
May 04, 2008
Reviewer: David
It would take hours to write about how bad my experience has been with these people. A horrible user interface and completely retarded support staff....
Dot5Hosting
May 04, 2008
Reviewer: Jon
I have been using Dot5 Hosting for almost a year now. They have an excellent assortment of pre-installed software (shopping cart, word press, phpbb) that you can use and you have a good amount of web space at your disposal. Although the price is very cheap, I am going to switch providers when my time is up because their servers are very slow (my page takes forever to load - I have had complaints from my visitors) and their tech support is horrible. If you try to contact them by email, expect to wait several days for a response. That is, if you even get one... ...
IPowerWeb
May 02, 2008
Reviewer: Mike
It works while it works; and when it is down it is down. Today is Friday, evening prime-time and it is suddenly down, with no word when it plans to come back. Back in Nov-Dec'07 MySQL was down for half day every 3rd day.
Customer&tech support is non-existent.
After recent platform upgrade they changed my main login/pwd and I spent almost 3 weeks(!) trying to reach them and recover access to my site. Also, they "upgraded" Wordpress overriding my own install and config; as a result all my personal Cyrillic language blog content got encoded into unreadable blob. I am still staying with the service since I mostly host travel photoalbums linked via external URLs (also really lazy to move). Otherwise stay away. ...
Inmotion
May 02, 2008
Reviewer: James Robertson
Inmotion Hosting is a rip off. They sell you on a bunch of crap you don't need. Example, a web builder that my 7 year old could have put together and a tech support team that couldn't even help me set up my email account. What a bunch of hype!!!...
1and1 Hosting
May 01, 2008
Reviewer: Anonymous
when you cancel, you will be charged for items they say are not refundable...but you were not aware of until you tried them. ...
Yahoo Hosting
May 01, 2008
Reviewer: david
I have just been through the worst 2-months experience with Yahoo - they shut down the website of which I am webmaster, Join the Boycott, http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/jointheboycott.htm without notice and without explanation - after responding with form answers which had nothing to with the issue, in frustration I wrote to Yahoo's top executives, Susan Decker, Jerry Yang and company - no response - the "customer service" is simply horrendous and shows a real contempt for customers.
The site has not been put back online and I am giving up on Yahoo.
Join the Boycott was on the basic $4.95 per month plan - as of last time I looked, the space and throughput is miniscule compared with other host packages - only 25G a month - and just 25G a month throughput - with next to no software support (no PHP, MY SQL, Perl, etc.).
Their customer service is a disservice - I suggest you look elsewhere. ...
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