Your Worst Hosting Experience

[RJARRRPCGP2000]

Horray, you probably can download K-Ninja from GeoCities. The web browser finally gave me the download file box. But don't expect that to last long!

[Arma_X]

The worst webhosting is Desourced.com!

First year we lost all our files. This year our website was offline the most of time with bandwidth exceed message when we used 50 GB instead 200 GB than we had. No refund...

Hitesh Chhtralia you are a fraud! Don't use Desourced.com!!!

[charlesgan]

my worst experience?
first 3 week of subscription, the scripting at the server side keep giving problem. read write of files failure kind of thing. have to called up the hosting company to xxxxx them few time.

they still owe me some referal money (per sales basis), that not paid to me. bunch of donkey working there i guess.

[tieone]

Speaking of worst hosting companies, the one that surely top them all is the Roundberry/Hostedtoday/Advantages1web consortium. It's the same company and the same crappy hosting solutions. They'll literally make you lose your mind and they’re a bunch of filthy liars. With them all the "cliché" about bad support customer services become a reality, meaning a n-i-g-h-t-m-a-r-e. And when you have reaches the point of no return they'll start messing with you knowing that you won't renew your hosting plan with them. Also, you’ll realize very quickly that the "99.9% uptime" they guarantee is a misrepresentation. If you expect a site that will run smoothly, takes this advice; STAY AWAY from Roundberry/Hostedtoday/Advantages1web consortium, especially if you're putting lots of efforts to run a successful business and paying for advertising.

A typical answer I remember from their miserable "support department" after they had made an unauthorized transaction on my credit card was "Please hold tight until we get back to you." That says it all! :

[2046]

bad experience with vodahost
My blog hosted there, about 100 visitors a day, vodahost banned my site for over cpu and memory resource usage.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by dingodave

1&1 is the worst host I ever had - When I had a billing problem with them it took over three weeks for them to sort it out! Their prices may be cheap but their support just doesn't exist.

Which is why they have an unsatisfactory rating with the BBB.

Actually, I can't say I encountered any true horror shows, but I wasn't enamored with GoDaddy. Slow performance and other issues were seldom resolved, except by just waiting. Their tech staff wasn't very good.

Peace,
Gene

[Buccaneer]

My old host recently went out of business ...and he told me about it ahead of time. He assured me that he would make full and complete backups of my sites so that I could move them to a new host. When I found my new host, I attempted to install the backups of my sites and tragically, the mysql databases were not included. I had to start over and I lost a lot of time and effort which I had put into them over a lengthy time span.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by explicitzone.com

My old host recently went out of business ...and he told me about it ahead of time. He assured me that he would make full and complete backups of my sites so that I could move them to a new host. When I found my new host, I attempted to install the backups of my sites and tragically, the mysql databases were not included. I had to start over and I lost a lot of time and effort which I had put into them over a lengthy time span.

Your lesson here is that you should make sure you back up your files. Don't depend on any Web host to do it for you, regardless of what they promise.

At the end of the day, if they fail to do it properly, how do you get your files back otherwise?

Peace,
Gene

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by Gene Steinberg

Your lesson here is that you should make sure you back up your files. Don't depend on any Web host to do it for you, regardless of what they promise.

At the end of the day, if they fail to do it properly, how do you get your files back otherwise?

Peace,
Gene

Indeed ...and I already knew that before the tragedy ...but I had to learn the hard way.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by explicitzone.com

Indeed ...and I already knew that before the tragedy ...but I had to learn the hard way.

This is the lesson I give to everyone on my tech radio show: Backup, backup, backup! Don't let it happen to you, or adopt the religion when it's too late!

Peace,
Gene

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by Gene Steinberg

This is the lesson I give to everyone on my tech radio show: Backup, backup, backup! Don't let it happen to you, or adopt the religion when it's too late!

Peace,
Gene

Thats very good advice.

[Dewpt]

A while back I had a virtuoso account. Being treated rudely by their support was bad enough that I decided to cancel my account and then the fecal matter really hit the oscillator. The morning after I discovered that someone had changed my password at godaddy, changed the email on the account and reset all the dns settings. After a good 30 minutes on the phone with Godaddy (their on hold time can be long) we got it all put back right. taught me a lesson about using the same password in two places.

If you read Virtuous's site closely, you'll find they attribute their "success" to God. I attribute it to not enough people knowing how bad their service is.

[John Scott]

BinaryBlocks.com

Originally Posted by John Scott

BinaryBlocks
BinaryBlocks. Supposedly one of Canada's biggest virtual hosting providers. Operated by Jason Piercy, who claimed to have a multi-million dollar datacenter, including a $1.5 million back-up generator. He claimed over 20 employees at times, but none of these employees ever answered the phone.

Almost immediately after moving several sites to BinaryBlocks from another incompetent, now-defunct host, we noticed several instances of prolonged downtime. Sometimes the sites were down for two or three days. On one occasion, our sites were down for 5 days.

It must be your ISP. The server is up, and I have a multi-million dollar monitoring system in place to alert my staff when the server is down.

This was the standard response. And then one day, after another period of extended downtime, this message was displayed on the BinaryBlocks home page:

Disconnected For Non-Payment

This server/site has been turned off for non-payment. All the data on this server/site has been retained. If you have any questions please contact wwww.cobaltracks.com.

As it turns out, Jason Piercy's business was nothing more than a fancy website, a leased server and an extra phone line in what may have been his mother's garage. He had hundreds if not over a thousand customers who were paying good money; but instead of paying the bill for the leased server, he bought a new car.

After six months of non-payment, the dedicated server folks pulled the plug and hundreds of websites vanished.

This is what happens when you do business with lying schmucks.

http://www.v7n.com/credibility.php

[irka]

Worst Hosting : http://www.dailyrazor.com

[dtavangar]

Hi I just came across all you guys complains about ipowerweb.

Well I have been with ipower for 5 years. They used to a one of the better hosting companies I ever worked with. but it just went down the hills from there!

My site has been down 3 times this week, and when it is up it is extremely slow. one day the emails are down, another day the site is down and the 3rd day nothing works. Ipowerweb costumer support, Well it is a JOKE!! my site and email has now been down for 2 days, and this is how I make my living from my site and emails.. I was on the support line for 3 hours, yea 3 hours, then finally one of their retards reps comes on the line and tells me that their online tools is down and she cant help me, I should try back in a few hours, now after 5 hours I am trying again.. and I have only been on hold for 2.5 hours and no response.. STAY AWAY FROM IPOWER WEB THEY SUCK!! thats about the best advise I can give anyone.. I am moving away from them tonight.

If anyone wants to sue them, Count me in!!!! I have all the paperworks that I need to show the court of how much money these retards have Caused me.
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PS I have also filed a complain with BBB you guys might want to do that as well it only takes a few minutes.

[ryukenden]

I have tried so called unlimited web hosting companies for which I bid on ebay and the fees was less than $10 and therefore I decided to try it to see what they are about and how they function unlimited hosting.

After 2 or 3 weeks during which my test website was running okay, they started moving around the servers many times and after 1 or 2 times of changing the servers, I decide to stop test running of the site.

I can say that according to my experience, the unlimited web hosting from ebay is total waste of money.

Go for proper web hosting companies.

[khan]

www.eaahosting.com they are cheaters and they ****ed up over 180 clients. the owner name matt. from usa.

[Natural Elements]

My worst experience since the begining of my e-commerce, was a few weeks ago.

After my presse release I was in trouble because of high traffic. My little MS Access data base did not handle that and put often my site in errors. Then with one of my developer (I've got 2) depending of their avaibility, we converted this little db into MSSQL, that's where the big problems started.

The hosting 4 domains dot com had not only a MSSQL server in error, but was too often in error, mess up my ranking, slow loading pages, no support at all during the week end, then fighting with tech during the week because they did not care of this problem.
I cancelled my account and went on VPS with a few hosting, and it was getting worse and worse as they did not provide serious technical support, then cancelled again accounts.

Finely, I found a very good hosting company recommended by my developer. My account was setup and the work requested done in 3 hours !

Now my site is working great, loading pages very fast, and a server well configurated.

After all my trouble, of course I lost links, but the most important I lost many pages indexed on search engines, that's sad to see my hard work going to the trash, I hope the search engines will put back the pages indexed before in the next weeks.

Hosting is the back bone of your site, if they are unprofessional, they can dammage your clientel, your business, your ranking, and destroy your traffic. I don't even talk about how they waste my time and money.

Horrible story? yes, this is why so many e-commerce disappear from internet, because of lack of professional hosting companies.

[jakeruston]

Probable from extremohost.com. I hosted my proxies there for 2 days, and all was well, until they were down for 3 days and said that they might not go back online for a while longer. I switched to a different host and lost most of my returning traffic. The end

[Qurratulain]

Just had a hard time at www.smokyhosts.com, though their service been quite good throughout the time I'd been with them. I mean their past service and current status is not letting me find out if I should continue with them or not! Can anyone having reseller with them let me know what they are up to now? I need to decide on urgent basis and need user reviews in this regard. Will appreciate your kind concern!


Regards,