Your Worst Hosting Experience

[StarLab]

Back when I was doing simple HTML sites, I had about 1/2 a dozen sites hosted on HostOnce. All seemed to be good.

The minute I started working with mySQL/PHP all the sites slowed to a crawl... if they responded at all.

I found a brick wall to yell at since support was horrible getting back to me. When they did, (a week later, usually) the answer was always, "We see nothing wrong"

Also had one instance where email accounts just "disappeared" ... again, they saw nothing wrong.

Six years later, they're still in business. How?

[whatahome]

once whole data has not been backup and we lose almost all data. Recover from 1 month ago backup(luckly).

[TalentNation]

Another vote for 1and1.com. You couldn't believe how unbelieveably BAD! They put me in collection even though I was in CONSTANT communication with them by email. Plus, they bill you months afterward. It's like writing a check, only for the recipient to wait for months before cashing it! THE WORST. Avoid 1and1.com like the plague.

[stfrancis]

Worst hosting experience? Over 15 years working on sites, I think I have lost track of all the hosts I have tried. I don't want to name names, but essentially you should stick with the known hosting companies. If you go with some no-name host with offers that look too good to be true they usually are.

[~ServerPoint~]

And as all of other posters here.... 3 page thread....

[~ServerPoint~]

doubled

[jhuynh1026]

worst hosting was when i tried to do it the whole day and nothing came out right. i was really upset and frustrated. the fact that nothing worked right. or came out the way i wanted it

[thatboyjim]

I'm actually quite surprised that no one has mentioned Fasthosts yet? Nightmare!!!

They had a security breach, decided to reset all ftp, database and mailbox passwords. This isn't too bad when you have 1-2 sites, but when you had 200 websites and more mailboxes like I did, catastrophic.

Avoid like the plague!