| Currently my sites are hosted with 5 different
hosting companies.
I have been through many more over the years. Some of them are just
a real pain in the you know what.
I had one promise unlimited bandwidth, then when the bandwidth went
over what they found to be acceptable they tired to push a $150/mo dedicated
hosting account onto me. This was bad but not as bad as the year before
when twice they had just decided to close my website down because it
was using up to much CPU. They charged me $100 each time to restart the
service which really at the time is extortion because you have no choice.
What they did this time is they slowed my site down and stopped all images
from showing up on it. I had had enough and moved the domain to another
server. I unfortunately had bought 2 years in advance with them so I
ended up keeping a couple of domains on them.
Another horror story was that I had hosting with a small company, when
it came time to renew my domains I filled out the form sent them payment.
To my surprise they hadn't renewed the domains and I was not able to
get them back. Because the domain names were in the owner of the hosting
companies name I had no option to watch as they expired and my year of
promoting them just go to waste. Of course they were quickly bought up
and had ad sites placed on them. This was by far my worst experience.
My latest horror story is another hosting company that complained when
I started using their imagemagick script that was installed on their
server. They allowed the shared hosting accounts to use it and so I did.
Then they complained to me that I used too much resources and forced
me to move to a VPS hosting. The VPS was 5 times as much as the regular
hosting I was getting. The VPS hosting read the PHP code differently
and I found that my scripts didn't work properly, then my mySQL database
that they had moved was corrupted and keep getting corrupted so I lost
all the data and use of it. Then my site kept going down, so between
the move that took 2 weeks they cost me half of the unique visitors to
the site which I have never been able to recover. Now I am having a problem
with php mail command sending everything emails out as spam. This has
been a problem since they moved me and once again they won't do anything
about it. Given that I cannot take anymore downtime and I had to prepay
the year in advance I am still with this junk company.
I had another hosting company that I still belong with that I transferred
a domain to. They totally messed up my NS and told me to point to a wrong
one. When they finally responded to my questions about why my site was
down and they were able to fix the problem I had been with them for a
week and I could no longer get a refund. This sucked and I ended up staying
with them even though they had cost me most of the visitors to the domain
I had transferred.
I am using have 2 other hosting companies that are great, no problem
no complaints, I guess 2 out of 5 isn't bad lol. The good ones are listed
below.
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Hostmonster
is one of my favorite hosting sites, they offer great service at an unbeatable
price. Domains don't cost much and you get a lot of bandwidth space for the monthly
costs. |
One
and One hosting, is by far one of the cheapest and best services I have
ever used. Its a great place to start your website, with starter packages
that offer everything you need to get started. I have multiple accounts
with them, serving multiple domains, never any problems. |