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Old 05-03-2007, 06:31 PM   #1
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Web Hosting Company Reviews

My Reviews are designed to be another tool for you to use and to help you make a better informed decision.
Better to spend a few days researching than to spend weeks regretting your choice.

If you are looking for unbiased reviews or information
about a particular web hosting company This is the place for you.

How this works:

Step One
PM me the web hosting company in question.
Please include company name as well as site URL

Step Two
I contact the web host in question requesting test accounts
and information regarding different aspects of there service

The Review
In the end you will receive a detailed report that may
includes a review of the following:

. Company reputation
. Company history
. Web Hosting packages
. Price value
. Reliability
. Customer service
. Features offered
. Web control panel
. User feedback
. Ethics
. Third-party endorsements
. Awards

All reviews are unbiased written with no affiliation with the web host in
question. The only one to gain is the reader.
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Old 05-10-2007, 07:46 PM   #2
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SiteGround Review

I was recently very pleased to be able to take an in depth look at this particular
company. To some its considered to be one of the biggest and most respected
hosting providers available.

Currently hosting 60,000 websites by nearly 45,000 customers. They must be
doing something right.

At first glance they seem to be an aggressive giant in this industry. However
once you crack that outer shell and gain entry to there incredible user friendly
interface, you will wonder how you lived without.


Among other factors including incredibly fast and courteous support, I was
very impressed with the level of work put in by there staff to give you the
best possible service.

Its evident that a great deal of thought was put into there user interface as
the simplicity is just amazing.

There service also includes the all familiar Cpanel. You will notice all the
features your used to including Fantastico. However what will grab your
attention immediately is the speed at which everything loads. This is due to
the 1gb connection and its because of this they have seen clients
upload and download data with speeds, greater than 10MB/s (10
megabytes/per second).

This speed of course is limited to your own ISP.

When confronted with the question about overselling I was insured that
SiteGround has taken all the measures to ensure that any customer, whose
website complies with the Terms of use, will be able to use all the features
that are included in SiteGround's offer without endangering any other
customer website performance or resulting in server performance
deterioration.

This is of course a very important issue as 95% of all host's do oversell.
However there two ways of doing this, the right way and the wrong way.

The wrong way:
Such companies rely on the fact that they will attract many customers at
once by their exaggerated offer with no intentention of honoring it.

The right way:
Having a strategy in place for those actually intending on using all the
resources available to them.

From my somewhat blunt and almost insulting questions asked about this issue
and from the reply's received I can honestly say that SiteGround has a
definite strategy when handling this.

In closing I would like to share the most important and usually the selling point
of any web host.
You guessed it, uptime.

As you can see from the screen shot taken there goal of 99.9% uptime is a
reality


With lightning fast servers, helpful support staff, and ease of functionality,
we at Web Hosting Review highly recommend SiteGround as your next web host.

In addition we award Award SiteGround for its commitment to excellence.

Reviewed By Co Founder
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Old 05-26-2007, 08:21 PM   #3
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Default HostGator.COM Review

Host Gator Nightmare!

Internal Review
I emailed Host Gator about 11 times asking them to submit there hosting plans
and business details within our directory. Also I sent about 3 emails asking for
a 7 day test account for this specific review.

Well this is how it all started.

I received this email

Quote:

Richard,
Your Ticket has been received and a member of our staff will review it and
reply accordingly. Listed below are details of this Ticket. Please make sure the
Ticket ID remains in the subject at all times.

Ticket ID: FHE-690589
Subject: WebHostingReview.ca requires your business details
Department: Sales
Status: Open

There is also I link to the support ticket which I decided not to post.
when clicking the support ticket URL I received this error:

Quote:
ERROR: You do not have enough permissions to access this page. Please
loginby entering your Email and Password.


So in pursuit of my questions regarding a test account I start a live
supportchat. I am greeted with what I'm sure is an automated warm welcome
followed by a support tech who must be typing 3 words a minute.

I supplied him with the support ticket to which I was getting the error and he
asks me to wait a minute.

10 minutes later, he returns to inform me that every email that I had sent was
trapped by there spam filter..

He then informs me that any email that does not have the term "HostGator"
within the body of the email will not be forwarded, Also that I should rewrite
the email and use this term as it will "Increase" the chances of getting past
there spam filter..

Now with a web host with such a vast client base, I would think they would
have some other form of spam prevention.

How is someone that needs help to know this ?

No where does it say how to "Increase" your chances of contacting a
representative from there company.

I have never used HostGator myself, I don't think I ever will

Current users of HostGator reported The setup took 4 or 5 days (when a
competing host had them up in 24 hours). Not only that Their customer
support kept giving them the run-around.

1 Thing is for certain HostGator although very big and popular has support
issues, Many think there support is rude and unprofessional.

In addition the ethics of there marketing tactics are questionable. There have
been reports that a few months ago a couple of sites were offering free
hosting so that they could convince their sign-ups to upgrade to HostGator
for one penney. The free hosts then vanished suddenly with their affiliates'
earnings. It was of course reported it to HostGator and they said they would
investigate. No update as to the outcome of this investigation either

Its our opinion here at Web Hosting Review that HostGator failed our review.
Furthermore do not recommend them as a webhost as they have questionable
business practices

If we are not able to contact them, how is a current client.

Richard
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Old 05-31-2007, 02:50 PM   #4
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What do you think of eUKhost. Please review my site and also review some other UK hosting companies.
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Old 06-01-2007, 03:02 PM   #5
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Hi Richard,

I just went through your hosting website its a very good deal (500 GB Webspace and 5TB bandwidth). I'm looking for ASP.net & MSSQL Server combination and I pay the same deal what you guys give but to godaddy.

The only thing which I don't like about them is, I don't have access to the rawlogs they have some stupid stats software, I'm with them for 2 years and this is my third year haven't seen any one closer to them.

Are you guys planning it for the future since IIS 7.0 is coming out real big.
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What do you think of eUKhost. Please review my site and also review some other UK hosting companies.

Jack for my kind of website its expensive.
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Jack21 I have discussed your request with a rep from your company and i will soon receiving a test account to conduct our review.

To request a review in the future please either PM me or add a request through my forum *link in sig*
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Do everybody a favour and make a fair and accurate review of 1and1 hosting.
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Who uses aPlus.net host company?
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congrats for your honest attempts, Richard Joseph.
But I must point out that your review of hostgator is one sided and doesnt reflect the genereral feelings. I am sure the vast majority of hostgator users have a differnt story to tell.

No they dont pay me for pointing this out I honestly believe, when you are doinng a neutral review you must really be neutral. Here you were being so harsh without even hosting with them for a single day!
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alemcherry

Thanks for the feedback, i would like to respond to your comment if I may.

First off all reviews are one sided in the fact that every person has there own opinions on companies. That being said

What I offer here is Unbiased reviews meaning there from my own personal experience either in the past or while conducting a review. Im not affiliated or compensated in anyway while writing these reviews.

My Personal Key Factors of what i consider a great host.
*Support
*Uptime

From what I experienced from HostGator was just baffling and almost scarey.
I have been in the hosting industry for over 10 years and never have i delt with staff with such little knowledge of server functionality and i must say when i keep being told to "please hold" 20 times over for a simple question which stretched into a 45 min support chat which should have taken no longer than 5 minutes I was not impressed.

In addition when in came to contacting there sales rep via email, that was just ridicules. It took another 30 min support chat for them to figure out that i needed to have the words "HostGator" within the body of the email for it to pass through there spam filter.

They may have the best possible service in the world and even if i were able to test it i would still fail them misrebly because of there support and how they manage there system.

This would be like them giving you your user ID to login to your account but not giving you the password

Support is a Huge factor when considering a host, specially if the end user doesn't have much knowledge when it comes to hosting.

There support takes you on the run a round not giving your direct answers, now this may work for newbies but really irratates veterans such as myself..

Im sorry but i stand by my review
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VERY well said Richard and yes Uptime and Support is a huge factor as I work for Lunar Pages (Cage Tech) Remotely at home and I for one do not deal with or allow slow reports to the customer. If anything the tickets and chats need to be monitored more and reviewed at a higher extent in it's TOS.

At any rate, Richard has made a farly well pointed out example and it's obvious that any host who does not support at the level of the customers needs (valued to their money's worth) then it's not a host to be doing business with at all, nor to be recommended no matter how well their services are in the backend, Support follows a major factor.

Well said Richard.
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Thumbs up Ya-Host.com Review – The Rising Star

After many requests for a review of this particular host we have decided to check them out

Ya-Host.com has been in operation since 2005
owned and operated by a small crew located in Fort Worth Texas.

What first caught our attention was there claim to be their own Data Center.
Skeptical at first I asked for some kind of proof, which was happily supplied.

With their consent we contacted there internet provider which validated there IP’s
associated with their servers. There claims now became fact Ya-Host does in fact run
as their own DC

That aside and test account in place, we proceeded with our review.
Server speed was fast, newest version of cpanel was installed, however what
caught our attention was the fact that Fantastico was nowhere to be found,
However in its place was a program called Installatron.

With some experience with this auto-script installer I was very pleased that it’s being used, in
fantastico’s place. I hope to see more web hosts incorporating this program in the future.

When it comes to support I was impressed how fast
their staff was to respond and how knowledgeable they were.

“There’s nothing worse than having a support tech that’s trying to help you
while getting their info from a troubles shooter tick sheet


What sets them apart from the rest is the fact that they not only own their
servers, but also the facilities that they run under. No third party or external
Data Centers which can cause confusion when a problem may arise.

In today’s hosting industry there’s a growing number of resellers and even
master resellers whom try to pass as a hosting company while not actually
owning a single server.

Now not all reseller’s are bad as I personally have dealt with some great ones
in the past, however there is a growing concern of the number of young
entrepreneurs’ from the age of 12 that are passing themselves as a Web Host
by paying a monthly fee.

The majority of such companies do not last 6 months in return pass allot of
stress and confusion to the end consumer.

Benefits of providers such as Ya-Host are vast, some key ones are listed below:
  • Support has a better understanding of problems if they arise, Instead of
    going through a third party whom may not actually be sure of what the issue is.
  • The end user will receive price breaks as the company is not hindered by a
    rental fee of servers for example Ya-Host currently has a limited time special
    *Life Time Hosting* for a 1 time fee of $179 other hosts that do not own
    there servers would have trouble competing with this offer.
  • If you have been conned in the past by a non trustworthy re-seller, you
    can have piece of mind that your dealing with a legit provider.

Providers such as Ya-Host are a rare breed, even some of the largest and
most respected web hosting companies on the internet today still outsource
by using external data centers.

I firmly believe that Ya-Host is one of those rare gems and highly recommend
them as your next web host.
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Richard,

I beg to differ from your review about ya-host.com and its server response very slow compared to other hosting which you reviewed in here earlier.

The lifetime hosting signup has some problem with IE and its SSL certificate.

http://billing.ya-host.com/order.php?step=2&pid=13
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Thank you Richard for the nicely put Review.

Yes we do try to answer all support reqs in a quickly timed manor
We do operate a small DC in our own Office. and have instant access
to any of our servers when the need arises.

We are a Locally own Global Company that serves a vast amount of web sites
including Reseller and Dedicated server accounts

We have watchdog programs in place to monitor our servers and we do not overload
or Outsell our servers, we dont pile in our clients all on the same server and bog them down.

as for our connection yes we have an 3MB SDSL Connection that we will soon be upgrading to a Full T1 line within the next few months

The cert is made from our own server this is a warning that you must accept the trust relation for our site .

The site is safe to use and the data is incripted
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