Web Hosting That Sucks

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I work for a webhosting company (which I won't name) and we had a ticket come in last night with a client complaining about why they're paying $200 a month for 1/4th of the bandwidth that they could get at another company for $20/month. He was like "I cant believe how arrogant I've been"...I left it alone and passed it to management. He's being arrogant, if you ask me, by going to a computer that offers dedicated server bandwidth for $20/month. Overselling, that hardcore, is def. not the way to go.
 


I'm having a terrible time with getting my purchased at 1and1 to resolve. It keeps looping even though I have the proper name servers.

The idiot Tier 1 reps keep telling me it's "propagating" which is bullshit because I use dnsstuff.com to query and it still loops. (dnsstuff doesn't cache)

I called after 48 hrs. and they said I would have to wait another 48 hrs. since I clicked the 'ok' button on the 1and1 DNS control panel when I checked the settings.
 
whats wrong with godaddy shared hosting?

they're ok, xcept anything remotely CPU intensive will not work - such as heavy database dependent sites and CMS's
 
Don't ever, ever, EVER use Dreamhost. Enough said.

Edit : Unless you want my referal link, if so, PM me ;)
 
The only bad experience I had with a hosting company was back in '05 when they oversold and gave me a 5% uptime account that was slow when it was up. But they guaranteed a 99% uptime, the owner was 16 and ended up buying himself a laptop and selling the hosting biz
 
xtechhost is HORRIBLE.

hah, look at what their page now says:

THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN

SUSPENDED

Due to lack of payment

Xtech Host, also known as the Xtreme Tech Hosting Network has refused to keep their hosting account current. We understand, that as a paying client of Xtech's services, that it is unfair for your site to be affected in this way. Please contact us IMMEDIATELY if you wish to have your site reactivated.
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guysmy said:
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When I first got involved with some solo web projects again I decided to go with a cheap host to experiment. We use 1and1 at work and although the support is bad, the hosting was pretty stable and I had much experience with the CP.

Now I regret even touching 1and1. I'm losing money as I type. I was able to kick things into the next gear quickly with traffic and earnings and as soon as I did, problems started popping up left and right.

The sites on one account suddenly started getting constant 500 server errors and despite repeated contact with "support", the problem is still at large. First, they didn't even understand what I was taking about. Then they tried to blame it on scripts that worked fine before (made no changes). Then they started changing my .htaccess files - which did NOTHING to help the situation.

Meanwhile with account number two, they claimed two of my sites were using most of the resources on the server. I was told to either go dedicated or bring my sites elsewhere.

I just signed up with Liquid Web because of their long-standing reputation. 1and1 is now my "beater host." :D
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I got 1adn1 hosting the beginner package since I am in collage looking to be become a web programmer got it to test my projects for class on. I came across a little problem with .htaccess and .htpasswd files. I wanted to have files to be seen by index so I added into the .htaccess "Options +Indexes" work just fine no problem then when did what they said in the FAQ ( faq.1and1.com) it didnt even work, I know I am not screwing up my own coding I mean it says so on apache.org website I think they mess with you just get rip you off money so i asked them kindly was my package for hosting supportive for what I wanted to do ? here is there reply.

Thank you for contacting us. ( Ok, help please )

I truly apologize for the inconvenience. ( sure you are)
I am sorry it has taken so long to resolve this. ( sure you are #2 )

That scripts that was posted in our FAQ site is just an example. ( WHAT!, no way)

Basically, as much as I want to support you on this particular case,
however, it is beyond to our support since it deals with scripting
issues already. ( HELLO, your called support)
You need to consult a website developer/designer who knows about this
controlling your site. ( DUH! I own it and I know what i'm doing)

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.( what's the point you don't help anyhow )
 
I've been using startlogic.com for over a year now and I've been very happy with them. They have a pretty sweet referral / affiliate program as well.

I've never had major problems with hosting. I currently use this small-time host which isn't great but the price is right, for a few of my sites (where I don't want to buy seperate accounts for each domain). For 10 bucks a month I think I can host like 50 sites. The Prime Host - Multiple Domain Hosting - Reseller Web Hosting
 
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