Hostwinds: Honest Review :(

[valentino123]

Apparently this is not a good one..

@Hostwinds I have been a Hostwinds customer for few months now and recently I noticed that they now place SMTP filters on their servers. After purchase, you login to your account and see smtp filter placed on your server. When contacted, they expect you to pay an additional $250 for blacklist fee.

A customer pays for a vps and then you want him to pay additional $250 holding fee as long as blacklisting is not received. Thats preposterous.. What about shutting down the server? They say Its a deposit. If you don't get any reports of Spam you can get your money back.

Not everyone has that money to pay and blacklists sometimes may be a false positive. Its best Hostwinds reviews this and find a lasting solution to it. Thank you

 

[Deleted member 752298]

Hostwinds was last seen:

Dec 26, 2019

 

[macdonjo3]

they expect you to pay an additional $250 for blacklist fee

This seems normal imo. I wouldn't want bandits destroying my IP address ranges and their reputation.

Why are you so concerned if you get it back anyways? Are you planning on spamming?

Hostwinds was last seen:

Dec 26, 2019

Why is this relevant lol. Everyone knows he's making bank and out living well - not on a forum crying over someone who doesn't have $250 to their name. Several members here spend 4-5 figures a month because of the great service he provides.

 

[Deleted member 752298]

Why is this relevant lol.

There have been more complaints in the past few months about @Hostwinds.
I cannot find the thread anymore, but even the admin of this forum has been asked to have this hoster replied.
I wouldn't expect a reply from @Hostwind's side, as they haven't been on here since 2 months.

 

[macdonjo3]

I wouldn't expect a reply from @Hostwind's side, as they haven't been on here since 2 months.

Of course not. Maybe if there was a legitimate complaint here from bad service. Instead, this is a pathetic cry over a necessary fee to block people from doing bad things.

 

[valentino123]

Reading some comments above and its really appalling. You all can agree with me that blacklisting still happens when you send legitimate emails. This could be a newsletter or the likes to your opt-ins. This things happen. It can be a false positive but placing a filter and expect one to pay additional $250 is outrageous.

This is just a plot to extort people imo. You cant place a filter on VPS way before the customer even starts using them. You buy a service, you login probably to change root password as directed and then find an SMTP filter placed on your service.

Its heartbreaking.. Really..

 

[TheVigilante]

This seems normal imo. I wouldn't want bandits destroying my IP address ranges and their reputation.

Why are you so concerned if you get it back anyways? Are you planning on spamming?



Why is this relevant lol. Everyone knows he's making bank and out living well - not on a forum crying over someone who doesn't have $250 to their name. Several members here spend 4-5 figures a month because of the great service he provides.

You gotta be kidding us there are more negative reviews on this forum than positive ones about Hostwinds

 

[macdonjo3]

You gotta be kidding us there are more negative reviews on this forum than positive ones about Hostwinds

Because the people spending real money on servers don't write reviews

 

[royserpa]

Dudes, I've been with Hostwinds for years now and I have had a few problems but all solved. For emails, you can use your own server and not hostwinds' even though their servers for website hosting.

 

[TheVigilante]

Because the people spending real money on servers don't write reviews

That's a lame excuse every tom and harry on this forum knows about that hosting company lol

 

[Deleted member 1333509]

You gotta be kidding us there are more negative reviews on this forum than positive ones about Hostwinds

Because the people spending real money on servers don't write reviews

Used Hostwinds for a while and couldn't be happier that I changed.

 

[valentino123]

I need a change also. They have really messed up.. Kindly leave me a PM if you willing to assist with a better option.

 

[Zher0]

Hostwinds has taken a turn for the worst... they've made horrible business decisions and their prices/webhosting, in general, is a rip off now.

 

[theRevolt]

My take on why I chose to leave:

- So I had a coupon on my account from a sale they ran once and was supposed to be for lifetime of the account
- Now conveniently this coupon was removed , i forgot to take a screenshot, but at least 5 times or more. Continuously I had to chat with them to get it added back, just for that same shit to happen again a few months later (so not a one-time thing). You would say not a big deal, but this must be the easiest shit to add in a system recurring discount.
- Speed was ok-ish for the small sites on there but just even looking in resources in Cpanel it tended to be mostly orange (inodes, ram etc..)

Ultimately they then decided to cancel that server and move to a new one, which the price increased to $13 / month, so I canceled. For that pricing you can get better products elsewhere, and if you pay a bit more much better..

 

[liyong601c]

I have some of the website hosts on the hostthename before...now moved to hostwinds...

 

[Zher0]

My take on why I chose to leave:

- So I had a coupon on my account from a sale they ran once and was supposed to be for lifetime of the account
- Now conveniently this coupon was removed , i forgot to take a screenshot, but at least 5 times or more. Continuously I had to chat with them to get it added back, just for that same shit to happen again a few months later (so not a one-time thing). You would say not a big deal, but this must be the easiest shit to add in a system recurring discount.
- Speed was ok-ish for the small sites on there but just even looking in resources in Cpanel it tended to be mostly orange (inodes, ram etc..)

Ultimately they then decided to cancel that server and move to a new one, which the price increased to $13 / month, so I canceled. For that pricing you can get better products elsewhere, and if you pay a bit more much better..

This is exactly what happened to me. I made the wrong choice to stay with them, but I keep hitting the resource limits with virtually no visitors. So i'm now moving everything over to a VPS.