HostWinds Review: NOT good for BHers

[dodomalad]

I think its best to address your issues with support, they should be able to help.

 

[ziplack]

Maybe this guy thinks that blackhat means do ilegal things
you cant accuse a web hosting firm to ban you if u havent read their tos.

Id u are doing ilegal stuff find a good host on china or something

 

[SEO Power]

I'm actually looking for a new web host now that I'm tired of using bluehost and my account is expiring later this month. Not sure if hostwinds is a good host (going to do some research). This thread actually advertised hostwinds to me.

 

[Jack Torrance]

You must be doing something nasty if you don't wanna say what you're where doing that got you banned, my bet is PPI or some nasty shit like that.

What's so bad about PPI?

 

[Nut-Nights]

How do you define stolen content? copy pasted content?

I also want to know this.

 

[fc-dh]

What's so bad about PPI?

Installing mallware and viruses on peoples computer for 10 cent, do i really need to say more?

 

[Nightly]

Installing mallware and viruses on peoples computer for 10 cent, do i really need to say more?

$0.10? Don't know where you get your rates. I'm almost solely based on PPI now. A top tier country Install can bring me $1.50-$4.00 per Install (depending on what they click off on). A majority of my traffic comes from top tier countries as well.

I have a 60%-69% average Install rate per day (meaning % that Installed adware), and bring In a lot of traffic.

Some shady "networks" may Install straight up viruses, but there Is a huge difference between adware which Is what I promote, and straight up viruses that are floating around on the web. Most freeware that people use and love wouldn't exist If It wasn't for adware supporting the developers.

If It Isn't Illegal, you're not going to have any Issues. If you are working for one of the shady "networks", then you will run Into some problems (especially hosting).

 

[fc-dh]

$0.10? Don't know where you get your rates. I'm almost solely based on PPI now. A top tier country Install can bring me $1.50-$4.00 per Install (depending on what they click off on). A majority of my traffic comes from top tier countries as well.

I have a 60%-69% average Install rate per day (meaning % that Installed adware), and bring In a lot of traffic.

Some shady "networks" may Install straight up viruses, but there Is a huge difference between adware which Is what I promote, and straight up viruses that are floating around on the web. Most freeware that people use and love wouldn't exist If It wasn't for adware supporting the developers.

If It Isn't Illegal, you're not going to have any Issues. If you are working for one of the shady "networks", then you will run Into some problems (especially hosting).

Even if you get $10 per install, it is still a nasty business of installing mallware, spyware and virus imho, i guess it is a matter of ethics.

 

[BuildMoreLinks]

so basically anything illegal is not allowed on HW, so what's wrong with that? OP please elaborate what exactly you mean by BH? I feel you are just bringing more business for HW with this thread.

 

[karupoiss]

I guess he hosted some serious bad shit and is now pissed that his account got closed. If you are not even telling what you hosted there then everybody assumes it was something illegal. Illegal != BH.

 

[ch8878]

Hostwinds has started spamming me allot lately begging me to upgrade to VPS.

Really making me mad and I'll be moving from them for good.

 

[Paper-Boy]

Even if you get $10 per install, it is still a nasty business of installing mallware, spyware and virus imho, i guess it is a matter of ethics.

Legit companies have installers where you will need to agree their terms before it proceeds. Even though it's malware it's still legit and ethical. But the ones who bind their ppi with exe's without a TOS then yes, that's pretty much unethical.