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Slaughtlander
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- May 17, 2009
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Hostgator /thread
thomansfel
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- Dec 11, 2009
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ptrhostingdotcom great service 
jakeruston
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- Mar 29, 2009
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Personally I'd never go with a host with a site design as bad as that and who can't even spell their own company name right in the footer.
Anyway, you should use Hostgator. I also use them
Anyway, you should use Hostgator. I also use them
ptrhostingdotcom great service
freeufcdotinfo
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- Jun 12, 2008
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Agreed 100% - best host I have used.
ExtraWinner
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ghettogong
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Bluehost has fast live help service for simple questions. Their server security is poor and they have allot of downtime in the early morning US time.
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Why does bluehost suck? Here is my experience in short:
+ shared servers run on their hardware limit, thus the server is often slow
+ unlimited webspace is not really unlimited: you are allowed to create max 500.000 files, and if you use "too much" space they give them the permission to suspend your account.
+ the service is unfriendly and in the mindset "if you don't like us go f#+* yourself".
+ shared servers run on their hardware limit, thus the server is often slow
+ unlimited webspace is not really unlimited: you are allowed to create max 500.000 files, and if you use "too much" space they give them the permission to suspend your account.
+ the service is unfriendly and in the mindset "if you don't like us go f#+* yourself".
patmiller27
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- Jul 25, 2010
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Has anybody here tried X10Hosting... I have a very very good experience with them...
imlol
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- Apr 21, 2010
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How hard is it to change hosts? I have bluehost and really want to change but I have a lot of sites.
Very true, Ive used the chat a couple times and twice the person answered the question then closed the chat lol. I wasnt finished and he didnt even say bye or thanks.
coolinventor
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- Dec 2, 2010
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I inherited a bluehost account (I mean literally inherited - the guy died and wanted me to keep his sites going).
The previous owner had mistakenly once (or more than once) sent out an email containing a link to an article (intentionally) but with a whole bunch of email addresses in the 'to' box instead of bcc or as separate emails. Then a year later after I'd taken over the sites, a kenyan correspondent who didn't use the internet much did a 'reply to all' including a genuine question in the email, and without deleting the original content. This was then picked up by spamcop as being a likely spam email and Bluehost responded to that. Not only was the site containing the article referred to in the original link (and 'reply'd email) shut down, but bluehost shut down the whole account so every site went offline.
I would say they were quite reasonable when I managed to track down the root cause of the problem and explain it to them though, and it took about 24 hours to my account re-enabled. However, having all the sites shut down at once was a nuisance.
I also had several sites hosted by Rochen Hosting on my own reseller account. Not long after the bluehost shutdown experience I had an infection on a Joomla site, probably because of a rogue extension, where someone was using my site to phish for bank of america account details, a much more serious problem. They only shut down the specific site with the problem, not any of the others. Rochen also have a twice daily backup system called The Vault if you have a reseller account, and you can control that yourself to restore backups of sites. I've used that when I really needed it. It has been invaluable.
Not long after that I noticed that my sitestalker messages for the bluehost hosted accounts were getting more and more frequent - several times per day sometimes - so i've now moved all my sites to Rochen and they've virtually disappeared. I recommend Rochen highly, but they are significantly more expensive than bluehost. You pays your money...
The previous owner had mistakenly once (or more than once) sent out an email containing a link to an article (intentionally) but with a whole bunch of email addresses in the 'to' box instead of bcc or as separate emails. Then a year later after I'd taken over the sites, a kenyan correspondent who didn't use the internet much did a 'reply to all' including a genuine question in the email, and without deleting the original content. This was then picked up by spamcop as being a likely spam email and Bluehost responded to that. Not only was the site containing the article referred to in the original link (and 'reply'd email) shut down, but bluehost shut down the whole account so every site went offline.
I would say they were quite reasonable when I managed to track down the root cause of the problem and explain it to them though, and it took about 24 hours to my account re-enabled. However, having all the sites shut down at once was a nuisance.
I also had several sites hosted by Rochen Hosting on my own reseller account. Not long after the bluehost shutdown experience I had an infection on a Joomla site, probably because of a rogue extension, where someone was using my site to phish for bank of america account details, a much more serious problem. They only shut down the specific site with the problem, not any of the others. Rochen also have a twice daily backup system called The Vault if you have a reseller account, and you can control that yourself to restore backups of sites. I've used that when I really needed it. It has been invaluable.
Not long after that I noticed that my sitestalker messages for the bluehost hosted accounts were getting more and more frequent - several times per day sometimes - so i've now moved all my sites to Rochen and they've virtually disappeared. I recommend Rochen highly, but they are significantly more expensive than bluehost. You pays your money...
JesusBack
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- Sep 15, 2010
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I had hostmonster (bluehostt) for all my domains before... they told me I had to delete my files since they exceeded 100k or something and their unlmited policy was actually a huge load of BS. I was saving all my files backing up and what not; BAM they deactivate my account and I lose piles of money from my affiliate sites.
zen19
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- Mar 31, 2009
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This is not worth of a shitlist thread. If I catch you posting junk again like this, you will get a ban.
Last and only warning.
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