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By: Web Hosting Sites You Can’t Trust

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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:21:02 +0000

That’s one rough ride, John! I could hardly imagine if I were in your position at that time. You must have lost lots of money transacting with them, didn’t you?

By: Extreme John

Extreme John — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:47:45 +0000

That is def one wild web hosting story thats for sure, I have one that could top it though

Just look up Alpha Red and see how they collapsed, I can’t even begin to tel you how many dedicated servers I lost in that deal.
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By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:21:05 +0000

Hi Nathan,
Like what I’ve said, these unforeseen and rather sour experiences are inevitable. When it happened, I could hardly sleep and the loss of revenue disgusts me. It’s a good thing though that these events happened before the recent Google update otherwise my site would have not benefited from it.

It’s nice to know that you’re happy with your current hosting provider. Hopefully, I’d share the same feeling toward my current host. I have paid for an entire year subscription and so far things are going fine. You would be surprised with my upcoming post about the web hosting providers I’ve been through including the one that gave such a dumb funny response above.

By: Nathaniel Ong

Nathaniel Ong — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:46:13 +0000

You’ve got it really bad there… I do hope you got a good host now. It’s definitely difficult changing hosts. I’ve actually moved hosts many times as well, but they’re more from free hosting to another free hosting. I can tell how hard it must’ve been for you, especially that your site generates much traffic, unlike mine at that time.

The first time I moved to paid hosting, I wasn’t satisfied as well. I went on a vacation and when I came back, my site was in a wreck. Apparently, they have changed servers without me knowing. When I raised a ticket, here was their reply: “We thought you understood the terms when you registered, that users are responsible for backing up files.” Yes it was my responsibility. What I was angry at was the fact that they failed to inform their clients about it through email, the most basic of all formal internet communications. It wasn’t the first time I encountered problems with their service, so I decided to switch. I’m happy with my current host so far.
.-= Nathaniel Ong´s last blog ..Office 2007 Converters and Backwards Compatibility =-.

By: Mathdelane

Mathdelane — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:56:57 +0000

Hi James,
Yes, that is true. I’ve changed hosting four times in less than a year of blogging. I may have had the not so pleasant experience but I have learned a lot of things along the way which is something positive although ironic it may seem.

I’ll let you know on my upcoming posts what are these hosting companies I’ve been a subscriber with. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it.

P.S. I’ve read your post about the bank issue and I must say that it was really dreadful.

By: James Moralde

James Moralde — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:09:02 +0000

Changing web hosts four times within a year?! Those previous hosts must be awful. I wish you could enumerate them out (if it’s alright to do so) so that in the event we change hosts, we won’t make the mistake of going to them.

In my almost 8 months of blogging, I’ve not met anything as ‘outrageous’ as your experience and hopefully I never would. Like you said, although I’ve never tried it, changing hosts must be dreadful. The only support-related experience I’ve had that is sort of annoying is with a bank which issued the card I used to verify my paypal account with.

I hope you’ve found your ideal web host this time, Math.
.-= James Moralde´s last blog ..First 100 Dollar Earning Online =-.