8/1/2006
Changing Hosting
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Update Jan 2008: You should look at my most post about why Hostmonster is the best hosting company.
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Today was the last straw for me.
I have had hosting accounts and still have hosting accounts with 8-10 different hosting companies.
I used bluehost for a long time. They were my favorite.
Now my favorite is Hostmonster. Incidentally, they’re both owned by the same company.
But my blog had been hosted with penguinhost.net (no link for you!). They were the first hosting account I ever had.
However, I can’t handle them anymore. They’re nazis about hosting.
Plus, today on the phone the dude talked to me like I was a total idiot and lied to me. He tried telling me that anyone who wants to can easily hack drupal 4.6.3 and gain access to your hosting account. That’s just blatantly not true. They want me to upgrade every piece of software I have on the account, which just isn’t going to happen.
So, I cancelled the account. Today I moved my blog and my family site (I know…I know…it’s not much of a family site) to one of my hostmonster accounts.
I’m done with the penguinhost guys.
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Hi John I know what you mean, I have had an unhappy experience with Lycos. I used them to host my Blog http://www.recruitment-views.com because they said they can host wordpress. I then sign up and then find out you cannot change the permalinks and as a result I am very annoyed and they won’t accept responsibility.
What I did find out is that they offer a service where you can have your own server so you can have complete control. Luckily I have a friend who is a programmer, and is in the process of setting it up for me, otherwise I would have had to change hosts.
I do not want to recommend Lycos, as I felt I was lied to but the problem is it is so messy to move your site. Still I just thought the option is a good alternative and you do not need to rely on their support to solve issues.
Maybe you know of other companies offering this kind of package.
Regards
Stephen
Well, you’re an idiot. Because if you knew anything about insecure scripts, you would know that a hacker could access your hosting account easily.
Just so everyone knows, Stephen is the dude I talked with at penguinhost. If you decide to go with them, this is how you can expect to be treated.
If he knew anything, he wouldn’t talk about “insecure scripts” and group all software into that category.
Thanks for posting the review :), I just put up a blurb on it and a link :).
Thanks for the info - have been with one host for nearly 5 years - they have been excellent until recently - unfortunately they are no longer priced competitively, and lately I’ve been getting short but frequent patches of downtime, and they have not replied to a ticket about it for 3 days (which is unusual for them).. was looking at Dot5hosting or HostMonster, but I think I’ll go for hostmonster now, thanks for the heads-up. Cheers.
Thanks for a concise and well-thought-out review, and the information that HostMonster and Bluehost are owned by the same company. I have several sites now at a particular host that is no longer competitively priced, and has woefully insufficient bandwidth and storage for the price I am paying. I find that if I pay only 1.5 to 2x the price I’m paying now, I can get thousands of times the storage and bandwidth, and unlimited domains instead of four, and better support. It even works out to about the same amount per year if I pay for two years at once, giving me three orders of magnitude greater service.
I’d be a blithering idiot not to do it. I’m moving my sites.