Which Hosting Companies Do You HATE?

[Terry Kyle]

We use a bunch of hosting companies around the world - some are appalling, some are OK, most are mediocre.

As we're about to get a lot more new hosting for various projects, which ones have you personally used and had terrible experiences with (so that we can avoid them)?

Thanks in advance.

[nik0]

Justhost, total lack of support when having a virus or anything of that kind.

[micksss]

Originally Posted by Terry Kyle

which ones have you personally used and had terrible experiences with (so that we can avoid them)?

Avoid: Host The Name, Web Hosting Pad, Go Daddy, 1&1,

[nik0]

+1 for Namecheap indeed,

About Hostgator, maybe it's cause it's the host where my personal seo website is hosted, and I don't browse that site every day but in the times I did it has been 5 times offline already due to temporarily bugs or maintenance. Maybe I'm just unlucky.

[Terry Kyle]

Do namecheap still have that manual approval process for a site that can take up to 12 hours?

HG's performance in 2013 hasn't been great.

[Surminga]

I've never had an issue with GoDaddy for domain purchasing - and yes another +1 for HostGator for their response and support.

HG are very quick to respond to me when I have an issue with a domain.

[HassanAjmal]

hostgator & bluehost rocks, godaddy sucks and is super slow

[FakeItTilYouMakeIt]

I've always liked bluehost but this last month they have been phenomenally terrible. I've had about enough

[Mike Anthony]

My Worst host of all time goes to Ninja Lion.

servers went off line for days at a time SEVERAL TIMES and so did all ticket responses (in fact don't think they EVER answered a ticket) but the bill kept still coming. They are a sister site to Downtownhost which I would avoid like a plague also

Best all time host ever now only offers VPS but if you need a high performance service its Knownhost.

[IM Ash]

I use alot of cheap shared hosting for my network and I was quite surprised at the high quality of many of these hosts.

The worst I have used and will NEVER recommend anyone to use is Turnkey Internet! Servers are down for hours at least once a week, sometimes up to 5x a week (no exaggeration). Strange things happened to one of my sites where everything was rolled back about a month... I thought my site was hacked. I went in an started updating things then the next day things were back to normal (this happened a few times and they did not even alert me).

There is also no warnings from them when they engage in any sort of server maintenance.

They the worst I have come across to date!

[patco]

I don't like bluehost. For me, HostGator is the best!

[lennyk1313]

Dreamhost used to be good but lately they have been having way too many issues. I have been thinking of moving to Hostgator.

[Michael Ten]

I will never do business with Bluehost again. I suggest that no one does business with them.

[innozemec]

Gigaservers.net, that disappeared 10 days after i signed up with them for a VPS..

[gearmonkey]

I hate HostGator, they constantly sent me "High CPU" complaints and would shut down my site without notice. I think they were trying to scam me into buying a bigger package.

I moved my website to KnownHost, am SAVING TONS of money, and never had an issue. KnownHost have better support. They will do anything you ask them to do...

HostGator wouldn't do the "extra" stuff outside of their specifics.

[ffranks01]

Web Hosting Pad and Justhost are the worst!!!

[KingMighty]

Originally Posted by Terry Kyle

Do namecheap still have that manual approval process for a site that can take up to 12 hours?

HG's performance in 2013 hasn't been great.

Whats been up with the G?

[IM Ash]

Originally Posted by Terry Kyle

HG's performance in 2013 hasn't been great.

I really like HG but they are the most glorified resellers on the planet (now known as Softlayer).

With HG, one is paying for great customer service and Softlayers servers are also top-notch!

[Sillysoft]

I highly suggest Warrior Forum create a new forum for web hosting reviews, I think a lot of people ask about what host is good and bad and there is a lot of great information and would be nice to have that available in its own section. Just a thought.

[ExpertSEOServices]

Originally Posted by JackSarlo

godaddy neither for domain registrar nor for hosting..

Agreed! I HATE godaddy hosting!

Also hate some of the local ones in Netherlands. They limit EVERYTHING for the clients. Sometimes I log into a cpanel with almost NOTHING on it!


On the flip side I LOVE hostgator lol!

[Rideem3]

I personally like GoDaddy for domain hosting, and iPage for web hosting.

It's pretty hard to hit iPage's limit.

[ronrule]

Just moved away from GoDaddy today...

Moved from Bluehost to GoDaddy some time ago, didn't like them either. Bluehost supposedly has good service on their higher paying account but for the basic wordpress sites they overload the crap out of their servers.

For GoDaddy they were rate limiting CDN requests and had some weird outbound firewall configuration that was messing with the PayPal IPN. Washed my hands of both of them.

I've had a Windows site on Arvixe for a while and was happy with it, giving their Linux servers a try now.

[micksss]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

My Worst host of all time goes to Ninja Lion.

servers went off line for days at a time SEVERAL TIMES and so did all ticket responses (in fact don't think they EVER answered a ticket) but the bill kept still coming. They are a sister site to Downtownhost which I would avoid like a plague also

Best all time host ever now only offers VPS but if you need a high performance service its Knownhost.

Never heard of Ninja Lion but I've been very happy with Downtownhost.

[Kingfish85]

Originally Posted by micksss

Never heard of Ninja Lion but I've been very happy with Downtownhost.

Ninja Lion is a brand of DowntownHost - FYI. There's a lot of web hosts now a'days that have the EIG thing going on - operating under 25 different brands and the customer doesn't have a clue.

[dvm3]

Avoid Dreamhost at all costs. Their 99% uptime a few years ago turned into about 85% and sites are slow loading. I lost a lot of money due to them even though I was only paying about $4/month. I switched to Hawk Host and the speed improvement is like night and day.

[jfambrini]

Originally Posted by nik0

+1 for Namecheap indeed,

About Hostgator, maybe it's cause it's the host where my personal seo website is hosted, and I don't browse that site every day but in the times I did it has been 5 times offline already due to temporarily bugs or maintenance. Maybe I'm just unlucky.

Nik, I have had only bad experience with them since they got acquired so add me to this list of hostgator naysayers.

[jfambrini]

Originally Posted by gearmonkey

I hate HostGator, they constantly sent me "High CPU" complaints and would shut down my site without notice. I think they were trying to scam me into buying a bigger package.

I moved my website to KnownHost, am SAVING TONS of money, and never had an issue. KnownHost have better support. They will do anything you ask them to do...

HostGator wouldn't do the "extra" stuff outside of their specifics.

Had to agree with you on your comments about Hostgator. Never heard of KnownHost though.

[Lanx]

go daddy is junk for webhosting, and had some weird format/password a few years back(it was 5 years ago, and it just wasn't standard)
never had an issue with them for domains tho.

[PopularBlogSite]

GoDaddy is just awful! Bluehost or HostGator all the way! (Step by Step Tutorial for signing up with Bluehost)

[drem]

iPage for my one client was horribly slow. 1&1 has also been pretty bad on my end.

[ProSence]

Well, I love HostGator

and

I hate Godaddy hosting service..

[Jerry Tellier]

Thumbs up for Hostgator and I have continuing nightmares with Host the Name...there was a thread here about host the name and I've detailed my continuing problems.

[sanusense]

GoDaddy for sure, never invest your money there.

[skiing]

When getting hosting, always make sure your site gets hosted in your target country. I have a friend who went with Go Daddy in the UK, but the site is hosted in the Netherlands, 1&1 customers get servers in Germany (unless that changed recently)

DON't use Fasthosts, the hosting is cheap but Fasthosts are blocking googlebot (all sites hosted with them get notification from Google cannot access site, support dont know a thing & all sites with them are down in rankings).

Tried UK2.net once, left after a month, the hosting did not work most of the time and was a VPS

Eukhost is good for using in UK, never had issues and have access to full Cpanel/WHM

I also use aseohosting so I can get a package with 5 to 10 different C class IP's in my target country, hosting is a bit slow though.

[ckdaro]

Hostgator, DreamHost are pretty good. I understand what some of you are saying about Godaddy being slow, I agree, but I still use it. Hopefully I'll move my sites soon.

But, Godaddy do have some pretty cheap domains though.

[micksss]

Originally Posted by Jerry Tellier

Thumbs up for Hostgator and I have continuing nightmares with Host the Name...there was a thread here about host the name and I've detailed my continuing problems.

Yeah I went through the Host the name nightmare last spring too. A few reviews here if you want to share your experience too. Although probably the same story...

[danstairs]

Yes, Hostthename is definitely a load of rubbish. The server hosting my websites has been undergoing maintenance since the 21st February and still no sign of any update. I cannot access admin or control panel, so unable to do some urgent work, which is so unacceptable. 11 days and counting. This hosting service was heavily sold on this forum, but too cheap for their own good. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

[Ducksauce]

Nightmare on Godaddy

[Irmscher]

I love Hostgator, can vouch for them!

[heavysm]

Originally Posted by micksss

Yeah I went through the Host the name nightmare last spring too. A few reviews here if you want to share your experience too. Although probably the same story...

Hostthename *shudders*

I might actually be doing 5 figures a month right now instead of mid to high 4 range if not for their constant downtime and slowness (lost of a ton of money during "maintenance and upgrades"). Slow and vague support reply with chat only available every other day? Check that one too.

HG's support within the past 4 months for me as been iffy at best. Very slow and circular with never ending verification this and that on my account.

Also, chat sessions now last at least 15+ minutes even if I have only one question. Never mind the queue to be helped, I get that, but why does it take 5+ minutes to ask what my problem is? I ALREADY typed it in lol.

They used to be so speedy I actually enjoyed asking different questions about my account. Now contacting support is done only on a desperate need to know basis.

[kpmedia]

Godaddy
1&1
EIG brand = HostGator, Bluehost, JustHost, iPage, etc = all the same company!

Yuck.

[loggableim]

Never NEVER EVER go to mediaon! They are the worst host/registrar ever!

After having problems with them they shut my sites down and put gayporn scripts onto my urls -.-

[BrandVortex]

Justhost
Bluehost
1&1
Godaddy

In no particular order.

[Baba Pandey]

There is a company called Zyma ! Which is the worst, terrible hosting i have ever encountered in my life. Hostgator is mediacore. MDDHosting is one of coolest.

[Kingfish85]

Originally Posted by Baba Pandey

There is a company called Zyma ! Which is the worst, terrible hosting i have ever encountered in my life. Hostgator is mediacore. MDDHosting is one of coolest.

You should let them know your experience here on this thread as someone was asking about them:

Zyma Hosting

Also, MDD is a great company - well respected in the industry.

[kilobytestechnologies]

bluehost and goDaady are the worst, had a very bad experience with bluehost..

[time4vps]

Any experience with so call "SEO hostings"?

[iluvatoq]

Godaddy is the worst . I like altushost . I have myself a reseller account for 9.95 a month and can host up to 20 domains .
there is always someone on live chat aswell if there are problems

[Elfen Lied]

1. I hate downtime, PERIOD
2. I hate when any part of the network is lagging
3. I hate when I call and I have to explain to the tech how to fix the problem because they have no clue what they are doing.
4. I hate when you need a manual reboot (like if a server crashed), and it takes them an hour to do so.
5. I hate when the server bill comes each month

[TequilaShot]

Hate is a strong word...

I choose to avoid any of the 50+ hosting companies by the EIG brand, the list is long and growing: Endurance International Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As I am moving out of hostgator, I've done extensive research on non EIG hosting in the past 3 days (I'd rather spend the time researching now than having to move again anytime soon).

I narrowed it down to stablehost and liquilayer and will most likely get started with stablehost for now and I may try out liquidlayer a bit down the road for other sites.