Has anyone tried Host The Name?

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Their support is fantastic.. most of time available online for chat & almost instant reply on emails also. Support is major concern when we choose web host. Keep this on mind & choose wisely.

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Hope this helps you.

Jassim

Never heard of them.

I haven't also ever heard about it. Before trying any new hosts the security of your website should be first priority. I just suggest you to chose any of the #10 hosting in the market as the cost is same in newly created webhost to those good ones.

I was with Host The Name for about a year up until this spring when their servers started failing and they had to replace them. This resulted in a week of downtime. They assured me that everything would be great moving forward but I wasn't going to take anymore risks and moved my sites. Here are some Host The Name reviews: http://www.castironhostingreview.com...me-review.html Not sure how things have been since. Maybe someone who is currently with them can comment.

I hate to be someone who says 'me too' but... me too. They seem like great people who are essentially reselling crappy service.

Host Gator sucked more of my time with high end wordpress sites so I dumped them as well - still looking for a robust service that is reseller friendly and can take wordpress sites without moaning about resources - the search continues

I also used Host The Name and found my sites were often down or slowed to a complete crawl. Not recommended.

I've used HostGator for a couple of years and had problems with them for about 3 weeks last year when all my sites got really sluggish loadtimes. I complained several times to them with no results. Eventually my sites bounced back and have been fine ever since.

Ernie G

I've been with Hostthename for many months. I've had the same problems as you all, and what decided me to move out was this:

At the very beginning, I had no dedicated IP. I acquired one about a month after I subscribed, for $20.

Months went by. Besides the crashing, one of my pet-peeves was that they would issue an invoice an immediately send an "over due" email and put a big flashy read "Account Overdue" graphic on my member page.

I had a few discussions with Oscar (who acts here as if he is the owner but in fact seems to be the chief tech, based on 15 months of service with him), and explained to him it wasn't business like and it was pretty aggravating to be told your account was "overdue" the moment it was invoiced, ESPECIALLY SINCE I HAD A PAYPAL SUBSCRIPTION with them.

After about 4 months of this, they finally toned it down and waited all of 5 DAYS after invoicing before raising their "overdue" flags.

One year goes by. So in the Summer of 2012, I receive their overdue notice again and I figure someone must have pushed the wrong button and gone back to their old script for invoicing. I'm on vacation anyway. So I don't really mind receiving 3 emails of "account overdue" after invoicing because I checked and the Paypal payment did go through, so there must be a glitch in their script.

On the 4th day, all my sites, and all my CLIENTS' SITES were down and one could read: "This site has been suspended for non payment."

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?

I did pay. What the heck?

As it turns out, the "overdue" notices concerned not my subscription, but the dedicated IP Address renewal. So 5 DAYS AFTER INVOICING 20$, they closed down ALL MY SITES. Not 30 days late, not 5 days late, no. 5 days after INVOICING.

I raised so much hell that morning, on their support, on the Warrior Forum (where they were promoting a new service) that I think they woke up Oscar (it was 6:30 am EST here when I found out my sites were closed) and he reinstated all my sites by 11:00 am and pushed off the payment date a couple of days for the dedicated IP to give me time to pay.

But I couldn't believe they would close down a resellers whole account for a whole big fat TWENTY DOLLARS! 5 days after invoicing. I tried to convince Oscar that this was no way to conduct business, but I didn't feel he was in agreement.

3 months later, I decided to test them, because there is no point in paying for a hosting you don't trust. So I moved all my sensitive sites/clients to another host and made a backup copy of those that remained there, and I deliberately cancelled the Paypal subscription to see how they would proceed when the payment wasn't made on schedule, and if they would shut down my account a few days after invoicing.

They did. They shut me down again 4 days after invoicing.

I told them goodbye.

I also told them that if they'd had normal business practices, I would have stayed on, but I couldn't afford their low cost hosting if I couldn't trust they wouldn't shut me down 4 days after invoicing if a snag happened with Paypal while I was on vacation, for instance.

Hope this helps others to figure out if they want to be with hostthename.com

I am with HTN since more then half a year and everything ok so far. Found an coupon here in the forum and got 50% off. Started with a business account. It was like a godaddy baby account - but much faster.

They run lite speed. I run LPN on server - worked perfectly. It do not at godaddy.

I now have a small VPS. No problem so far. I am moving more sites to HTN to balance my server at another host.

Support - it is Oscar only that have the complete know how.

Sorry to hear about shut down of accounts for a few days late payment. Absolutely right to leave if that happen. I subscribe to reduce the risk for late payment.

"Unlimited" hosting for $1.95? Sorry, I would look elsewhere. Do you have any idea how many $1.95 customers it would take to only break even on a decent server? That's not even adding a profit.

If your needing anything more than shard web hosting I would highly recommend Singlehop./

Further to my previous post #13, I changed hosting and have been able to negotiate around in my wordpress dashboard quickly and for a long period of time. With the hosting we are talking about in this thread, it was painfully slow and a problem would always crop up. I heard heaps of excuses from 'our records show you are port scanning the server' to 'you haven't got the nameservers pointing to the right address - even though the site was still live and loading... I just could not get into the wordpress dashboard.

Also 3 posts from one of my websites went missing, appeared briefly, and then disappeared never to be found again. The techs came looking for a back-up of the site from me...

Overall my hosting experience has been very frustrating lately, however it looks like it has suddenly taken a turn for the better. Thank you Hostwinds.

I'm with hostthename for quite some time now, and I'm about to change the company. That's how actually I found this thread, by looking for other peoples' experiences with hostthename to see if it's just me having issues with them. My site is unbelievably slow for more than a month now and the only response I'm getting from the support is that they can load the site from their end. I also experience other technical issues on a regular basis.

Host the name had been great to me.

I've been with them for two years now with some mishaps but nothing major.

Their tech support is just great.
Prior i had hostgator for over eight year and when comes to customer service and hosting server i don't see any major different except the price.

Juan

I think I was with host the name for over 2 years. They were great with support but I also had a lot of issues when trying to login to my admin panels and my sites being down.

Just a while ago, I had asked for support for this several times and they suddenly suspended my account with no warning whatsoever, due to account overload, they said.

They sent me my files after a few days which I never could get to open so I had to rebuild all of my sites (actually never even got them all done) from scratch.

I begged them to let me try to fix the problem because some of my sites had been hacked and I didn't realize it for a while but I think they just didn't want to deal with me complaining about the hacking and the downtime.

So, even though I thought they were great at first, I would NOT recommend them or you should be prepared to be suspended/shut down without notice what so ever.

In my 6 months with Host The Name, they destroyed the rankings of couple of websites. So much of down-time.... I had to abandon those projects!

I have been a happy Hostgator customer since past one and a half year. No major downtime, no billing issues and never required to contact customer support after the initial migration conversation.

Host The Name and Power Up Hosting are one and the same. I was on the Chicago VPS when it crashed they offered no Backups and kept guaranteeing the up time. Then when the server was going down they Ironically pushed out a Double Up ram and space package how convenient right?
Told me crashing my data will not happen again this was 60 days ago. Well lets move to this week.
Currently in Bantering exchanges with them about trying to make me go to another server. They were to load my current data off of back ups they say are now corrupt. They call them selves upgrading and furnishing new IP's? That simply means when they moved me from one failing server they put me on another one that had a life cycle of only a couple months out. And now it is failing.they have lost my data my clients data and over 15 thousand back links with high relevant page rank juice. There is no way they can tell me they did not know they had failing or bad servers they claim they have upgraded there systems and want me to reload all of my software a third time I have a lot of data. There service is poor they lie and they need to be called on it. They basically took our money with failing servers and service. We were down the first time for about a week!!!!

If you need quality hosting, use it from 4goodhosting.com.
They have full-featured plans and uptime is 100%.
Support helps much in fixing issues if they occur on the servers.

Count me among the many who had serious problems with HostTheName. I moved away after 3 months of continuous downtime, crappy service, etc. And I only had 3 small sites. I can only imagine what headaches more and larger sites would have been.