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Independent
Web Hosting Reviews from Customers Directly
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Web Hosting Company: Inuration Technologies
Web Hosting Company Address: hosting@inuration.net
Web Hosting Web Address: http://www.inuration.net
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$12.00 for 3
months of their "standard" plan - 500 mb
Comments about business: This host has
excellent prices and all of the features
that I need. The sevice is prompt and
helpful, if not the most professional in the
world.
The network speed has been terrific so far
[2.81 mb/s for their test dl file(50.4 mb)
and hasnt been an issue for my site]. They
are also building a free hosting forum that
offers additional support. Downtime has been
minimal so far [~2 months of hosting].
Pros:
-All standard scripting support
-Generous diskspace and bandwidth for good
prices -Prompt support -Excellent network
speed
Cons:
-The expertise of the staff has been
sufficient, but not impressive -This host
has not yet established that they will be
around for a long period
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Web Hosting Company: IPowerweb
Web Hosting Web Address: www.ipowerweb.com
Comments about business: I have had a
website hosted by IPower for the past three
weeks, and I have had many problems with
them. The website has gone down twice in the
past 7 days for an extended period of time.
The first time the site went down for about
12 hours. It seems they mistakenly
redirected the domain to another website and
domain(a home mortgage page). Technical
support provided no explanation of the
issue. I asked to speak with a supervisor
regarding this matter. I was told by "Kacy"
that I would receive a phone call from a
supervisor named "Tee". I was given a
reference number to refer to the issue, and
when I called back I was told by "Steven"
that no such number/case existed. I again
ask to speak to a supervisor, I was given
the same explanation, that the supervisor is
unavailable and would call me back. No one
called me back.
The second time my website was down for over
24 hours.
I reported the issue and again no
explanation was given. I asked to speak to a
supervisor, and again I was told (by "Rick")
that a supervisor was unavailable and a
supervisor would call me back. I never
received a phone call. I wasted many hours
of my time and my companies' time on this
matter. The service support is very poor and
the wait time on hold for support is long.
I am taking my business elsewhere.
Avoid IPowerweb.
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Web Hosting Company: Ipowerweb
Web Hosting Web Address: www.ipowerweb.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:7.95 x 12
months/Basic Plan
Comments about business: With all the rave
reviews about ipowerweb, I submitted and
chose them as my host. Everything was smooth
until I needed support.
As it happens, their server went down.
Emailed them and they responded that it will
be up in 12 hours. One day later, it was
still down. Emailed them again and got the
same reply. Finally after three days, my
site was up. This happened around christmas
2003, so you can imagine the last minute
shopping spree your online store just missed
out on.
But I was calm about the incident. Then I
needed an additional domain. Emailed them
for inquiries, but they didn't reply. In any
case, I just went ahead and ordered. Then I
needed to transfer this new domain to
another host. Emailed them, and again no
response. This is the third time they didn't
reply to my emails. Is this their legendary
excellent service they boast about? I had to
call them to get support and mind you, I am
not living in the US.
So I didn't renew with ipowerweb when it
just expired. I used another host. Then I
found out one thing.
I thought ipowerweb had a good package, with
all the features and all. Until I used the
new host, they offerred everything which
ipowerweb has and even more. They had CPanel
version 6. Their webstats even shows me how
long visitors remain at my site and on which
pages, entry/exit. Try that on ipowerweb's
stats and see if you have those.
In summary, if you're running a personal
hobby site or a just for fun site, ipowerweb
gives you value for money. For that price,
they do pack in quite a decent package. And
pray that nothing goes wrong. Afterall, you
pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Yes, I'm
paying more for my current web host. But for
the more serious webmaster, like e-commerce
sites, ipowerweb just don't cut it.
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Web Hosting Company: ipowerweb hosting
Web Hosting Company Address:
http://www.ipowerweb.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.ipowerweb.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:windows pro plan
$9.95
Comments about business: purchase a windows
pro plan from ipowerweb and they put us a
Unix box. i checked my email receipt and
credit card receipt to verify, and sure
enough, we purchased a windows plan. after
trying to rund .asp scripts to no avail, i
finally sent emails and place numerous
calls. i was told, "no problem, we can
transfer to our windows plan."
unfortunately, i called tech support, and
after 20 minutes on hold, was told that the
ipowerweb tech support made the transfer to
a windows plan but unfortunetly, forgot to
email me the ftp domain, loging and
password. so, again, i'm on hold, forever it
seems like. i call sales, they haveto
transfer me to billing. call tech support,
they have to transfer me to sales. and so
the circle continues. here is what their
advertising/marketing says: "affordable
reliable, webhosting solutions."
they cannot even get out of the block
without stumbling. i've left a message for
their sales manager, and he never returned
my call. i then left a message for their
V.P., and he never returned my call.
i would certainly not recommend them for
mission critical domains!
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Web Hosting Company: isphost.org
Web Hosting Company Address:
http://www.isphost.org
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.isphost.org
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:gold plan 10
dollars a month
Comments about business: full featured web
hosting allows me to host multiple domains
on my own mini reseller account. They have
great prices and great features.. and very
good customer service. thanks kevin
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Web Hosting Company: Jaguarpc
Web Hosting Company Address: Houston - Texas
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.jaguarpc.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:SD100 (Annual) -
549.50 USD
Comments about business: Changed provider
last month and are very happy about this
one. You get a nice 3000 megabytes of
webspace with 75 gigabyte datatransfer,
unlimited subdomains, unlimited
e-mailadresses, 25 SQL-databases with a
easy-to-use panel that they keep up-to-date
with all programs. Monthly rate is a rather
cheap 54.95 USD and yearly is 10 months
buying 2 months for free!
Had some minor difficulties but after you
'opened' a support-ticket problems where
solved ASAP.
The support-forum is also well-visited and
gives correct and fast answers to all your
questions.
greetings,
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Web Hosting Company: Juarezwebsites
Web Hosting Company Address: Dallas, Tx
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.juarezwebsites.net
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:Hyper 1000MB
Comments about business: I take a special
ofer in Juarezwebsites.net 1000 MB space for
10 dls. monthly free setup is a great
hosting and services.
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Web Hosting Company: Laxers, Inc.
Web Hosting Company Address: Tokyo, Japan
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.hostlaxers.net/
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:Business400MB
$9.95
Comments about business: I've been using
this service for a few month, and they are
doing okay so far. I never have my website
stopped, and they are always fast when I
need tech support. I prefer to both personal
and small business this service!
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Web Hosting Company: LivingDot
Web Hosting Company Address: Minnesota
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.livingdot.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$12.95 for Lite
Plan
Comments about business: Hi, I've been using
LivingDot for roughly 7-8 months and have
never experienced a down time, not even
once. They totally stand by their slogan -
web hosting that cares. I wanted to install
a MoveableType on my account and asked if
they support it, next thing I know their
technical support offered to install and
configure MoveableType at no cost! That's
what I call service.
Can't find any cons. I'll certainly
recommend them to others.
Thanks!
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Web Hosting Company: Lypha Networks
Web Hosting Company Address: 8345 NW 66th
st, Miami, Fl 33166
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.lypha.com/hosting_plans.shtml
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:6.95 economy
shared hosting
Comments about business: I can't find a
faster more secure server space let alone at
this price. 1Gig space, 100Gig, bandwidth,
Bandwidth roll over, more tools and software
for pro site development and control than
one would ever use.
The only neg would be no phone support (
online only ) A must see !!
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Web Hosting Company: Made 2 Own
Web Hosting Company Address: 854 San Miguel
Canyon Rd. Watsonville, CA 95076
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.made2own.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$3.50 Starter
Plan
Comments about business: These guys are
absolutely amazing much credit needs to be
given the amount of tech support these guys
provide. I have had many hosting companies
in the past and none have been this amazing.
I paid only $3.50 for 125 MB's of space and
20 GB's of transfer a month. I also get
unlimited everything as far as e-mail, add
on domains etc.. Thumbs up to Made 2 Own!!!
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Web Hosting Company: MadRooster.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.madrooster.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:4.95 Personal
Plan
Comments about business: I have been through
many hosting companies in the past year -
all of them either have bad customer
service, a lot of downtime, or charge way
too much for features. Recently, someone
referred me to madrooster.com and I have
never been happier. The customer service is
excellent and I have not had my site go down
once. They even helped me fix some bugs in
my page code - talk about above and beyond!
The plans are very reasonably priced and
come with everything!I have not seen a
single review on the web for them, so I
thought I would wrote one. :)
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Web Hosting Company: Maini Hosting
Web Hosting Company Address:
www.mainihosting.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
www.mainihosting.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:6.95
Comments about business: I joined this maybe
a week ago and its probably the best desion
i have ever maid. I had a question to ask
and Insted of caling there 1800 number which
they have I got into a typing conversation
with no wait at all. Also all the features I
got, the next web Hosting that could compare
to the features was 19.95 a mounth.
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Web Hosting Company: MBYC Hosting
Web Hosting Company Address:
www.mbychosting.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.mbychosting.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:pill, 3.95
globule, $15
Comments about business: Wow! they have the
best customer service! its owned and
operated much like a mom and pop store. They
are relaxed about payment and stuff like
that. Its worked by just 2 guys so its a
small business and they really care about
their customers. Their prices are really low
too
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Web Hosting Company: MPIHosting.net
Web Hosting Company Address: Las Cruces, New
Mexico
Web Hosting Web Address: mpihosting.net
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$96.00/year
Business Plan
Comments about business: Very quick on
getting everything setup. I get a new domain
name and they had it up and running in less
than a day. Very easy to use control panel
and they give you access to everything
unlike my previous host. I was able to use
all of my perl scripts without trouble.
Also, when I was trying to setup somethings
they were able to help asap. Only thing I
dislike is the lack of telephone support,
but the online support was very fast.
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Web Hosting Company: www.myskydio.com
Web Hosting Company Address: Singapore
Web Hosting Web Address: www.skydio.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:From S$19.90
Comments about business: Service is
good,servers are co located in
Singapore.Customer Support team are very
efficient.A company that cares for their
customers needs.Intend to host your site or
e-commerce site in Singapore.Skydio is
definately worth evey single cents.Prices
are reasonable as compared to other hosting
company in Singapore.
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Web Hosting Company: M6.net
Web Hosting Company Address: Clinton Ave,
Huntsville AL, 35801, USA
Web Hosting Web Address: http://www.m6.net/
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:SQL-Kit,
$40/month, $10 setup
Comments about business: The setup with M6
was fast and Easy. Must have a system that
automatically sets it up for them. Many
hosts do this today, and there is nothing
wrong with it. In fact it's nice to have
your site up and running as soon as you put
your credit card number in.
My site was up and ready to FTP within an
hour of signing up. I confirmed my
information in an email and I was ready to
go.
I was happy with M6's services. During the
few months that I was using them I had no
problems with downtime. I can't remember
even once when I had problems.
I did have problems executing my ASP
properly M6 had a lot of security measures
setup to block certain peices of ASP code.
It isn't as flexible as I would have liked
it to be. But apparently they have fixed
this now.
Performance is always a concern for me as I
develop primarily database-driven
applications. My project budget is close to
non-existent, which narrowed the range of
choices available to me. With M6.net, I have
the bandwidth, disk space and speed that is
matched by no one. And all at a price that
makes our execs smile. As I develop my
application and each page snaps up
instantly, even after a few hits to the
database, it makes me look good.
The support was good too. The people were as
nice as they could have been, but I only
interacted with them a couple times. They
were professional, and I got a response to
my email within 12 hours. They did not offer
a ticket system or a phone number to dial,
but they do offer both now.
The features are great. They offer several
sites per account, an IP address, a lot of
bandwidth, pop3 accounts, forwarding
addresses, and lots more.
They also offer standard with every account:
FTP Access
Perl
Php
ASP
Mailing Lists
ODBC Access service. As someone who has done
business with some of you competition, you
are to be commended for "doing it right".
The prices are decent for the features that
they offer. Anywhere from $10-50 a month for
various amounts of bandwidth, IP addresses,
email addresses, and other features. These
features are too long to list here, but you
get the idea.
The main value of this site is that they
offer ODBC access. This will allow you to
use any number of various types of
databases. Overall this is a great service
and they do offer a toll-free support line.
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Web Hosting Company: netfirms
Web Hosting Company Address: Netfirms, Inc.
2316 Delaware Avenue, #162 Buffalo, NY
14216-2687
Web Hosting Web Address: www.netfirms.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:netfirms
advantage $10.00 mo
Comments about business: Most of the sites
on this host are listed at www.openrbl.org
for spam sending. email forwarding can be
unpredictable. Support is all email and slow
to respond. You can dig through contacts and
find a number for support on you dime
however. Long waits in the day to call New
York or Canada.
In short it sucks and Im moving to your
number one choice. A+
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Web Hosting Company: Netmart
Web Hosting Company Address:
http://www.netmart.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.netmart.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$9.95/mnth
Comments about business: Beware of this
company. The price is cheap but there is no
customer support. Every time you call you
get a voice mail and if you send them an
email consider yourself lucky to get a
response.
I own a computer consulting firm, I have
lots of computer experience. I was having
problems with our email so I called
Netmart's support number and somebody
actually answered the phone. I very calmly
asked the support guy on the phone if they
were experiencing any problems with their
email. This guy blew a fuse, he screamed at
me, and told me that he doesn't deal with
idiots idiots and hung up in my face. He was
on speakerphone and my partner overheard and
thought that this guy must be nuts.
I used to refer clients to them, but after
this next incident I will NOT be. A client
called them to setup his domain name and to
get his emails going. He left them a message
but no one called back, he called them two
days later and when he finally got through
he asked why no one called him back? Their
answer was "You are not even a customer yet
and you are already complaining, you are an
idiot and we don't want your business,
click!"
If you enjoy being treated as though you are
a burden and an idiot, then this is the
right company for you. Otherwise, pay a
little more elsewhere and steer clear of
this place.
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Web Hosting Company: nk web hosting
Web Hosting Company Address: www.nk97.com
Web Hosting Web Address: www.nk97.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$1.99 bronze
Comments about business: I would like to say
this web hosting company is the best i have
ever delt with. There prices are so
reasonable that i just had to find out my
self how good it really was. There Support
staff treated me like family. I would
recomend them to everyone to get a site
from. There brone plan which gave me 100
megs of space, 5 gigs of bandwidth 5 mysql
why would you not choose them. There site
loads fast and is availiable all the time.
Dont hesitat these guys know what there
doing.
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Web Hosting Company: NZ Web IT
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.nzwebit.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$4.95/Month
Thrifty Intermediate
Comments about business: When I first signed
up with NZWEBIT I didn't expect much.
I was attracted by the free domain
registration and big space, also that they
offer MySQL and Add-On domains at no extra
charges.
Now after a year of hosting my website with
them, I would greatly recomend this company
to everyone.
You get a lot more than what you pay.
Some of the features I got with my hosting
plan (I'm only paying monthly) are: Free
domain name registartion and renewal, 5
MySQL DBs (and they gave me an extra one at
no charge), CPanel currently 8.8 and always
upgraded to the latest, 3 add-on domains, 20
subdomains to name a few.
Also the quality of service and customer
support matches the most expensive companies
out there, for example 4 toll free numbers,
live support chat line on the website and in
all their e-mails (available at leat 20
hours a day), newly introduced members
forum, most of the additional services are
free. and the most important thing I noticed
is that they will do whatever it takes to
satisfy the customer.
Catches and pros, I'm still to find one.
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Web Hosting Company: oneandone
Web Hosting Company Address:
www.oneandone.co.uk
Web Hosting Web Address: www.oneandone.co.uk
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:£6 pcm? MS Server
& E Mail
Comments about business: Dreadful - I'm
quitting.
Very, very, very slow mail server which
keeps dropping the line when sending (I
don't know what the average is because I
give up after four or five attempts).
Difficult to access support service
especially in the evening. Staff are largely
untrained (one admitted that he had never
opened an e-mail attachment). Quick to pass
the buck ("sorry we don't provide support
for Outlook Express").
Impossible to escalate calls to someone with
more knowledge or authority. lord knows I've
tried!
Higher level support is supposed to be by
e-mail (or letter). In my case I received a
reply from the original support person which
didn't tell me anything that I hadn't
figured out for myself. The fact that it
arrived two weeks after submitting my
question didn't help either.
Perhaps an indication of how much they care
is indicated by the fact that 'address' is
variously spelt with one or two "d's" on the
web mail page.
I am very worried that my business may not
be receiving all of its e-mails due to these
problems.
Tell the world, these people are utter
RUBBISH!!
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Web Hosting Company: Peli-Net Inc.
Web Hosting Web Address: http://pelinet.net/
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$15
Comments about business: They offer too
little webspace, however i don't know what
to think about them even though i had them
for six years. Please write a review to tell
me what you think
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Web Hosting Company: powweb
Web Hosting Company Address: powweb.com
Web Hosting Web Address: powweb.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:7.77
Comments about business: What the hell are
you talking about. Powweb is THE BEST host
out there, by far. They have the most
storage,bandwidth of ANY host. Their support
forums are one of the best on the net for
ANY service. The are Definitly the best host
for Nuke as well.
You claim you dont get paid to report these,
but if thats the case you are morons. None
of the hosts you claim are better than
powweb even come close!!
Get a grip!
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Web Hosting Company: QwertyDigital
Web Hosting Company Address:
http://www.qwertydigital.com
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.qwertydigital.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$8.00 Basic
Hosting
Comments about business: QwertyDigital is
the only host that is *absolutely* dedicated
to there clients, any questions I had where
answered in a fast and knowledgeable. If
your site is vital to you, then QD is the
only way to go. After signing up, it took
only 12 hours to get activated and I was
online within 2 days. Unlike other hosts
that claim 99.99999999999% uptime, these
guys deliver. My site has been up _EVERY_
time i've checked it. Sure there are cheaper
hosts out there, but what's that matter if
they stick you with just an ftp account and
a domain name?
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Web Hosting Company: Randy Bennett
Web Hosting Company Address:
www.RandyBennett.net
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.RandyBennett.net
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:6.99 For the
Value Plan
Comments about business: Very Simple,
immediate email response for all questions.
Free domain name, easily handle the
complicated.
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Web Hosting Company: Red Check Hosting
Web Hosting Web Address:
www.redcheckhosting.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:HD Small $19.95
Comments about business: So far so good.
Easy set up and great tech support. Lots of
add ons and stuff, nice touch. Cpanel
Tutorial helped a bunch. Also of note, since
my site is a video site I gotta have a fast
server and fast connection, so far no
complaints, video streams like a charm.
Don't think I'll be shopping around for a
while !
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Web Hosting Company: Rixation Designs
Web Hosting Company Address: Auburn, GA
Web Hosting Web Address: www.rixation.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$4.98/month,
Newbie Windows
Comments about business: Excellent service
and fast support. My site isn't much, just a
few pages with a database, but I've never
had any problems.
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Web Hosting Company: Rixation Designs, Ltd.
Web Hosting Company Address: Auburn, GA
Web Hosting Web Address:
http://www.rixation.com
Web Hosting Plan Purchased:$4.98, Newbie
Linux
Comments about business: I had been with 4
other hosts before switching to Rixation
Designs. These guys are great. Support is
always right on with their advice...I've
never really had any problems, just needed
help with my coding which they actually
support! No one else does that!
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