Just wondering what are some of the worst hosts and worst reputation hosts out there so I can avoid them?

www.hostonce.com couldn't get worse....

oasishosting.com. ( oasis hosting) they have been down since the end of november.

eran

rofl, on there "About us" says "Charity: When you host your website with HostOnce.com, US$12.00 of your annual fee is donated to the Eating Disorders Foundation."

what an ugly design hehe, my company had a bad rep at one time because I used to resell from fasthosts.co.uk with the domain futurehosts.org but didn't know at the time unlimited space didn't exsist, ah well guess I learn from mistakes :)

Wow hostonce is scary!

yeah lol it sounds like one of those stupid fast talking salesmen from the looks of the site. the sites colors hurt my eyes badly and the plans are a joke! No doubt they resell from fasthosts.

activewebhosting.com is horrible. They offer "unlimited" space & bandwidth. To upload PHP/CGI/Anything besides html and images, you have to log on to a whole 'nother server which is shared by everyone else. You just click "up" on the FTP and you could very well be in someone else's account!

Also, customer support is HORRIBLE. The one person that responds is extremely rude and doesn't exactly know what he is talking about.

There was constant downtime, and images that were supposed to be on your page came up as something totally different.

*****.com sucks
********.com sucks
****.com sucks
**********.net sucks
************* sucks
cyberwings.com sucks

:D I have at one time or another had sites with these people, or a few people I know who I designed their website for were with one of those hosts.

I can't comment on other hosts I've heard about here and haven't used though :)

Originally posted by PILMAN
rofl, on there "About us" says "Charity: When you host your website with HostOnce.com, US$12.00 of your annual fee is donated to the Eating Disorders Foundation."


Yeah, 9.99 + tax and tip for a large pizza

Originally posted by StrainEdge
www.hostonce.com couldn't get worse....

yeap i agree

hostpacket.net
Bad communication with clients, bad support. Avoid!


Consider OKIHost or Insiderhosting. Both great to deal with. I'm with Insider at the moment - haven't had any problems, and whatever I've asked about always had a prompt responce from Tal or anyone of the other guys. :agree:

ucvhost blows chunks as well.

Originally posted by Meow Meow
activewebhosting.com is horrible. They offer "unlimited" space & bandwidth. To upload PHP/CGI/Anything besides html and images, you have to log on to a whole 'nother server which is shared by everyone else. You just click "up" on the FTP and you could very well be in someone else's account!

Also, customer support is HORRIBLE. The one person that responds is extremely rude and doesn't exactly know what he is talking about.

There was constant downtime, and images that were supposed to be on your page came up as something totally different.


lol@awh. I know the sole employee of that 'horrid' company, Dilbert, he is rude, he's the most incomptent individual I've met. I'm sure you'd like to know why it's so slow huh? Well, you can't expect much from Road Runner Business Cable... which is what he uses. His server(yes, only one) is a P3 800-900MHZ, not sure what, he has a 40GB IDE HD which has had multiple corruptions on it(he oversells disk space). I know exactly what you mean by his two different servers, back then it was cgi.domain.com to access the CGI area, he seems to have changed that a bit. Then there is one just for HTML and others, really a ridiculous setup. It is all on one hard drive, that is partitioned. He doesn't set unique user permissions, so if you have the same file name as some other image, then, lol, it'll randomly change(stupid huh?).

He is 17-18 last I checked, he used to be one of those AOLer kids who go around claiming they are hackers, he is NOT the type of person to talk to or even do business with, he's had many cases against him concerning fraud and others, for unreasonably shutting down their account. Oh yeah, you can only use 500MB of data transfer within the hour, if not, you get gateway errors out the rear. Just a little background information for you on this guy, I've known him for 4 years, he used to be ok, until he really decided to show how ignorant he is, sorry you ever had to do business with such a poor thought out creature, he is pretty pathetic. :)

Hosts come and go. Most have problems at one time or another. The key is how a host handles problems and clients during bad times.

Pilman, a host that was great 2 years ago may not be regarded as that today. And it also goes the other way. You'll also find that in some cases, those well known big name outfits are not the best choice.

I think it would be more productive to ask who are good hosts to go with being we have both here. Clients of hosting providers and hosts themselves.

I'm not sure what his 'company' is called now but stay away from Tim / ****************

Originally posted by PILMAN
rofl, on there "About us" says "Charity: When you host your website with HostOnce.com, US$12.00 of your annual fee is donated to the Eating Disorders Foundation."

Probably if you host with HostOnce, you will become eating disorder.

Originally posted by Serin



lol@awh. I know the sole employee of that 'horrid' company, Dilbert, he is rude, he's the most incomptent individual I've met. I'm sure you'd like to know why it's so slow huh? Well, you can't expect much from Road Runner Business Cable... which is what he uses. His server(yes, only one) is a P3 800-900MHZ, not sure what, he has a 40GB IDE HD which has had multiple corruptions on it(he oversells disk space). I know exactly what you mean by his two different servers, back then it was cgi.domain.com to access the CGI area, he seems to have changed that a bit. Then there is one just for HTML and others, really a ridiculous setup. It is all on one hard drive, that is partitioned. He doesn't set unique user permissions, so if you have the same file name as some other image, then, lol, it'll randomly change(stupid huh?).

He is 17-18 last I checked, he used to be one of those AOLer kids who go around claiming they are hackers, he is NOT the type of person to talk to or even do business with, he's had many cases against him concerning fraud and others, for unreasonably shutting down their account. Oh yeah, you can only use 500MB of data transfer within the hour, if not, you get gateway errors out the rear. Just a little background information for you on this guy, I've known him for 4 years, he used to be ok, until he really decided to show how ignorant he is, sorry you ever had to do business with such a poor thought out creature, he is pretty pathetic. :)

Wow, I didn't know all of that, Though I could have expected it. I can't believe there's only one server. That's pathetic. This really blows my mind, you have no idea. @_@; Thanks for the info!

haha some of these hosts are a laugh, they make me feel better when people used to diss me about my outrageous plans :-) Activewebhosting is decent speed, I was originally gonna run time-scape.net on my computer but ISS doesn't support many users and I was running on a ADSL 1.5/358 but hopefully my new company will get launching soon without making it on a "Badhost" list :-).

Well, your not making a great impression either.

Originally posted by PILMAN
Just wondering what are some of the worst hosts and worst reputation hosts out there so I can avoid them?

Considering you plan on opening your own adventure. Perhaps the worst resellers would be more appropriate?

Guess you could say that, I'm a reseller my self though but I got a good deal on mine and making sure I won't make the same mistake as I did the first one, having more staff makes it a lot easier =]. In fact putting the finishing touches on my site right now and working on the advertisements.

Worst:

www.HostOnce.com
www.1uhost.com
www.SiteTurn.com (just going downhill)

Any other host that offers UNLIMITED storage with UNLIMITED transfer for $1.00 per month.

but I got a good deal on mine and making sure I won't make the same mistake as I did the first one,

The name of your first attempt was?

Futurehosts, the old domain was futurehosts.org and we didn't know unlimited space and bandwidth didn't exsist at that time. We were just new to the whole thing and always wanted to start up a company and make money so just figured that the company who we resold from www.az-webhost.com was telling the truth who resells from fasthosts.co.uk

1uhost looks like a nightmare page off of angelfire from the 95 era

Originally posted by PILMAN
1uhost looks like a nightmare page off of angelfire from the 95 era

Why "looks like"?

It IS. :D

rofl, that page is the biggest joke it looks like some 12 year old copied text from the newspaper and stole some pictures, oh wait, IT IS! lol!! :blush:

FeaturePrice! Hands down! Just click search, above, and see ;-)

Originally posted by Meow Meow


Wow, I didn't know all of that, Though I could have expected it. I can't believe there's only one server. That's pathetic. This really blows my mind, you have no idea. @_@; Thanks for the info!


No problem, he lies about a lot of his services, so I figured I'd contribute my piece :-)

Datapacket.net you can't get worse than that

-=Announcement=-

Dear WHT visitor,

Worst:

Artashes saying "worst" for 1UHOST.

Why is worst?

Becouse we suspended and terminated his site in the beginning.

Why his site terminated by us?

Becouse, he violated our AUP/terms and usage.

Some clients are saying worst for 1UHOST in this respect.

But, these clients are not reading our AUP.

We don't have to read the AUP to get an idea how bad 1uhost is.
What the heck are they saying here?
A *Real Hosting Company*, 1UHOST.
Becouse 1UHOST about power, *excellent reliable, fast and superb support*.A real flexibility.


Wait, are you saying Artashes was hosted by 1uhost? and that you terminated him? :eek:

A *Real Hosting Company*, 1UHOST.
Becouse 1UHOST about power, *excellent reliable, fast and superb support*.A real flexibility. Wow, I'm impressed....
UNLIMITED WEB SPACE I see they have one of those unlimited harddrives too. Only need one if it's unlimited...;)
<sarcasm>
Sign me up!
</sarcasm>

The worst in my own experience is web-spring.net.

Their downtime was often and regular but their very worst feature was stealing money from my credit card for 5 months after my account was closed. 43 emails, and a bunch of phone calls later they were still charging my card. It stopped a week after I called their local police.

Attention please...

Watcher_TVI,

Are you liar?

Yes, yes...

Becouse, we did not host your site.

Watcher_TVI is very very liar.

to talk nonsense, very nonsense...

A liar?

That information came straight from YOUR web site....

hostpacket.net

one of the worst hosts:

aplus.net

check next url :

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105338

1uhost learn to design a page and SPELL! oh and your merchant account isn't very secure the certificates expired a year ago. Your site is a peice of trash =D. Oh and for those wondering my new site is www.nationhosts.com but I'm still working on it and putting in the TOS.

Worst host that I've ever used - ReadyHosting.com

Originally posted by PILMAN
1uhost learn to design a page and SPELL! oh and your merchant account isn't very secure the certificates expired a year ago. Your site is a peice of trash =D. Oh and for those wondering my new site is www.nationhosts.com but I'm still working on it and putting in the TOS.


Hey what are you saying?
These are not true...


Our credit card processor is paysystems and their certificates validity time is 11 Jan 2003 to 11 Jan 2004, if you want see it, please checkout on our order site;http://www.1uhost.com/order.htm

Please don't tell lies

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI
A liar?

That information came straight from YOUR web site....
Yes, yes...

I understood, you are a liar.

Heh!

Even when confronted with the truth, 1uhost.com proves why they are a Host to stay away from.

~Walks away laughing~

I'd like to add my 2¢ to this...

i'd say any host that advertises unlimited bandwidth, diskspace, or anything remotely close to that.

Originally posted by 1upromo

Yes, yes...

I understood, you are a liar.
And you are VERY unprofessional. Skip this host guys!

At least list "Unmetered" at least that sounds like the truthful way rather than saying unlimited.

true...i can't argue with that. but my experience has been that even those have a lot of problems.

remember...if it sounds too good to be true...then it probably is.

Originally posted by Enigmatics
Worst host that I've ever used - ReadyHosting.com

What problems did you have with ReadyHosting, anyway?

I'm currently looking for a new hosting provider for my site, www.nhbradio.com, and I was actually considering ReadyHosting until you posted it as one of the worst hosts. I guess it's a good thing that I checked this thread out. :)

Thanks.

Dogga

All hosts with the term "unlimited" are BAD in my opinion !

Also those unmetered as I was a CW reseller ! They don't last in business !!

Originally posted by Dogga


What problems did you have with ReadyHosting, anyway?

I'm currently looking for a new hosting provider for my site, www.nhbradio.com, and I was actually considering ReadyHosting until you posted it as one of the worst hosts. I guess it's a good thing that I checked this thread out. :)

Thanks.

Dogga

I had a client hosted there that I was doing some CGI programming for. I had tested the scripts thoroughly before incorporating them into his site. A few weeks later, all of the CGI scripts quit working. By looking at the date stamps on the files, I could see that no one had modified them. I had numerous phone conversations with tech support, and they were all convinced that it was something that I had done, even though they could see that the files had not been modified in weeks. The last straw was when one of the tech support guys told me, after I had again explained to him that these scripts did work before and I had not touched them, "Well, I can't come out and say that you're lying, but...". That's all it took for me to take my business elsewhere.

Originally posted by 1upromo
-=Announcement=-

Dear WHT visitor,

Worst:

Artashes saying "worst" for 1UHOST.

Why is worst?

Becouse we suspended and terminated his site in the beginning.

Why his site terminated by us?

Becouse, he violated our AUP/terms and usage.

Some clients are saying worst for 1UHOST in this respect.

But, these clients are not reading our AUP.


HOW DARE YOU?

I am the Founder of a very serious Internation Student Organization with offices in US, Canada and Russia. We have legal advisors who guide us through every step we take.

We personally collected the folder with full documentation supporting the fact that YOU broke your own Terms of Service. I would present that folder only in the court of law.

You are full of greed hosting company and as any other member on this board knows, I respect each and every person/company I deal with. So please, do not tell me that I was violating something, because looking at your negative profile on this forum (and outside of it), no one is going to believe you anyway.

Its pathetic you even try and defend that 1UHost is a decent company. LOL

Best of luck with your usual practice: canceling all new accounts and stealing people's money.

Originally posted by 1upromo
Attention please...

Watcher_TVI,
Are you liar?
Yes, yes...
Becouse, we did not host your site.
Watcher_TVI is very very liar.
to talk nonsense, very nonsense...

"Watcher_TVI is very very liar"?

Watcher is respected on this forum. I cannot say the same about you, whoever you are. Its a shame.

And being in business such as yours, haven't you learned yet that the word "UNLIMITED" does not exist? I think you do know that very well, but decline to change that. Why? Because for you its a perfect opportunity to rip off all the newbies who think your offer might be real.

Best Regards,

Originally posted by 1upromo

Please don't tell lies


Sounds like you are begging, really. And by not "telling lies", are you asking us to lie about how good your service is? LOL :D :D :D

Originally posted by Enigmatics


I had a client hosted there that I was doing some CGI programming for. I had tested the scripts thoroughly before incorporating them into his site. A few weeks later, all of the CGI scripts quit working. By looking at the date stamps on the files, I could see that no one had modified them. I had numerous phone conversations with tech support, and they were all convinced that it was something that I had done, even though they could see that the files had not been modified in weeks. The last straw was when one of the tech support guys told me, after I had again explained to him that these scripts did work before and I had not touched them, "Well, I can't come out and say that you're lying, but...". That's all it took for me to take my business elsewhere.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll make sure to stay clear of them for sure. ;)

Dogga

www.1uhost.com
I think best on the web,

nice try retard, you can't even spell and that gives away that your the owner of 1uhosting

Becouse i am turkish customer

Originally posted by mtatli
Becouse i am turkish customer

You're trying too hard. ;)

Originally posted by 1upromo
Becouse, he violated our AUP/terms and usage.


Originally posted by mtatli
Becouse i am turkish customer


And I'm sure both of you took the same English class where you both learned to spell "becouse"

www.hostonce.com couldn't get worse....

Your absolutely right! They ripped me off so badly, i dont even want to talk about it. Stay away from them!

I nominate 1uhosting worst host of this post so far =]

the worst host has to be toplevelhost

reason why:

read my thread
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105798

Originally posted by PILMAN
I nominate 1uhosting worst host of this post so far =]

I would add TopLevelHost.com to 1Uhost.com list, just like Maxideus proposed.

Did someone mention aletia? A dying web host.

Originally posted by pbuilder
Did someone mention aletia? A dying web host.

What are they dying from? I've checked their web site - their packages seemed pretty reasonably priced. Plus, they've been around, as they say, since 1997.

Originally posted by Artashes


What are they dying from? I've checked their web site - their packages seemed pretty reasonably priced. Plus, they've been around, as they say, since 1997.

Bad reputation.

Originally posted by avhokie




And I'm sure both of you took the same English class where you both learned to spell "becouse"


there is a way to find out if they are one and the same,

ADMIN's: can you check these two's IP and see if they are the same?

THanks

PS. interesting thread, good for a few laughs

dont you guys have anything better to argue about?

go find some customers, forget talking such pointless nonsence.

My summary of http://www.1uhost.com/

I looked at this page, i noticed a few (by a few i mean heaps) of errors, thought id share them, remember this is just on the first page which looks crap!


You win ABSOLUTELY *FREE DOMAIN NAME*
Not exactly the best way of saying you get a free domain nae with every hosting package purchased. (note this wasnt even in hosting just a box at the top.


Becouse 1UHOST about power
The power of spelling.....


http://www.1uhost.com/slogo.gif
Very cheap for unlimited everything....


*.A real flexibility.
Well computers are flexible, been practising yoga have they :)


1UHOST is continually rated in the top 1% of all networks in the world
Where can i see this documented exactly....


99.99% Uptime Guarantee
Thats pretty good!! Note this is wrong if hosting is down for just 5 minutes in a month or 1 hour in a whole year!!!


2$/mo
I think its meant to be $2 a month ;)


Sigh, i didnt even bother read the testimonials page....

Originally posted by Duncan_Elude
My summary of http://www.1uhost.com/

*snip*

Sigh, i didnt even bother read the testimonials page....

I have to admit, that made me laugh. lol

The site alone had me rolling, but it wasn't enough. The owner has to keep comming back to entertain us more!
"Is worst?" :eek: "Why worst?"

I'm sorry but if my neighbors 4 year old can spell better than you I don't think I'd send you even that $2 a month for a plan.

Typos are expected as no one is perfect; however, I know I noticed just about every other sentence looked like a 4th grader wrote it ....

Those colors too .... perhaps you should seek a professional to make your site. I'd stay away just from the look.

Flame that damn flamingo! :angry:

Originally posted by pbuilder
Did someone mention aletia? A dying web host.

Hardly ! Look, you've made your point in numerous posts and messages now. How about you get over aletia and look forward to your new host? Starting lies like this don't get you anywhere... move on .

www.trilexnet.com they claim they are on DUAL OC40(WTF I NEVER HEARD OF THAT ONLY OC48) and I found out they were on cable modem, when I said that in there chat room I was kicked out. Probably coz i'm right lol!

Stay away from Manlius.com. Their hosting service is pretty bad. What makes it worse is the the owner Manlius sucks. During my stay with them, every other day this or that service was down or not working correctly.

Don't worry I have already cancelled my account with them, so he can't throw me out for saying negative things about his service.

"Our services are suspended for the time being" lol

Yikes. This post was a flame flood waiting to happen <takes cover>

-Best Regards,
Darrell B.

bump. MORE BASHING =D

Originally posted by PILMAN
"Our services are suspended for the time being" lol

Yeah, that statement pretty much sums up his regard for his "value" hosting service.

It's pretty much just the left over scrap bandwith from his fetish with firemen.

Something about that whole place just gives me the creeps. They have a few good support techs, but when Manlius started responding to the help tickets. I just left. Not the most friendly guy.

Plus the fact that the whole service is infested with spammers, etc who screw up everything for everyone else.

One thing is bad service, unlimited this and unlimited that, but don't flame a host for not being good at spelling.

Of course a good spellchecker and grammar checker is a must if you write anothing that is to be published, but maybe the person don't have that kind of software for that particular language. We all asume that the people who are hosts and have sites in English are English-speaking. That is of course far from the truth.

Bad English might just be a case of non English speaking. Think about that the next time you flame someone for obvious mistakes.

I love threads where 2-5 disgruntled customers of other hosting companies feel the need to bicker like little kids at the playground. LOL.

Worst, best, indifferent, it's all opinion and based on the experience of a few customers. If a host is really, truly horrendous, time will tell, as they will not stay in business long..(aka CW).

I know it really doesn't fit but can't help but think:

Timmmmmay!!!! Timmmmmy, Timmmmy, Timmmayyyy!!!


When I read this thread

Hrm hopefully Chicken will close this thread soon...

I hope not, this is great entertainment...:emlaugh:

Tell me about it, this is better than free adult entertainment :stickout:

What problems did you have with ReadyHosting, anyway?

I'm currently looking for a new hosting provider for my site, www.nhbradio.com, and I was actually considering ReadyHosting until you posted it as one of the worst hosts. I guess it's a good thing that I checked this thread out.

Using their services for a year, my 1st 6 months with them was kinda rough, but after they got everything straightened out, things were fine. But during that 1st 6 months, the server I was on crashed a couple of times from 'hackers' & 'ddos' when they had lost my entire 500mb site as well as the backup. And not having a current backup myself, I had to rebuild it from pieces I had. At the time I was using their services, I was actually going through one of their resellers who had dropped their phone support during the server crashes. It became quite frustrating trying to figure out what was going on when I had to go through the reseller and wait for their emails. I had a few other minor server issues prior to the crashes, but after they brought it back online, I never really had any further major problems for the remaining 6 months.

Originally posted by Alex042


Using their services for a year, my 1st 6 months with them was kinda rough, but after they got everything straightened out, things were fine. But during that 1st 6 months, the server I was on crashed a couple of times from 'hackers' & 'ddos' when they had lost my entire 500mb site as well as the backup. And not having a current backup myself, I had to rebuild it from pieces I had. At the time I was using their services, I was actually going through one of their resellers who had dropped their phone support during the server crashes. It became quite frustrating trying to figure out what was going on when I had to go through the reseller and wait for their emails. I had a few other minor server issues prior to the crashes, but after they brought it back online, I never really had any further major problems for the remaining 6 months.

Alex,

Thanks for your comments. I've pretty much decided that I'm not going with them just because of the customer support/service problems I've been reading about. I'm only the webmaster of the site, and although I'll be taking care of most of the headaches, the owner definitely wants a very reputable host with minimal complaints.

Originally posted by Reptilian Feline
Bad English might just be a case of non English speaking. Think about that the next time you flame someone for obvious mistakes.

engrish.com! :D

That is a funny site!


If you are in business and want to attract an International Market, you better speak the language fluently or have someone in your organization that does. Anything less is unprofessional....IMO....

Originally posted by Watcher_TVI
That is a funny site!


If you are in business and want to attract an International Market, you better speak the language fluently or have someone in your organization that does. Anything less is unprofessional....IMO....

... or you should at least hire a translator and/or friend to correct the blatant misspellings. They're so obvious, it's not even funny.

;/

Just be mindfull of your needs. I am VERY new to this and some of the big name companies *ellhost (hmm that's a tough one) have cookie cutter plans with little or no modifying them so suit your needs. Being so new to hosting and such we purchased shopping cart software and then was told sorry we can't let you use that on our server you need dedicated which was WAY out of our price range.:(

that's why you needa sign up on nationhosts.com :D

.

aventurehosting.co.uk

another claiming unlimited bandwidth host but takes yr site offline without notice the first chance they gey saying ''..due to abuse of resources.."

Just a note to add to an earlier reply. Oasis hosting gets my vote for the worst but also beware of their affilate companies Timberland hosting and Beachcomp

Originally posted by PILMAN
rofl, on there "About us" says "Charity: When you host your website with HostOnce.com, US$12.00 of your annual fee is donated to the Eating Disorders Foundation."

There was someone looking for host for a weight loss website.
I wonder if the found hostonce.

Although when you host with hostonce $12.00 is contributed to there eating disorder.