Hi.

I'm looking for a new webhost for PHP/MYSQL websites. Starting up my own freelance business in addition to work to get some extra cash. I'm looking for a host that can have 1 or 2 domains and 5+ mysql databases. As I'm just starting out, I dont want to pay out too much, but if things take off would be good to be able to easily upgrade webspace/bandwidth.

Have been looking around at http://www.bargainhost.co.uk and http://www.aventurehost.com/ - anyone have any experience, views or alternative suggestions?

Many thanks,

;)

You could also try looking at: http://www.findyourhost.co.uk as they also have a list of good, UK hosting providers. (with UK and US based servers)

Regards

Many thanks, that was quick.

Will have a look this afternoon.

Cheers mate,

;)

I tried aventurehosts reseller account, and after 48 hours had to fight for my refund because they didn't set up my account correctly, and I couldn't get access to the helpdesk. The only reason I went with them was because I love my XMB board, but I was really disappointed. I've heard lots of positive things about them... but this was just my experience.

Oh yeah!!! forgot to add, another turn off was the hidden prices factor.

Thanks ochiba!

Thats worth bearing in mind. What were the hidden price factors? You said you heard a lot of positive things about them, although your experience hasnt been great. Where did u hear about them? Are there any other good places to view web hosting reviews?

Cheers!

I would strongly suggest AGAINST going with Aventurehost, their downtime can be horrendous - sometimes running into hours, sites are removed without warning, their customer services resort to threats to remove your account when things get too hot to handle, support tickets can go unanswered for hours.....

Do yourself a favour and do a search of Aventure and Aventurehost on these forums for other opinions.

Just from a quick look at their website, it appears they only allow yearly payment plans. That would make me nervous right off the bat.

OK thanks for the advice. Where would you recomend? I dont want to pay out too much but want something fairly good (I know you get what you pay for and that) but wondered if there is a 'best' out of the cheaper hosts?

Thanks for the advice.

hi dingo

Ive had bargain host before and to be honest with u its a load of crap!

stay away from it..one of my sites i hosted and still hosted on now...is soo dam slow even on DSL Line!

They never respond to support Tickets

i paid bout £24 for 2 yrs and got stuck with them!

its another bedroom outfit!

stay away from them thats my take!

I agree, you should definitely not go with bargain host,
From my experience it seems to be a one man show, they have been hacked numerous times and they often have downtime / slowness problems

Originally posted by fluke
I would strongly suggest AGAINST going with Aventurehost, their downtime can be horrendous - sometimes running into hours, sites are removed without warning, their customer services resort to threats to remove your account when things get too hot to handle, support tickets can go unanswered for hours.....

Do yourself a favour and do a search of Aventure and Aventurehost on these forums for other opinions.

I would *love* to find out what downtime we've had at aventurehost.com, because we have had absolutely no downtime appart from standard reboots from upgrades. We have never had "hours" of downtime, please email me directly with information on when this happened.

From your post it sounds like your website was suspended for an AUP/TOS violation which is what you refer too as downtime.

Our packages are fully backed up by a 99.99% uptime guarantee, with 15 day money back guarantees with full 24 hour support, if we provided such a lack service our client base would not have a 0.23% abandon rate (customers who do not renew packages after their first year) (meaning 99.77% renew).

http://www.aventurehost.com
Stewart

Originally posted by Reality Hosting
Just from a quick look at their website, it appears they only allow yearly payment plans. That would make me nervous right off the bat.

You'll find that our yearly prices beat monthly prices of most hosts *hint hint*

If anyone has any queries about anything relating to our service, sales@aventure-media.co.uk are available by email 24/7 to answer any questions you may have.

Stew

Originally posted by aah-jim
I agree, you should definitely not go with bargain host,
From my experience it seems to be a one man show, they have been hacked numerous times and they often have downtime / slowness problems

Not really the sort of comment a competitor should be making.

Actually I am making that comment as a previous user of their services, not as a competitor.

From your post it sounds like your website was suspended for an AUP/TOS violation which is what you refer too as downtime.

No you are totally wrong, although your jumping to conclusions may suggest to the reader, an over zealous attitude to removing websites for alleged breach of TOS?, another trait which happens frequently and makes it such a pleasure to be hosted by AH. I'm just a seriously unhappy aventurehost customer struggling to keep her website online with your poor service and who won't be renewing her subscription in the new year :angry: so you can cheerfully add that to your abandon rate.

I visited your support forum for the first time the other day, maybe I chose to visit at the wrong time since I saw a posts from other Aventurehost customers being deleted simply for voicing their own complaints.

Originally posted by aah-jim
Actually I am making that comment as a previous user of their services, not as a competitor.

People will not see it that way if you've got your company signature in the post.

Certainly, I would STRONGLY advise you to avoid Bargainhost. We had prolonged repeated downtime and no support response.

There are plenty of alternatives which will give you far superior service.

Just in case any of you would like some proof:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2959020.stm

Originally posted by aventuregrp
You'll find that our yearly prices beat monthly prices of most hosts *hint hint*

Stew

Interesting as this is another topic about aventure and bargain host. :-/

It's the ability to terminate the hosting that is why some people want monthly hosting if people aren't satisfied.

Also, I won't bring up the past about my problems with aventure so I am only going to say, son't go with any of them. Always look on other websites and other people for recommendations.

isnt bargain hosta reseller?

im sure it was a bedroom outfit!!!

DO NOT go with Aventurehost. I had them for a week, and my site was down consisitently for 4 days. Email them and got all kind of excuses. Finally, they said my site was suspended because of a java app on my site. I had that same app ran on 3 different hosts without any problem. So on the 6th day, I email them to terminate my account and wanted a refund. They said I was not entitled to a refund because they had spent hours fixing the so called "MY" problem, and if I wanted a refund, they will charge me $200 an hour for that. I didn't have time to fight with them, so I wasted $54. I am willing to take chances with any hosts, but aventurehost is just a crook. DO NOT GO WITH THEM.

Bargain Host are a waste of time.

Hot damn.. I don't think I've seen a webhost get pounced on this fast in a long time :D Seems they haven't made many friends along the way.

Originally posted by sinmen
DO NOT go with Aventurehost. I had them for a week, and my site was down consisitently for 4 days. Email them and got all kind of excuses. Finally, they said my site was suspended because of a java app on my site. I had that same app ran on 3 different hosts without any problem. So on the 6th day, I email them to terminate my account and wanted a refund. They said I was not entitled to a refund because they had spent hours fixing the so called "MY" problem, and if I wanted a refund, they will charge me $200 an hour for that. I didn't have time to fight with them, so I wasted $54. I am willing to take chances with any hosts, but aventurehost is just a crook. DO NOT GO WITH THEM.

Same person under a different name :rolleyes:
Its EXTREMELY unlikely that you would get your site terminated for a one time violation for a java applet, it sounds like your making up false information because your annoyed you broke our terms.

I'm having this looked into, because I honestly cannot believe this would EVER happen.

it sounds like your making up false information because your annoyed you broke our terms.

I'm having this looked into, because I honestly cannot believe this would EVER happen.


:rolleyes:

The post you have made is liablellous.
If your account was terminated, you broke the TOS.
The TOS states that any account which is terminated, is not elligable for a refund. If your site was terminated within the first 7 days its HIGHLY unlikely and false that your site would not have been given a second time, as we do not have a one time termination unless the account was hosting warez/items of illegal nature.
Therefore, I am now looking into your details to find out roughly who you are and research into the issue. If we find anything that is incorrect in your post and that any of your comments are false, we will be forced to have the post removed, and consider any damages your false comments represent.
We do NOT terminate sites for a first time violation unless one of the facts stated above, a java applet WOULD NOT be a reason for termination.
You CANNOT go about making false liable comments because you had your account suspended for some reason.
You need to consider the posts you make, as you are responsible that 100% of what you post is correct.
This is a PM I got from aventure. They are trying a scare tactic, but I am not scared. Everything I said was true. And this guy cannot read. I said I want to terminate the account MYSELF and get a refund, but they refused.

Think twice before you want to deal with this company. It's a big joke.

Originally posted by aventuregrp
Same person under a different name :rolleyes:
"Do not go around making false accusation, or I will be forced to have the post removed, and consider any damages your false comments represent. You need to consider the posts you make, as you are responsible that 100% of what you post is correct."

This is different customers with the same problems. Just a proof how bad aventure is.

Originally posted by akashik
Hot damn.. I don't think I've seen a webhost get pounced on this fast in a long time :D Seems they haven't made many friends along the way. No, they have not. I had lost money to other hosts, but this is the only one I am mad enough to write something about. I had pre-paid them for a year, and could have use it to host my sites. Yet I had decided to just abandon the account, and pay someone else for the same package.

My site is down yet again today, no idea what is going on with Aventure certainly they have more dis-satisfied customers than they dare to let on ;) at least judging by the posts above since my last visit.

I would certainly suggest that if such a message was ever sent to you by email then I would forward it to their own ISP along with a complaint for harrassment.

If you currently have, or have ever had a legitimate complaint against Aventure, then please voice and register your complaint here:-

http://www.clik2complaints.co.uk/index.html

If Aventure offer such a perfect service then why is there more negative comments on here than positive?. Why do they threaten their customers with legal action for making legitimate complaints?, Why do support tickets go untouched for very long periods during normal UK Working hours?, Why is the excuse for any downtime always made out to be the customers fault?

Oh my, I see I am not the only person that this sort of situation has happened to. :angry:

DO NOT USE AVENTURE HOST.

They are fining me, and now suing me (because they sent the nofication to the email address of the server they banned) for sending spam.
I did not send this spam, someone is somehow abusing my account.
My "fines" with AV are now "in excess of £1500" to quote.

They said I breeched the TOS by doing such things as hosting content linking to illegal content - which is totally unrelated to spam, by spamvertising my website which i did not, and many more.

They also said that I failed to pay the fine so I am in breech of contract, TRYING TO SCARE ME INTO PAYING, just like the other AV user above. They have also tried to scare me by threatening to put me on thh credit blacklist.

Every time I make a valid point or question to them which renders their arugment stupid, they ignore it.

They have contacted the debt collection agency, so I contacted trading standards, who have contacted computer forensics - who will prove that I did not send the mail, that I did not break the TOS, and that AV have some explaining to do (bullying, denial of service, threats, false accusations, abusing debt collection?, ) and probably many more.

If anybody is interested, I can post details of the claim - emails etc.

I am also dedicating part of a website to aventurehost to warn potentional AV customers of the facts. FACTS. They cannot shout "slander" "copyright" etc because the information is factual.

E-mail lee at goleague dot co dot uk - you know what to do with the email address. If you want some information.

- Lee

Can't imgine they are still in business. They are still sending me unwanted ads. No way to stop that.

Thats nice to know, because it is classed as unsolicited mail - which they are fining me for ...

Can't imgine they are still in business. They are still sending me unwanted ads. No way to stop that.


When I was a member at XMB (the forum/software they own, but deny owning), I used to receive multiple "u2u" messages daily, advertising adventure host/adventure media.

When I brought it up on their forum.....the posts were deleted, and I was banned. The same happened to a friend of mine, who was also a member.

Interesting. I'll let my investigators know :)

Aventurehost ripped me off for about £50 for a year's hosting. They closed my account saying I used so many resources. Basically, they will give you any excuse to close your site and take your money. This was a year ago. Is there a way I can still get my money back?

By the way, why is he banned from the forums?

What comes around goes around...