I'm looking to switch hosts in the next two months and I was wondering how good http://www.phpwebhosting.com was. I didn't really research my hosting options the first time (:bawling:a big mistake!) so I'm trying to find the best host for the money.
I'm looking for a host who allows chat rooms, video downloads, unlimited subdomains, lots of space and bandwidth for about $20-30/month. Any suggestions?
Thanks! :)

What ever you do, DONT HOST WITH PHPwebhosting.com

I've had bad experiences with them. They will not answer your e-mails for weeks.

I'm afraid I have to add my vote to the others. I just left phpwebhosting because of excessive downtime and because after a while nobody answered my support e-mails, ever.

[Edited by iBusinessLawyer on 10-02-2000 at 12:14 AM]

And here comes another ex-phpwebhosting customer...

Their offer simply WAS too good to be true... My advice: Don't do it.

Three hosts I highly recommend. They are all excellent value for money and has good uptime, support and features:

http://www.ultraspeedusa.com
http://www.hostrocket.com
http://www.tera-byte.com

And I have only heard good things about these two:
http://www.kryogen.com
http://www.thinkhost.com

Well, I just noticed this host too, which has a lot of what you're after:
http://transinc.com/

Whoever you go with, don't choose phpwebhosting ;)

[Edited by major on 10-01-2000 at 07:20 PM]

>Well, I just noticed this host too,
>which has a lot of what you're after: transinc.com

transinc is also too good to be true.
600MB and all those features for $19.95/mo
can't believe it

[...]
15 GB Bandwidth Allowed Per Month !?
Perl 5.004, C, C++, Java JDK 1.1.7, Python 1.5 & TCL 7.6 Compilers <---I need this
Pine, vi, elm, Joe, Pico & Cron Tab, .htaccess <--and this
Unlimited Telnet Access / # of accounts <--- !?
[...]

18 dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net 205.171.5.172 Unknown 173 174 168 171 3 0
19 dal-edge-01.inet.qwest.net 205.171.25.26 Unknown 170 179 166 171 3 0
20 63.145.32.190 Unknown 172 207 172 184 3 0
21 http://www.transinc.com 63.249.248.35 37.334N,121.895W 173 174 170 172 3 0

server at *****.


[Edited by JimDonahew on 10-01-2000 at 07:45 PM]

Server at *****? :eek: Yeee-ow!

Back to the original topic : beware of any host offering 'unlimited or un-metered bandwidth'. Unfortunately PHPwebhosting does this and they have suffered negative reviews throughout the Net.

Yeah...I thought php sounded too good to be true. [unlimited bandwidth, space, subdomains for $9.95/month] :rolleyes: Why is it so hard to find a good host with everything you're looking for who doesn't charge an arm and a leg every month?
Thanks, guys. You saved me from making a big mistake!

Originally posted by major
http://www.ultraspeedusa.com
http://www.hostrocket.com
http://www.tera-byte.com

And I have only heard good things about these two:
http://www.kryogen.com
http://www.thinkhost.com

I thought this was a good place to start (maybe adding Annette's hostingmatters.com and MikA's webauthorities.com to the mix as well). These hosts are all mentioned over and over, and I'm sure people get tired of that, but IMHO this is decent list to at least start looking.

Sorry, I'll add that my only direct experience has been with Tera-byte.com's services.

I work for phpwebhosting.com and I was just checking this site out in my spare time. I noticed some negative feedback about our company.

I would just like to address some of the issues that people on here have been talking about.

I know that in the past our technical support response time has not been very great but we have implemented a new system and a new policy that requires all requests to be addressed within 18 hours. Most simple requests such as updating domains, adding subdomains, etc are fulfilled in even less time than this.

If you want to check on our response time, send a message through our main page and someone (most likely me) will get back to you in less than 12 hours.

As for diskspace, I noticed that one person was complaining about the amount of diskspace we had avaiable to each user. This person mistakenly thought we offered unlimited diskspace and this is just not true. We never offered unlimited diskspace. Any web host that offers unlimited anything is just lying. We used to offer unmetered diskspace, with a general limit of 200 MB and an option to add more if really needed at no extra cost (I personally know of one user who uses at least 500MB). Due to customer demand, we have had to change our policy on this but we never offered unlimited diskspace.

To address the downtime complaint, we have not had any downtime what so ever since the beginning of November. This is when we started to remove users who were truly abusing our servers and were causing our other customers many problems. We do not like to kick users off as we realize that everyone has a well intentioned dream for their website but when their demands become too great and they do not head warnings, this is what must be done.

If anyone reading this feels that our company has let you down in anyway, please contact me. I will personally make sure that the situation is corrected.

Best regards,

Karen
Sales Department
phpwebhosting.com


[Edited by phpwebhosting.com on 12-29-2000 at 10:12 PM]

I hope this was sent in an email to your users, forums shouldn't be your avenue for dispensing this info

I've been with phpwebhosting.com for a month and haven't had any problems so far. I haven't noticed any server downtime or anything like that. But then again I'm just a "personal" user and I don't run an e-commerce site or anything that would probably stretch the system resources.

My account with phpwebhosting.com is for experimenting with PHP and for working on various web projects.
http://www.secretwell.org

tech support and queries get answered within 1-2 days -- for me that's good enough, though I realise for some other people it is probably far too long. You get what you pay for, I suppose.

Overall I'm happy with phpwebhosting, and don't intend to switch hosts for the foreseeable future :)

Every time someone says something bad about one host few Just registered WHT users 1-2-3 posts before start talking like "i use to have a site with them, i have a site, they are the best..etc" it's kinda funny.

We had an account there, and we put a vbulletin board up, everytime we put it up, it would crash the server for an hour, they said because it was a poorly written script. No there server was a pos....

<<MOD NOTE>>
Original post was made almost a year ago. Sometimes people miss that (I know I do, heh).

Hi, Angel78:

You said: "Every time someone says something bad about one host few Just registered WHT users 1-2-3 posts before start talking like "i use to have a site with them, i have a site, they are the best..etc" it's kinda funny."

Yes! I think that so.

Originally posted by Angel78
Every time someone says something bad about one host few Just registered WHT users 1-2-3 posts before start talking like "i use to have a site with them, i have a site, they are the best..etc" it's kinda funny.

It *can* be quite funny, I agree. When I was shopping around for webhosts I could never seem to find any opinions on a particular hosts that didn't conflict with each other. Reading some of the for-and-against reviews on the top-rated webhosts on epinions.com is hilarious. People's experiences seem to go all over the place. And they're not necessarily lying either, god forbid it *is* possible that people can have varying experiences with the same webhost.

I think unless you're paying really big bucks for dedicated redundant web hosting it's inevitable there's going to be bad patches now and then. The trouble is finding the right host with least amount of bad patches. It's a bit like software. All software has bugs, but some have less bugs than others (and god forbid, they might even label them as "features", lol).

btw if you're talking about me when you say "just registered" WHT users, well I think that's a bit pointless. Yeah I'm a newcomer here, but I have to post somewhere about something right? So I might as well post about something that I know about. Or should I start talking about something totally off topic to increase my post count to give the illusion of artificially increasing my credibility?

BTW this forum has got one of the most complicated set of forum rules I have ever seen.

Originally posted by indigochild
BTW this forum has got one of the most complicated set of forum rules I have ever seen.

It is my goal this week to rectify this. Please hang in there and welcome to the forums.

Originally posted by indigochild
I think unless you're paying really big bucks for dedicated redundant web hosting it's inevitable there's going to be bad patches now and then. The trouble is finding the right host with least amount of bad patches.

Very good point. The host which makes all customers happy is not on the market - yet.

It's a bit like software. All software has bugs, but some have less bugs than others (and god forbid, they might even label them as "features", lol).

Hehe.

Or should I start talking about something totally off topic to increase my post count to give the illusion of artificially increasing my credibility?


:) Some are so eager to increase their post count that they answer questions in thread where the question already 3 times was answered. :)

Welcome to WHT!

Originally posted by Chicken


It is my goal this week to rectify this. Please hang in there and welcome to the forums.

Thanks :) I realise it must be pretty difficult to reach just the right balance with the forum rules so that there is no excessive "selling" being done by webhosting companies, lest the forums turn into a spamming grounds...

I never knew a webhosting forum like this existed on the web. It looks like you guys have been around for a while. Well, I think it's a really good idea!

I used to read the epinions.com reviews but they're very restrictive because they're very slow with adding new product items (in this case, webhosts) which means the hosts that are examined are in a rather narrow market range.