What do you hate the most about the hosting industry?

Les us know what you think?

:rolleyes: (Thinking)

Thanks

It's all good... except for when there are network issues out of your hands. Yuck.

i hate the customers that thing they cant get everything for 1 dollar :)

ntwaddel - me too !!

Competition is healthy, and keeps prices low. But for web hosts, the competition can be deadly. What I hate is the inconsistant support, some hosts have it, some don't, some are good, and some go bad.

Competition is healthy only for the virtual hosing consumer!

The price only goes down for them but the price of burst.net servers are still the same for me so Competition SUCKS !!!

Unlimited bandwidth and space. :)

i hate when you see new hosts appear, and they make some ridiculously cheap offer, ---- dollars for one year of hosting, with generous bandwith allowances. To anyone who has any business sense, you can see that these offers are totally not sustainable, yet hundreds and often thousands of people signup, only to find the whole thing fall in a heap. And the customers looking for a new host.
Everytime I have seen this happen, I knew and I am sure others here also knew it would happen right from the beginning.

Originally posted by Synthetic
Unlimited bandwidth and space. :)
Definitely unlimited bandwidth / webspace makes you want to :sickface:

Too much competition ! True :D :D

But it had advantages and disadvantages,

For consumers , it does drive down costs but it also drives down quality of webhosting as more and more webhosts appear with cheaper plans ( practically cheaper and business wise do not make sense atall) and cut costs with less support and knowledge of server and services.

Thats why you see now a days more and more webhosts going out of business. Why ? Competiton :D They can't keep up with quality or support and uptime provided by other reputable hosts and they finally give up and go belly down. Finacially too.

Hope I made sense, if not :D

Just my opinions ;)

-Rupi

Originally posted by bahres
Competition is healthy only for the virtual hosing consumer!

The price only goes down for them but the price of burst.net servers are still the same for me so Competition SUCKS !!! Yep. I would have to agree.
If you can't compete; competition sure sucks.

That's why I don't enter any 100m hurdle races anymore.
The competition sucks.

Competition is good. It keeps you on your toes. As far as the cheap hosts go, though, I don't think they're any danger to good hosting companies. Smart consumers, the ones you want, know that you get what you pay for. The type of customers who sign up for the dollar-a-year host, are the ones you don't really want anyway. They have ridiculous expectations about their web sites to begin with, and probably take up all of your time with stupid support issues. Your good customers, who don't mind paying for quality and good service will not be taken away by these types of hosts (the dollar-a-year ones), and if they are, they soon return because they learn their lessons the hard way. So bring it on! :cool:

Competitors who think its ok to attack your servers and your clients...

dumb polls

Originally posted by chrisb
dumb polls
I don't see how that has any relation to the web hosting industry, maybe this board specificly though.

SoftWareRevue - I totally agree with you !


VoxKeysGtr - I guess your right


SplashHost.com - I know who you mean and they really suck


chrisb - Based on the response I guess people think otherwise but thanks for your input