Hostnine is THE worst reseller hosting company I have ever been with. They are down at least once a week, then you get absolutely no help in finding out why they are down and when it will be back up.. they customer support is not helpful and even rude sometimes.
I would NEVER EVER use this hosting company again - I am in the process of moving off my sites ASAP -- what a pain with all the software and databases some of my sites have.
They are an embarassment

At last! an HONEST review. Has anyone checked webhostingstuff.com lately?

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/HostNineCom.html

My review as well as several other negative reviews on hostnine.com have been REMOVED!

Instead there are at least NINE glowing reviews in a row ALL written on 16 January 2008!

I dare you to tell me these are NOT on hostnine's payroll!

Come on people wake up!

At last! an HONEST review. Has anyone checked webhostingstuff.com lately?

http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/HostNineCom.html

My review as well as several other negative reviews on hostnine.com have been REMOVED!

Instead there are at least NINE glowing reviews in a row ALL written on 16 January 2008!

I dare you to tell me these are NOT on hostnine's payroll!

Come on people wake up!
There have been recent positive reviews on WHT and the Forum representative of HostNine has become more active. I guess it is campaign to win back their lost reputation. Atleast that's what I feel.

I guess it is campaign to win back their lost reputation

Key word here: campaign.

NINE positive reviews in a row! ALL written on the on 16 January 2008!

Even if Google had a hosting company for all of its billions of surfers, it would not have received NINE PERFECT reviews all in ONE DAY, in a row.

This is inconceivable statistically and logically!

These people are paid by hostnine. I can see no other possibility.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

What a shame.

I believe webhostingstuff.com works on an approval system, so if all of the reviews were approved on the same day then they might say they were all written on the same day. However I might be wrong. But none the less, if you have no proof that these were written by hostnine employees then you need to stop making accusations, Period.

You're right. I have no proof. But you're also wrong.

My negative review as well as other negative reviews which were there for a month and were VALIDATED AND APPROVED, have suddenly been removed.

webhostingstuff.com works on an approval system, so if all of the reviews were approved on the same day then they might say they were all written on the same day

That's simply not true. Look at their review history.

I simply said that I believe they do, not that they actually do. However why would you attack hostnine if your review was removed from a site they wouldn't have control over? You should direct your anger at webhostingstuff.com for removing it.

You should direct your anger at webhostingstuff.com for removing it

Have you ever tried contacting these web hosting review sites? I know I have.

Their response time and the value of their replies are pathetic at best.

I am angry because I smell a vile cooperation between a webhosting company (hostnine.com which I find it irresponsible NOT to warn innocent newbies from) and a webhosting review site which is supposed to be an honest place for people to place their fair experiments and if necessary to glorify or warn others so they could learn from their mistakes!

One more thing: marketing researches have clearly showed that people who had bad experience with a product or service would be more motivated to comment on it rather than people who have had positive experiences.

Here we have NINE PERFECTLY POSITIVE REVIEWS about hostnine.com all written in the SAME DAY!

Come on...You gotta be blind not to see a faked/made up/synthetic/unrealistic/biased pattern!

sorry for the thesaurus frenzy...

You have quite a wild imagination. Just because you had a bad experience (in which you have provided no proof for, at least publicly) does not mean that there are not others that have had a good experience with a host. You need to stop attacking others that have had a good experience and go on your merry way thinking of ways to bash your next host.

Edit: Sure, I do admit that a few good reviews in a short time is odd, however why do you continue to bash the reviewers? I don't think a hosting company would spend its time and money to write up fake reviews, as they would be discovered and it would make them look even worse.

I do have a wild imagination, but you gotta have a wild imagination to believe those nine positive reviews in a row were not made up.

I am not going to bash my current hosting company. Not without a reason...that is. And so far they didn't give me one.

I don't think a hosting company would spend its time and money to write up fake reviews, as they would be discovered and it would make them look even worse.

You're right. As long as none of us can provide proof, they won't be discovered.

Theoretically, there could have been 900 positive reviews in a row in ONE DAY at webhostingstuff.com and STILL individuals like yourself would have doubted the fact that it was made up.

Isn't that great?

Companies like hostnine exist only because of a reasonable doubt and because only few customers would ever bother to check the truth deeply into the forums (if they could find it) and find their way to crooked review sites instead!

As I've already said the straight line of positive reviews are odd, however what I am getting at is you need to stay out of other reviewers threads in which you are simply bashing the host. Would you like to post a positive review only to have one person spamming your thread with negative remarks? That is simply what you are doing. If you have more to say you can say it in your original thread.

I was not spamming anyone's post. I simply strengthened his first claim or supporting another comment on the forum. This is the material communities are made of. I say one thing based on opinion and you say another to counter my claims, if we don't agree.

This is not spamming.

Authentic positive reviews have 'natural feel' so to speak to them. When people usually positively comment on a movie or a furniture or a service, the review would often contain few negative points alongside a wider positive praise.

When people make up testimonials, the review is a perfectly positive one as they endlessly praise and glorify on and on and on...enough to get diabetes.

Just my 2 cents.

Uh oh, you can get diabetes from a positive review? Anyway I'm done with this back and forth. Have a good life, Mike.

When people make up testimonials, the review is a perfectly positive one as they endlessly praise and glorify on and on and on...enough to get diabetes.

You are indeed correct. :D

My negative review as well as other negative reviews which were there for a month and were VALIDATED AND APPROVED, have suddenly been removed.

Care to copy/paste your review? (thanks)

Care to copy/paste your review? (thanks)

I have singed up to webhostingstuff.com as Mike on the 12/26/07.

The title of my review on hostnine.com was: "Unreliable and Unprofessional"

The rest of the review is similar to the one I wrote here on WHT.

The review was validated and I gave them my domain name which was hosted with hostnine.


Here's the mail I got from webhostingstuff.com:

"info@webhostingstuff.com" to me
show details 12/26/07


Dear Mike,

IMPORTANT: To publish your review for HostNine.Com on WebHostingStuff.com, please click on the verification link below:
http://www.webhostingstuff.com/actRev.html?p=9936&q=998738

Your review will be published on WebHostingStuff.com as soon as you click the above verification link.

Once again, thank you for adding your valuable comments on WebHostingStuff.com.

Have A Nice Day! :)

Web Hosting Stuff Team
http://www.webhostingstuff.com


My review was there for a month or so and had suddenly disappeared just as the NINE glowing testimonials on hostnine suddenly appeared.

Strange if your story is accurate.

Strange if your story is accurate.

My story is accurate but this is not strange...not strange at all.

This is just a typical action taken by a desperate captain of a drowning ship (hostnine.com).

You're right. As long as none of us can provide proof, they won't be discovered.

Theoretically, there could have been 900 positive reviews in a row in ONE DAY at webhostingstuff.com and STILL individuals like yourself would have doubted the fact that it was made up.

Isn't that great?

Companies like hostnine exist only because of a reasonable doubt and because only few customers would ever bother to check the truth deeply into the forums (if they could find it) and find their way to crooked review sites instead!

There is NOTHING to prove. Can't you see each domain name and IP of the review? Contact them!

Please ignore any post made by this user as I do not believe they were EVER a HostNine customer. I have asked them for a ticket number to back up their outrageous claims against us and I simply get ignored every time.

Please ignore any post made by this user as I do not believe they were EVER a HostNine customer. I have asked them for a ticket number to back up their outrageous claims against us and I simply get ignored every time.

Luckily for the rest of us:

1.This is not hostnine's forum where you can act as a dictator and remove any post you don't like.

2.I have verified my domain hosted with hostnine several times. I will do it again now just to shut this fellow up.

3.As you can see from this thread alone, I'm not the only one who had a bad experience with your company.

This all sounds very strange to me.

Luckily for the rest of us:

1.This is not hostnine's forum where you can act as a dictator and remove any post you don't like.

2.I have verified my domain hosted with hostnine several times. I will do it again now just to shut this fellow up.

3.As you can see from this thread alone, I'm not the only one who had a bad experience with your company.

Do me a favor, call 877-251-4678 ext 1000

It's a toll-free number so there is no charge to you what so ever. Since the mods have already told you who I am and you still do not believe give me a call and provide me with a ticket number over the phone. Otherwise these two line posts are inaccurate and a waste of time.

Keep in mind this is the third method of providing me a ticket number that I have requested. I asked for it via PM or in reply to the post. Now I am going as far as paying for you to call me personally and provide me with the ticket number over the phone.

Strange if your story is accurate.
It seems to me at least some of the 'anger' here should be directed at
webhostingstuff.com, not soley at host9.

Maybe what were not seeing here is as important as what we are seeing.
Host9 poster here is 'overworking' which we are all guilty of, but should try to avoid.
Mike_J obviously had some real business problems as a result of Host9 lettimg him down.

I do not think banging there heads together on a public forum will help either of them.

Just given there current needs they are both 'missmatched'.

Sometimes in life & business, you just have to walk away.

Lets look at some facts:
- in a short space of time, we see many positive reviews on WHT for h9
- in all positive reviews, the reviews do not look genuine, do not provide any insight into the host and seem very generic
- in all reviews, the user hardly has any posts or credibility

- All at the same time, you get random positive reviews of h9 crop up from nowhere on WebHostingStuff

- You have negative reviews being censored out

Now all of the above is fact for everyone to see..

I think hostnine is posting fake reviews. I genuinely and strongly believe that. No host will receive such amount of reviews in such a short space of tie.

So i totally agree with Mike on this case. It seems h9 is indeed a sicking ship, and the owners are desperately trying to sway people. I bet my post will be dismissed by h9 and they will call everything I have said as wrong, but you know what? The proof is still there for people to go and see to make their minds up :)

Am I being harsh? Of course I am, and that is only because it's obvious what h9 is doing and for them to come here and say no everything is genuine really makes me angry when it is obvious the positive reviews are fake.

Are the fake reviews verifiable? Sure, they may be. They could be domains owned by friends, family and whatnot. Or maybe domains registered by others, or domains being hosted for free. Just because the domain resolves back to the host, it in no way makes it true.

So h9, go on and say everything I have said is false, prove my point :D

Lets look at some facts:
- in a short space of time, we see many positive reviews on WHT for h9
- in all positive reviews, the reviews do not look genuine, do not provide any insight into the host and seem very generic
- in all reviews, the user hardly has any posts or credibility

- All at the same time, you get random positive reviews of h9 crop up from nowhere on WebHostingStuff

- You have negative reviews being censored out

Now all of the above is fact for everyone to see..




Good summary ;)

- in a short space of time, we see many positive reviews on WHT for h9
- in all positive reviews, the reviews do not look genuine, do not provide any insight into the host and seem very generic
- in all reviews, the user hardly has any posts or credibility

- All at the same time, you get random positive reviews of h9 crop up from nowhere on WebHostingStuff

- You have negative reviews being censored out

Now all of the above is fact for everyone to see..

I think hostnine is posting fake reviews. I genuinely and strongly believe that. No host will receive such amount of reviews in such a short space of tie.

So i totally agree with Mike on this case. It seems h9 is indeed a sicking ship, and the owners are desperately trying to sway people. I bet my post will be dismissed by h9 and they will call everything I have said as wrong, but you know what? The proof is still there for people to go and see to make their minds up

Am I being harsh? Of course I am, and that is only because it's obvious what h9 is doing and for them to come here and say no everything is genuine really makes me angry when it is obvious the positive reviews are fake.

Are the fake reviews verifiable? Sure, they may be. They could be domains owned by friends, family and whatnot. Or maybe domains registered by others, or domains being hosted for free. Just because the domain resolves back to the host, it in no way makes it true.

Thumbs up bro! I'm glad to see another poster with eyes on his/her head instead of dollar bills :agree:

Lets look at some facts:
- in a short space of time, we see many positive reviews on WHT for h9
- in all positive reviews, the reviews do not look genuine, do not provide any insight into the host and seem very generic
- in all reviews, the user hardly has any posts or credibility

- All at the same time, you get random positive reviews of h9 crop up from nowhere on WebHostingStuff

- You have negative reviews being censored out

Now all of the above is fact for everyone to see..

I think hostnine is posting fake reviews. I genuinely and strongly believe that. No host will receive such amount of reviews in such a short space of tie.

So i totally agree with Mike on this case. It seems h9 is indeed a sicking ship, and the owners are desperately trying to sway people. I bet my post will be dismissed by h9 and they will call everything I have said as wrong, but you know what? The proof is still there for people to go and see to make their minds up :)

Am I being harsh? Of course I am, and that is only because it's obvious what h9 is doing and for them to come here and say no everything is genuine really makes me angry when it is obvious the positive reviews are fake.

Are the fake reviews verifiable? Sure, they may be. They could be domains owned by friends, family and whatnot. Or maybe domains registered by others, or domains being hosted for free. Just because the domain resolves back to the host, it in no way makes it true.

So h9, go on and say everything I have said is false, prove my point :D

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=webhostingstuff.com

Feel free to contact Michael. He will verify that all reviews are legitimate reviews as well as real customers that we host. I'm sorry it upsets you so much to see positive reviews come from HostNine but are you forgetting about the person who's first post was to bash us and not provide any proof? I guess that's OK but when someone wants to join WHT to share a positive experience unless it's about YOUR company that's a huge red flag?

While you continue to make all of these outrageous accusations about HostNine go look at all of the positive reviews we received for a year and a half on WHS, WHT, and other various websites. You will find they are no different than the reviews we're receiving now. Heck, I think Alton (http://www.webhostingstuff.com/comments/HostNineCom-10237.html) even posted a few reviews about H9 on WHT a year ago.

It's not like we're some new company popping up with 1000's of great reviews out of no where. We have a very respectable track record in this industry and work with some of the best partners around. We have better things to do with our time like assisting customers and improving our service rather than writing reviews about ourselves.

That's it for me on this thread.