I've read some posts on this board where people flame dot5 for pushing their service on WHT.

Outside of their aggressive marketing, what sorts of problems have people had with their service?

Are there any concrete complaints you can make about dot5hosting's service (and not just their marketing)?

I am considering moving my web hosting to them and wanted the sage wisdom of the board first.

Not sure about concrete, maybe cement rendered...

But im just another guy from a different building industry.
:D

Try doing a search using the great utility to your top right ;)

I'm pretty happy with dot5hosting - no complaints. I've been with them since July 25th. Not that long, but then the company hasn't been going that long either.

Sure, they've made a couple of minor mistakes, but they more than made up for it with their willing and helpful service. They're always cheerful and always ready to assist.

It's very refreshing to me to get such good service from them, seeing as I came from UK2.net. I'm very satisfied so far, and I'd definitely recommend them.

(Nope, I'm not affiliated with them and I won't gain anything from this recommendation)

Just read the thread on dot5hosting's advertising techniques. Can't say I see anything wrong with it, although they may advertise aggressively.

Just for the record, I found dot5 on these forums from a user post. Chris did not ask me to post here about dot5hosting.

Well, I've been with dot5hosting for two and a half months, and I'm happy so far. Dot5Hosting are by no means perfect - they did fluff things a few times, but their honest approach to solving the problem, lack of ego, and no pissing about has made them tops in my opinion.

If you want to see my site to check for advertising/affiliation, or for any other reasons, please private message me.

Yeah, but for me, ensim + maximum 5 mySQL = bad. I mean, I heard it was hard to even make a subdomain with ensim? I would get way to frusterated with something like that. :(

John

We use wildcards for subdomains, and you can purchase more MySQL at any time on any of our plans.

The only major complaint, I've seen as a newbie to WHT, is a payment issue with a single member - which appears resolved on that thread.

We did have a problem with payment through WorldPay (Our CC processor) which has now been resolved.

Ive regist dot5hosting.com couple days ago.
I already setup DNS info.
my server down always.server had down almost one day.
its stupid.they dont fix my server,they just advertise
at BBS and find new customers.not fair....
I lost my e-mails,I lost my Business chance.
if you doing for fan its ok.if you doing serious
you lost everything.

Originally posted by bsapp
Ive regist dot5hosting.com couple days ago.
I already setup DNS info.
my server down always.server had down almost one day.
its stupid.they dont fix my server,they just advertise
at BBS and find new customers.not fair....
I lost my e-mails,I lost my Business chance.
if you doing for fan its ok.if you doing serious
you lost everything.

Our servers have not been down.

What is your domain name which has been "down" with us?

Originally posted by bsapp
Ive regist dot5hosting.com couple days ago. . . . . How long is a "couple days" ago? Two days? Two weeks? How many days?

Originally posted by bsapp
Ive regist dot5hosting.com couple days ago.
I already setup DNS info.
my server down always.server had down almost one day.
its stupid.they dont fix my server,they just advertise
at BBS and find new customers.not fair....
I lost my e-mails,I lost my Business chance.
if you doing for fan its ok.if you doing serious
you lost everything.
Sounds like your domain is still propagating....:eek:

i believe dot 5 is a rackshack server owner and that i guess explains the aggressive marketing. also the heasdsurfer reccommends them. so i see where they can get away with a bit more

i ran across this one day

http://cyberwingsowesmemoney.com/rackshack.html

To save people looking:

headsurfer: BTW ... shameluss plug for one of our good customers ... if you
need hosting, you might want to try dot5hosting. :)

sorry for all dot5hosting.com team.
the domain problem was 100% my fault.