Comments on: Signs You Have a Bad Webhost

By: tires

tires — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:36:44 +0000

Finding a good host can be like searching for the holy grail at times. I have been fortunate to have good support and reliability most of the time but some hosts have really tried my patience at times.

-Jean

By: eric

eric — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Thanks to Google cache too, Mitch. To recover 3 blogs with no backup… it was terrible and painful.

By: eric

eric — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:41:30 +0000

you are correct, Walter but for almost new bloggers they want to spend as little as possible. sometimes they try to look for free hosting as well until it’s too late already.

By: Walter

Walter — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:58:15 +0000

Before I started my blog year ago, I take into consideration the importance of webhost. It will save us a lot of headache if we do a little research about the prospective host we want to rent. Better go to those with names than to gamble with less known hosting services.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:46:47 +0000

That’s terrible stuff, and, if you know me at all, you know I’d have outed them. Had that problem, of sorts, back in 2005. Folks sold their site to someone else, and a month later the entire database crashed, and all was lost. I had my website, but not my blog posts. Luckily, Google had every single one of them, but it took me hours to find them all, download them all, and repost. But I did it, once I found a new hosting site. Scary; I’d have to think about moving.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:08:48 +0000

First of all, sorry to hear about this unfortunate event. Second, all the trouble, hassle and headache caused by their incompetence and all they could offer was a free month of hosting? That’s just shows what kind of webhost they are.

Like Roy mentioned, I admire that you didn’t mention them inspite of what happened. Although, mentioning the name of the company would do more people good, especially your readers so that they can avoid this webhost and spare them the same experience.

Are you still with them or have you moved to a different webhost?

By: vernz

vernz — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:05:48 +0000

Ay ganun! this is helluva day! Eric… so far wala panaman ganito yung akin … but anyway, that’s why they’re machines and your human Eric… wag kanang magalit…. hehehe… Lightening you up a bit… Good night!

By: Jena Isle

Jena Isle — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:54:30 +0000

This is terrible Eric, I would not have the patience to put up a blog all over again. That’s genuine hard work. Don’t they have an online chat for instant replies? I think Roy and I have the same webhost, not sure, but they have been assisting me promptly with my questions. I chat online with the technical stuff. I am an ignoramus about codes and php, etc so I need lots of help. My webhost was always there when I needed help. I am wondering why Roy didn’t name his webhost. Are you advertising another lol..anyway…good luck with your dilemma. I hope you’ll solve it soon enough.

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By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:46:41 +0000

Good list! I’m on a great host, and you can certainly tell the difference from a bad host.

I’d suggest the following as well:-

1. Server up, but database server down.
2. Poor support in terms of technicalities.

Great post