Web Hosting Service Warning - EHost.net FatNetwork.net SearchItUp.com

Awhile ago, while searching for a reliable and affordable hosting solution, I went with eHost.net after many had praised the services here from the board.

When I first started using them a year and a half ago, all was well. The sites worked nicely, and there were no hiccups to mention. About 5 months ago, problems starting occurring on several of the sites. SQL servers were going down, then the servers themselves.

Addressing the issues were lasting anywhere from 12 hours to 5 days, depending on the domain and server.
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Uptime Monitoring for Shared Hosting?

Is there such a thing that will allow me to monitor the uptime on my shared hosting? If so, how much bandwidth/resources does such a service take up?

I’ve recently gone to a new host–one that is fairly well liked here too–and I’ve been surprised to find out that the uptime is not at all what I expected for a host with good reputation both here and at HostJury. I feel as though been getting a lot of regular slowdowns and downtime, and I’ve only been with them for a little more than a week! Anyway, I’m refraining from mentioning the name of the host for now, because I’d like to still give them the benefit of the doubt while I’m working with their tech support, who have been extremely responsive thus far.

But this is why I’m interested in uptime monitoring. Any suggestions?



Surpasshosting.com web host is cheating - fake advertising!

Surpasshosting have a package that provides 4000GB. However, they lock your account to 400gb and that’s their limit.

Its all predefined locking and not responsive locking due to resource use. I certainly will not renew with them…



HostingZoom Web Hosting Service Review - 3 Years

If some of you have followed my other reviews on HostingZoom(HZ) posted on here, you might be wondering why are the # of months are not correct… it’s actually do to my poor math skills haha.. but here it is, calculated correctly(I hope).

I’ve been an HZ customer for 3 years now. That must say quite a lot about HZ in itself and the fact that I come back here periodically to tell others about my experience at HZ. A little backgrounder for starters.

I’ve been with HZ since April 2005. I came to this very forum to read up on reviews and get recommendations. I narrowed down my search to HZ and Site5. At the time, 2 very formiddible hosts in the industry. Both touting blazing fast response time to tickets, superior-high quality support, excellent servers managed by the best. After getting feedback and contacting both hosts I made my decision to go with HZ. Their sales staff was particularly helpful and friendly. Quite prominentely I remember getting blazing fast replies from Kiet Duong(CEO of HZ) with detailed explanations to the questions I had as a n00b in the hosting industry(I feel quite dumb looking back at the questions I’ve asked). It was this personal helpfulness that I experienced that gave me the extra push to go with HZ added with the fact that they had live chat technical support.
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StartLogic Customer. I’m NOT Happy - Short Review

I am a total newb. I wanted to try to make a site maybe 3-4 months ago, so I looked for a web host. I chose http://www.startlogic.com

All was well until maybe 2 weeks ago. Every page that relied on a mysql database began loading very slowly. These are WP blogs. I waited a few days and contacted support @ Start Logic. They said it would have to go to level 2 tech support, but they would get an answer/ fix within 24 hours.

After 4 days, I had not heard from them. So I went to their online chat tech support for an answer. After 1.5 hours of waiting, I reached customer service. The lady began by telling me that I needed to mail them some screen shots of the problem. Then she put me on hold and came back with this auto response:
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