My site was down (for four days) earlier this week and it’s forced me to switch hosting providers to HostGator. It was a referral from an old school friend of mine, Dimitri Vasdekis who runs a quality headphones store from his home at HeadSonic. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.
As for Powweb (which sucks), I guess I can’t expect too much from a shared hosting provider, but four days worth of downtime for my little site is just unacceptable. To make things worse, their response to my query about their downtime, only took them two and a half days to fully address. I’ll let you know when I’ve switched over to HostGator - such anticipation. I’ll be glad to get away from all the MySQL errors, Internal Server errors and general slow speed on their plan.
Apparently this is a result of overselling their plan. It doesn’t surprise me with the amount of promotions they encouraged their users to do - I also never received my bonus credit for the promo I did not that I’d like to continue with Powweb anyway.
For more information about why Powweb Sucks, visit the main site, Powweb-Sucks.com. Ouch - that’s got to hurt their brand! Too bad they really do suck.
Other sites which think Powweb Sucks (also written by a guy named Rob, we must be cursed):
Powweb Web Hosting Sucks - Say Anything
Complaint About Powweb.com - Powweb Hosting Sucks
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Ironically, at the time of posting this entry, I was hosting my site on Powweb! Thanks guys. Enjoy the free publicity.
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Posted by Robert Kingston on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 6:06 pm. Category: Marketing, My Projects, News, Social Media. Comment Feed: RSS 2.0. Leave a Comment below, or a trackback from your site.
Down for 4 days!! Can’t believe, a hosting company being this careless.
Seven Shed
December 7th, 2007
You have no idea… When I realised it was down, I knew that there was nothing I could do. So I just had to wait 4 days for it to be resolved.
Fortunately, I’m now with an excellent web host, called HostGator. So far the site seems to be way more responsive and they’ve got a good record for reliability.
It’s funny to think that if I never encounterd so much downtime, I’d never have realised how much powweb sucks - or worse yet, I’d never have found a more reliable and responsive host.
Robert Kingston
December 7th, 2007
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December 9th, 2007
Another hosting provider I’ll be sure to avoid. 4 days of downtime is absolutely ridiculous, nevermind having to wait 2 days for them to address your concerns.
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December 13th, 2007