Hosting24 Any Good?
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Apr 5,2009
So is 
Hosting24.com Web Hosting any good or they just suck really bad? They they don’t have many bad reviews about them when we searched for “hosting 24 sucks” or “hosting 24 complaints” on Google today. Can we say it sucks for their competitors? Not too fast. We also tried “hosts24 sucks”, “hosting24 sux”, “host24 sucks” and other variation of misspells, just incase some smart ass cannot even spell the host name right.
If you are considering any hosting company, you should do a search for keywords “X Hosting Sucks” on Google. Perhaps you have already read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about hosting X but doing the “X sucks” search may reveal the true side of the hosting provider. You can also try other keywords such as “hosting 24 problems”,
“hosting 24 bad”,“hosting 24 issues” or “hosting 24 scam”.
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http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=714107&page=3
Well i hope this is true, because I just registred there…
I will post here if it will suck..
Apparently you guys didn’t see the 3rd ranked page for hosting 24 sucks on google.
they scam.. they ask u for ur money..
u pay em.. then when u ask for a refund they say no.. -.-
Did you ask for a refund within their refund period?
This is great I plan to do my web hosting to hosting 24! thanks
Hosting24.com works well. With a 99% uptime and web support that gets back to you within 10-60 mins with helpful answers.
I like them so much that I bought a reseller account from them and now have really nice WHM abilities.
I use Joomla mostly as my CMS and sell space to my clients that I design Joomla sites for.
No web host can offer 100% uptime. Just not possible to maintain the entire internet all by yourself to be able to claim %100 uptime.
Yes they have been offline a few times but not for very long, a few hours at most.
They use a large multi site datacenter to host the web servers in so they have to work with the techs there if something fails at the datacenter.
What webhost24 has control over is the web site look and the effectiveness of the site. The free site works really well and provisions sites quickly.
It does its job of getting leads for hosting24, thats how I found them and I am a perfect example of the kind of customer they want.
I buy what they sell, follow the rules and promote them.
If you want your host to work you have to support them.
Michael Scott McGinn
GeekZoneBooks.Com
myCMShosting.com
Some more information about hosting24.
Some things that I hope they work into the offerings…
Support for the InnoDB mysql engine – I have some Joomla Scripts that I would want to run but they need the InnoDB Engine and not the MyISAM engine.
Support for fproc() function- same reason some of my scripts will not work with out it.
They say that the InnoDB Engin is not as fault resistant as MyISAM so they do not offer it and the fproc() php function is a security risk to allow.
So if you need these functions to work you need to buy your own rack server that you can have root access to, then it is your responsibility to support it.
Another service I wish they had for the reseller accounts is a auto provisioning and billing script that a visitor could selfprovision a cpanel account with. They do not offer one so you have to manually provision the cpanel accounts using the WHM interface.
But for the price they offer it at it is still far below the alternatives to get the same levels of space and support the do offer.
Michael Scott McGinn
geekzonebooks.com
myCMShosting.com
I both their Gold package and at the begining I was very satisfied, but after that I needed to install DL Guard on my website……but unfortunately they didn’t support a lot of things in PHP (or they just didn’t set them correctly ).
So I cancel my account, and went back to my old HOSTGATOR hosting.
I was happy to have a dedicated IP for a cheap price and a much better loading pages, but when it comes to functionality they lack.
BEWARE of hosting24 – they will steal and destroy your data
So, the features they advertise do look pretty good, but for your own sakes DO NOT FALL FOR IT. This “service” is a DISASTER from beginning to end, it is simply unbelievable that a “service” of this quality and this much contempt and disrespect to the customers is still around.
First of all, you’ll be lucky if your uptime is 60%. Yes, half of the time you or your users try to access the site, it is down. Disks fail, servers shut down … and on, and on and on … The other half of the time, it is up, but you have to be REALLY patient to get the page loaded, it is so slow, I sometimes think they are just typing the content in by hand as it is loading. I was running a standard BB engine there, nothing fancy.
You think this is all? Oh, no, just wait, this is only the beginning. So, if you get some kind of traffic coming in (and I mean just SOME traffic – maybe, 100 hits per DAY, nowhere near real traffic), their puny servers start to collapse, and come down to a CRAWL. And then (get this!), they blame YOU for your db queries being “slow”! My 12 year old PC runs these same queries in milliseconds (not tens of milliseconds, single digits).
So, they let you run this parody on a website for a while, and accumulate enough users, and user-contributed data, they just … shut it down! Yes, without any kind of a warning or anything, in the middle of the day, the site just disappears, and all your users start getting redirected to some stupid and irrelevant upsell page for the webhosting, instead of the site they were looking for, without explanation or any message whatsoever. And they won’t tell you about it. You’ll have to wait til one of the users thinks about notifying you to find out your site is gone.
Naturally, when this happens, you login to your account to see what is going on … and that’s when you find out that your “slow queries” violated their TOS. Needles to say, there is nothing in TOS about “slowness” of your “queries”, I mean, one would have to be a complete idiot to put something like that in their TOS (“our servers are way too weak to sustain anything remotely resembling a database, you are better off hosting it on your damn laptop”).
Anyway, so, what do you do now? I suppose, write them a polite letter where you apologize sincerely for inadvertedly straining their “servers” with your “slow queries”, promise, that it will never happen again, and humby point out, that there is actually nothing in the TOS speaking to the effect of the speed of the db queries, and thus technically you are not even in violation.
At this point, you are, probably, not even interested in reinstating your account anymore. I for one, had enough of this “service” by now. It’s nothing but trouble, problems all around. NOTHING works as advertised … So, I don’t even ask them to reactivate the account, just give me my data back, simple enough, isn’t it? Let me download the content of the database, and I’ll be out of your hair. Simple enough, isn’t it?
Well … that’s where the most interesting part begins! The response I got from their “support” person, states that:
accounts that they THINK are in violation of something, are cancelled immediately
Once the account is cancelled, all data pertaining to it is DESTROYED, not just on the server disks, but even in the backups, and there is absolutely no way to recover it.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I found this “policy” absolutely EYE POPPING. Not only, they shut you down whenever they fell like it, but they will allso INTENTIONALLY and WILLFULLY DESTROY ALL OF THE CUSTOMER’S DATA. Not because of some catastrophic failure or an act of sabotage, but AS A MATTER OF POLICY.
“Hosting service”, destroying their customer’s data on purpose? That’s a new one …
I just could not believe my eyes when I read their reply. I figured, there must be something I am missing, misunderstood, it just cannot be true. So, I write back, and ask for a clarification. Here is the exact reply I got back from their “suport”:
— QUOTE
Hello,
Your account is gone. Nothing can be recovered. All backups are removed. Any or all data is gone. I don’t see why you are nit picking at everything.
Regards,
Damien | I hate signatures
— END QUOTE
Now THIS left me speechless. Just WOW.
Perhaps you are thinking something along the lines of “well, this will never happen to me, because I always make backups”. Think again! If you have more then 10M of data, the db backups won’t work with this hoster either. They crash in the middle of the download. I tried many times and not once was able to download successfully. And when I asked “support” about it, I got a reply to the effect that “yeah, we know, it does not work”.
Well, enough said. I hope, I was clear enough to persuade you to stay as far away from this “service” or from any other “service” ran by these fraudsters for your own sake.
There are plenty of hosting choices around the net, and this one is BY FAR THE WORST ONE!
Oh, and I don’t know about sucking, but try googling “hosting24 scam” or “000webhost scam” (000webhsot is their other name – any con artist is bound to have at least two) or “hosting24 fraud” or any combination thereof, and I guarantee you that you will find A LOT of VERY interesting reading!
sandy, just because you don’t like hosting24, doesn’t mean you have to make up lies and get yourself all worked up. i read your whole post, and i just had to laugh. everything you said is false, and quite funny that your acting like a 5 year old about a single web host. i own a corporation, and have been with hosting24 for a year now. when i have a problem, they fix it right away. the longest i’ve had to wait for an answer in support chat is almost 1 minute. they are polite, caring and generous.
when i can’t afford my hosting bill, they will extend my time by 2 weeks to be able to pay the bill. they do have 99% uptime and my websites load so fast i don’t have time to hit the stop button before they load. everything works fine, i get no errors and if i do for some odd reason, i let them know, they fix it, and i am on my way in less than 5 minutes.
i don’t see why you want to lie about this company. they haven’t done anything to you, and you just act like an immature bitch. and that is a compliment.
I second what James says.
Hosting24 is a very good company in my opinion, and The most time my site was ever down for three minutes. I once had payment issues and they kept my site for about 2-3 weeks without payment when their policy states they will only keep it online for 6 days. They always respond promptly when I file a support request, and they were very quick at changing some sub-domains nameservers for me.
Overall, I have had a very good experience with hosting24
.
If there are few complaints, it may be because Hosting 24 makes it so difficult to fight back the all-powerful “sales manager” Mindaugas L., who hides behind the Internet with his snarky comments and refuses to address any illegal activity on their part. Please see http://hosting24sucksworst.com/
I wonder about the great rating because
Hosting24 DOESN’T ALLOW SSH ACCESS!
Here is the answer from Hosting24 support:
Hello Thomas
Unfortunately yes, none of the reseller clients
can have SSH enabled.
Regards,
Linas
Helpdesk Staff
Business Enterprise Hosting Media
http://www.hosting24.com
Of course, this is contradict to their own description on
the 1st Page. In the FAQ, there is also a note about blocked
ssh access.
Updating Websites without ssh is grossly negligent in these days. Good luck!
Maybe this is because if you are a reseller you might try and scam your customers by modifying files with ssh, .etc.
I have been working with hosting24 since last summer and, except for the fact that pages load rather slowly which I attribute to my being far from the servers, I find their services and respect for the customers quite satisfactory. When I have a problem they do care about it and their answers are always polite and quick. The most important reason for me to prefer this company is RV site builder and the cheap prices.
I’ve been quite satisfied with Hosting24 during my 14 months with them so far. They’re not perfect by any means, but they’re a relatively new host and they’ve improved even further since they celebrated their 1st birthday.
The poorest feature is that they can take up to 24 hours to reply to support tickets, although sometimes it can be within a few minutes, especially if it’s more urgent. They have been very reliable however with only a few technical problems that were sorted out quickly. They have also been helpful when I’ve needed advice. There was one incident where an organisation wrongfully complained to Hosting24 about my blogging site because of a legitimate review with my personal opinion of the organisation which even came with a legal disclaimer stating this fact. Hosting24 passed the complaint on to myself and asked me to remove the article in question to avoid further problems as they didn’t want legal action against themselves which the organisation threatened, it was very annoying as I wanted to stand up against the company in question as it was an honest review in a country with freedom of speech, but I understood their position that they didn’t want to risk legal action against themselves.
Their live chat feature never used to be on-line most of the time which was a bit annoying when it was advertised as being available, but more recently it’s been available when-ever I’ve needed to use it.
The features provided are very good and I’ve hosted more than one website with their Gold package along with a few SQL databases without any problems what-so-ever. The speed is also decent and I’ve got no complaints here.
Like many Hosts, they state they provide “unlimited” storage and bandwidth, but obviously if one tried to upload a website the size of YouTube, they would have a massive problem. Yes, there’s a fair usage policy with all “unlimited” hosts like Hosting24, but they certainly allow over 15GB of storage without any problem as they used this as an example customer, stating that they could continue to operate even if loads of customers decided to have over 15GB of storage too.
Incidentally, when reading reviews, if you see a link to a hosting24 affiliate link or a coupon code to get $2 off a month, then the review might be biased as they’re paid to promote Hosting24. I am a hosting24 affiliate, but I won’t post my affiliate link or coupon code here so people see that my review is 100% honest.