Comments on: Webfaction Sucks? Fraction of Webfaction Reviews

By: warren

warren — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:40:47 +0000

My experience with webfaction is generally positive. They certainly have fantastic personal tech support. My interest in them was a result of the pseudo-vps aspect which is allowing me to run caudium as my server, at an affordable cost. They are not, however, perfect. Their homespun account interface takes some adjustment and really is clumsy, although it does everything it needs to once you figure it out, and the email server is not well optimized resulting in frequent failed connection attempts and lag problems in receiving mail from SMTP and retrieving with desktop POP client. I do recommend them, though.

By: Zach

Zach — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:27:22 +0000

Agreed! I’ve had webfaction for close to a year. While I get the vibe that a lot of the web faction staff and users are pythonistas, they have great support for other apps and languages. I have ruby and php apps hosted there. Their control panel is useful and the workflow for serving apps on different domains/sites is intuitive. When I was just getting started their staff helped me troubleshoot even the most embarrassing mistakes. Also, their forums are a great knowledge-base for whatever you’re trying to do. Their staff are ubiquitous.

By: Trey

Trey — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:46:18 +0000

Another happy webfaction customer here. Support has always been fast and professional. +1

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:32:54 +0000

What can I say, unbelievably variety of deployment solutions without any hassle on the end user’s part and almost seamless integration with all major web platforms (and let’s admit it, who cares about windows and it’s almost proprietary ASP.NET), this is definitely one of the best offers I’ve yet to encounter, and the budget range is just yet another plus , highly recommended for pros and newbies alike.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:13:46 +0000

Just get the cheapest plan if you are starting up. The other plans just multiplies the storage space, bandwidth and application memory of the cheapest plan.

By: wenbert

wenbert — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:03:26 +0000

Just curious, most people on Webfaction have what Plan? I plan to get the cheapest plan just want to survey.

By: Refefer

Refefer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:02:46 +0000

I would also like to throw in my agreement wholeheartedly! I’ve been with them for a little over a year and they have been perfect in every metric I consider important.

By: Oz

Oz — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:04:42 +0000

I agree ! I am a happy client of Webfaction, and that is just true.
I feel like I know these guys personally when I send them an email. They alway answer fast, and they don’t just give you an out of the book answer.
Their tools are great and professional.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:05:41 +0000

Oh the irony! Just found this post by googling “don’t use webfaction”.
Another host that doesn’t suck – http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1CHMP_en-GBGB291GB304&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=unitedhosting+sucks

I’m very tempted to move to webfaction, its a little more expensive than what I’m paying right now, but they offer subversion hosting which is a major feature for me. Plus I haven’t heard that many bad things about them.

The only negative thing I’ve picked up was that there were a few minor problems with their trac setup

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:00:11 +0000

I have a friend who hosts through Webfaction and his website looks amazing, always online and seems fine. He has no problems with it.

5/5 stars.

Yes I’m a real person
I live in Portland Oregon