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WebHostingPad – They are cheap, but are they good?

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Thales PNo Comments

I’ve come across webhostingpad a few years ago when I used to click on PTC ads like bux.to, neobux and so forth. So I’ve thought what a deal, Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited Bandwidth for $1.99/mo!. That’s awesome! Without a thought, I clicked on sign up now and was with my credit card on hands already! Because I love to get cheap deals like this one, and I usually don’t miss out on opportunities!

So first, that price is only available if you pay for 3 years of hosting at once, if you are willing to pay per month, I’m sorry, but you’ll not pay $1.99 per month to have all those features, sad I know, but I was still amazed by the price, so I checked out and paid around $200 bucks for 3 years of hosting and a free domain name, plus AdWords coupon and yahoo coupons, so as I was a newbie back then I’ve thought I had made a great deal.

The approval was really fast, and so was the domain registration, but the domain is only free for ONE YEAR, if you don’t register it on the next year, goodbye your domain, so you must keep track on the domain name otherwise if your website gets famous someone can get your domain after it expires, and you’ll be sorry. One more thing, you CAN’T change the DNS of the domain you registered with them, so if in one year you realize that their service is not THAT great, well, you’re going to stick with them for a long time since you have paid for the hosting already & you can’t change the domain’s DNS.

Their uptime is a joke, seriously, my website is offline at least twice a week, and when it happens to be not for a few minutes, it’s for like 10 minutes or so, you may think it is not a big deal, but imagine if you get a visitor and he/she sees your website is unavailable, they will think your website is gone.

It’s worse if you are a company or selling a service product, it shows how unprofessional your website is, because most of the WebHosting companies guarantee an uptime of at least 99,9%, I’d say that webhostingpad’s uptime is 80%. And this website here, Current Biz Solutions is not hosted on WebhostingPad, it’s on Hostgator & gosh, I wish I had registered the hosting with Hostgator from the beginning, now I’m stuck with a poor WebHosting company, and I can’t migrate my website to Hostgator because the domain is locked.

So before you buy a hosting account, check if the company is worth it, so you don’t have headaches later when you realize that the cheap is cheap because is bad! That’s my review\complain about webhostingpad.

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