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I purchased a VPS from them and initially received the first two emails, but after that, all communication stopped. I contacted their support and spent hours trying to obtain my account details and SSH/root access, but got nowhere. I’m unable to reset my account password, and both live chat and ticket support were unhelpful. To make matters worse, I can’t even submit a proper ticket without having access to my account. After wasting over four hours trying to resolve this, I got no solution. Based on my experience, I would strongly advise buyers to stay away. There are also many negative reviews about them online. I ended up losing $20, which they refused to refund. Overall, a very poor experience with an unprofessional company running a basic WHMCS setup with nothing unique to offer. submitted by /u/NotOneOfThem911 [link] [comments]

I just wanted to add to the ever growing list of complaints about hosting.com. I feel compelled to direct people away from this appalling company. I had several small business websites hosted with A2 Hosting for the past 6 years. Ever since A2 Hosting was taken over and rebranded as hosting.com I have had considerable problems. The biggest problem being speed issues. Admittedly, I have always been on shared hosting. Despite being on shared hosting I always found the speed provided through A2 hosting fantastic. Now on hosting.com I frequently experience my site running extremely slow (like 100kB/s slow!). I am well aware that shared hosting is never going to be the best experience, however most hosting providers can provide fairly snappy experience at the same price point. Additionally, I am on a extremely stable 1gbps fiber-to-the-home connection, so I easily notice if anything is running slowly. I have now moved 3 of my sites over to Siteground and find the difference to be extreme to say the least. Their speed is even better than what I was receiving on my old A2 hosting plans. I can’t speak for their service response yet as I have not required it. My main gripe with Siteground is their quirky control panel (I’ve been using cPanel since 2003), but you get used to it. I also find the caching setup on Siteground a little annoying too as it requires a plugin installed in WordPress to bypass it. I am certainly not advocating for people to switch to Siteground, but please do avoid hosting.com (at least for shared hosting as that is all I have experienced). Do plenty of research and choose wisely, it seems like hosting is really starting to get consolidated in the hands of a few very large corporations that really don’t care about their customers. submitted by /u/neandertool [link] [comments]

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Is there really anything wrong with using WordPress.com for hosting my small business website? Domain is with NameSilo. Simple website, minimal pages, low visitors, nothing fancy. And it should be easy to maintain to keep my time involved low and keep my insanity, correct? submitted by /u/Supperman999 [link] [comments]

I went with Namecheap (plenty of good reviews out there), installed Word Press in Softaculous, and when I go to login as admin user I get sent to a Server Not Found page. I have zero doubt in my ability to figure out modern website design but this one stupid thing is stopping me and I can’t figure out how to get in and can’t find this problem anywhere on the web. Even removed installation and reinstalled WP and same thing. EDIT: Problem apparently solved, it was the nameservers default setting making it not work. Mega-thanks to Jefferey_Richards for the assist. submitted by /u/Violent_Gore [link] [comments]