infinitie.net is my sixth host review of 8 hosts for October 2010 webhostingstuff.com’s top 25. When I first wrote up my review for whs in late October of 2010 the first thing that came to mind was this host had a 2 star ratine, or in my own thinking a 40% approval rating. By grade school standards that means this host is failing. The site itself is a poor design, and it appears that there has not been an update on the site in 2 years. But the point is they are supposed to be one of 25 so called best hosts, so I figured I should look at the reviews on webhostingstuff.
http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/InfinitieNetworks.html
The complaints on just webhostingstuff.com point to tech support issues. One complaint states having to give details that were already given before. Nothing is more aggravating then having to state what was already given, especially if its in a ticket system. It gets worse when it deals with down time.
Infinitie networks only has one review that puts them in a good light
Infinitie is great (Average)
What state is Infinitie Networks located?
I have been reading several places where there are claims of being headquartered in Phoenix.
“Our Support Team is located in house at our Phoenix NOC operations center, so we are in Arizona Standard Time, which as of right now is basically mountain time.“
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1001369&highlight=infinitie.net
But the problem is their domain whois info gives a Nevada address:
Infinitie Networks 3155 East Patrick Lane Suite 1 Las Vegas, Nevada 89120-3481 United States
Then there is this from another webhostingtalk post:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1001360&highlight=infinitie.net
IP to Ping: 208.89.218.1 (Phoenix, AZ)
So I ping it and I do a look up by IP
http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/208.89.218.1
http://www.websitefigures.com/site/infinitie.net
Once again I am brought back to Las Vegas, Nevada not Phoenix Arizona (where I am). Its not like he could not set up a data center here. I am not sure why someone would claim to not be from Las Vegas. Phoenix is in many ways similar in economics, crime, and climate. Both of which I think are ideal cities in terms having a network center as both are geo-logically stable and extreme weather is rare.
Going through their site I find a link to the colocation facitily in Arizona http://infinitie.net/phxcolo-index.php
But I am brought back to that ip “to ping”.
Perhaps it was a mistake? That the ip they meant to use was for their Phoenix location. Its not like every host out there stays in one city.
But I am brought back to the design of infinitie networks
The blog seems to be the only thing with posts for this year, granted its only 3 blog posts. The forums are far worse.
http://community.infinitie.net/index.php?showforum=39
One of the things I hate about having a blog or forum on a company site is that you have to do regular updates. While a plus in an active blog and or forum gets a site higher search engine rankings, it means someone needs to update it. If you guessed I was the one that got suckered into maintaining them you guessed correctly. The rate that I put out posts for this blog would be considered barely adequate.
Looking at their announcement forum all looked well until the end of September 2008. While there were frequent updates through 2008 to then, it just suddenly stops. I am not sure why they stopped. It has to be better then paying webhostingstuff to show case that even while infinitie networks are in the top 25 they have a 40% approval by customers.
Hello,
I am a director at Infinitie Networks and I would like to discuss the
reasons that you gave us a bad review especially when you yourself
have never used our service. I have posted comments in the past giving
your readers full detailed information on your ridiculous reasons for
giving us a bad review, like that our datacenter is in phoenix but our
company is based out of las vegas, and you have refused to allow the
comments to be posted. It is straight up defamation to post a bad
review of a service you have never used and we would like you to
either post our response or pull down the review.
Hello Austin,
I don’t stop hosts from placing comments, you can see this if you do enough reading. However I am not responsible if your comments are marked as spam by WordPress, I get way too much spam to go through anything marked as spam.
Did you see what the domain for this site is? Its called hosting-reviews-exposed.com, this is not a simple hosting review site, or for that matter offering positioning based on how much you pay for “advertising”.
Regards,
Benjamin
Use another company with more/better reviews. Good hosting costs money!
I been with infinite for about 4 months now. I have a dedicated with them. No downtime or hardware issues so far.
They are a great company if you can support your self, hence the cheap prices. Still however quality of their network and hardware is the same as the big boys that many pays big bucks for.
Hello Lanh,
What site is that you have had with them for 4 months? The one you listed was created back in December 2011 so less than 2 months.
You have a nice Alexa score for being less than 2 months old, but I would recommend a site that is less cluttered. Also the Bing back links seems to miss report for this site, but than again so do most sites that report SEO stats.
Defiantly give me an update when you have been with them for 6 months or longer.
Regards,
Benjamin
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@Benjamin: also, thank you for your review. Yes you are correct, I need to redesign my site. I am actually in school right now, been too busy to make it look exactly how I like it.