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    webhostingstuff- November 2010 top 25 list

    Since I just got a new connection set up I figured the first place I would go would be webhostingstuff November 2010 list.  Still as before I have friends that are being blocked when they tried to assist me with getting information from this phony review site.

    https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/webhostingstuff-is-blocking-me.html

    The blocking strategy boggles the mind.

    This time around there is not a huge change over like last month with the hosts that appear on the top 25.  For that matter I find only one of the hosts that enter the list to be of huge interest.  Even though I see two young sites one a year old another not even a month old.   2 which names don’t even appear to have anything to do with websites.

    Amazingly Hostgator is now in the number 1 postion, even though they are the only main stream host to stick with WHS.  Still not sigh of the Endurance International Group sites on the top 25, unless of coarse they bought someone on the list.

    Webhostingstuff top 1 – 10 most popular hosting companies

    Despite my marking  cirtexhosting.com there is no new hosts this month in the 1 – 10 rankings.

    Webhostingstuff top 11 – 20 most popular hosting companies

    4 new hosts in the 11 – 20 spot.  The first 2 look like there a place you store data as opposed to have websites up.

    hostinglocker.com, which remarkable with zero reviews and a domain that was created on October 22, 2010 gets the 11th spot

    aquariusstorage.com

    siteground.com, which I have know about for some time.  I have no idea why siteground would be paying for a ranking on this fake review site especially when they have the most reviews I have seen on the top 25.  343 reviews with a 80% ranking is not a bad thing.   I suspect I will find a lot of interesting stuff on siteground when it comes time to do their post.  WHS’s own rankings that can be seen by going to the page for site ground have them at:

    Traffic Popularity: #21 of 12,009 companies

    wooservers.com, which was created 11/10/2009  I suppose its possible a site that is just over a year old can be at the 19th spot.

    Webhostingstuff top 21 – 25 most popular hosting companies

    No new hosts are in the top 21 – 25 spot

    Buttt………………………….

    Webhostingstuff has i7net.net at 21 STILL!!!!!

    For full details as to why I find this odd you can go to https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/i7net.html for full details on a webhost thats not been online most of this year.

    It still seems that its going down hill for webhostingstuff

    Banahosting – Banahosting.com thinks they can control you

    Banahosting is my last host of  7 of webhostingstuff.com September 2010 list..  I seem to be on a roll with hosts that do not feel they need to have their terms of service link at the bottom of their site.  Though this host actually does have a link for the terms of service called “Terms and Conditions”.  But this site is a bit diffrent, even though they don’t have a link in the usual location.  The link where you might find the terms of service on the bottom of their page they have “Using this site means you accept its terms”,  Next to a privacy statement.   I may be no expert on legal mumble jumble but I do believe you would have to have the opportunity to actually read the terms of service before you can accept the tos.

    This text on banahosting is not linked to the terms of service

    Its my opinion that very text is unprofessional.  By being on a site does not bind one to the terms of service.  Nor the use of the site, it would be the use of services that binds you to terms of service which you generally agree to when you sign up for service.

    Chances are you are here because you wanted to find out more about banahosting, and not to see what new post I might have put up, maybe you have a complaint against banahosting.  Rest assured I am not going to hold you to any terms.

    So what else can I find wrong with banahosting?

    To be honest there is not much to go by.  The terms of service seem a bit weak, but otherwise I can find no problems.  I am sure things such as $20 to get a dedicated server turned back on might be a gripe.  Fee outside of the hosting fees as non-refundable also not something I see as an issue.

    The only thing that irks me about banahosting.com is the assumption that you agree to their terms just by using their site.

    Granted there is not a lot out there on this host that was formed back in February 2007.   This may be a host that I revisit at a later date.  Perhaps due to feed back I may get on this post.  I have to wonder why banahosting choose to get on webhostingstuff’s top 25.

    Cyberhostpro – Cyberhostpro.com where is the terms of service?

    Cyberhostpro is my sixth host out of  7 of webhostingstuff.com September 2010 list.  There is not a lot that I can tell you from just a simple search and once over look of the site.  There are not a lot of reviews out there.  The site is 5 years old.  I can tell you from what I seen they used to be housed on servers in the U.S. but changed over to a U.K. network.  Not that I ever made a big deal about what nation I was in.  I felt that if I did I might alienate someone.   Though it was not uncommon knowledge that every site that I did, operated under the U.S. Dollar.  Though towards the end I wanted to get a system up that would charge a customer based on their country.  Its a maddning system I admit given how many forms of currency are out there, and what it would take to have it up to date.  I could go on far longer on this blog post on currency exchanges then I could on cyberhostpro.  But lets look at the one thing that is missing on the main page, the tos (i.e. terms of service).  Granted this post may be one of my worst as I am battling a cold.  So while I am rather sleepy, I am also restless.  I am not one of those that can sleep out a disease, if I was the cold would probable have been gone sooner.  So here is my dieased ridden mind’s thoughts on cyberhostpro.

    So where is the terms of service on cyberhostpro?

    I am not sure what is with these hosts that are not up front with their terms of service.  As I indicated the merchants I dealt with are sticklers for that. They would look for that as well as the contact page.   If I had a banner up they we defiantly be asking about that. Keep in mind when I shopped around for merchant accounts I was looking for the lowest cost.   I tend to think most people do not know what rates to look for.  For me I can’t say I did either, but I am well aware of what percentage of my client billings are taken from me.  I tend to think that whomever companies such as cyberhostpro choose for a merchant really do not care about things such as terms of service and contact information.  I think they are more concerned about what suckers they can get under the high rates and hidden fees.  Never mind you may have absolutely no charge back protection.  Unless a host can adapt beyond such a merchant they will never be able to get into the big leagues of hosting.

    Ok the cold medicine is making me get off subject, where is that terms of service of cyberhostpro?

    Like prior hosts that are not showing the terms of service up front, they have it at the finale step of ordering.

    http://www.cyberhostpro.com/company/acceptable-use-policy/

    Here is what I find as a red flag with cyberhostpro in their terms of service

    Limit Over usage

    If you go over your disk space they will be a charge of
    £10.00 per 1GB daily fee applied to your account.
    If you go over your bandwidth allowance they will be a charge of
    £1.00 per 1GB daily fee applied to your account.

    Notice that was a daily fee.   Perhaps you took off for a 7 day vacition.   During those 7 days you were over 3 gigs of space.  This means you come back to a charge of £210.  I am not sure at this what a pound is to the dollar.  But last I remembered it was about %170 the value of a dollar.  Not exactly a small fee to endure every day.

    One finale thought on cyberhostpro

    Its a little odd after doing a post on manashosting, that when I do a review of cyberhostpro I find the same exact bot with the picture of a pretty girl thats really not a person that offers you a chat.  Both of which are annoying and bounce around the screen and follow you until you close it.   Unfortunatly I can’t seem to get the same one thats is on manashosting to reappear.

    Its almost like Jane works for both Manashosting and Cyberhostpro.

    Hostek – is Hostek.com just more hype then substance

    Hostek is my forth host out of  7 of webhostingstuff.com September 2010 list.  My first impression is that they are not as old as they claim, just another aged domain.  But the further I investigate my initial impression is not justified.    That does not mean that just because they have been around since the late 90’s that they are a valid webhost, for that matter some hosts that have been around along time do not adapt.  Its pretty visible when they have not adapted, for one their design is a big give away.  The site looks pretty up-to-date.  Its the unlimited space that made me suspect they were working off a aged domain.   In this case its a host that could not adapt what they were doing before so they went for what I call a last ditched effort to keep clients and go the unlimited space route.

    The one thing I find missing is the terms of service.

    Where is Hostek’s terms of service?

    Below at the bottom of any page where you would expect to find links to about, contact and most importantly the terms of service (tos) I find:

    Specializing in ColdFusion web hosting. This includes ColdFusion 9 hosting, ColdFusion 8 hosting, ColdFusion reseller hosting. Additionally we offer ColdFusion dedicated hosting and ColdFusion dedicated server hosting. We also offer ColdFusion PHP hosting. We currently do not offer ColdFusion linux hosting. As you will see from any ColdFusion hosting reviews, we are a leader in ColdFusion hosting.

    But when I search for “ColdFusion hosting reviews”, Hostek is not on the first page of results.

    I have to wonder why boast about something that you can not prove, granted its a boast thats really small and tucked away at the bottom of the screen.  But my problem is that there is no clear link to the terms of the service on the home pages and most of the pages that you might go to, to try and find out more about this host.  I have no idea what merchant provider allows this.  I can only speculate that they either remove it after they are screened or they are with a merchant provider that charges so much they really could care less if a site is in order or not.  Frankly I would love to know who has what merchant it would defiantly aid in determining the quality of a host.  Either way they have earned my distrust by not having an up front terms of service.

    I found the hostek terms of service while going through their order process

    Its been my experience when there is not a direct link on every page of webhosting site that I could find it by going through the order form.  My assumption was correct.

    http://hostek.com/tos.asp

    Its the Service level agreement (referred to as the sla) that I find interesting.

    http://hostek.com/docs/hostek-SLA.pdf

    The terms of serivce have me leery of the company esspecially when you look at what it takes to get credit for a down time.  The way its worded pretty much nothing is their fault, and almost any down time falls under not their responsibility.

    Who is Advanced Online Solutions (AOS) and how are they related to Hostek?

    They are mentioned at the very top of the terms of service.

    THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered between ADVANCED ONLINE SOLUTIONS, INC., 1648 Taylor Road #355, Port Orange, Florida 32128-6753, hereinafter referred to as “the Company” (“the Company” also includes any and all domain names owned by “the Company”) and the Customer, who wishes to use the services of the Company in accordance with this Terms of Service Agreement.

    Which seems to me they found a template of a terms of service and were too lazy to use search and replace to put the name of their company in their.   Well thats my opinion, even though I have been told its pretty standard.  But I thought this was Hostek and not “the Company” i.e. AOS, i.e. Adanced Online Solutions, its almost like another version Endurance International Group.

    Considering Hostek is webhostingstuff and not direct with there terms of service they are another company I recommend avoiding.

    Webhostingstuff is blocking me

    If you have read my previous posts on webhostingstuff, you will know that I have had to ask people to assist me in getting screen shots.  Before last month I could get almost anyone around the world to do screen shots for me.    But last month friends of mine that had never been to this hosting review site and were unable to get anything other then a strange error message and screen asking for a email address.  I don’t trust them to give them my email address.  If you saw my October 2010 review, you will see that now there is only one host of any measurable merit.  Which is hostgator, all the other hosts are fledgling hosts.   If you want a sample of how skewed the top 25 is one of the  hosts is out of business (yet remains on the top 25 list, another is a hostgator client (on a non-reseller account) and who faked their review, and another has turned his wild west domains account into a reseller program while keeping peoples domains under his name (that is a disaster in the making).  Thats just the hosts that come to mind.

    https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/firedragonhosting.html

    https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/webinternethosting.html

    https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/i7net.html

    But here is what a friend found while using his iPad to get me screen shots:

    Webhostingstuff’s home page error

    Going to the main site brings up this error.  Strangely at first it seems that the site is somewhat working.  After all you can see the header and side bar.  Which is how it starts with me.  When I make future attempts on what appears to be a blocked screen I don’t get this.  I just get a page with a link to click on to give my email address.

    Webhostingstuff wants your email to fix a problem

    Strangely when I get an error page with most websites, they do not request your email.  If they do they usually want more information.

    What happens when I click on anything else on the webhostingstuff.com’s website?

    Pretty much get taken to a blank screen with only a “Click her to resolve error” and a string id.  Clicking the link will take you to a screen asking for your email address.

    So what does Google cache have on webhostinstuff?

    Nicely I am near the bottom of their search engine results off of just ‘webhostinstuff’.

    Below you can see that even google is getting blocked by webhostingstuff.com as their home page cache with google is an error message.  It also seems that they are not paying for google adsense like they used to.  Its not hard to imagine they do not have the adsense budget like

    The blocking is being done without any discrimination.  So the webhosts that are on their top 25 may be not be the best the hosts, for that matter they may the very worst.  But they did pay to get traffic.  This blocking method is not to their benefit.  Anyone that find a host by their search engine that links to this site will come to a weird site that asks for your email address because of an error.  Frankly how can you trust a site that has an error, when you are searching for a quality host.

    Its my opinion that unless webhostingstuff does something to adapt, there not going to be in business much longer.

    webhostingstuff- October 2010 top 25 list

    So we are in late October 2010, and I have had some trouble getting a into webhostingstuff.com.  That and friends and associates who have never had anything to with this so called review site till this month had nothing to do with with this site.  Granted other that have helped me in the past are able to get through.  But more on that on a later date.  Because the three screen shots tell me alot about this company.

    Webhostingstuff top 1 – 10 most popular hosting companies

    At this point there is only one big name on their top 25, and that is hostgator.  Ipage (owned by Endurance International Group) and Just host (supposiblly bought up byEndurance International Group).  The rumor is that hostgator.com is also being bought by eig.  I am not sure I can believe that one as the owners of this company are some what ego driven, and I think the only reason they would give up hostgator is that something else is available to give them the spot light they get from hostgator.  But if hostgator disappears off of webhostingstuff.com I have to almost believe eig may now own them.

    This leave me to speculate that Endurance International Group took their host(s) off because webhostingstuff.com is no longer an investment.  After all they did remove fatcow last month.

    The only new introduction on the top 25 in the 1 – 10 spot is a host called Cirtexhosting.  Intrestingly enough they have a 60% approval rating to get the 5th spot.

    Webhostingstuff top 11 – 20 most popular hosting companies

    Three new hosts in the 11 – 20 spots Snapblox, condorhosting.com, and Web Host Logic Inc (not highlighted).

    Webhostingstuff top 21 – 25 most popular hosting companies

    4 new companies in the top 21 – 25 spot.  Infinitie Networks, GigaPros, YASPE. and Cornhusker Tech.

    Infinitie Networks has a 40% customer approval rating.   Cornhusker Tech has no reviews.

    ummm wait.  Webhostingstuff has i7net.net at 21 and not 25 now!!!!!

    For full details as to why I find this odd you can go to https://hosting-reviews-exposed.com/webhostingstuff-com/i7net.html for full details on a webhost thats not been online most of this year.

    It really does appear that its going down hill for webhostingstuff

    Currently there is only one webhost of any ranking on webhostingstuff (hostgator), all the rest are just host trying to hang on or just a fly by night operation.

    Vexxhost – Is there something vexxing about Vexxhost.com?

    Vexxhost is my third host out of  7 of webhostingstuff.com September 2010 list.  I had hoped to finish the September hosts in September.  But as I have stated before I am working on making new forms of income.   On the bright side what kept me busy has provided with me a nice amount of cash.  Though the problem is I sold a site, and its not a form of reoccurring income.  But thats because a bigger idea came to me, a business idea and site that in the near future that I will share on hosting-reviews-exposed.com.  But that will not be until it launches. So back to Vexxhost.  This is not exactly a host thats problem free.  For that matter the more I look into this company the more questions I have.  Searching the review sites you find a variety of complaints.  For that matter the very place that has them at number 11 has this to say: In the past six months, vexxhost received from webhostingstuff.com:

    One perceptive you can take from this, is why would webhostingstuff recommend a host thats not pulling atleast a 80% approval.  Positives and negatives only last for so long.   Companies can go down hill, or better yet improve their service.  Reviews that are older then a year have little relevance unless they show a pattern.

    Here are the complaints I find about Vexxhost in the last 6 months on review sites

    slow servers constant down time accounts shut down without warning something in regards to hijacking front pages Suppor non-existant

    http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/web-hosting-top.vexxhost.com-reviews

    http://www.webhostingstuff.com/review/vexxhost.html

    Then there is the terms of service with Vexxhost

    The terms of service are very  short compared to many companies.  But its my opinion that this is another company that you should read the terms of service before you sign up:

    What happens if your account is suspended by Vexxhost?

    Service interrupted for a suspended account is subject to a $25 unsuspend charge. If you desire to cancel your account, please follow the proper procedure to do this as outlined in this TOS.

    It does not state if this is for dedicated hosting and vps hosting, which is generally what an un-suspension fee applies to.  This may very well apply to all hosting account.    The only time I ever charged anyone for reactivating shared accounts was when their account had to be restored from a back up after being deactivated for a month or if they did a charge back.   Dedicated servers, there was a fee that I generally waved unless they had a history of repeated late payments.

    “Other Services” with Vexxhost?

    Upon request by the Customer, vexxhost may at its option, provide the Customer with technical and non-technical support, such as equipment reboots, troubleshooting, DNS and other support, in connection with the Customer’s use of the Customer Space and Bandwidth Services. The Customer agrees to pay the hourly rate of 80$ USD for those other services.

    Once again no clarity on if this applies to Dedicated and Vps service or all accounts.  $80 for customer service seems like alot for a company that sells unlimited hosting.

    Vexxhost Acceptable Usage Policy

    http://vexxhost.com/aup.htm An Acceptable Ussage Policy is something I never used, ussuage was covered under the terms of service. But there is something thats a bit odd to me.

    Vexxhost hates anime

    Anime websites are not allowed on our network. If an Anime website is found we will terminate the account. These sites are not allowed on our servers because most of them are illegal, and almost inevitably cause server problems.

    While I know there are anime sites that are a problem, most are not.  I happen to be a fan of Anime, and I have even hosted Anime sites.  I am not sure what there problem with Anime is.  I can only assume they had been targeted by hackers using anime sites.  At one point I had a plague of what looked like genealogy sites that were phishers.   But I quickly dealt with that by contacting the person on the order form.   I have to wonder how much effort they put into screening orders.

    What is Objectionable to Vexxhost?

    You may not use our service to publish material, which we determine, at our sole discretion, to be unlawful, indecent or objectionable. For purposes of this policy, “material” refers to all forms of communications including but not limited to: narrative descriptions, graphics (including photographs, illustrations, images, drawings, logos), executable programs, video recordings, and audio recordings. If you unsure if your content is objectionable, please contact us before posting it.

    Its not totally clear as to what they might find problematic.  For that matter they may find someones faith a problem.   Or for that matter a site like mine as a problem.   This is one of those things that requires a definition.   I for one had the general no hate sites, no warez, no adult content, no child pornography, anything illegal and the general stuff that the average customer would not want to share the same server with.   Clearly they need to stated what falls under their sole discretion.

    Vexxhost awarding service or just fake awards from companies like webhostingstuff

    I love it when a company like Vexxhost decides to show you their “awards”.  Frankly thats where you start to find the flaws, especially when that review site allows for comments. http://vexxhost.com/company/awards

    Vexxhost’s webhostrank.com award

    The major flaw in this award is that no one can comment as to why they deserve or do not deserve this award.

    Vexxhost’s Webhostingstuff.com award

    I think I made my point earlier with webhostingstuff.

    Vexxhost’s Findmyhost.com award

    Going to http://www.findmyhost.com/db/reportcardlisting.asp?CompanyID=3059 I get a blank page.  Perhaps Findmyhost.com remove the award.

    Vexxhost’s comparewebhosts.com award

    This does not appear to be so much as award as a site that provides a back ground.  But there appears to be a mistake: vexxhost – established in 2005. Whois info indicates otherwise

    Domain Whois record

    Queried whois.internic.net with “dom vexxhost.com”…

       Domain Name: VEXXHOST.COM
   Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
   Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
   Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
   Name Server: NS1.VEXXHOST.COM
   Name Server: NS2.VEXXHOST.COM
   Status: ok
   Updated Date: 20-jul-2010
   Creation Date: 18-jul-2006
   Expiration Date: 18-jul-2013

    Got to love whois lookups

    Vexxhost’s Web Host Directory award

    Another one with no link, and for that matter nothing that I can find via going to google.com

    Vexxhost’s webhostingdt.com award

    Ok here is the point where you know this is not a company to trust, because they own this site.  For that matter its near the bottom of the list.  They hope by the time you have gone through the top awards you will not bother to see the ones near the bottom. Lets take a look at the whois record:

    So much for being “WebHostingDT.com offers an extensive independent web hosting directory of low-cost, high quality web hosting providers.“

    Vexxhost’s honesteonline.com award

    The last site is not really an award.  Unless of coarse not getting any feed back positive or negative is an award.  Granted this site seems a bit outdated, but it has no feedback from anyone. In the end I don’t think anyone can trust a site that creates their own review site.  I would not trust Vexxhost to host a site under construction page.

    Justhost-Just don’t – a review of actual use

    Why am I writing a review on the actual use of Justhost?  If you have read my posts you will know that I am in the progress of setting up new sources of income.  On one side I am building working sites for the purpose of selling.   The last site I sold last week had me setting up a site on Justhost, even though I had urged the buyer to avoid doing so.  I did not tell him about this site.  But I did tell him about what I had found while researching Justhost.   The biggest problem that comes to mind is speed, and we did encounter this problem.  As well as a problem with using the ftp program filezilla.   Because of the problems we had in the first 24 hours, the client changed his mind and went to Rackspace.   Not to mention the point where it was taking me hours to upload a few megs of data on to his account through a third party ftp program that they recommended that I find a bit shaddy.    I had talked my client out of migrating to Mediatemple (a post about that is in the works as to why).  But he left me with a working Justhost account to play with for 24 hours so I could see if the problems were true.

    The rumor floating around is that Justhost is now part of the Endurance Group International. Inc.   Its not hard to beleive because Justhost is very similar to many of the sites in Endurance Group International, such as fatcow, ipage, and powweb to name a few.

    Justhost loves to nickel and dime you

    The first thing I found when logging into cPanel was a long screen of one time offers before letting me into the control panel.  Even after the special offers that launch before the start up screen you find even more offers within cPanel.  I imagine this is what every control panel that Endurance International Group customers look like.   What other choice is a webhost to have when they enter into the unlimited market then to figure out how to weasel out funds from a customer in another way.   The unlimited alone leaves the company in peril, but the advertising adds a whole new source of income.

    1. Justhost – Pipedns

    I am a little confused by this service.  As it seems a service “Manage your existing domains”.  They seem to have a partnership with Justhost as well as two other companies (super green hosting and hostclear)  I tend to think the manging of your domains involves transferring from your existing domain register.  I strongly suggest not transferring to them if thats the case.  I suspect that his is nothing more then a domain register.

    Pipedns has me wondering much like I did when I had discovered Endurance International group.   I have to wonder with pipedns, supergreenhosting, hostclear, and justhost if they do not belong to Endurance International Group, if they are not part of another organization very similar to what the Endurance International group is.

    2. Justhost – Go green

    Just another of those add ins, that I see nothing about from the main page.  Perhaps much like Goddady, they subject you to one of the worst shopping carts where you have multiple items to try and pick through before you ultimately get to the last page to purchase your original intention.   Its such a thing that I can say has detoured me from buying from a company.   Here is the problem with Justhost’s green service, the details and facts behind you paying $0.97 are non-existent.   I am sure that their facility is not wind powered, after all that would be one hell of advertisement to have on the main site.  There is no clear information for where they purchase their ‘wind’ credits.  Any green “partnerships”, are not listed.  With what little information they have, I almost have to wonder if there is even a real green incentive program.

    3. Justhost – designfusions.com

    Dreamfusions is in my opinion apart of the same group that Pipedns.com is.  All you have to see why I think that is to do a whois lookup.  I could be wrong, but there are a lot of coincidences.  But I have to wonder since most of the sites are located with in the UK.

    4. Justhost- Paid priority support or what ever happen to “no hidden fees”

    “Best Support in the industry”, words used in their featured section.  But there is nothing stating that in order to get the best support that they offer you have to pay an extra $19.95 a year.

    If you want a gimick host then Justhost is for you, if you want a real solution look elsewhere

    Awardspace, what is so rewarding?

    Awardspace is my second host out of  7 of webhostingstuff.com September 2010 list.  This is the second host to have a free hosting plan.  However unlike the last host I reviewed there is a very limited 200 meg account.  Not really something you can get a basic word press blog on.  But there are still things that trouble me such as their own forums.  That there site appeared on phishtank.com.  Repeated hack attempts against their own forum which resulted in down time.  I supposed from one angle you could say that its a level of transparency that most hosts simply do not do.

    Its not all bad, atleast awardspace does not tolerate hate speech

    One of the first things I did was search on google for awardspace sucks.  The second result was troubling, and was pure hatred of Africa.

    Below is the least offensive page from this subdomain site.  The rest of the pages were enough for me to wish sites creator a long and painful fate.

    However a chat with a Awardspace sales person had the site removed immedatly

    Andrew: Hello

    Andrew: There are no additional charges

    Andrew: The free plan comes for no price

    Benjamin: ok, one thing I need to know.

    Benjamin: While looking up your site I found something disturbing and I want to know if this is allowed content.

    Benjamin: http://africasucks.awardspace.com/

    Andrew: Well, this ain’t acceptable

    Andrew: The site is closed down

    Benjamin: I found it while on the first page of search engine results on google it appears to have been up for 2 years

    Andrew: Thank you for notifying us about that

    Andrew: We really do not tolerate such sites

    Benjamin: thats good

    Benjamin: is there any other pages with details on the free account? I just want something to start out with an upgrade later

    Andrew: Basically here are all the free plan characteristics:
    http://www.awardspace.com/web-hosting/free-shared-hosting

    Benjamin: ok thanks I will review

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    Andrew of awardspace had immediately removed this garbage off.  For that I a commend Awardspace.  But I have to question their judgement because this was on the very first page of ‘awardspace sucks’.  It appears to have been up for 2 years.  This is one of the reasons I did not want to offer people subdomains off my hosting companies because of the bad press that they may bring.

    If it was someone that was my customer I would have made sure to refund every penny they paid.  I would not want to profit off a person that does such crap.  Not to mention against my business partners wishes, called the bastard up and give them a piece of my mind.  I really do not like this level of intolerance, and pure stupid hatred.

    Is Awardspace a green host?

    I have no idea, they point to a European energy company, whose site is in German.  Other then that there is nothing else to indicate hey are green.

    Stadtwerke Kiel AG

    I know that Europe is ahead of the U.S. in green.   But that does not mean this is not a energy company that buys energy credits.

    Finale thoughts on Awardspace

    The biggest positive is that they deleted the Africa sucks site.  But there are things such as 50% affiliate commission.  Then there is their refund policy thats not clear and straight forward.  It reads pretty much like if you have to have ‘x’ to have ‘y’ in order to have ‘z’.  It only applies to 1 – 5 year terms.

    http://www.awardspace.com/information/terms-and-conditions/refund-policy/

    I have a problem with 5 year payment plans.  Time changes, and thats one month out of 60 to see if you will commit to a plan. If after 31 days you don’t like the plan then your stuck or out more money.

    Then there is the troubling fact that they are in the 9th position of webhostingstuff.com’s top 25.   But in the end I think that Awardspace being in the 9th position spells trouble for webhostinstuff.

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