Tried & Testing: Web Hosting

Taken from: http://randomforum.net/thread-tried-tested-web-hosting
Hello, everyone.
In this thread I'll post my experiences with web hosts, VPS providers and dedicated servers and will give them ratings.
Maybe this will assist you with your choice.

Firstly, the bad.

Provider: Xtraorbit.com
Plan: Unlimited Everything
Positives: Wide choice of payment options
Negatives:
- Painfully slow
- No live support (Don't be fooled by their badge, it's always offline)
- Supports refusal to assist with your problems
- cPanel, PHP, MySQL all outdated
Additional Notes: They will refuse to enable mod_rewrite leaving your access to the (MyBB) admin panel very limited, they blame the MyBB scripts. This host is absolutely not for MyBB forum owners.
Score: 2/10
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Provider: JustHost.com
Plan: JustPlan
Positives: Very cheap
Negatives:
- Hugely oversold
- Support
- Quite slow
- They keep your ''free domain''
- Site is horrible to navigate
Additional Notes: Support is like talking to a robot, don't expect them to be any help.
Score: 4/10
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Provider: Streamline.net
Plan: Plus
Positives: Low cost
Negatives:
- Downtime
- Very slow
- Support
- Payments
- Hard to navigate customer panel
Additional Notes: Streamline appear to be a scam operation. My sites were constantly down, so I requested cancellation. Even to this day, they are still trying to charge me and constantly send me emails about my ''overdue account''. They just won't cancel my account.
My uptime was around 70%. Avoid these!
Score: 0/10
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Now, the good.

Provider: HDWEBPROVIDER.COM
Plan: Unlimited & Business
Positives:
- Price
- Support
- Software is up to date
- Extremely fast
- Uptime
- Wide choice of payment options
- Easy to navigate customer panel
Negatives: None
Additional Notes: I've never experienced support like theirs before, it is second to none. Live support assisted me for 2 hours with problems that weren't even their job to solve.
Also, they don't cancel your service if you're a day late on a payment, like others will.
Score: 9.9/10
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Provider: HostIcan.com
Plan: Tera-Host
Positives:
- Speed
- Uptime
- Support
Negatives:
- Price
Additional Notes: You may have to pester them to enable mod_rewrite. This can be problematic for MyBB forum owners.
Otherwise, there isn't much wrong with them.
Score: 7/10
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Provider: Knownhost.com (VPS)
Plan: VS3
Positives:
- Speed
- Support
- Price
Negatives:
- Outdated Linux Kernel
Additional Notes: The support is fantastic, they are very quick, and explain everything very clearly.
However, they did have 2 power cuts in a few months causing downtime, I don't know if this happens regularly though.
Score: 8.5/10

I will add dedicated servers another time, and will continue to add to this list, there are a few I've left out for now.
Please note, this is only my experiences with them. The only provider I'll guarantee is HDWEBPROVIDER.com

Thanks for reading.

 

Great reviews - and in fact, how long were you using all these hosts? A few months or?

 

Nice reviews solidus, others will find this very handy

 

Nice reviews, and I couldn't have put it better about the JustHost review, and the cheap hosts

 

I already saw somewhere this thread.Not on AdminBB of course... :S

 

Yea im not surprised, I tried having a chat with their support once, was not happy.. luckily I didn't go with them. This was 2 years back.

He has written this so he may have not just only posted it here on AdminBB but other forums

 

This has been posted at RandomForum and Support Forums, both by me.
cpvr, most of them a month+, Xtraorbit just for a week though, that was enough.

 

Ya, you did an excellent job on this review as well. Who's your hosting provider now?