Hostive.com SUCKS

nibbler · 2005-11-16, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Beaver Bob

I've been hosting with hostive.com since about July.. and the guy cut me a great deal and I was happy with my serivce.

then they they sold the company a few months back. For almost a month now, I have trouble FTPing to the server and first i tried the phone number on their page.. the guy told me it was no longer the number for hostive.com. I would send emails.. after a few emails, they replied. I replied back, and it bounced back.

I can't get into my mysql database right now. its fucked. Its been this way since the weekend. and the FTP only works sometimes which is a pain in the ass since I upload new galleries on a daily basis.

So i post on another board, asking if anyone else has any trouble with hostive.com. a rep from hostive posts asking me to contact him on ICQ. I do, and he said 'one sec..' and that was all i heard from him the whole night. no explanation, no apology, nothing. I still cna't upload my freaking gallery i needed to submit tonight.

I'm not one who likes to bad mouth others, but this is just shitty service, and I just wanted to give a warning to anyone else who may be contacted by anyone from Hostive.com, that their techincal and customer support sucks greatly.

I've been with hostive since june and I am in the same boat. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I hostive is out of business. Just found out this morning and am in the process of swithcing over to webair. Thanks Bryan w/Hostive.com.

Now I'm emailing every TGP / MGP (70+) which I have a partner account with so that I don't get blacklisted.

Nick - Pinkworld.com
Tommy - Tommys-bookmarks.com
Rob - Shemp.com

I hope to got my emails and appreciate your patience!

Thanks
Neil - Handjobfemales.com

juggernaut · 2005-11-20, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by nibbler

Just found out this morning and am in the process of swithcing over to webair.

I would keep that 30 day money back receipt handy. There is always talk here about once a month of someone going the cheap hosting route and then moving to new hosting again. I used them, and my honest review. User panel was nice, its has nice features for adding new sites and IPs etc. But my site was slow on their boxes. I just thought it was a DB problem but was never able to narrow it down. I mean the site was small as hell at the time (1 meg) so what else could it have been? I had to put in a help ticket almost everyday for 5 days. They responded to the problem but it never seemed to get fixed. I had to go back to my old hosting company. All this nightmare to try and save a few bucks. I use Nakedhosting now and never ever have issues with them. I would say after this, one thing I learned. Once you find good hosting, even if it cost more then the next guy, stay with them. $10 a month or $30 a month who is counting when the site is down.

SortLinks · 2005-11-20, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by juggernaut

I would keep that 30 day money back receipt handy. There is always talk here about once a month of someone going the cheap hosting route and then moving to new hosting again. I used them, and my honest review. User panel was nice, its has nice features for adding new sites and IPs etc. But my site was slow on their boxes. I just thought it was a DB problem but was never able to narrow it down. I mean the site was small as hell at the time (1 meg) so what else could it have been? I had to put in a help ticket almost everyday for 5 days. They responded to the problem but it never seemed to get fixed. I had to go back to my old hosting company. All this nightmare to try and save a few bucks. I use Nakedhosting now and never ever have issues with them. I would say after this, one thing I learned. Once you find good hosting, even if it cost more then the next guy, stay with them. $10 a month or $30 a month who is counting when the site is down.

very true. My sites are no longer with hostive and even more.. now I am looking for quality dedicated hosting which will be as fast as possible and affordable...
I am with some serious offers now,
and I hope I'll make a right decision...

nibbler · 2005-11-20, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by juggernaut

I would keep that 30 day money back receipt handy. There is always talk here about once a month of someone going the cheap hosting route and then moving to new hosting again. I used them, and my honest review. User panel was nice, its has nice features for adding new sites and IPs etc. But my site was slow on their boxes. I just thought it was a DB problem but was never able to narrow it down. I mean the site was small as hell at the time (1 meg) so what else could it have been? I had to put in a help ticket almost everyday for 5 days. They responded to the problem but it never seemed to get fixed. I had to go back to my old hosting company. All this nightmare to try and save a few bucks. I use Nakedhosting now and never ever have issues with them. I would say after this, one thing I learned. Once you find good hosting, even if it cost more then the next guy, stay with them. $10 a month or $30 a month who is counting when the site is down.

I'm assuming your talking about Webair. If that's the case, I can show you positive / negative reviews of most of the adult hosting companies out there!