Comments on: HostForWeb – best hosting company ever

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:57:33 +0000

Rofl – I signed up 2nd december and today they managed to terminate my Vps by reading a ticket that was 3 months old and was meant to be marked as closed – then they cant find any backups for my vps and so ive lost all my work – dw i backed bits up lol

By: Zeca

Zeca — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:39:26 +0000

The best! Maybe a few years ago. I have been with them for @5 years now. They were once a very competent hosting company. However they have gone downhill at incredible speed for the last few years and are now very unreliable.

I am talking about both shared and vps hosting. If you are serious about your hosting, I recommend that you look a little further. Many modern hosts are stepping up to where HFW was years ago (too bad they could not keep it up).

I just checked my site monitoring stats for the year of 2008 and there were over 10 outages. If you are to say that they are the best you better give a bit more of the facts. I urge anyone to visit their forums before you purchase. At least they are still transparent and the flaming posts are not edited out of the forums (yet).

By: TheWebServant

TheWebServant — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:47:48 +0000

i have been with HFW for around 5 years now. yes there were ups and downs but what really brought me this far with them is their support. it’s simply anytime, everytime you need quick answers … you got them.

honestly i have also hivelocity servers but its support does not come close to HFW’s.

in my experience … as a web hosting company it is best that you have a backup server running in another DC.

By: Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore Balakrishnan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:08:11 +0000

Am going to _try_ hostforweb.com

They have almost confirmed that there are no (RSS/Atom) feeds for news/system-status/blog

Since this post is the first link in google for “best hosting company ever”.. you might be able to convince them to provide feeds at the least for “planned and unplanned maintenance” , “news / new features” and a blog – in that order !