Worst experience with a hosting company?

[Xyphien]

Have you ever had a bad experience with a hosting company? If so, what company and what happened?

 

[MaDe]

I have friends in the hosting niche. My accounts normally are with those companies. That makes sure that we get the best customer care possible.

 

[TopSilver]

My worst experience with a hosting company would have to be one my first one I signed up on. It was one called LeapSwitch. They overcharge and I was paying almost $400 for 6 months and only had 500 mb of ram. This was my first shot at hosting a website since I was a child so I had not much experience. Probably sometime in 2015. It was a handful and pretty stressful. They're an Indian company located in India. After that I decided not to use offshore companies anymore and moved to one in the United States with a ton of ram and decent cores for far cheaper.

 

[Demon_skeith]

I've been with a few over 14 years, I think the worse experience was when one shut down, but they did help me get onto another reliable hosting.

 

[EntitledStories]

My worst one was where they lost my database (shared hosting server crashed) and took my whole site with it. This was years and years ago, when I was young and dumb and didn't have a proper backup.

 

[Demon_skeith]

My worst one was where they lost my database (shared hosting server crashed) and took my whole site with it. This was years and years ago, when I was young and dumb and didn't have a proper backup.

Had a similar issue, but was only a few days of data lost. Quickly found a new host after that.

 

[EntitledStories]

@Demon_skeith lucky you were able to get up and running quickly. Losing the data was a death-blow for my site.

 

[Steven]

I honestly haven't had a bad experience... I mean everything I paid for was given to me... I think the only bad experience I have had was domain registry Godaddy.com

 

[zoldos]

I had issues with Hostgator. I used one of their VPNs, but it was sluggish, esp. at night. They also complained about my data usage! I dropped them awhile ago.