I’m surprised to see DataPacket in the list, only because I thought they (aka Brian) would be out of business by now.

If you want to see some of the b.s. some of us former clients have gone through, check out this link http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=403691 where I have posted my issues that I have had with them (the best part is page 3), and yes, my posts are under the same name as here.

Also, after reading that, go here http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=453640&highlight=datapacket+pressrelease and read post #14, which is a copy of his “fraud scams abuse” letter.

I think the best webhosint now is mesrahosting,net.Why?Their email is suck.Their(mesrahosting) in expert blame other webhosting that cause this problem when failed to sent email.I always got a lot of error or fail sent email.But,i never have this problem before i change to this webhosting.

I think as consumers we should warn each other about bad webhosting companies. The top of my list is Webhostasp.com. They claim the free 30 day trial period but the server doesn’t work properly. When you ask webhostasp.com they will give you useless advice to make time pass and after the 30 days, they will no longer answer your questions. I have asked for a refund since they cannot solve the problem but they will just answer back telling you “No Refunds”. Then they continue to ignore emails. I am in the process to put a complaint to all any anything related companies to Webhostasp.com including their domain registrar, Better Business Bureau, their online merchant. I will list this on all forums possible so that I warn people about this fraudulent company. I have also checked other companies hosted on this server and many are all illegal run websites such as gambling, viagra and junk mail spammers. If I knew this before I would have stayed miles away from this illegal hosting company.

You are welcome to write me an email if you are a victim or would like to make a class action suit against Webhostasp.com. Pls email: cashzzz@hotmail.com.

Here is the info in case you are also a victim:

iled against :
WebHostASP.COM
65 65th St
Emeryville CA 94608
510 652-1498

ICANN Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Created: 2006-05-08
Expires: 2008-05-08
Registrar Status: ok
Name Server: NS10.ALITUMHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS20.ALITUMHOSTING.COM
Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com

Registrant:
AlitumHosting
1465 65th st
Emeryville, California 94608
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: ALITUMHOSTING.COM
Created on: 14-Mar-06
Expires on: 14-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 09-Mar-07

We had hosted our site with webhostasp in july 2006 for one year. we had selected webhostasp for their low cost and good features. With in one month of hosting of my site, the server has crashed. they said that to compensate the lost data of my site, they are going extend my site on another year with out charging. After one year they automatically renewed my site and they charged from credit card. we sent several mails regarding the refund of amount charged. they said they are going to refund. with repeated mails also they didn’t refund my amount and they stopped responding to my mail. We also stopped sending mails regarding refund. Suddenly from last one month all the mails of my domain has stopped. we cannot send are recieve mails from my site and even i cannot login with my postmer account. Regarding this we sent several mails, they didn’t reply for a single mail. Now we cannot even login to our control panel. Every thing is stopped now. can any one help me in this regards.

as ususal with with http://www.aplus.net (from the top hosting), i signed with them with 45 day money back, after 6 days
there online service are not technical at all, i asked about i suppose to have dedicated IP, their Rep. says “you checked the plan and you know that you are shared” , ( he pointed to me SSL shared option),and of course no refund policy, it disregard the 45 days refund policy

Mesra Hosting are unbeliavably rude bastards!
Please avoid using this company service.
I had very annoying experience with them.

Has anyone heard of zyon.com? They are the rudest service I have ever expereinced. I have never had a service harass me and use foul language. I was shocked.

Stephan: Now that’s really bad.

I have a very bad experience with 1&1. I have thought I have paid their last bill which I had to pay under duress. They have again sent me another bill despite my log being disabled through the admin (per my request to cancel) and that all the domain names that I have indicate delete on their system.
I am realy pissed up with these folks and I thaink that they are simply ripoffs. Do yo know who I can report them to?
Please email me with this information as they are stressing me mentally.
I want to look at all my options.
I really will appreciate this.
Exploited ex-customer.
Pee

I also meet some worst hosting company at Malaysia is selling or easily give client customer to 3rd people.I am a victim as well.Their server alway done.
1)Their world record which can be server down for 48 hour
2)Forget paid your domain name
3) switch back your domain name to their server even i have been switch to other hosting last time.
4)Email server suck which can send to other foreign email.
5)Suck quality support.
6)Their never understand about business or reality.Email server down means no email and no business.

and many bad incident that happened.Never stop!!!!
If curious who is the hosting company…it is mes**hosting.net.Their should give worst award hosting company at world.

If you still have access to your client area, transfer your domain out of there to another hosting comapny. After this you can point the nameservers to your new hosting you must have procured. Will you let me know your site’s domain name or URL? If there is something I can do, then we’ll know. Hope this does a little?

the winner of worst webhosting company avoid this two at all cost

they are unbeliveable fraud company

and no refund whatsoever

http://geekswithblogs.net/murraybgordon/archive/2006/05/03/77084.aspx

this is for asphostcentral.com and asphostportal.com
both are the same company

asphostcentral.com server down 3 times a week

I sign up my account with them using paypal then have to chase them for 48 hours before my account can be activated.

they claimed to have 24/7 support but my website down for 6 hours after migrating to their website ridiculous, now the problem is starting after hosting with them for 2 days they start suspending my account asking me to upgrade to a bigger plan they seems to employ scared and Get more tactic marketing technique to get more money from their customer. tell me to send money to their australian account under the asphostcentral yulianto ?

what kind of name is yulianto ? Is that even Us based company? sounds like a university student one man show company ”

at last I move my website to netfirms and it is fine until now http://www.tarunvarun.com check it out it’s DNN and it’s FAST

Please add this company to your list:
http://www.bodhost.co.uk

We have a VPS server which keeps running our of memory because they don’t give the limit you paid for. Once that happen the server crash and stay offline untill I request on technical support for restart it.

That’s the only thing the technical guys know, restart the server…

Once we complained proving our memory usages with detailled stadistics they started blaiming their hardware node and didn’t solve anything.

Don’t get scammed by those people, we’re currently looking for another provider but looking on forums for opinions this time….

I believe that you can also add HostPapa.com to the above list. They have horrible customer service (helpline almost always goes to voicemail and their online chat gets disconnected when you ask them tough questions).

You can find many threads online about the overcharging by HostPapa. I wish I had read those comments before I signed up with them. Beware of Host papa!!

I’m not sure one of the following sites got 520 Bad Reviews, they’re way shadier than that. Please add priorityonehost.com, alpha1hosting.com, and anywherehost.com: they’re all the same entity.

Poor, unprofessional company…avoid all of their web entities at all costs. If you’re with them, good luck.

Instead of simply canceling or suspending your services 1&1 Internet aka http://www.1and1.com will send you to collections if your credit card is declined or expires. They will ruin your personal credit report. 1and1.com refuses to accept payment directly and claims there is nothing they can do. 1&1 has the worst customer service and would rather ruin someones credit for $30 than try to keep a customer who has paid them almost $1000! 1&1 has the worst business and poorest customer service and draconian collection tactics of any web hosting company.

Add NPSIS to your list of worst webhosts. They were good, once upon a time before they were sold, but now they are the worst of the worst? How bad are they?

1). No phone tech support. They *claim* that they are available weekdays (no weekends or evenings) 8 AM – 5:30 PM. When you can get through, you get a recording and then put on hold for all eternity. I tried calling them today and got alternating busy signals or messages that the number wasn’t available.

2). They transferred my website to another, even worse, hosting service called Tons of Websites without notification or permission. TOW doesn’t respond to anything.

3). I’ve been trying to access the control panel of my site, which NPSIS claims I can still do from their site. However, using the correct user name and password to access the C panel, which was verified by NPSIS, I get a message stating that the information is incorrect.

4). They have a live tech chat option on their site that never works. Meaning that you get no real-time help.

There are so many other things I can list, like the problems with billing that seem to crop up every six months or so. Website down time, rudeness/lack of knowledge by tech support during the rare times you do get through to them.

I’m putting the word out so that others don’t fall victim to this shoddy company. When Wachovia agrees with you and is working with you to get monies returned, you know it must be bad!

Please check reviews for Webcreationuk.com

They are piling up, and the service is positively awful. They should, with out a doubt be in your bottom 13.

Some reviews are puzzling, and I’m worried they are planted by friends of employees, or fictitious entries made by the company. They bare no correlation to the current low standards of performance. For the sake of any new applicant from being drawn into this company, please investigate.

It’s shocking that you hear so many tales of nightmare web hosting companies. I’m lost for words over Stephan’s comment.

I am disgusted at all of these scammers. I am glad I have never experienced such problems with any of my hosts, excluding HostQUE. I tried them, their servers were experiencing a whole lot of downtime, although their support was poor, they were very nice people. It seems understaffed. I am happy now with MingledHost where my headaches have become a thing of the past

You can add hosthi.com to your list. Total joke. My othe site is constantly malfunctioning due to server issues, misleading on their sales pitch, crap technical support STAY AWAY from them.

Wana talk about BAD hosting companies, JCSHosting.ca sucks as we paid him in full, we needed the “quote 24 hr tech support” he offers, for 22 days we could not get help, Then pulled my domain off for 1 month at Christmas, Then said he would refund us, didn’t happen, then deleted my data and contacts I paid him to store, so I said the heck with that, this is fraud, started to have him charged, then he sends us an email stating if we promise not to have him charged and sign it and return it, he would give back all our data THATS BLACKMAIL! Wana get screwed Visit Jason Farris at JCSHosting.ca in New Brunswick Canada, Jason if you read this I suggest you get a real good LAWYER!

NEVER deal with OnlineNic.com, want to pay for your domian then not even get it, tech support yeah right! They do not have a working phone or fax as they claim, 24/7 tech support BULL$hiT Just another company that will screw you! WARNING! STAY AWAY! They may be cheap, but their NOT WORTH IT! Their head office is Based in China too, but they dont tell you that when they take your money and screw you!

jst to show you about Onlinenic.com http://www.domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/verizon-wins-33-million-judgement-against-onlinenic/3586

Yahoo also sued OnlineNic.com how are they still in business?

I run a small business, and relied heavily on the assurances of a webhosting company on the South Shore of Montreal called
Mediaweb.
We filled out a contract, the agreed-upon price was $3,000,
which for a small business is a lot of money. And the problems
started right away. This was to cover until December 1st, 09.
It was also supposed to guarantee me a certain amount of
paper clicks, and Google exposure.
If you enter our company name, it appears on Page 7.
First, she left without leaving a copy of the contract, which I must admit I didn’t ask for. But before any progress was being made
or before being shown anything, they kept insisting on the
next installment. It took them 6 weeks to get it finished.
Oh it looks OK, but I’ve asked how to access it, and they never
answer. Then the rep quit, and they couldn’t find the contract,
and because we’re located in Quebec, our site is bilingual. Well
their direct translations were brutal.
We ended up doing our own translations. Finally, I get a bill
mid-September, for an annual renewal fee of $450!!!!
FOR WEB HOSTING? I don’t think so. So I advised them that I was cancelling with them and asked for all the ftp information
and a backup disc. They shut down the site.
I spoke to the other rep, who begrudges the owner’s behavior but can’t do anything. And unless I pay a $40 webhosting fee
to cover November (remember…we’re supposed to be
covered until December 1st), they won’t give us anything.
Stay away from the charletons….

acronoc.com based in houston texas is the worst server company out there. they will let your site crash and you will never be able to get a hold of them. I highly advise you to never use this company all. avoid them

I have been with HostDime for years (10+ I believe) with a reseller account and a dedicated server, but I am packin’ my bags and headin’ for the hills! They were great for years, but I seriously think they’re falling apart at the seams. I just experienced a MAJOR hack job (30+ sites defaced) and HD played dumb and said it was all on my end. I tracked down the hacker myself, found his hits listed on a hacker brag site (check it out for yourself at: http://www.zone-h.org/archive/defacer=X-net) which proves he hacked dozens of other HD accounts and they STILL talked in circles and said my computer was the culprit. I even removed my current virus program, installed the one they recommended, sent them a screenshot of a virus-free scan report and they STILL said it was my fault. I got shuffled from one tech to another and–in the end–they did nothing more than provided back-ups for about 1/3 of the hacked sites. What about the other 2/3′rds? Well, the only back-up they had for those… wanna guess? Yep… were the hacked versions. What good is 10 years of great service if they can’t come through when you really need them? As for me? I won’t trust them with my accounts another day. BUYER BEWARE!

i agree acronoc.com is run by a bunch of crooks. do not use them they have no honor at all. the worst server company in america they are in texas. stay away

ixwebhosting.com must be on the top. it is the worst webhosting company in my opinion.
bad servers. and slow response.
very bad support.
finally they will kick you off if you receiving high traffic.

APLUS.NET Junk Puts the Crap Champs Down for the Count!

I simply registered a domain using their domain plus service because of the free URL and e-mail forwarding (Big mistake). After I registered I waited for my registration confirmation e-mail and yes I did receive it 1 hour later. After that I went in and tried to figure out how to setup my URL forwarding and their website was so poorly laid out it took me about 30 minutes to find the form. I filled it in and it said it would take up to 3 hours to process so I waited a day just to be safe. Well a day later,nothing. 2 days later, nothing. Then I decided to e-mail them, no repsonse after a week. I e-mailed them again, no response after a week. This continued for another 13 e-mails with no repsonse. Suddenly one day I get a reply from them, BUT it was to inform me that I couldn’t take advantage of the free URL or E-mail forwarding because I did not register for it within 20 minutes of registering the domain! At that point I said forget it, I had already wasted $20 and decided to accept my losses and move on. I found a totally free URL and E-mail forwarding service called MyDomain.com and I reccomend them to everyone now, no banners or ads. YOu know whats really sad after all this? MyDomain.com, the company that wasn’t making any money from me responded to my e-mails within 2 hours and were more helpful than the horrible support of Aplus.net. Avoid! Beware!

You should add Hammer Hosting and OurWeb dot net, owner Bil Banks and his assistant Drew to this list a 6 month Payment gave me 6 days of terrible service, support, and then no service or support. Used threats and intimidation to try to prevent me from filing a complaint with PayPal which we all know is utterly useless in itself.

Pay for your hosting with a Credit Card, at least then you can do a charge back through your bank. I learned the hard way.and am out the money I paid.